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Liber109
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9 hours ago

Zapture rework

Zapture currently acts exactly like pine needler. It also works exactly like snow conifer USED to, before it got a well needed rework. To be fair it couldnt kill a basic and didnt even have a deflection ability but zapture could also recieve some love too. Currently, it inherits NOTHING from its predecessors except the amphibious boost and electric damage type which im not counting since thats just tacked on and the elemental system is currently really flawed anyways. Some people say it gets the ranged attack from lightning reed, but lightning reed shoots a hitscan projectile that chains to other zombies, while zapture shoots an electric bolt that isnt a laser and isnt hitscan and goes through zombies and doesnt chain at all. A whole lot of not in the recipe and a whole lot of really lame and boring.

Zapture now inherits Prickerel Weed's self centered 3x3 area of attack, summoning electric maws that bite multiple zombies and create arcing electricity that hit nearby zombies. In its current state it either has to do everything on its own or its just useless as a result of it's simplicity. Even pine needler can be used to kill armored basics with its ability to ignore armor. Reworking the attack to include traits from all of its ingredients while making it a diverse strategy setpiece is a fun way to spice things up. I think summoning electric maws is perfect for a sneaky snake in an area with water and tall grass, and a strong melee attacker with ways to soften up far away zombies with chain lightning is perfect for a tier 3 plant. The one concern someone else had was that its too similar to buzz choy- but what do you do with two melee attackers that share the same element? This can hit other lanes anyways, and is amphibious too, and I think its fine to have similar plants of different cost and power levels, thats something we've had since beating 1-8 in plants vs zombies (spoiler alert- you get repeater).

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