Character Challenge Tips - Summer Dayz Festival! (August 2020)
Hi everyone, I have now made weekly character challenge tips for every character possible, over the last 5 months. I have enjoyed making them, because I really like helping players with completing a...
@TheSprinter85 Thank you for all of these amazing challenge guides / tips 🙌👍. I was waiting for you to finish the series before I replied 😇. While your tips help a lot, I have to say that even I as a seasoned player sometimes face problems with the character challenges. The translations are off way too often and I don't know what I am supposed to do most of the time. They fixed some translation issues last month, but only a day before the prize map ended and I had to grind for hours to be able to get the universal hat just because PopCap did a bad job at translating their game.
These following tips are my character challenge tips that have been designed for 80s Action Hero. These are my personal tips and I do not use other sources of information for these challenges.
80s Action Hero's challenges are as follows:
Earn 5,000 XP as 80s Action Hero.
Land 250 Hits with your Bow Blaster.
Deal 500 Damage using Dynamite Dodge. #
Vanquish Multiple Enemies with one Rocket Ride 20 Times. #
Land 20 Hits with Can't Miss-ile! #
Remember, I am not going to be covering the 5,000 XP challenge, but if you would assistance with that challenge, check the second post of this thread for a few quick and basic tips to assist you with that. I used this page on the Wiki to help me with upgrades names and stats: https://plantsvszombies.fandom.com/wiki/80s_Action_Hero
For this challenge, you need to deal damage to enemies a total of 250 times or more using your Bow Blaster primary weapon. It does not matter how much damage you do, how much your charge up your shots or if you get vanquishes.
General Tips
Frequently shoot without charging up to land your Bow Blaster hits faster.
If you do not charge up your shots, try and hit enemies using the corner of your Bow Blaster so they get hit by your end shots and take really minor damage. More hits that way.
It is good to focus on shooting larger enemies, or enemies with larger health pools, to land more shots on.
If there are no enemies nearby, charge up your Bow Blaster and see if you can deal splash damage with your fully charged shots.
Against multiple enemies, jump around and frequently shoot in their direction. Easy hits most likely.
Upgrades
Bow Master (2 upgrade points). When you get a vanquish, for a short time, you can charge up your Bow Blaster very quickly, great for charging up some quick powerful shots.
Deal 500 Damage using Dynamite Dodge. #
For this challenge, you need to deal 500 damage or more to your enemies using your Dynamite Dodge. This ability is mainly used as an escape or mobility tool, but it can deal upwards of 70 damage to enemies that are too close to the Dynamite that you release. For this reason, you want to get close to enemies when you use this. This ability has a short cooldown. You do not need vanquishes for this challenge.
General Tips
Try and run into a group of enemies, then use your Dynamite Dodge.
Use this ability against enemies that are unaware of your presence.
If you are in a battle with a close-range opponent, use your Dynamite Dodge to get away, they may get hit by it.
If an opponent is immobile for some reason, target them by using your Dynamite Dodge against.
Try and get to high vantage point, like above an objective and jump off. While you are falling, activate Dynamite Dodge for an air strike. This requires some good timing.
Upgrades
Leg Day (1 upgrade point). You get an improved jump height and distance when you use Dynamite Dodge, giving you some more capabilities with the ability. Just note that it is not a particularly significant difference.
Vanquish Multiple Enemies with one Rocket Ride 20 Times. #
For this challenge, you need to vanquish 2 or more enemies with a single use of Rocket Ride 20 or more times. This ability deals minor splash damage, and a lot of direct damage, so aiming for direct hits are your best bet, and focusing on lower health enemies and grouped enemies are a good way to get this challenge. Weakening enemies as required may be a good idea before you use Rocket Ride as a finisher.
General Tips
Target enemies in groups, it is easier to vanquish 2 or more. You cannot get multiple vanquishes on single enemies, can you?
Enemies that have low health are useful to target.
Weaken enemies as required with your Bow Blaster or other abilities before you attempt to Rocket Ride.
When you attempt to use Rocket Ride, try and do so to surprise your enemies and reduce their chances of being able to react.
Be careful exactly where you use it. You cannot shoot directly beneath yourself and can only do splash damage. Be mindful of that. Also, try and get close to enemies when you use it so you are less likely to miss.
Upgrades
Free Ride (2 upgrade points). Vanquishing an enemy with your Rocket Ride slightly extends your duration, meaning you can have longer to vanquish multiple enemies. The extension is only about 1 extra second per vanquish, so be mindful of that.
Land 20 Hits with Can't Miss-ile! #
For this challenge, you need to damage enemies using your Can't Missile 20 Times. Note that hitting enemies with multiple rockets at once does not count towards this challenge, so you want to aim for hitting them with at least one. You get tags on enemies by hitting enemies with your Bow Blaster, or using certain upgrades to do so. You do not need vanquishes.
General Tips
Tag your enemies, preferably fully, before you attempt to use Can't Missile upon them.
If there are healers, take them out before you attempt this challenge, or target them with this challenge instead, as enemies' tags are removed when healed.
Try and focus on enemies out in the open, when you Can't Missile them, they are not likely to survive it if you fully tag them.
Shoot at the same opponent rapidly rather than charging up your Bow Blaster for quicker tags.
If there are no enemies nearby, charge up your Bow Blaster, then if one appears, shoot them, then shoot them with quick shots a couple more times, then Can't Missile for game!
Upgrades
Improved Tracking (1 upgrade point). When you deal damage to an enemy using Can't Missile, it gives them another tag, meaning you can repeat and hit the enemy again, once your ability has recharged of course.
Track Star (2 upgrade points). Dealing damage with Dynamite Dodge gives you a tag, meaning it is easier to hit your enemies with Can't Missile afterwards.
Targeting Arrows (2 upgrade points). Normally, when you are vanquished or when the enemy is, you lose the tags on that enemy. With this upgrade, even if YOU are vanquished, the tags you have put on enemies remain, meaning that being vanquished does not matter. Hopefully, you will get revived too.
Remarkable Rockets (3 upgrade points). Dealing damage with Rocket Ride, direct or splash, gives the enemies you damage tags, great for getting tags on enemies quickly.
Critical Tag (3 upgrade points). Dealing critical damage using your Bow Blaster, even if not charged up, gives your enemies all 3 tags instantly, which means you can quickly Can't Missile them afterwards.
Super Payload (4 upgrade points). You fire extra rockets with Can't Missile, meaning you are more likely to hit your enemy once or more.
The Huntsman (5 upgrade points). Dealing damage with a fully charged shot, direct or splash, gives your enemies all 3 tags instantly, which means you can also quickly Can't Missile them afterwards.
Well, these are 80s Action Hero's character challenges, they are not particularly difficult, although the Rocket Ride one could take some work. Make sure to use your abilities frequently as they recharge quickly, but be cautious of when you use Rocket Ride so that you hopefully do not waste it. I would consider the overall difficulty of these challenges to be medium.
Consider what upgrades you use before you start these challenges for best results.
The following tips here are my personal character challenge tips that have been created for Scientist. These are my personal tips and I do not use other information sources for these challenges.
Scientist's character challenges are as follows:
Earn 5,000 XP as Scientist.
Deal 3,000 Damage with your Primary Weapon.
Heal 1,000 Health for Allies with Healing Hose.
Revive 15 Allies.
Vanquish 10 Heroes after Using Warp. #
As normal, I am not going to cover the 5,000 XP challenge, but if you wish to have assistance with the challenge, check the second post of this thread to get an idea on how to get this XP more quickly. I used this page on the Wiki to assist me with upgrade names and stats: https://plantsvszombies.fandom.com/wiki/Scientist_(PvZ:_BfN)
Because Scientist has a legendary upgrade (Steam Blaster), for each challenge, I will also mention whether it is worth using the upgrade or not, in my opinion. If you have it. This will apply for specific challenges only, some will not matter if you have this equipped or not.
My challenge tips for Scientist are as follows:
Deal 3,000 Damage with your Primary Weapon.
For this challenge, you need to use your Primary Weapon that you are using to deal a total of 3,000 damage or more to your enemies. You do not need vanquishes or a certain amount of hits for this challenge to count. That is all, no extra requirements need to be met.
Should You Use Steam Blaster for this challenge?
Yes. Steam Blaster deals higher amounts of damage than your regular Goo Blaster and can deal damage to multiple plants at once, at the expense of rate and fire and ammo. Now while this weapon is restricted to close-range, once you start dealing damage with it, you should rack up points for the challenge quickly. However, it depends on how you would prefer to complete this challenge.
General Tips
Aim before firing to increase your chances of hitting an enemy.
Try and target enemies with larger hitboxes or with more health so you can deal more damage to the enemies.
Critical hits are great to aim for as you deal more damage. Aim for the head.
Try and get to a safer location before you attempt to deal damage to enemies so they have less time to react.
If you use Steam Blaster, try and get close to groups of enemies and constantly fire in their general direction, moving constantly. Warp regularly if needed. Try to spray Steam Blaster into objectives.
Upgrades
Precision (4 upgrade points). Your Goo Blaster has less spread when you aim the weapon first, meaning you can more easily deal damage with the weapon at long range.
Dolphin Blasting (4 upgrade points). When you get a vanquish with Goo Blaster (there is no other way), your Goo Blaster fires faster for a short time, meaning you can deal more rapid damage with it for a short time.
Combat Aura (4 upgrade points). When you get a vanquish streak of 3 without being vanquished, you deal 20% more damage (with your Goo Blaster) for 7 seconds, which other allies can also benefit from this increased damage as well, if they are close to you.
I assume that you do not use the Steam Blaster upgrade when choosing these upgrades.
Heal 1,000 Health for Allies with the Healing Hose.
You can use this ability at any time, so refresh upgrades will not be needed for this challenge. For this challenge, you need to heal your allies for a total of 1,000 health. Overhealing does count for this challenge. You can heal multiple Zombies at a time, yourself not included, so it should not take long to get this challenge, but you cannot attack while you heal, so you are vulnerable to attacks. Try and stay near the backlines while doing this challenge and warp around or away if you feel that you need to.
Should You Use Steam Blaster for this challenge?
No. There are other upgrades that will assist with healing, which you cannot use if you run that upgrade.
General Tips
Heal clusters of teammates at once for best results, your Healing Hose has infinite pierce.
Overheal allies whenever you can, like before the start of a match.
Heal allies with more health first, you can gain more healing this way.
Focus on healing critically damaged allies, Warp to them if needed, you can get a lot of healing by simply doing this.
Overheal allies that you revive.
Upgrades
Power Wash (3 upgrade points). When you aim your Healing Hose, the healing it provides and the range of it (in every direction except backwards) is significantly improve, not massively, but significantly. This means you can heal players faster and more easily.
CPR (3 upgrade points). Allies with critical health will be healed significantly faster until they are no longer critically injured, providing quick bursts of healing for you if you get the chance.
Reflexive (3 upgrade points). When you are healing an ally or multiple allies, you gain about 10 health per second, meaning you improve your survivability significantly when you are healing.
Revive 15 Allies.
For this challenge, you need to revive 15 allies or more in any game mode. PvP, Private Play and Battle Chests count for this. Scientist has a passive faster revive speed, and revives allies to full health instead of half, so this should not be hard to do. This does not take the use of an ability either. When you revive an ally, you are fairly vulnerable, so move around as much as you can during the revive to reduce your chances of being hit.
Should You Use Steam Blaster for this challenge?
It does not matter.
General Tips
Move around when you are reviving.
Activate your Sticky Healy Thingy just before you begin the revive to heal yourself during the revive.
Use terrain cover and other allies as cover.
Warp to fallen allies to get there faster.
Try and chip in to currently occurring revives to get shared revives.
Upgrades
Super Savior (1 upgrade point). You can jump and use your abilities while reviving as if you were not reviving (as much as you like). Just remember to stay in the circle. You can jump and use your abilities to your advantage as you revive to heal yourself, allies and reduce your chances of being vanquished. Just do not use Warp as it will take you away from the revive.
Refreshing Revive (1 upgrade point). You get your abilities back faster when you achieve a revive, which benefits you by getting a revive.
Reanimate (2 upgrade points). When you are close enough to your Sticky Healy Thingy while you revive, you revive that ally significantly faster. Reviving is already fast, why not make it faster? Activate it before you begin the revive, or if you have Super Savior, you may do it during the revive instead.
Revive Reward (2 upgrade points). You gain 75 health when you achieve a revive, you can gain overhealth this way, which benefits you by getting a revive.
Vanquish 10 Heroes after Using Warp. #
For this challenge, you need to vanquish 10 or more enemy Heroes after you have used a Warp. You have 3 Warps, so you have multiple attempts to do this. The good thing is you can fire a few shots before your time expires and you would have to use another Warp to try again. Try and focus on doing this challenge against enemies that do not have much health, or that have been weakened beforehand.
Should You Use Steam Blaster for this challenge?
Yes. Generally, you will get close to enemy Heroes when you do this challenge for best results. Using Steam Blaster is effective as the Plants may not be expecting it anyway, and because you are up close, you should be able to utilise the maximum effectiveness of this upgrade. That said, it depends on how you prefer to complete this challenge.
General Tips
Try and do this challenge against low-health enemies.
Try and do this challenge against weakened enemies. Weaken them first as necessary.
Attempt to perform this challenge against enemies that are unaware.
If you fail to defeat an enemy in a couple of shots after your Warp, Warp again and continue to try and vanquish them.
If you use Steam Blaster, you may be able to try and do this against groups of enemies. Try and approach enemies that are unaware of your presence, then Warp in, Steam Blaster until you vanquish. You may want to Warp after you shoot a couple of times to reduce your chances of being vanquished.
Upgrades
Wormhole (3 upgrade points). Your Warps travel further, meaning you can conduct these challenges from a further distance.
Materialize (4 upgrade points). When you Warp, you gain 2 ammo for Goo Blaster, meaning less need for reloading and you get free shots to attempt vanquishes with.
These upgrades assume you do not use the Steam Blaster upgrade!
Well, these are Scientist's character challenges, they are not in any way difficult unless you struggle to do any of those things. However, the Warp to a Hero vanquish might take a bit of time, and a bit of luck may be involved for getting this challenge. Try and take turns in dealing as much damage as possible and healing your team, and you shouldn't have to wait long to get the challenge. I would consider the overall difficulty of these challenges to be easy.
Consider what upgrades you use before you start these challenges for best results.
@TheSprinter85 Thank you for all of these amazing challenge guides / tips 🙌👍. I was waiting for you to finish the series before I replied 😇. While your tips help a lot, I have to say that even I as a seasoned player sometimes face problems with the character challenges. The translations are off way too often and I don't know what I am supposed to do most of the time. They fixed some translation issues last month, but only a day before the prize map ended and I had to grind for hours to be able to get the universal hat just because PopCap did a bad job at translating their game.
@benn1nat0r I actually responded to a few posts made on the forum regarding mistranslations, I’m glad I could help but PopCap, what happened?
It’s excellent to know that even you as a max-rank player can learn new stuff from my tips. I don’t find it hard to think of tips. I always consider them in-game as I go and like to consider strategies anyway, sharing them is awesome.
Thanks for waiting until I finished this month’s series - but just note that it would have been fine if you had responded beforehand.
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