Character Challenge Tips - Summer Dayz Festival! (August 2020)

SCIENTIST CHARACTER CHALLENGES

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)

Go here for a more detailed guide on Scientist character challenges: https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Scientist-Character-Challenge-Guide/m-p/8821784/highlight/true#M16515

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.