I have an important issue to point out. I came across a player who played two strawberries on the field and used the berry blast on the zombie hero, the zombie hero became defenseless; not even the shield will block the repetitive assault of the two berries. The zombie hero's health dropped from 18 to 0 within one turn. I just think the strawberry card should to be limited on how many times it can repeat the attack of other berries.
In popcap's defense, how "berries do damage" in this game is programmed in such a way that it would be very hard to fix this issue of the Sergeant Strongberry infinite loop.
To be honest, I didn't even know this was a thing, even after playing well over two thousand games since launch. I have to assume that it because:
A) Sargent Strongberry has a very fragile body and commands to be removed as soon as he hits to field, so it's hard to have two at once.
or
B) The person would have to wait to get to 10 sun to drop both and play the berry blast, at which point a kill-combo is way OK.
But if it works like what you guys are saying, it would indeed make sense that the shield stops it.
It's working as sergeant berry intended to, BUT i've tried this deck and pulling out this combo is extremely difficult:
1) you should save 2 sergeant and 1 berry to do this on 10th turn. which means, 3 dead cards on your hand and you have to survive until 10th turn
2) many zombie decks are agressive, you will be dead before turn 5 or 6 because 3 dead cards
3) 4/3 with 4 cost is easily killed. survive on turn 5 and pull out combo on turn 6 is really RARE case.
4) mostly win because of others plants like Grape or Blueberry, not infinite combo
shield is working properly. you can play super card ONLY when all damage iteration has been count, so infinite loop damage is certain death.
You absolutely do not have to wait until turn 10 to use that combo. In fact, I never have.
You can put the first one out on any turn that the zombie hero doesn't leave enough brains to deal with it.
After every update I check to see if this exploit is still working, and I usually pull it off on turn 6 or 7.
the discussion about turn 10 is that, assuming the opponents block meter isn't nearly full - turn 10 is guaranteed death. (you would also need 2 empty lanes tho)
