Garden and Graveyard Ops Tips!

Hey everyone,

This guide is going to cover the Garden and Graveyard Ops modes in this game, as well as providing you with tips so you have an easier time completing this mode successfully, which will really benefit you if you are either trying to complete a Daily Challenge to win Garden or Graveyard Ops, are completing Weekly Challenges in the Rando Ops variant of this mode which sometimes appears as a Weekly Event, or even if you are trying to simply level up your characters.

This guide is going to provide tips to give you an easier time completing Garden and Graveyard Ops successfully, the sorts of rewards you get for doing so and some things you should know about Garden and Graveyard Ops. This guide assumes that you are doing it in the Multiplayer Portal with other players, however if you are doing it in a free-roam region instead, you can use this guide to give you tips for completing in in those regions. Refer to the below guides if you are doing your Ops quests in a free-roam region:

For Garden Ops

• https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Garden-Ops-Challenges-Plants-Town-Center/m-p/9204943/highlight/true#M21719 (Garden Ops, Plants Town Center).
• https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Garden-Ops-Challenges-Mount-Steep/m-p/9209327/highlight/true#M21824 (Garden Ops, Mount Steep).

For Graveyard Ops

• https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Graveyard-Ops-Challenges-Zombie-Town-Center/m-p/9213212/highlight/true#M21894 (Graveyard Ops, Zombies Town Center).
• https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Graveyard-Ops-Challenges-Weirding-Woods/m-p/9216971/highlight/true#M21955 (Graveyard Ops, Weirding Woods).

Garden and Graveyard Ops

Garden and Graveyard Ops are the Ops modes available that you can do only as a Plant (Garden Ops) or Zombies (Graveyard Ops). It is available in the Mystery Portal as a Garden/Graveyard rotation, and you are unable to decide which of these modes you would like to do at the time. Although, if you enter a lobby and are placed in a game of Garden Ops, the next match in the lobby will be in Graveyard Ops. If you enter a lobby and are placed in a game of Graveyard Ops, the next match in the lobby will be in Garden Ops. Completing Garden or Graveyard Ops gives you Coins, based on how well you do, and XP for the character you use. When you have selected your character for a match of Garden or Graveyard Ops, once the Gardenator or Grave-O-Matic, which you and your team need to defend, is placed, you are unable to switch your character for the rest of the match or customise the character, so make sure you know which character you wish to play as and have the appropriate upgrades and customisations equipped before starting or joining in the match.

In Garden and Graveyard Ops, as you progress through waves, you sometimes get special challenge waves and special enemy waves. For instance, for special challenge waves, you may get a round where an even larger horde of enemies appear, you need to prevent your Gardenator or Grave-O-Matic from taking too much damage, or you need to survive a whole wave without you or an ally from being vanquished, for example. For special enemy waves, you may get mostly specific Heroes or other Al appear only, instead of seeing a more wide mix of enemies. If you complete a special challenge wave successfully, you and your team will gain a bonus coin reward, but if you fail the bonus objective, you will not lose the match or anything but will forfeit your opportunity for you and your team to earn bonus coins, so you should try and work with your team to complete the stated objective successfully.

In the final wave, it will always be a boss wave, which is wave 5. You may get a mix of regular bosses, which appear throughout the match, not normally all together. If you win this wave by defeating all of the bosses that appear along with the other regular enemies, you get more coins as a reward as well as winning the match. However, sometimes you get an Elite Boss Wave, which means a single boss appears and enemies continously spawn throughout the round, rather than spawning in fairly large clusters in specific parts of the wave. If you are doing an Elite Boss Wave, the single boss has a large pool of health and you only have 10 minutes to defeat the boss, or you and your team loses the match. After dealing a certain amount of damage to the boss, you will have to complete an objective with your team in order to be able to damage the boss again. Once you repeat this a couple of times, and if you deal enough damage to the boss to defeat it in 10 minutes, you will win the match. A select few of the Elite Bosses has an extremely massive pool of health, and they only take 1 damage normally, you are only able to deal much more damage to it once you complete an objective, in which case you will gain a decent amount of seconds in order to deal massive damage to boss. When this time runs out, you will have to repeat the objective.

When you see a special challenge wave, special enemy wave or Elite Boss, take notice of what you need to do on screen. It will also help when you come up against these special events or special enemy waves in the future.

Tips for Winning Garden and Graveyard Ops

Here are my personal tips to make it easier for you to win Garden and Graveyard Ops:

• Play with friends or other players. If you join in a lobby with no other players in it, other players may join your lobby!
• Make use of your Pots and Bots that you can place, consider your placement for each and make sure you make use of them. Placing them in between rounds will give you time before enemies come.
• Stay near the Gardenator or Grave-O-Matic when possible. However, perhaps at the start of a round, it may be worth trying to quickly take out some enemies to reduce the enemy numbers, but make sure to head back before enemies manage to swarm your defenses.
• Try and be a character class different to what most of your allies are being, as you have more variety in the match and you can combo together.
• If your enemies start crowding around the Gardenator or Grave-O-Matic, quickly take out as much of the enemies as you can and as quickly as possible. Use attacks and abilities with area-of-effect and splash damage to aid you with this. 
• Try and analyse where the enemies can spawn in a map, so you generally know where your enenemies will be coming from.
• Consider your character choice and your character upgrades before starting Garden or Graveyard Ops, pick what upgrades you want.

What is Rando Ops?

Rando Ops is a Weekly Event that appears occassionally in the Multiplayer Portal. This mode applies for both Garden and Graveyard Ops. This Weekly Event is identical to those modes, except you spawn as a random character, as that character's first build. Being vanquished or vanquishing yourself, accidentally or intentionally, means you will respawn as a random character unless revived, which is not the case in regular Garden and Graveyard Ops. If you wish, you can wait to place the Gardenator or Grave-O-Matic until you are satisfied with your character, you can continually respawn to get a different random character, infinite times, until the Gardenator or Grave-O-Matic has been placed.

CONCLUSION

Garden and Graveyard Ops are fun modes that you can play with other players, or within your free-roam regions. It is nice to play occasionally for fun as a casual game mode, or if you are trying to complete specific challenges or a Weekly Event, this mode can be really useful for achieving them. Either way, winning is often important to get these challenges or even just to get more rewards out of playing, so use this guide to help you get better rewards by playing these modes.

Hopefully this guide helps you to perform well in Garden and Graveyard Ops!

From

@TheSprinter85