So I heard that iron citron is going to have his impact damage nerfed. It's just like why? If anything he needs to have more damage and more damage to mechs, why he does 36 damage to mechs is beyond me. The real Mech buster is armor chomper dealing 50 or 55 to mechs.Iron citron is really slow and takes in more damage then delivers.His wide body is prone to getting killed by rockets.Iron citrons need to be how he is or buffedAnd the worst of all is he is really hard to get and all the legendaries. Nerfing legendaries is ridiculous.Therefore just leave all the legends alone.

They shouldn't nerf him because he is hard to get and plants need a real power character I mean the zombies haveScientists, ice Perry, electro brains, Z7 imp who can kill iron citron easily, the pirate since all his weapons are op.Scuba foot soldier who does more damage the iron citron with base damage of 55 lolIce foot soldier who can just freeze him and use the ZPG.All the all Stars can kill him since the all Stars can tackle and use the imp bomb to kill him easily.The imps since iron citron's "Mech breaker" can't even destroy them unless he is in iron mode.Easy to kill iron citron because he is slow even when he is in his ball the last he needs is a damage nerf. You don't even see iron citron on the battle field at all.

They should just leave legendaries alone

They are nerfing Iron Citron? Why??? He is the the only plant that is any fun to use....guess they just want all the plants to suck. Obviously they don't, but still. Granted Iron Citron is quite strong. But he takes some skill to use. If you are not able to get direct hits with him, then he is useless. Since he fires so slow, you need to be really good at aiming. Why punish skillful players by nerfing a plant that is only good when used by a skilled player? Not to sound like I am full of myself, but I have played this game. There is no risk of an over abundance of skilled players abusing Iron Citron and making the game unbalanced for the zombie team. I feel like a Nerf to Iron Citron is totally unnecessary.

Definitely not smart in my opinion. The data was probably off because iron mode was a more realistic goal as iron citron than the other legendary/party characters on plants. Mostly a campy character. Not too difficult to get streaks with in TT. Kind of annoyed at people saying he's skilled though he's just campy. I'm assuming this was so he didn't destroy everything in iron mode so easily, but honestly, he's still not that great. I'd compare him to a cactus really. He's annoying, but doesn't help his team too much beside being a tank if he's protecting the hills.

Meh. I don't have him yet so I can't really judge him. So all I can say is that... it weird that they're nerfed a char that seemed for the most part to be underrated.

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19 Replies

Boolerex
10 years ago
Meh. I don't have him yet so I can't really judge him. So all I can say is that... it weird that they're nerfed a char that seemed for the most part to be underrated.
Anonymous
10 years ago
They should just leave legendaries alone
ShavedThronel0
10 years ago
I was disapointed to hear that they would give the iron citron a impact damage reduction. Its still hard to aim at enemies and mech breaker should be renamed because its weak against mech. I don't know what other plant can stop the zombies currently because bbq corn is hard to aim at imps and the toxic pea cannot stop superheros.
Gryphon222
10 years ago
They are nerfing Iron Citron? Why??? He is the the only plant that is any fun to use....guess they just want all the plants to suck. Obviously they don't, but still. Granted Iron Citron is quite strong. But he takes some skill to use. If you are not able to get direct hits with him, then he is useless. Since he fires so slow, you need to be really good at aiming. Why punish skillful players by nerfing a plant that is only good when used by a skilled player? Not to sound like I am full of myself, but I have played this game. There is no risk of an over abundance of skilled players abusing Iron Citron and making the game unbalanced for the zombie team. I feel like a Nerf to Iron Citron is totally unnecessary.
Anonymous
10 years ago
Iron Citron was broken to be honest. but not the character himself.. most of his problems comes to two facts:

- first, Iron Mode, can change the situation in a graveyard and garden mode.

-second, their data is probably broken due to the fact Iron Citron can abuse easily a glitch and have infinity iron mode

Most of the problem comes from the passive.. anyway they maybe did good here, Citron is getting survivability option with reduce the critbox area.. and since Iron Citron is already enough tanky they cutting some of his damage potential...

What can i say? I was disappointend.
I ddn't play him much for the Iron Mode, more because he's a POWERFUL scientists counter, can hold on zoologist burst and kill them with two shots if you're accurate, and if enemy teams stacks scientists he has no problem at all with his damage drop-off at range.
At least scientists is getting a nerf.. so i'm gonna probably not use him that much to counter them and more to ruin some noobies experience just for the fun of activing Iron Mode.
Gryphon222
10 years ago
I did some research on the glitch you mentioned and I could not find anybody who knew of a way to pull off the glitch reliably. Which means I don't think it is a widespread problem. Especially considering how rare the character is. I had never even heard about it until you mentioned it.
Anonymous
10 years ago
Definitely not smart in my opinion. The data was probably off because iron mode was a more realistic goal as iron citron than the other legendary/party characters on plants. Mostly a campy character. Not too difficult to get streaks with in TT. Kind of annoyed at people saying he's skilled though he's just campy. I'm assuming this was so he didn't destroy everything in iron mode so easily, but honestly, he's still not that great. I'd compare him to a cactus really. He's annoying, but doesn't help his team too much beside being a tank if he's protecting the hills.
EchoesOfTrance
10 years ago
They shouldn't nerf him because he is hard to get and plants need a real power character I mean the zombies have

Scientists, ice Perry, electro brains, Z7 imp who can kill iron citron easily, the pirate since all his weapons are op.

Scuba foot soldier who does more damage the iron citron with base damage of 55 lol

Ice foot soldier who can just freeze him and use the ZPG.

All the all Stars can kill him since the all Stars can tackle and use the imp bomb to kill him easily.

The imps since iron citron's "Mech breaker" can't even destroy them unless he is in iron mode.

Easy to kill iron citron because he is slow even when he is in his ball the last he needs is a damage nerf. You don't even see iron citron on the battle field at all.
Gryphon222
10 years ago
@NicTheGOAT wrote:
Definitely not smart in my opinion. The data was probably off because iron mode was a more realistic goal as iron citron than the other legendary/party characters on plants. Mostly a campy character. Not too difficult to get streaks with in TT. Kind of annoyed at people saying he's skilled though he's just campy. I'm assuming this was so he didn't destroy everything in iron mode so easily, but honestly, he's still not that great. I'd compare him to a cactus really. He's annoying, but doesn't help his team too much beside being a tank if he's protecting the hills.
He is skilled in the sense that you have to be able to aim to use him. If you can't aim very well, he is terrible for you. It is true that he is best at a distance. But I play him at mid and close range all the time.
He he is definetly leagues better than a cactus.
superxmario128
10 years ago
Since iron citron was my first legendary that i got super early into the game and my main citron that i use i can say he definitely does not need any damage buffs. 50 damage per hit is more than enough so i'll never understand why people want him to deal even more damage. he's a very deadly plant character when used right especially with sunflowers around helping him tank.

That said having used him for about 12 hours total game time i can't say i'm pleased with hearing that his damaged will be nerfed because i think all legendary characters should be awesome and super good characters in general but at the same time some of you are complaining about this way too early when we don't even know how much his damage is being nerfed. if he still does at least 40 per shot i wouldn't care much and would still be happy with him. I'm sure he's primarily being nerfed due to his iron mode that gives him 5 rapid shots that all deal 50 damage with an already short reload time.