New skill variants would add more reason to go back to old classes/variantsAbility: pea gatlingVariant: swat pea- you gain a swat gear, boosting damage and providing damage resistance with slightly reduced movement speed, and no jump (locks out other abilities while being used)Ability: tallnut battlementVariant: caltrops- cactus throws an assortment of nuts on the ground over a sizeable area, they deal damage to all zombies that walk on them as well as slowing movement through the affected area.Ability: heal flowerVariant: guard flower, summons a mobile potted plant that follows sunflower, the guard flower deals good damage at close range and is ineffective at long range, if guard flower is active when sunflower is vanquished it will guard sunflowers body (will disappear after time limit expires, is vanquished, or sunflower respawns)Ability: burrowVariant: tendrils- chomper shots out its tendrils, can be used to pull an enemy towards the chomper (providing a free attack[s]), or can be used to pull the chomper forward, chomper gets two uses of this abilityAbility: zombie stink cloudVariant: infectious stink cloud, deals low damage, any plant that takes damage from this is infected for thirty seconds, if vanquished while infected their death releases a new stink cloud (non-infectious)

There's actually already a thread for this here, New Variant idea sharing thread! But I'll just copy and paste my ideas from there How about "Little Shop of Horrors" variants. Like an Audrey II Chomper that has vine/tenticles that can jet out quickly to nab a zombie and pull them right into your mouth while "supper time" plays. And a Total Eclipse of the Sunflower who's slow to recharge special attack causes the screen to go black for a few seconds by anyone caught in its blast radius.

Vampiric Drain: Specific to Vampire Sunflower which makes her able to tackle an enemy and bite into them leeching their health.I like the idea of giving certain variants specific abilities like the Unicorn Chomper but I think they should keep it designed to special occasion characters as that will open so many different opinions and too many will break the game.Now for thread ideas.'Chilly' Bean Bomb- An explosive bean that freezes everyone in the vicinity allowing for the other team launch a chili bean bomb to guarantee kills or just for the team to tear them down. Sun Power- Link to a plant giving a temp health boost, armor and damage boost. All Vanquishes are shared. The armor upgrade is given to both.Sticky Tongue- Chomper wraps his tongue around a zombie staying with it for a few seconds. Super kicks away, he follows, scientist warps, he follows. This will replace goop and will add a level of strategy to bind when your opponent will try to escape. Rocket Out- Instead of forward, the foot soldier launches backwards.

'Chilly' Bean Bomb- An explosive bean that freezes everyone in the vicinity allowing for the other team launch a chili bean bomb to guarantee kills or just for the team to tear them down. Now that's a very cool idea!

dont u think super brainz should be able to fly for a short amount of time sort of like the chompers burrow

I'm going to give you some for the Sunflower.Sun Bomb: A powerful ball of energy which can be used as a mobile offensive attack for the Sunflower if she chooses to go on the offense and tries to help capture the Graveryard in HA or you want to play her as a glass cannon.Sun Sphere: Sunflower is able to activate a shield around herself which makes her invulnerable for a few seconds so that she can revive a plant in peace and not contribute to 2 more kills on the scoreboard for the opposing Zombie team.Vampiric Drain: Specific to Vampire Sunflower which makes her able to tackle an enemy and bite into them leeching their health.

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KnowsNoLimit
10 years ago
I'm going to give you some for the Sunflower.
Sun Bomb: A powerful ball of energy which can be used as a mobile offensive attack for the Sunflower if she chooses to go on the offense and tries to help capture the Graveryard in HA or you want to play her as a glass cannon.
Sun Sphere: Sunflower is able to activate a shield around herself which makes her invulnerable for a few seconds so that she can revive a plant in peace and not contribute to 2 more kills on the scoreboard for the opposing Zombie team.
Vampiric Drain: Specific to Vampire Sunflower which makes her able to tackle an enemy and bite into them leeching their health.
JarlAdalbert
10 years ago
Vampiric Drain: Specific to Vampire Sunflower which makes her able to tackle an enemy and bite into them leeching their health.
I like the idea of giving certain variants specific abilities like the Unicorn Chomper but I think they should keep it designed to special occasion characters as that will open so many different opinions and too many will break the game.
Now for thread ideas.
'Chilly' Bean Bomb- An explosive bean that freezes everyone in the vicinity allowing for the other team launch a chili bean bomb to guarantee kills or just for the team to tear them down.
Sun Power- Link to a plant giving a temp health boost, armor and damage boost. All Vanquishes are shared. The armor upgrade is given to both.
Sticky Tongue- Chomper wraps his tongue around a zombie staying with it for a few seconds. Super kicks away, he follows, scientist warps, he follows. This will replace goop and will add a level of strategy to bind when your opponent will try to escape.
Rocket Out- Instead of forward, the foot soldier launches backwards.
tristkiss
10 years ago

'Chilly' Bean Bomb- An explosive bean that freezes everyone in the vicinity allowing for the other team launch a chili bean bomb to guarantee kills or just for the team to tear them down.

Now that's a very cool idea!
tristkiss
10 years ago
There's actually already a thread for this here, New Variant idea sharing thread!

But I'll just copy and paste my ideas from there

How about "Little Shop of Horrors" variants.

Like an Audrey II Chomper that has vine/tenticles that can jet out quickly to nab a zombie and pull them right into your mouth while "supper time" plays.

And a Total Eclipse of the Sunflower who's slow to recharge special attack causes the screen to go black for a few seconds by anyone caught in its blast radius.
ArtHammerPiko
10 years ago
Potato mine - Iceberg lettuce:
Instead of dealing damage, this variant of mines freezes the zombie that stepped on it and chills/slows down all zombies caught in the explosion. You can place the same amount as Potato nugget mines.
Jackhammer - Pogo stick
Gives you less speed, but increased jump height. Now that Engineers have their gatling turrets, they could use some way to get on higher ground.
Chili bean bomb - Lava guava
After the initial explosion that can't kill straight off, leaves a pool of lava for some time that deals damage to all zombies in the area.
Super ultra ball - Mega evil ball
Shoots three projectiles at once in a horizontal line when on used the ground, and a triangle formation when used in the air.
Sticky explody ball - Goo blob
Throws a blob of purple goo that explodes on impact dealing little damage and slowing all plants in the explosion.
FilthyLizard
10 years ago
"There's actually already a thread for this here, New Variant idea sharing thread!"

I thought about posting these ideas in there but I thought that topic was specifically about character variants. The idea behind this topic was more about new abilities usable on existing characters to give new reasons to play old characters.
tristkiss
10 years ago
I gotch ya! 😉

If it's new abilities then, I think Chomper should get a spike weed upgrade to the rock version. It would deal a bit more damage, and last for 2 snares unless destroyed.
FilthyLizard
10 years ago
Ability: heal beam
Variant: charged heal beam- this beam heals slower than the standard heal beam, however it deals damage to any zombie that comes into contact with the beam, as well when fully healed allies are charged with solar energy that deals damage in a small area of effect until the charge dissipates (duration of charge is dependant on how much ally was healed).
Anonymous
10 years ago
dont u think super brainz should be able to fly for a short amount of time sort of like the chompers burrow
Anonymous
10 years ago
Yes!!! Instead of having his heroic kick he should be able to fly, but not at a ridiculous fast pace, and he shouldn't get invulnerability like the chomper :b