Plants are OP (41 Zombie)
I am now with Giant Giganticus at level 41 but I stuck there and realised that plants are OP. Even if I change my deck to "kill this * as fast as possible" then I see this f**** captain cucumber than...
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@Dave058182 Plants ARE indeed OP. But that doesn't mean you CANT beat them. I've reached Ultimate League 3 times in a row now, always with my Rustbolt control deck.
Let me tell you a little secret... This game is all about value. If you can outvalue your oponent, you'll win.
What do I mean by outvalue? Generally speaking it means: "Spending fewer resources in destroying a card than your opponent used to play it."
For example: If one of your zombies can trade 2 plants, you gain a small value. (2 cards to 1)
If you can kill a 3 cost card (Captain Cucumber) with a 1 cost card (Rolling Stone), you gain value.
If you kill a buffed plant (Lets say: Black Eyed-Pea + Fertilize (2 cards, 5 suns)) with just 1 card (Rocket Science or Alien Ooze, 1 card, 3 brains) you get DOUBLE value, both in cards and in resources.
That's how you win on this game.
If you look at my Rustbolt deck (link below) you'll see a clear pattern. I use the Black Holes and Landscapers (and sometimes even the Shrinking Ray superpower) to reduce the attack of all enemy plants, and then kill them with 1 Weed Spray.
However, you don't need to play a control deck in order to win.
Aggro decks also gain their own value.
Transforming 1 cost shrooms into 3 cost Pineclones is gaining value.
Killing a 3 cost plant (Sportacus, for example) with a 1 cost imp with deadly is gaining value.
Etc.
Long story short, identify why you are losing. Make a list if necessary.
And change your deck to try to counter what is killing you.
You don't need all the fancy legendaries, you just need to understand how the game works.
And don't let anyone tell you that you don't deserve Rank 50. You can do it, you just need more experience.
Zombies are pretty strong too, just not as much as plants.
The fact here is that you can build more "annoying" decks with plants that you can with zombies.
You could, for example, have a deck with nothing but Clique Peas and still win.
You would eventually have plants so insanely big that the opponent would run out of answers and minions.
You can also have, for example, a deck with nothing but strikethrough plants.
You will always do damage to the enemy heroe, no matter what.
You can also also have, for example, a deck filled with beans.
You can do 12 guaranteed face damage with only 4 cards and 4 suns.
Admiral Navy Bean + Admiral Navy Bean (2 damage) + Admiral Navy Bean (4 damage) + 1 cost bean or another Admiral Navy Bean (6 damage)
Zombies mostly rely on one specific zombie to execute a combo.
Team Mascot for Sport decks, Zookeper for Beast Decks, Aerobic Instructor for Dancing Decks, Disco-Naut for Overshoot decks, etc.
Without this key element the power of the deck is reduced drastically. I mean, sure, you can still win by flooding the board with a bunch of 1, 2 or 3 attack zombies, but it will be indeed harder.
That's the difference.
I can assure you my dear friend, that if we executed an analysis on how many times this specific combo (Zombology Teacher + Going Viral) can be succesfully executed and we compare it to all other plant examples, we are going to see a big difference.
- So the video shows a crazy combo working in an almost perfect scenario, but it also shows just how much it takes to beat some plant decks.
Astro Vera and a pair of force fields... If he doesn't have it that turn, then buddy probably is waiting with another astro vera and a soul patch lol- @patdk75 but that's saying plants don't also need those perfect scenarios. Every combo is OP in the perfect scenario; but the fact of the matter is, they don't come around all that often. You know what happens if I play cpt cuke recklessly against a skilled/prepared/experienced opponent? Rolling Stone... Weed spray... You know why it works out for me more often than not? Because I'm skilled enough to know WHEN to play and WHEN NOT to play my cards, and because of the surprising lack of removal in many decks these days.
