This Yeti Boss Hunt

Tips:

1. Watch wasting your time with inexperienced players and players who chose the wrong characters (no offense). Wasted games probably consumed an hour or two of time last night although I used the first few as practice runs and trying different characters knowing we’d lose
2. If you can’t put together any teammates beforehand then make your best judgement of whom you play with and who sticks with your game after a few runs. Sometimes it’s just luck and that is frustrating. I spotted two players within a few runs of my games and we just seemed to gel after a while, like have a routine.  We got very good over time and we got quick with taking down those popsicles or ‘snowmen on a stick’.  This can be the most frustrating part of a hunt…who you can win with and who can navigate the game properly/
3. Watch the character selection of your teammates. Someone who picks a Chomper (any variant) or a Cactus doesn’t know what they are doing and are probably children. I got this a few times and I just stuck with doing consecutive rounds in the hopes of newer/knowledgeable players replacing them.  This technique worked but it took 4 hours for us and the better players stuck with it.  Again, it depends on the population of players who play…hit or miss.
4. In theory you could win without any flowers (debatable) but unless the other players are like highly ranked and experienced with the boss hunt it is not advisable. I switched characters a lot in the first few rounds just to get a feel for the dynamics and I settled on only one consistent character…Fluffy Flower (Master of course). I got the idea from YouTube as I hardly ever played with her and you get sun after vanquishes.  It took a while but I completely fell in a routine of heal beams, heal plants, healing teammates, when to fall back, whom to target.  I don’t suggest to everyone to just pick one character and go with it forever but for me it helped.  Also, some of the newer players you get paired with may find the flower not exciting enough and always want the high power characters so sticking with the flower was good for me.
5. Don’t message during the boss hunt. I got this a few times and I was like…what the $%&*. Use headset and/or group with known players but the game is fast paced enough as it is and there is something called the internet where you can research the hunt beforehand.
6. In the beginning, when trying to protect the ice cream cone, before the Yeti King arrives, don’t leave single players protecting the cone while all the other plants are in elevated positions. I’m an excellent player, rank 5455, but even being a flower has it limits when the other zombie reinforcements come and they sneak in areas not visible from an elevated position. Plus I can’’t heal you.
7. DO NOT ENGAGE YETI KING…you will not do enough damage and you’ll only * him off. I saw one post where some clown said that his team’s corns mowed down the yeti king without the damage boost…completely false. The only time you should engage the Yeti King is if another one of your teammates is stuck in a corner and is taking fire and can’t get out.  Then, in that case, move back and start some fire.  Eventually he will turn his attention to you and your teammate can escape.  You being far away can escape easy.  If you come too close you’ll experience snowball bombs which will destroy you and any passing teammate in the area.
8. When the Yeti King first shows up he will plant himself in the area of the ice cream cone, typically where you and/or your teammates are. Immediately after his dance ESCAPE from the King Yeti…period…if you can, sometimes you can’t in enough time. If you don’t he will lock you in one or multiple freezes which hurt.  Regroup with another teammate; wait for the ‘snowman’ popsicles and destroy zombies in the meantime.  I can’t tell you how many times at first my teammates tried to put a hurting on him when he first shows up.  You might even be in an elevated position and think to yourself “every little bit helps”…but you won’t make a dent.
9. I was always the flower so I couldn’t get up high but we had a citron and a peashooter that would elevate themselves every time we had to destroy those popsicles. This worked after a while and there where many times I never even paid attention to those popsicles…I just killed zombies, planted flowers and made sure any teammate I saw was healed up.  
10. At first I was afraid of the zombie army, ice soldiers, AC Perry, disco zombie, etc, so there where a few games I avoided them just to heal, plant, find imp fool, etc. This was a big mistake. From what I can tell a set of zombies come out at times so it isn’t a continuous flood of zombies.  If you don’t contribute to vanquishing these zombies they will follow you and show up when/if you find the imp fool/get the slurpee.  They will also freeze you from behind which is annoying, especially for a flower with 100 health. After changing my ways the game objectives got more manageable as there were fewer zombies to deal with at those stages.  I personally found the ice soldier and disco zombie most annoying.
11. Disco zombies, I avoided these guys, but after a while they would rotate their disco ball every time I needed to do something important and I got vanquished. In this mode they cannot take damage so run. After a while I targeted the disco zombies and this issue virtually went away.
12. Plan ahead when the Imp fool shows up. After some time, after the Imp fool showed up, unless I absolutely needed to I toned down my aggressiveness and conserved health. You need good health to sustain zombies attacking you when you are delivering the damage boost to the Yeti King.  As a flower I also tried to save my healing plant until all/most of us where within the damage boost ‘yellow’ circle so I could plant and give health to my teammates.  This is how we delivered the final blow.
13. WHO SHOULD DRINK THE SLURPEE?: you and/or your teammates might be tempted to race to drink the slurpee. Unless no one was around and/or we did a good job of clearing out all of the zombies I waited for a few seconds or I let the high health plant drink the splurpee.  We had a citron that I let do this.  Your slurpee drinker should be knowledgeable and stay put once you have a clean line of sight to the Yeti King.  The Yeti King will more or less stay in one place once he starts taking damage from the damage boost.  One guy was terrible doing this, moving around, so I took the slurpee from him a few times

That’s it for now, typing fingers getting tired.  Good luck!