Plants vs Zombies 2 - Penny's Pursuit - Zomboss - Seedium Showcase - Ice Bloom - February 2024

Ice Bloom - was offered between February 10, 2024 through February 17, 2024.

Ice Bloom is a member of the Winter-Mint family.
Ice Bloom costs 200 Sun. (-25 Sun at levels 3, 6 and 9.)
Ice Bloom does 200 damage to all zombies in a 3x3 area. (+25 per level.)
Ice Bloom does 50 damage to all zombies all zombies outside the 3x3 area. (+25 per level except level 8.)
Zombies defeated this way are turned into Ice Blocks. These Ice Blocks have 200 health. (+50 health per level, an additional +50 at level 10.)
Ice Bloom freezes all zombies in a 3x3 area around it for 7 seconds. (+1 second on levels 3, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 10.)
Ice Bloom freezes all zombies outside the 3x3 area for 2 fewer seconds.

Commentary:
Usually when zombies die - ok, are defeated - the zombies flop over and disappear. Ice Bloom turns them into “Ice-nuts”. These Ice-nuts are low health walls which can stall zombies. So while Cherry Bomb can vaporize the zombies, Ice Bloom can take these same zombies and use them to against the zombie horde.

Bottom Line:
Ice Bloom is a case of a plant which can do a couple of things but neither very well. Ice Bloom doesn't do enough damage to eliminate zombies, much less eliminate enough zombies, to create multiple walls. The other problem is that there is no easy way to know how many hit points a zombie has, thereby not knowing what will happen when Ice Bloom is planted.

That said, freezing all zombies for at least 5 seconds is definitely worthwhile and will give the player time to fortify their defenses.

+Timestamps
00:00 Difficulty 1 - Winter-melon
01:53 Difficulty 2 - Turkey-pult + Stickybomb Rice
04:05 Difficulty 3 - Mega Gatling Pea + Pea Vine + Torchwood

Given Plant = Ice Bloom
Chosen Perk is Poison Zombies / SHIELDS / Boss Buster (Damage to boss)

There are no Sun drops from the sky this week. Bring your own Sun producers.

Level 1 Objective - Remove five (5) health bars in three (3) minutes.
Reward is 10 Ice Bloom
Players start with 2,750 Sun.

Level 2 Objective - Remove seven (7) health bars in three (3) minutes.
Reward is 15 Ice Bloom
Players start with 2,550 Sun.

Level 3 Objective - Remove seven (7) health bars in three (3) minutes.
Reward is 20 Ice Bloom
Players start with 2,300 Sun.

We do not get a preview of Penny's Pursuit before it is released. So what you see is what players get.

We also try to vary the strategies from week to week and showcasing different plants and strategies and ideas. Using the same strategy week after week would be boring to see.

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