Plants vs Zombies 2 - Zomboss - Seedium Showcase - Olive Pit - December 2024

Plant of the Week - Olive Pit - was offered between December 7, 2024 through December 14, 2024.

Olive Pit is a member of the Contain-Mint family.
Olive Pit costs 175 Sun. (-25 Sun at levels 4, 7 and 10.)
Olive Pit waits for a normal zombie to walk over it and swallows it whole.
Olive Pit can swallow two (2) zombies whole. (+1 zombie on levels 2, 4, 7 and 10.)
Olive Pit takes 20 seconds to chew a zombie. (-2 seconds on levels 3, 5, 6, 8 and 9.)

Commentary:
Olive Pit has a nice tendency to swallow zombies no matter how much health they have. This is good and leads to interesting scenarios:

Planted on column 1 to swallow Prospector zombies.
Planted on column 3 to swallow thrown Imps
Planted on column 5 or 6 to catch any zombies which make that far.

Olive Pit doesn't even mind being planted on columns 8 or 9.

Bottom Line: If Olive Pit is so good, why isn't it played more often?

Because when Olive Pit is placed on columns 8 or 9, problems arise. They can be destroyed by large zombies, pianos, barrels, Gargantuars, crushed by frozen blocks and so on. They also have a pit capacity which means when they are “full”, no other zombie will be able to be digested. This weakens Olive Pit and only makes this plant more situational and supportive rather than first tier.

All of that said, Olive Pit is a good plant and a nice addition to any serious strategy.

Perks = Primal Potato Mine / Shrink Zombies / Boss Buster

+Timestamps
00:00 | Difficulty 1 = Power Vine + Lightning Reed
00:46 | Difficulty 2 = Pyre Vine + Bonk Choy
03:22 | Difficulty 3 = Stickybomb Rice + Turkey-pult + Blastberry Vine

Given plant = Olive Pit

Level 1 Objective - Remove seven (7) health bars in three (3) minutes.
Reward is 10 Olive Pit seeds.
Players start with 2,500 Sun.

Level 2 Objective - Remove nine (9) health bars in three (3) minutes.
Reward is 15 Olive Pit seeds.
Players start with 2,500 Sun.

Level 3 Objective - Remove eleven (11) health bars in three (3) minutes.
Reward is 20 Olive Pit seeds.
Players start with 2,500 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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