Plants vs Zombies 2 - Penny's Pursuit - 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.

Level 1 - Difficulty 🌶️🌶️🌶️ - Bonus 2 of 2.
Survive the zombie attack.
Chosen Perk is Knock-back.
Ash zombies 25 / 25 / 25 times.
Never have more than not offered / 17 / 17 plants.

Level 2 - Difficulty 🌶️🌶️🌶️ - Bonus 1 of 2
Survive the zombie attack - Last Stand Style.
Chosen Perk is Knock-back.
Butter zombies 20 / 25 / 30 times.
Do not lose more than not offered / 3 / 2 plants.
Starting Sun = 2,700 / 2,000 / 1,750

Level 3 - Difficulty 🌶️🌶️🌶️ - Bonus 1 of 2
Survive the zombie attack.
Chosen Perk is Knock-back.
Survive and protect the endangered plants - Banana Launcher on R3C1
Electrify zombies not offered / 10 / 25 times.

Level 4 - Difficulty 🌶️🌶️🌶️ - FAIL
Survive for 1.5 minutes.
Chosen Perk is Knock-back.
Produce at least 1,250 / 1,500 / 2,000 Sun
Defeat not offered / 45 / 50 ZCorp Consultants
Starting Sun = 3,200 / 2,000 / 1,000
Not exactly fair when they run and you can't plant anything to stop them.

Level 5 - Difficulty 🌶️🌶️🌶️ - Bonus 1 of 2
Survive for three (3) minutes - Last Stand Style
Chosen Perk is Shrink zombies.
Score to beat: 2,000,000 / 4,000,000 / 10,000,000
Survive and protect the endangered plants - not offered / Column of Tall-nuts on column 2
Starting Sun = 750 / 550 / 300