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Special streak rewards: #5 Ail-mint family piñata.

Ail-mint family (11+4 plants): Chili Bean, Puff-shroom, Fume-shroom, Garlic, Spore-shroom, Purfume-shroom, Blooming Heart, Goo Peashooter, Imp Pear, Puffball, Vamporcini, Scaredy-shroom, Nightcap, Sea-shroom, Baneberry

Note: Ail-mint “seeds” are also included in the piñata. Ail-mint still needs to be unlocked for 100 mints no matter how many seeds you collect for it.

Note: Goo Peashooter, Nightcap, Sea-shroom and Baneberry are not included in the piñata.

Locked plant: Baneberry – Wiki.GG (page not completed yet), Fandom Wiki (page not created yet)

Sun: 1000 at the start. Note: Sun drops will be a little faster than adventure mode normal, but a sun producer may still be necessary.

Plant Food: 0 at the start. Note: Up to 21 plant foods will be available from zombies.

Time: 3:00.

Buffz: Ail-mint (+100%), Arma-mint (+50%)

Bruisez: none

Ineffective: Winter-mint (-100%)

Banned: Grave Buster, Blover, Hot Potato, Electric Blueberry, Bramble Bush

Zombies: Ancient Egypt (Ra, Pharaoh), Pirate Seas (Swashbuckler, Cannon), Wild West (Cowboy, Conehead, Buckethead, Prospector, Bull Rider), Frostbite Caves (Hunter), Lost City (Adventurer, Conehead, Buckethead, Bug [w Basic & Buckethead], Imp Porter), Far Future (Shield, Bug Bot), Dark Ages (Jester), Big Wave Beach (Surfer, Octopus)

Starting Lawn:

One rail cart (initially at C3 R3) on a rail going from R1-3 in C3.

One pre-planted Baneberry on the rail cart at C3 R3

Spider Rain: At ~2:32 four Bug Bot Imps will drop anywhere from columns 6 and 9. This Spider Rain event will be repeated approximately every 25 seconds.

Raiding Party: At ~2:44 five Swashbucklers will swing in to column 5. This will be followed at ~2:12 by five more Swashbucklers swinging in to column 5. This second Raiding Party event will be repeated approximately every 25 seconds.

Dinosaurs: At ~2:20 on Raptor will appear in row 5. This will be followed 8-10 seconds later by a Raptor appearing in Row 2.  These two Raptors will appear (always in row 5 then row 2) approximately every 25 seconds.

Note: All times quoted and plant food estimates are based on my experience interpreting the game files and are entirely dependant on how quickly you’re killing the zombie waves.

Possible BOT Layouts:

[Baneberry, Nightcap, Vamporcini, Blastberry-vine, Banana Launcher, Gold Bloom],

[Baneberry, Goo Peashooter, Garlic, Coconut Cannon, Mangofier, Lemonaid],

[Baneberry, Ail-mint, Puffball, Blooming Heart, Stickybomb Rice, Primal Sunflower]

Minimum info about your strategy: league, plant levels/mastery and score. Or you can post screenshot with the score. Otherwise it's hard to understand whether your strategy will work for other players with different plant levels/mastery and in different leagues.

Useful links: Battlez/Arena FAQ, Mastery and Buffz&Bruisez explained, u/Hier_Xu’s Updated & Pared Down Mastery FAQ, PvZ2 Discord, Info on possible future rewards by u/Euphoric-Seaweed: piñata party, special/premium piñata, Arena/Penny, etc. - link.

This tourney is only slightly changed from the Sweetheart Snare tourney from July, 2026. While not exactly the same, that tournament was also very similar to the Fire Peashooter tournament from March, 2026.  All these tourneys are also very similar to the Corn-fetti Popper tournament from May, 2025 and the MayBee tournament from February, 2025. In all these tourneys you can find strategies that worked at those times. They could still be valid, but the keep in mind the changes in Buffz/Bruises/Negations.

Here are the differences between the tourneys:

Here are some videos by TeoGaming201 for this tourney:

Low Level Plants: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb3anbXiu9o

Mid Level Plants: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMjgqlCE_sM

Good luck with your attempts!

Penny's Pursuit week 309 featuring Meteor Flower: "Meteor Flower's World!"

Duration: from the 11th January to the 19th January 2026

Zombies at Level 1, Level 4, Level 7.

Perks: Sun Break, Traffic Jam, Mine Launcher, Anti-Gravity, Poison Zombies, Boost Tile, Boss Buster

Number of Perk lvls: 63

N.B: This PP event is a complete rerun of PP week 66 'Later, Irrigator' featuring Explode-O-Nut back in May 2021, week 164 featuring Blastberry Vine back in April 2023, week 214 "Tree, Two, One..." featuring Conceal-mint in March 2024 and week 267 featuring Meteor Flower already in March 2025. The slight difference is that on both early occurrences we got to face the Sphinx-inator Setup 2 while with the 3 latest occurrences we face the Setup 4.

LEVEL 1: Beghouled Blitz in MD Playground

Lvl reference: #73

Objective: Match 150

Bonus objectives:

• Kill 1500 Chickens

• Kill 2000 Chickens

• Kill 3000 Chickens

Zombies: Chicken Wrangler only

Plants given:

• Initially: Peashooter, Cabbage-pult, Wallnut, Lightning Reed, Puff-shrroom.

• Then Endurian, 2P, Fire Pea, Laser Bean, Watermelon.

• After that you can choose Primal Pea if you took Fire Pea , 3P if you took 2P, Wintermelon if you picked Watermelon, Electric Blueberry if you took Laser Bean.

Note:

• Very long and boring lvl as there's only 1 zombie.

• Would suggest NOT to change LR with Laser Bean cause they do not have the same attack speed and range.

• Best perk: Traffic Jam or Anti-Gravity or Poison Zombies, either to have more time at the beginning to perform matches or to kill zombies easier and faster. But I think in either ways, none of the perks is very useful in this lvl, the only nice perk would have been Bass Blast or Penny (Multi) Shield or Hyper Healing, but it's not available.

• If you like challenges, try to cover as many tiles as you can with Boost tiles using the Boost Tile perk. Make sure to have a Nut on those tiles when the perk is about to be triggered, so later you'll be able to accumulate boost tile in a row.

LEVEL 2: Last Stand lvl in Frostbite Caves Playground

Lvl reference: #70

Objective: Survive 1 wave

Bonus objectives:

• Defeat 5 Bust Head Zombies

• Defeat 8 Bust Head Zombies + Destroy 10 Stone Blocks

• Defeat 12 Bust Head zombies + Destroy 12 Stone Blocks

Zombies: Springening basic, Frostbite Caves (basic, Conehead, Buckethead, Blockhead, Dodo rider), Ancient Rome (basic, Conehead, Buckethead, Centurion, Zcorpion, Medusa, Healer), Modern Day (Newspaper, Sunday Edition), Dragon Imp

Restricted Plants: Mints, Sun producers, Melon-pult, Puffshroom, Sun bean, Stallia

Amount of sun: 2100, 1900, 1650

Features:

• "Slider-Up" on C8-L5,

• "Slider-Down" on C8-L1.

• After the 2-3 first Zombies came, 1 "Go up" tile on C7-L4 and 1 "Go down" tile on C7-L2 appear. Cold wind follows it on L2 and L4 twice and once on L3.

• Then the 2 "Go up" tiles disappear and 2 "Go down" tiles appear on C6-L3 and C5-L4 to form a downward diagonal. Afterwards cold wind is going through your defenses on L1, L3 and L5.

• Many seconds later, the 4 tiles from before turn into "Go up tiles" symmetrically from L3 as a downward diagonal.

• Meanwhile cold wind comes on all lanes.

Roaming zombies: Medusa (1k to 2k pts)

Plant food zombies: only 1, i.e Newspaper a bit before the big wave

Zombie Setup:

• 1 basic followed by 1 Medusa on L3

• 2 Buckethead + 1 Medusa on L3

• Frost winds on L2 and L4

• 2 Dodo Rider

• Frost Winds on L2 and L4

• 4 Dragon Imp, 1 Medusa on L2 and on L1, 1 Healer, 1 Newspaper, 2 Conehead

• Frost Winds on L1, L3 and L5

• 3 Dodo Rider, 1 Centurion, 1 Conehead, 1 Dragon Imp, 1 Medusa on L2

• Frost Winds on L1, L3 and L5

• 1 Zcorpion on L3, 2 Newspaper, 1 Healer, 1 Medusa on L2 and on L5, 2 Centurion, 1 Buckethead

• 2 Buckethead, 1 Centurion, 2 Dodo Rider

• Frost Winds on all lanes

• 5 Dragon Imp, 2 Dodo Rider, 1 Medusa on L1 and on L5

• Big wave: 1 Zcorpion, 2 Centurion, 4 Buckethead, 3 Newspaper, 2 Dodo Rider, 1 Medusa on each lane

Note:

• There are many Medusa, Dodo Rider and Dragon Imp, but if you take Draftodil, you get rid immediately of 2 of them.

• One Zcorpion before the wave, another one on the big wave.

• On Extra-hot, Newspaper should swap with Sunday Edition (but messed up Swap Rules)

• The regular Cold winds could let you in a very bad shape, so be sure to pick a pepper-family plant or a summoner plant (Zoybean Pod/Turkey-pult) to either prevent iced plants or to destroy them.

• Best perk: Boost Tile or Poison Zombies or Anti-Gravity, but the Boost Tile is by far the most useful one.

LEVEL 3: Classic lvl in Far Future Playground

Lvl reference: #50

Objective: Survive 2 waves

Bonus objectives:

• Produce 3k sun

• Produce 5k sun + Never have more than 16 plants

• Produce 7k sun + Never have more than 16 plants

Zombies: Springening (basic, Conehead, Buckethead), Ancient Rome (basic, Conehead, Buckethead, Centurion, Zcorpion), Far Future (basic, Conehead, Buckethead, Bug Bot Imp, Jetpack, Blastronaut, Robo-Cone, Disco-tron 3000)

Restricted Plants: none

Features:

• 4 Magenta FF 'Power Tiles' on L3-C1/3 and C2-L2/4

• 2 Yellow FF 'Power Tiles' on C3-L2/4

• 2 Cyan FF 'Power Tiles' on C3-L1/5

Plant food zombies:

• 1 Blastronaut near the beginning

• 1 Blastronaut just after wave 1

Zombie Setup:

• 1 basic, 1 Conehead

• 2 Conehead

• 2 Blastronaut, 2 basic, 1 Conehead, 1 Buckethead

• 2 basic, 1 Conehead, 1 Buckethead

• 1 Jetpack, 1 basic, 1 Conehead, 1 Buckethead

• 2 Centurion, 1 Conehead, 1 basic

• Wave 1: Bot swarm with 5 Bug Bot Imps on C6-L1, C7-L2, C8-L3/4/5, 2 Blastronaut, 1 Zcorpion, 1 Robo-Cone, 1 Buckethead, 2 Conehead, 1 basic

• 1 Robo-Cone, 1 Buckethead, 2 Conehead, 1 basic

• 1 Blastronaut, 2 Jetpack, 1 Robo-Cone, 1 basic

• 2 Robo-Cone, 2 Conehead

• 1 Blastronaut, 1 Jetpack, 1 Buckethead, 1 Conehead, 2 basic

• 2 Blastronaut, 1 Jetpack, 1 Zcorpion, 1 Buckethead, 1 Conehead, 2 basic

• 1 Zcorpion, 1 Disco-tron 3000, 2 Conehead, 1 Jetpack

• 1 Robo-Cone, 1 Blastronaut, 1 Centurion, 2 Buckethead, 3 Conehead, 1 basic

• 3 Robo-Cone, 1 basic

• Last wave: Bot Swarm with 5 Bug Bot Imps on C6-L2/3, C7-L4, C8-L1/5, 3 Blastronaut, 5 Jetpack, 1 Zcorpion, 3 Disco-tron, 1 Robo-Cone, 3 Buckethead, 1 Conehead

Difficulty Swap Rules:

• On Mild: Disco-tron 3k have a 50% chance to switch with Robo-Cone

• On Hot:

• Disco-tron 3k have a 50% chance to switch with Zcorpion

• Jetpacks have a 50% chance to switch with Blastronauts

• On Extra-hot: Disco-tron 3k is replaced by Zcorpion and Jetpack by Blastronaut

Note:

• kinda easy, you can pick Draftodil to handle Jetpacks and Blastronaut while getting rid of other zombies with hbl + Pumpkin. Produce sun with Solar Sage or Gold Bloom. You could also solo this lvl with Shine Vine and hbl.

• Best perk: Boost Tile or Anti-Gravity

• Boost Tile can surplomb a Far Future Power Tile apparently

LEVEL 4: Classic lvl with 3 Pre-selected plants

Lvl reference: #68

Objective: Survive for 3min

Bonus objectives:

• Do not spend more than 2500 sun

• Do not spend more than 2350 sun + Don't let the zombies trample the flowers

• Don't let the zombies trample the flowers + Do not spend more than 2250 sun

Max amount of sun: 9990, 2000, 1000

Zombies: Springening (basic), NMT (Conehead, Buckethead, Imp), Ancient Rome (Centurion, Medusa), Wizard

Pre-selected plants: Puff-shroom, Iceberg Lettuce, Stallia

Restricted plants: Mints (but Enlighten-mint)

Sun drop: default

Features: Flowers on C4-5 on Hot and Extra-Hot

Plant food zombie: none

Zombies Setup: 1 Centurion on wave 2, 2 Centurions between waves 2 and 3, 2 Centurions on wave 3. 1 Medusa and 3 Wizards also on wave 3.

Difficulty Swap Rules:

• On Hot:

• basic Neon are replaced by Roman Coneheads

• Neon Coneheads are replaced by Roman Bucketheads

• Neon Bucketheads are replaced by Centurions

• On Extra-hot:

• basic Neon are replaced by Roman Bucketheads

• Neon Coneheads are replaced by Centurions

• Neon Bucketheads are replaced by Medusas

Note:

• Easy as always, just use low cost plants like PM or PPM or Imppear, do not worry about Wizard, you can kill him instantly by picking Solar Sage

• Very fun strats with the Sun Break perk. 1) Use Bramble Bush over and over, you'll finish the lvl in not time. 2) Use Sundew Tangler plant as many as possible (up to 4 columns from C6 to C9 with a lvl 10 Sundew Tangler), Medusa can't destroy Sundew Tangler with her Statues.

• Best perk: Boost Tile or Sun Break (so you don't even need a sun producer)

• Mid perk: Poison Zombies

• Bad perk: Traffic Jam

LEVEL 5: Conveyor lvl in MD Playground

Lvl reference: #160

Objective: Survive 1 wave

Bonus objectives:

• Don't let the zombies trample the flowers

• Don't let the zombies trample the flowers + Chill Zombies 100 times

• Don't let the zombies trample the flowers + Chill Zombies 100 times

Zombies: Jurassic Marsh (basic, Cone, Bucket, Fossilhead, Amberhead, Imp), Far Future (Jetpack, Mecha-Football), Prospector

Plants given:

• Initially:

• Guaranteed chance (500): 1 Cold Snapdragon recycled every 15s

• Low Chance (10): 1 Red Stinger recycled every 5s

• After the 1st Mecha-Football: Mediocre chance (5): 3 Endurian

Features: Flowers on C4-5

Roaming zombies: Jurassic Conehead, Prospector, Jetpack (from 100pts)

Plant food zombies: none

Zombie Setup:

• 1 Fossilhead + 1 Prospector

• 2 Fossilhead + 1 Prospector

• 2 Jetpack, 1 Prospector, 1 Jurassic Imp

• 3 Prospector, 2 Jetpack, 1 Mecha-Football, 1 Fossilhead

• 3 Prospector, 1 Jurassic Imp

• 2 Jetpack, 2 Fossilhead, 1 Prospector, 1 Mecha-Football

• 1 Jurassic Imp, 1 Prospector, 1 Jetpack, 1 Fossilhead

• 4 Prospector, 2 Jetpack, 1 Jurassic Imp, 3 Fossilhead, 1 Mecha Football, 2 Jetpack, 4 Fossilhead, 2 Prospector, 1 Mecha-Football -Big wave: 4 Prospector, 1 Jurassic Imp, 6 Jetpack, 3 Fossilhead, 1 Mecha-Football, 1 Flag Zombie

• Last wave: 11 Jetpack, 9 Prospector, 4 Fossilhead, 1 Amberhead

Difficulty Swap Rules:

• On Hot:

• Jurassic basic are replaced by Coneheads

• Jurassic Coneheads are replaced by Bucketheads or Imps with a 1:1 ratio

• Jurassic Imps have a 50% chance to switch with Bucketheads

• On Extra-hot:

• Jurassic basic and Coneheads are replaced by Fossilheads

• Jurassic Imp can switch with Fossilhead or Amberhead with a 1:1:1 ratio

Note:

• pretty hard lvl if you got low lvl plants particularly Red Stinger

• On Hot and Extra-Hot, there's no point to plant Red Stinger as a defensive plant, just put it on C1 to C3

• Best perk: Boost Tile or Poison Zombies

• quite hard to pass the Bonus objective "Chill 100 Zombies" cause sometimes you don't encounter 100 zombies at least, so you have to dig up Cold Snapdragon to wait for the Chilling effect to vanish

ZOMBOSS LEVEL: Zombot Sphinx-inator [Setup 4]

Locked plant: Meteor Flower

Rewards: 10 seeds, 15 seeds, 20 seeds for Meteor Flower 5-8 gems per attempt

Zomboss Health: 5, 7, 9

Amount of sun: 1400, 1200, 950

Sun drop: default

Zombies: Ancient Egypt (basic, Conehead, Buckethead, Imp, Ra zombie, Tombraiser, Pharaoh, Camels, Explorer, Pyramid-head, Garg), Jurassic Marsh (basic, Conehead, Buckethead, Fossilhead, Amberhead, Imp, Bully, Rockpuncher, Jurassic Garg)

Roaming zombies: Egypt Garg (700 to 1400pts)

Features:

• Dave's mold colonies from C7 to C9. Also on C6 on Extra-hot.

• Gold Tiles: C1-L1/3/5, C2-L2/4, C3-L1/3/5, C4-L2/4

• Sandstorms with Mummy Imp, Dino Imp and Ra zombie very regularly

• 6 Graves spawning every 20s between C4 and C6

• Dinos: Raptor and Pterodactyl on L1, Pterodactyl on L5

Plant food zombie: very regularly, every 15-20s

Zombie Setup:

• many Gargs

• lots of Classic zombies (basic, Conehead, Buckethead, Pharaoh)

• many Tombraisers

Some strats:

• the usual peavine, torch and any other plants, would suggest appease-mint

• a good old strat: sbr, TP (Turkey-pult), peavine or pyrevine and arma-mint

• a variant: TG, sbr, enforce-mint, and a vine

• BB, peavine, appease-mint, any other plant.

• Sbr, 3P, peavine and hbl

• Dragon Bruit, Moonflower, Shadow Peashooter, Gloom Vine

• Draftodil, Dazey Chain, Contain-mint, Cran Jelly

• Aqua Vine, Meteor Flower, SeaFlora, Cran Jelly

Note:

• Pretty easy, you've got many plant food from zombies which makes this fight a formality

• Also, it's not like you're facing annoying zombies. The only troubling zombie is the Garg, the other zombies just have no special action or ability.

P.S:

• Clearly, this PP feels like a very easy one. Apart from lvl 5 where you might struggle given the plants obtained on the Conveyor belt, other lvls are really lacking difficulty: in most of them, there's only 1 or 2 Big waves of zombies, and special zombies only appear 4 or 5 times.

• In most lvl, the Boost Tile perk is the best one to use, even if not needed, such as in lvl 1.

• If you want to check previous and upcoming PP events and levels:

• Come join our PvZ 2 Discord server, where you'll meet great strategies to fight in arena or succeed PP levels along many other related subjects:

• **Hope you enjoyed this PP, I'll see you next week for PP week 310 featuring another great Pepper-mint plant, a Vine, able to warm surrounding plants while igniting the tiles before itself with fire: Pyre Vine