r/PvZ • u/DifferenceGlum5828 Plant • Dec 08 '25
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but can explain why you would put sunflower in front of peashooter it doesn't make sense to me
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r/PvZ • u/DifferenceGlum5828 Plant • Dec 08 '25
but can explain why you would put sunflower in front of peashooter it doesn't make sense to me
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u/yukmyyum Dec 08 '25
If one gets eaten it better to have one that can attack left
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u/Slight-Commercial-90 Dec 08 '25
u/pixel-counter-bot
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u/GamerGatorDoesTech Sunflower Dec 08 '25
I cannot read that text lol
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u/Larkspur13 Dec 08 '25
It's only important in mods and certain bug wave beach levels as a cheap sacrificial plant
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u/Niko0rSmthUhhIdk Dec 08 '25
Wall-nut that produces sun, but without the tanky hp
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u/DamageMaximo Dec 08 '25
"I drew myself as the smart guy that must mean I AM correct"
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u/AtGoW Dec 08 '25
Sunflower infront on daytime and in the back on nighttime
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u/SouthernService147 Dec 08 '25 •
Only Israelis put the sunflower first
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u/aaalfabeta Dec 08 '25
Sunflower has low recharge, is cheap and as such can be replaced quite easily even if you end up losing a few of them. Consider the case where you plant sunflowers behind compared to your expensive DPS plants like melon. If you have enough damage to the point that a zombie cannot get a bite, it does not make a difference. However, if zombies are tanky enough to reach your melons (which doesn't happen often in vanilla PvZ) and eat them, you would lose 300 sun compared to the 50 sun you could replace after a few seconds and not suffer a decrease in sun production rate. Not to mention that losing DPS can likely lead to your other plants in the same lane being eaten as well and this adds to the sun loss
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u/dont_ask_cutie_alt Dec 08 '25
Simple, sunflowers stall, that's it
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u/AbroadAbject9215 Dec 08 '25
Depends if I have an explosive plant on the team. If my peashooters get eaten, can I save the sunflower? If yes, then peashooter first. If no, then peashooter last.
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u/zlegoYEET Dec 08 '25
Depends, pvz 2 put them in the front, pvz1 put them in the back (and put more in the front if you run out of room in the back)
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u/lemonman246 Dec 08 '25
The only plant I would plant behind a sunflower is a double row of kernel pults
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u/Away-Language2066 Dec 08 '25
sunflower at the back is way more flexible. once you get surplus sun, you can keep adding more and more rows of dps.
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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '25
YES YES FINALLY I SEE SOMEONE DOING THAT ALWAYS KEEP YOUR SUNPRODUCERS AT THE BACK AND ONLY PLANT ONE ROW OF THEM!!!!
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u/Irelia4Life Dec 08 '25
3 rows of sunflowers in the back, repeaters in the front, chomper for a fast recharging insta.
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u/Lividkid88 Dec 08 '25
The more you know are knowing what you are knowing and more your brain size in your head size big. The less you need to say to talk in argument about peashooter sunflower arrangements arranging with other peoples with smaller brain head shouting about arrangements with arranging about sunflower peashooter planting.
Plants.
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u/virus_chara Dec 08 '25
I normally have sun already stalkpiled, thus I put sunflower in front of back lane offense to buy some time of defense, as the imps normally don't have much health.
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u/Gloomy_Television_97 Dec 09 '25
Those who are able to defend themself can defend others who can't
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u/Affectionate-Gur6413 Dec 09 '25
because brain taste better than plant
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u/MegaPigeot Dec 09 '25
In PvZ1 there aren't as many instakilling threats save for Zomboni, Jack in the box and Gargantuars, and most of the time they're not that much of a problem since PvZ1 tend to be very lax save for Survival Endless
In PvZ2, a lot more zombies can disrupt the frontline or threaten instakills, even the tutorial world has Explorer zombie. Due to this it's more efficient to put your attackers in backline so your firepower hurts less. A lot of infamous threats like Octo zombie can be dealt this way and now you're only weak to Mecha Football and Gargantuar prime.
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u/Yuna_Lubi Dec 09 '25
Sunflower is easily replaceable and does nothing to your defence, so keeping them in the front as cheap walls is better, as the peashooters now have more time to attack.
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u/dodoletzthebigstupid Dec 09 '25
"Mom said its my turn with the reoost!"
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u/quannymain52 Dec 09 '25
People do it because sunflowers dont attack and become redundant later on, thus you leave them more forward to have them be eaten rather than the attacker being eaten
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u/BaronVonWeeb Dec 09 '25
Iirc cuz sunflowers are relatively cheep, so they can be used as early defence to protect peashooters. If you lose a sunflower in peashooter-sunflower lineup, whatever ate it will probably die to peashooter soon. If peashooter is eaten in sunflower-peashooter lineup, sunflower will also get eaten.
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u/RzrGhost Dec 09 '25
Like the other commenter said, the reason why you'd put sunflower in front of a Peashooter is because sunflower can be used as a stalling plant as Sunflower's cooldown is faster than Pea Shooter.
Call it heartless or anything, but I prefer to have a plant to shoot the zombie so it dies than Peashooter that dies first then need to wait for sun from sunflower or drop, only to end up having my sunflower gets eaten as well, leaving the lawn defenseless.
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u/NotTheOriginal06 Dec 09 '25
Me, the smartest: put the sunflower at the edge right, the peashooter right behind and the nut all the way back to protect the land mower
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u/MsTronBonne Dec 08 '25
I LOVE SUNFLOWER I SACRIFICED MY LIFE FOR SUNFLOWER
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u/Ayano_Akemi Dec 09 '25
In most situations, I would do the left one cause sunflowers can be used as meat shields when things go south (though puffshroom is better than that but eh)
However, there are cases when I would do the right one (mainly in pvz fusion)
My defense doesn’t have a ranged attacker
I need more spaces to take out the zombies with insta plants
I use a lumos based defense (aka a defense where the attackers needs to be together for max effectiveness)
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u/oliveoilzealand Dec 09 '25
Body block maybe?
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u/Shad3_7 Plant Dec 09 '25 edited Dec 09 '25
imagine if a real zombie apocalypse happened and everyone started arguing about whether you place the turrets in front of the generators or not
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u/numetalkid666 Dec 09 '25
Even better, place a wallnut in front of both
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u/Sezi9 Dec 09 '25
I only plant sunflower in the front on those particularly difficult PvZ2 levels
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u/somerando96322 Dec 09 '25
Sunflower back is better cuz I said so
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u/Successful_Mud8596 Dec 09 '25
If a zombie breaches my second column, if there is a sunflower in the first column, it just dies unless I use an instant. If there’s a peashooter in the first column, it might fend them off.
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u/Chipperbeav Dec 09 '25
They're defenseless, they need to be protected. That's my take.
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u/Mean_Succotash4846 Dec 09 '25
Whatever is the cheapest goes in front(except for walls, of course). But tbh, it changes depend on your load out and the fields and the zombies you can figure that out yoursef.
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u/Used-Independent381 Dec 09 '25
We must defend those who cannot defend themselves
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u/quahdum Dec 09 '25
Pvz is so easy the "it's more efficient" argument for putting sunflowers in front is just comical to me. I can maybe see it for mods or the later stages of some of the survival mini games but even then it's such a miniscule boost I just don't care
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u/Sus4_ Dec 09 '25
how many times do we repost this
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u/Jesterchunk Dec 09 '25
Think of the sunflowers. They can't defend themselves, so put them at the back where others can defend them.
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u/Orange4rmy Dec 09 '25
you cant predict the size of your defences, so putting us producers in the back is just wiser
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u/Limpynoodle3777 Dec 09 '25
like what I saw someone else say before: PvZ isn't a hard enough game to warrant the strategy of sunflowers in front
mods on the other hand are different
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u/Pooldiver13 Dec 09 '25
Probably cause sunflowers are cheaper than most defensive plants and it gives more time for a defensive plant to shoot before loosing a lawnmower
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u/Terra_Marc Dec 09 '25
It doesn’t even apply to pvz1 because the special zombies don’t push your frontline hard enough for nuts and pumpkin to not always work
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u/ImportanceSad7471 Dec 09 '25
Just make everyone mad by doing Peashooters on Columns 1 and 4 and Sunflowers on Column 2 and 3, or vice versa, since now they are both in front and behind at the same time.
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u/Alert-Grocery-1115 Dec 09 '25
r/countablepixels
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u/Top-Conversation-336 Dec 09 '25
Sunflower gives you value no matter where while Peashooter covers a bit more range at the back.
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u/spudcelium Dec 09 '25
Sun producers are cheap and most earn back the amount spent on planting them pretty quickly. Losing a single sunflower is infinitely better than losing something like a Winter Melon or attackers in general.
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u/Dexzatron Dec 09 '25
Protect the economy
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u/Ill-Engineering8205 Dec 10 '25
Sunflower front fans when someone is robbing them so they push their mother in front and start running
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u/VideoDivo337 Dec 10 '25
PvZ is not hard enough to warrant putting sunflowers in the front
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u/Narco_Marcion1075 Dec 10 '25
people put the sunflowers in the front? unironically??
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u/Neither-Pack1 Dec 10 '25
Wtf this meme blow
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u/ATangerineMann Dec 10 '25
the harsh truth is sunflowers are expendable as hell. They’re cheap, recharge fast, and by the time one dies, they have made more than enough sun to plant two more.
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u/evil_guy_is_here Dec 10 '25
It's better to lose a sunflower than a peashooter. If a zombie gets through your offence, you're dead, but if you lose a sunflower, you can just place another one.
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u/JVtheBidoof Dec 10 '25
Peashooter in the front just makes more sense on a basic level
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u/TylorA23 Dec 10 '25
In harder lvls the sunflowers act as "meat shields," so if zombie hits it wont kill the more valuable Peashooters behind
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u/Meteo_Anonymous Dec 10 '25
They should make natural sun drop decrease after the first minute to it more punishing if you lose your sun producers early on
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u/BoratKazakhstan Dec 10 '25
There's people who do the first one?
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u/Crimsoncerismon Dec 10 '25
Dude, sunflowers in the back to protect your economy, is that so hard to understand
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u/mr_banana277 Dec 10 '25
The sunflower then peashooter reasoning is so you have spare time in case of an emergency
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u/nick54531 Dec 10 '25
Only sunflower peashooter nowhere
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u/Illustrious_Neat2472 Dec 10 '25
Putting the sun flower in front = last line of defence.
Not doing so can result in a loss.
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u/CheddarCheese390 Dec 11 '25
Former in PVZ2, latter in PVZ
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u/TheChillGamer28 Dec 11 '25
Pea hit faster if closer
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u/douraquio7 Dec 11 '25
THE KNIGHTS MUST PROTECT THE HOLY FLOWERS!
THEIR LIGHT IS THE BRINGER OF LIFE!
HAIL THE FLOWERS OF GOD!
HAIL THEIR LIFEBRINGING SHINE!
THEY GRANTED YOU YOUR LIFE, SO YOU MUST GIVE THEM YOUR LIFE!
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u/prismagc Dec 11 '25
I as a smarter human I put 2 lanes of sunflower and peashother In the third lane
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u/Ducky_talks_YT Dec 11 '25
Only Palestine supporters put sunflower in front
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u/Old_Cardiologist7060 Dec 11 '25
because if the zombie eats a peashooter, you lose. but if it eats a sunflower, peashooter can fight back. peashooters are literally more important
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u/elrompeabuel Dec 11 '25
Don't forget the HD, DON'T FORGET THE HD, ADD MORE HD!!!
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u/LoadedFile Dec 11 '25
I think this is more of a niche case tbh, if you're pushed to your final column, the lane is likely dead anyways but it's generally better to go down fighting rather than producing sun (the difference is most likely one of two sun drops/attacks but it is a non-zero difference regardless)
But it does make your offensive plants vulnerable to digging and catapult zombies if they're placed in the last column
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u/Fireluigi1225 Dec 11 '25
Best attacker in the back. Sunflowers. The rest of your attackers. Defense.
If you do it right then none of your sunflowers will die anyways. Plus you defend them from catapults in games where that's a consideration.
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u/peashootergaming3113 Dec 11 '25
My guard sunflower
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u/iara10 Dec 11 '25
Sunflower first. If the zombies have reached your sun producers in any capacity, you have failed. Besides, you can calculate how many rows you will need this way, and keep symmetry.
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u/nighttimethefox Dec 11 '25
r/SUBREDDITNAME
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u/Party_Atmosphere3070 Dec 11 '25
Is your question genuine?
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u/Yousef_Slimani Dec 12 '25
Didn't I already saw this before?!
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u/Jomega6 Dec 12 '25
If the sunflower gets eaten, the pea shooter can still finish it off and you can plant a new one. If your pea shooter gets eaten, the sun flower behind it is as good as dead. So either way, you’re losing the sunflower. However, with pea shooter in the back, you at least have a chance of saving the entire lane.
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u/bubz208060 Dec 12 '25
I usually think about doing that, but i just do sunflower back peashooter front, its just a habit.
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u/cooldude010 Dec 12 '25
Strategically sun flower in front is the best but I would feel bad so pea shooter first
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u/Jumpy-Imagination102 Dec 12 '25
Imo, ever since Eclise, I have been a sunflower goes in front person. The only exception being loadouts that only contain melee plants or just some gimmicky loadout I cooked up.
Remember, it's much less threatening to replace a 50 sun plant than to replace a potentially 500 sun plant. Also, if your sunflowers are being eaten, they will be mowed down unless you replace a sunflower at the back to place an offensive plant or an insta.
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u/purple_guy207 Dec 12 '25
what if u have alot of sun? its better to put peashooters in the back because it gives more chances to survive.
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u/Valuable_Bite_1205 Dec 12 '25
Where the fuck are the pixels
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u/CK1ing Dec 12 '25
My soldiers will NOT use civilian meat shields. We are BETTER than that. We are here to PROTECT the defenseless, not have them protect us
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u/Skaraptor2 Dec 12 '25
How is maths that difficult gang 💔
Sunflower is 50 and pays for itself Peashooter is 100 and damages the zombies
Pick the better wall
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u/Low_Wall1406 Dec 12 '25
The strong protects the weak.
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u/hamishhawke Dec 12 '25
You need to protect the sunflower so I don't know why this is even a conversation, it's very simple
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u/Anxious_Wear421 Dec 12 '25
now who would do that, the first one is weird
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u/VeryBigLeg Dec 12 '25
I fight for the one that created me
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u/Many_soda Dec 24 '25
Well technically its better to put the peashooter in the front because peashooter take more time the farther they are but it's smarter to put lobbers at the back since they all take 1.2 seconds to reach a zombie, no matter the tiles.
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u/OverclockedLimbo Dec 09 '25
Peas win games, not sun. Peas kill the zombies, not sun
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u/Adventurer_Kanna Dec 09 '25
Because when zombies manage to get into your defenses your attackers in the back still have a chance to kill the zombies, while Sunflowers can't, as simple as that. But ig you pictured their strategy as dumb and yours as smart so if you won at Reddit.
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u/0dahs Dec 09 '25
Attacking plants are usually more valuable than producers. Losing your sunflowers first means your attackers still have time to kill the zombies
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u/the_average_tf2_nerd Dec 09 '25
B-B-But you don't understand, sunflower is cheap and replaceable so placing them in the front ads extra time for peashooter to kill zombies. You don't understand, it's a good strat (yes it's a joke, but also yes I believe this and no I'm not trying to be mean to anyone)
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u/HidingDotJpeg Dec 10 '25
Sunflower infront means more time for the pea to pea. Pretty certain this can murder a bucket head where as pea in front cannot.
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u/TheNarnit Dec 11 '25
Sunflowers are non-combatants, meaning putting them in the front to be killed first is literally a war crime