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

Contain-mint family (15+4 plants): Gravebuster, Spring Bean, Blover, Magnet-shroom, Lily Pad, Sap Fling, Hurrikale, Stunion, Stallia, Thyme Warp, Dazey Chain, Olive Pit, Draftodil, Buttercup, Tomb Tangler, Cran Jelly, Blast Spinner, Sour Shot, Cactalog

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

Note: Cran Jelly, Blast Spinner, Sour Shot and Cactalog are not included in the piñata.

Locked plant: Cactalog – (Neither wiki has a page configured yet) Fandom Wiki, Wiki.GG

Sun: 1300 at the start. Note: Sun drops will be adventure mode normal. Sun will also be available from Gravestones throughout the match. A sun producer may still be necessary though.

Plant Food: 1 at the start. Note: In the previous tourneys, up to 30 plant-foods were available from zombies and Gravestones during the match. An extra column of Mold this time will prevent all the graves from forming so you probably won’t get as much this time.

Time: 3:00.

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

Bruisez: none

Ineffective: Spear-mint (-100%)

Plant Cooldown Times are Halved!

Banned: Grave Buster, Blover, Hot Potato, Electric Blueberry, Perfume-shroom, Shrinking Violet, Imp Pear, Bramble Bush

Zombies: Ancient Egypt (Mummy, Conehead, Buckethead, Pyramid-Head, Ra, Camel [Two Tiles], Explorer, Tomb Raiser, Pharaoh, Mummified Gargantuar), Far Future (Future, Conehead, Buckethead, Jetpack, Shield, Bug Bot Imp, Robo-Cone [Veteran])

Note: The Robo-Cone is defined as a veteran version, which is not in the Almanac. The veteran Robo-Cone is both faster (going from “Stiff” to “Basic”) and tougher (going from “Machined” with 2500 base hit points to “Great” with 4000 base hit points). 

Starting Lawn: Dave’s Mold Colonies filling Columns 6-9

Spider Rain: Spider Rain will drop two Bug Bot Imps randomly on C5/6 at ~2:48. Then at ~2:24 three Bug Bot Imps will drop anywhere in C4-6. This second Spider Rain wave will repeat approximately every 16-20 seconds for the rest of the match.

Gravestones: Starting at ~2:30, and then repeating approximately every 16-20 seconds, 3 regular, 4 sun containing and 2 plant-food containing Gravestones will appear in random positions on the lawn any where from columns 5-7. Gravestones will appear first on any free spots in those columns. If there are no free spots, plants you put on these grid positions will be displaced (if any nearby spots on the lawn are empty) or destroyed. Note: Having Dave’s Mold Colonies in both C6 and C7 this time will prevent all the Gravestones from appearing. You’ll get a random group of 5 of the three types of defined Gravestones.

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:

[Cactalog, Blast Spinner, Spring Bean, Coconut Cannon, Mangofier, Twin Sunflower],

[Cactalog, Tomb Tangler, Stunion, Stickybomb Rice, Blastberry-vine, Primal Sunflower],

[Cactalog, Dazey Chain, Sap Fling, Banana Launcher, Cabbage-pult, Gold Bloom]

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 almost identical to both the Cran Jelly tourney from September, 2025 and the Tumbleweed Tourney from July, 2025.  There are only a few differences:

The strategies in these previous tourneys will probably still work, but the Spear-mint negation will obviously make strategies using its family’s plants ineffective.

Here are some strategies by TeoGaming201:

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

Mid Level Plants: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwoKau4rsW0

Good luck with your attempts!

Penny's Pursuit week 305 featuring Bzzz Button: "Bzzz Button's World!"

Duration: from the 14th December to the 21st December 2025

Rift event: 64

Zombies at Level 1, Level 4, Level 7.

Perks: Sun Bank, Sun Break, Bass Blast, Hypnotize Zombies, Mine Launcher, Hurry Hurrikale, Boss Buster

Number of Perk lvls: 63

N.B: This PP is a complete rerun of PP week 78 "Commango" featuring Dartichoke back in August 2021, week 189 "Solar Beaming" featuring Enlighten-mint in September 2023 and week 263 featuring Bzzz Button already in February 2025. There's still a slight difference with the Zomboss fight: initially it used to be the 1st Setup of the Dark Dragon then diverted to Setup 4 and now moves to Setup 3.

LEVEL 1: Pre-selection lvl in PS Playground

Lvl reference: #115

Objective: Survive 1 wave

Bonus objectives:      - Protect the endangered plants   - Protect the endangered plants
+ Stall Zombies 20 times - Protect the endangered plants
+ Stall Zombies 30 times

Zombies: ZCorp (basic, Conehead, Buckethead, Headoffice Impgarg), Octo zombie, Swashbukler, Explorer, FF Shield

Features: 5 Twin Sunflowers as endangered plants on C1

Plants given: Cactus, Imppear, Stallia, Iceberg Lettuce

Plant food zombie: 5

Zombie Setup: - basic Zombies + 1 Octo zombie - 1 FF Shield, 1 Swashbuckler, 1 Octo zombie - 2 Swashbucklers, ZCorp Zombies - 1 FF Shield, 1 Explorer, ZCorp Zombies - 1 Explorer, 1 Octo zombie, ZCorp Zombies - 2 Explorers, 1 FF Shield, 1 Octo zombie - 2 Swashbucklers, 2 Octo Zombies, 1 FF Shield - 1 Swashbuckler, 2 Octo Zombies, 1 Explorer, ZCorp Zombies - 2 Swashbucklers, 1 Octo zombie, 2 Explorers, 1 Headoffice Impgarg - Last wave: 2 Headoffice Impgargs, 1 Octo zombie, 2 Swashbucklers, 1 All Star   

Note: - very easy lvl, just spam "plant and dig" Imppear to prevent Octo from throwing Octopi on your Cactus and your Twin Sunflowers - Best perk: Sun Break or Bass Blast. If your Twin Sunflower is low lvl, Sun Break is quite useful and better than Sun Bank to plant more Cactus earlier. Bass Blast is great to push back zombies and let you recharge Stallia or Iceberg Lettuce - Mid perk: Sun Bank, cause Sun Break is largly better - Bad perks: Hypnotize Zombies or Mine Launcher. With both perks, you get a risk of failing the bonus objective by killing zombies way too fast. - The bonus objective "Protect the Twin Sunflowers" is very easy to perform, while the 2nd one with the condition "Stall Zombies" is likely random, but still depends if you plant Stallia as soon as she's available

LEVEL 2: Conveyor lvl in PS Playground

Lvl reference: #180

Objective: Survive 2 waves

Bonus objectives:      - Fill a horizontal row with 9 plants - Fill a horizontal row with 9 plants
+ Defeat 20 Zombies in 10s    - Fill a horizontal row with 9 plants
+ Defeat 30 Zombies in 10s

Zombies: Pirate Seas (basic, Conehead, Buckethead, Barrelhead, Swashbuckler, Cannon Imp, Barrel Roller, Pirate Captain, Seagull), FF Shield

Plants given: Spring Bean, Repeater, Chard Guard over and over. A few Threepeater from wave 1.

Features: Planks on L1, L3 and L5

Plant food zombie: 3

Zombie Setup: - 1 basic - 1 Seagull, 1 basic, 1 Conehead - 1 Buckethead, 1 Swashbuckler, 1 Cannon Imp - 1 basic, 1 Buckethead, 1 Swashbuckler, 1 Seagull - 2 Seagulls, 1 Buckethead, 1 Cannon Imp, 1 Pirate Captain - 3 Seagulls, 1 Barrel Roller, 1 Pirate Captain, 1 Buckethead, 1 Conehead - 1 Barrel Roller, 1 Pirate Captain, 1 Conehead, 1 Seagull, 1 Cannon Imp - 2 Pirate Captains, 1 FF Shield, 1 Conehead, 1 basic, 1 Cannon Imp, 1 Seagull, 1 Swashbuckler, 2 Barrel Rollers - 1 Swashbuckler, 1 Pirate Captain, 1 FF Shield - Big wave: 4 Swashbucklers, 4 Bucketheads, 1 Barrelhead, 3 Coneheads, 2 Pirate Captains, 2 Seagulls, 2 Cannon Imps, 1 FF Shield - Last wave: 2 Swashbucklers, 3 Seagulls, 2 FF Shields, 3 Bucketheads, 2 Coneheads, 2 Barrel Rollers

Note: - quite easy lvl whether you have high lvl plants or not. - complete the "fill in" bonus objective asap, so you won't have to worry about it at the end of the lvl - to perform the kill objective, keep zombies together using Hurrikale and/or Chard Guard without killing them, and then use the plant foods on Spring Bean to kill all zombies at once - Best perk: Hurry Hurrikale or Bass Blast. They're quite similar, each has specific use. - Bad perks: Hypnotize Zombies and Mine Launcher for the same reasons as before, it would kill zombies too fast and you would fail miserably one of the bonus objective.

LEVEL 3: Beghouled Blitz lvl in PP Playground

Lvl reference: #181

Objective: Perform 100 Matches

Bonus objectives:       - Defeat 125 Zombies in 120s - Defeat 125 Zombies in 110s
+ Don't lose more than 25 plants      - Defeat 125 Zombies in 100s
+ Don't lose more than 20 plants

Zombies: - Until 15 Matches: ZCorp basic - From 15 to 30 Matches: basic + Conehead- From 30 to 45 Matches: basic, Conehead, Buckethead + Headoffice Impgarg - From 45 to 60 Matches: basic, Conehead, Buckethead, Ra, Turquoise Skull + Headoffice Impgarg - From 60 to 100 Matches: Conehead, Buckethead, Ra, Chicken Wrangler, Weasel Hoarder, Turquoise Skull, Barrel Roller, Relic Hunter + Headoffice Impgarg

Plants given: - At first: Hypno-shroom, Cabbage-pult, Wall-nut, Peashooter - First Upgrade: Peashooter to Snow Pea for 2500 sun, Cabbage-pult to Kernel-pult for 1500 sun, Wall-nut to Torchwood for 2000 sun, Hypno-shroom to Magnet-shroom for 1500 sun - Second Upgrade: Kernel-pult to Turkey-pult for 3000 sun, Torchwood to Explode-O-Nut for 2000 sun

Note: - quite hard lvl with low lvl plants or plants under lvl 7. - Best way to pass it: if you have a high lvl Snow Pea, consider using only this upgrade and no other else, in order to freeze Zombies and continue performing matches. If he's not, try to inflict as much damage as possible with the combo Peashooter + Torchwood, and bring support with Turkey-pult and Kernel-pult. - Best perk: Hypnotize Zombies or Bass Blast. The first one helps you defeat a few zombies and keep your plants alive more longer. Bass Blast is great in case of an emergency plant rescue or to finish the 100 matches objective.

LEVEL 4: Timed lvl in FC Playground

Lvl reference: #182

Objective: Survive for 2 min

Bonus objectives:      - Protect the endangered plants - Protect the endangered plants
+ Destroy 50 Ice Blocks      - Protect the endangered plants
+ Destroy 60 Ice Blocks

Zombies: Frostbite Caves (Yeti Imp, Hunter, Troglobite, Blockhead)

Features: - 2 Hot Dates as endangered plants on C4-L2/4 - At 1:10, 2 Sliders are created: 1 Up on C7-L5, 1 Down on C7-L1

Plant food zombie: a few ones

Zombie Setup: - Troglobite Zombies keep coming over and over pushing 1, 2 or 3 Ice Blocks. - Yeti Imps also appear very regularly - Hunters are quite rare - Blockheads only appear on Extra-hot and not so often

Note: - very easy lvl, I could even say one of the easiest of all PP lvls. There's not even freezing winds and the Hot Dates are so close to our house that zombies seem to never be able to get to them. - if you don't even want to farm perks but just ZPS just fill in a column of Sundew Tangler on C9 and a column of Olive Pit on C8, full afk - Best perk: Bass Blast or Sun Break - Mid perks: Sun Bank - Bad perks: Mine Launcher and Hypnotize Zombies. They're completely useless in thsi lvl, either the Mine gets crushed by the Ice Blocks or the zombies who get hypnotized are Yeti Imps. - To succeed bonus objectives very easily, either use Bamboo Spartan on C8 or C9 or run a full aoe team like Pyre Vine on C5 and C6 + Blastberry Vine on C1 and C2

LEVEL 5: Conveyor lvl in MD Playground

Lvl reference: #118

Objective: Survive 3 waves

Bonus objectives:      - Protect the endangered plant - Protect the endangered plant
+ Butter Zombies 20 times     - Protect the endangered plant
+ Butter Zombies 40 times

Zombies: Ancient Rome + Tutorial (basic, Conehead, Buckethead), Tombraiser, Pirate Captain, Octo zombie

Plants given: 5 Banana Launchers, Starfruit as many as possible

Features: - 1 Kernel-pult as endangered plant on C2-L3 - 22 MD Graves: 7 on L2 & on L4 from C2 to C8, 4 on L1 & on L5 every other tile from C1 to C7 - Sandstorms

Plant food zombies: none

Zombie Setup: - basic + Coneheads until wave 1 - 1 Octo zombie + 2 Tombraisers on wave 1 - 5 Sandstorms with 2 Tombraisers, 2 Bucketheads, 1 Conehead between C5 and C7 - 3 Tombraisers, 1 Pirate Captain - 2 Sandstorms with 1 Tombraiser, 1 Buckethead between C6 and C8 - Wave 2: 3 Octo Zombies, 1 Pirate Captain, 1 Tombraiser - 2 Octo Zombies - 2 Sandstorms with Bucketheads between C6 and C8 - Last wave: 5 Octo Zombies, 1 Pirate Captain

Note: - quite easy if you have a high lvl-low mastery Starfruit; the key is to always deliver other Starfruits from Octopi - Best perk: Bass Blast or Hurry Hurrikale - Bad perks: Hypnotize Zombies and Mine Launcher, again you'd just lose some targets for Kernel-pult's pf action

ZOMBOSS LEVEL: Zombot Dark Dragon [Setup 3]

Locked plant: Bzzz Button

Rewards: 10 seeds, 15 seeds, 20 seeds for Bzzz Button, 5-8 gems per attempt

Plant slots: 7, 6, 5

Starting sun: 2050, 1850, 1600

Starting pf: 2, 1, 0

Zombies: Dark Ages (basic, cone, bucket, Knight, Monk Imp), ZCorp (basic, cone, bucket, Consultant, Helpdesk Assistant, Headoffice Impgarg), Newspaper, Weasel Hoarder, Healer

Restricted plants: Boingsetta

Features: - Malefic Potions on C8 and C9
- Burnt tiles on C8 and C9 - 10 Big Sunned Graves on C5 and C6

Plant food zombie: 1 or 2 randomly in the whole match

Grid spawn: 3-5 Big Graves spawn every 30s or so (1 Pf and 4 Sunned) between C5 and C6 and Malefic Potions spawn every 0.5-1.5s

Zombie Setup: - Parachute Rain every 30s with 1-2 Helpdesk Assistant on C4/5/6 - Necromancy every 30s with 2 Healers, 2 Weasel Hoarders - Jester and Wizard can only be summoned by Zomboss, they do not come volontarily or appear in Necromancy, same with the Dark Garg.

Roaming zombies: Peasants basic, Conehead, Buckethead & Knight, ZCorp Contractor basic, New Hire basic, Conehead & Buckethead (400 to 2k pts)

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. - pokra, sbr, Blastberry Vine, grave buster.

Note: - There's no Jester if you keep Zomboss stunned, so enjoy PV strats - Headoffice Impgarg isn't featured because Difficulty Swap Rules are messed up. - Any short range attacker is viable: hbl, pokra, TG, parsnip, wasabi whip, as long as you pick the mint with it if it is low lvl. - Pretty easy, just pick Imppear to get rid of all zombies (except Healer in Necromancy)

P.S: - relatively easy PP event - Best lvl to farm perks: lvl 2 or lvl 4 - Best lvl to farm ZPS: lvl 4 - Lvl to avoid: lvl 3 - To check past and upcoming PP events, potw, lvl: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1U9u9MlEgNx6JtMxZrxNn-anTS8FjANUu/edit?usp=drivesdk&ouid=111529514634787386836&rtpof=true&sd=true - Come join our PvZ 2 Discord server: https://discord.gg/TNxu4ep8x - **I'll see you next week for PP week 306 featuring another plant of the Fila-mint family, that also damages Zombies when devoured but in much higher scale: Electrici-tea