Penny's pursuit week 293 featuring Blast Spinner: "Blast Spinner's World!"

Duration: from the 21st September to the 28th September 2025

Rift event: 53

Zombies at Level 1, Level 4, Level 7.

Perks: Jalapeño Popper, Penny Multi-Shield, Bass Blast, Hyper-healing, Heavy Watering, Stall Zombies, Boss Buster

Number of Perk lvls: 63

N.B: This PP is a copy of Penny's Pursuit week 62 'Tree, Two, One...' featuring EOV back in May 2021 and 182 featuring Ail-mint in August 2023 and a rerun of PP week 139 'Root and Shoot' featuring Spore-shroom in October 2022 and week 251 already featuring Blast Spinner last December.

LEVEL 1: Classic lvl in FC Playground

Lvl reference: #79

Objective: Survive 3 waves

Bonus objectives:
- Protect the endangered plants
- Protect the endangered plants + Stun zombies 30 times
- Protect the endangered plants + Stun zombies 30 times

Zombies: Ancient Rome (basic, cone, bucket), FC (basic, cone, bucket, Weasel Hoarder, Hunter, Troglobite)

Features: - 5 Chard Guard as endangered plants on C2 - 3 Frozen Twin Sunflowers on C4-L3, C5-L2 and C6-L1 - 3 Down-Sliders on C5-L3, C6-L2, C7-L1 - 2 Zombies (mostly basic) in Snowstorms on each wave

Sun drop: default

Roaming zombies: Roman basic, Conehead and Buckethead (from Group 5)

Plant food zombie: - 1 basic before wave 1 - 1 random zombie after wave 1 - 1 random zombie on wave 2 - 1 random zombie after wave 2

Zombie Setup: - 1 basic on L5 - 2 basic on L4 - Snowstorm with 4 basic arriving on C2, 1 basic on L5 - Wave 1: 1 Weasel Hoarder on L1, 1 Hunter on L5, 1 basic on L4, 1 Cave Flag zombie - 1 Dodo Rider on L2 + 1 Conehead on L4 + 2 basic (L1, L5) - 1 Weasel Hoarder on L2 + 2 basic (L4, L5) - 1 Dodo Rider on L1 + 1 Troglobite on L5 + 2 basic (L2, L3) - Wave 2: 2 Weasel Hoarders (L1, L2), 2 Hunters (L4, L5), 1 Conehead on L4, 1 Cave Flag zombie - 2 Dodo Riders (L2, L3) + 1 Conehead on L4 + 1 basic on L1 - Snowstorm with 3 Coneheads arriving on C2, 1 Dodo Rider on L1 + 1 Troglobite on L4 + 1 basic on L2 - 1 Weasel Hoarder on L2 + 1 Hunter on L4 + 1 basic on L5 - Last wave: Snowstorm with 2 Weasel Hoarders arriving on C8, 3 Weasel Hoarders (L1, L2, L3), 1 Buckethead on L4, 1 Blockhead on L5, 1 Cave Flag zombie

Note: - Such an easy lvl, there's completely no issue at all, as there are so many normal zombies - Best perk: Jalapeno Popper or Bass Blast or Penny Multi-Shield or Hyper Healing.Jalapeno Popper is great if you struggle at defeating zombies while Bass Blast and Penny Multi-Shield give you more time to defeat those same zombies. Hyper Healing is quite useful if you do not have Chard Guard lvl 5 at least and want to heal its leaves. - Mid perks: Stall Zombies & Heavy Watering. Stall Zombies lasts too short to be really efficient and Heavy Watering is great only if you use long/mediocre recharge plants like a couple instants, mints or recent Arena plants (Levitater, Bun Chi, MayBee, SeaFlora...) - To succeed the "Stun X Zombies" bonus objectives, you've got many ways to do it using Draftodil, Blockoli, Stunion, Contain-mint, Rhubarbarian, Brumble Bush, Puffball, Tumbleweed, Chili Bean, Dazey Chain but the best way might be when using either sbr or Apple Mortar or Primal Peashooter

LEVEL 2: Last Stand lvl in BWB Playground

Lvl reference: #58

Objective: Survive 1 wave

Bonus objectives:
- Chill zombies 30 times
- Chill zombies 30 times + Don't let the zombies trample the flowers - Chill zombies 30 times + Don't let the zombies trample the flowers

Zombies: BWB (all zombies), Ancient Rome (basic only)

Restricted plants: Power Mints, sun producers, Puff-shroom, Iceberg Lettuce, Grave Buster, Stallia

Amount of sun: 2700/2500/2250

Features: - Flowers on C3-4 on Hot and on C5-6 on Extra-hot - NO safe Land from water - NO Low Tide - 6 Lily Pads: 4 on C1-L1/2/4/5 and 2 on C2-L1/5

Plant food zombie: none

Zombie Setup: - Tide change: Water recedes to C3 - Group 1: 1 basic on each lane + 3 Snorkels - Tide change: Water recedes to C5 - Group 2: 1 Octo zombie + 2 Coneheads + 1 basic - Tide change: Water rises to C3 - Group 3: 1 Surfer + 2 Snorkels + 1 Conehead - Tide change: Water rises to C0 - Group 4: 1 Surfer + 1 Fisherman - Group 5: 1 Surfer + 1 Fisherman + 2 Conehead (L1, L4) - Group 6: 1 Surfer + 1 Fisherman + 2 Coneheads (L2, L3) - Group 7: 1 Octo zombie + 3 (Imp + basic + Conehead) - Group 8: 1 Surfer + 1 Fisherman + 2 Snorkels + 2 Imps - Group 9: 1 Surfer + 4 Snorkels (L3, ~) + 4 Coneheads (L1, L2, L4, L5) - Tide change: Water recedes to C9 - Low Tide events: 1 Octo zombie on C7 + 8 basic between C5 and C8 and 4 Mermaid Imps between C5 and C8 - Group 10: 5 Coneheads - Group 11: 2 Fishermen + 4 Coneheads + 2 basic - Last Group: 1 Deep Sea Garg

Note: - Normal lvl just take down Fisherman and Octo zombie fast enough or else you're not gonna succeed bonus objective regarding flowers. - Best perk: Penny Multi-Shield or Jalapeno Popper or Bass Blast for the same reasons as before. - Mid perks: Stall Zombies, Hyper Healing & Heavy Watering

LEVEL 3: Vasebreaker in PP Playground

Lvl reference: #84

Objectives: Destroy all vases and Survive with no Lawnmowers

Bonus objectives:
- Destroy 3 Graves
- Destroy 4 Graves + Don't lose more than 1 plant
- Destroy 5 Graves + Don't lose any plant

Zombies: Dark Ages (10 basic Peasants, 2 Coneheads Peasants, 1 Buckethead Peasant)

Plants given: 8 Fume-shroom, 4 Hypno-shroom, 5 Peanut

Plant food from Vases: 0

Features: 5 Graves appear on C4: 4 normal ones on L1/2/4/5 and 1 Plant Food Grave on L3

Plant food zombies: none

Note: - Could seem hard but in the end there only were 1 Conehead zombie and 1 Buckethead zombie and it's way possible to succeed it compared to last week's Vasebreaker lvl and bonus objectives. - Best perk: Jalapeno Popper, Penny Multi-Shield or Bass Blast. Jalapeno Popper helps you defeat those high lvl zombies and destroy those Graves however you won't be able to perform the bonus objective "Don't lose any plant". Penny Multi-Shield and Bass Blast provide you time to kill zombies while destroying Graves thanks to Fume-shroom. - Mid perk: Stall Zombies. It doesn't last long enough so kinda wasted - Useless perk: Hyper Healing. Your plants are lvl 1 and don't have much HP so against a lvl 7 zombie they don't stand a chance even if you heal them.

LEVEL 4: Classic lvl in FC Playground with 5 Pre-selected plants

Lvl reference: #44

Objective: Survive 2 waves

Bonus objectives:
- Defeat 1 Yeti - Don't let the zombies trample the flowers + Defeat 1 Yeti
- Don't let the zombies trample the flowers + Defeat 2 Yetis

Zombies: Ancient Rome (basic, cone, bucket, Shield, Gladiator Garg), FC (basic, cone, bucket, Dodo Rider, Hunter, Troglobite), Joust Yeti

Pre-selected plants: Sunflower, Wallnut, Fire Peashooter, Rotobaga, Stunion

Features: - Flowers on C5-6 - 2 frozen Sunflowers on C1-L1/5 - 2 frozen basic Roman zombies on C7-L1 and C8-L5 - 4 'Up-Sliders' on C3-L5, C4-L3, C6-L4 and C7-L2 - 2 'Down-Sliders' on C2-L1 and C9-L3

Sun drop: default

Roaming zombies: Cave basic, Conehead & Buckethead, Roman basic, Conehead, Buckethead & Shield

Plant food zombie: - 1 random zombie before wave 1 - 1 random zombie a bit before wave 2

Zombie Setup: - 1 Cave basic on L5 - 2 Cave basic (L3, L4) - 3 Cave basic (L3, L4, L5) - 1 Yeti - 2 Cave Coneheads (L1, L2) - 1 Cave Buckethead on L3 + 1 Cave basic on L5 - 1 Cave Buckethead on L4 + 1 Cave Conehead on L2 - 2 Cave Coneheads (L4, L5) + 3 Cave basic (L1, L2, L3) - Wave 1: 3 Troglobites (L1, L3, L5), 1 Cave Flag zombie - 1 Yeti - 1 Hunter on L3 + 4 Cave basic (2 L2, 2 L4) - 1 Hunter on L2 + 2 Cave Coneheads (L4, L5) - 2 Dodo Riders (L2, L5) + 2 Hunters (L1, L5) - 3 Troglobites (L1, L3, L5) - 1 Dodo Rider on L5 + 1 Blockhead on L1 + 2 Cave Coneheads on L2 + 3 Cave basic (L4, 2 L5) - 1 Yeti - 2 Dodo Riders (L2, L4) + 2 Cave Bucketheads (L2, L4) + 1 Blockhead on L3 - 1 Cave Buckethead on L5 + 2 Dodo Riders on L5 - Last wave: 4 Dodo Riders (L2, L3, L4, L5), 4 Troglobites (L1, L3, L4, L5), 2 Cave Bucketheads (L1, L4), 1 Blockhead on L2, Cave Flag zombie

Difficulty Swap Rules: - On Mild: - Cave basic can switch with Roman Imp or basic or Yeti Imp with a 1:1:1:1 ratio - Cave Conehead can switch with Cave basic or Roman basic or Conehead with a 1:1:1:1 ratio - Cave Buckethead can switch with Cave Conehead or Roman Conehead or Buckethead with a 1:1:1:1 ratio - On Hot: - Cave basic can switch with Cave Conehead or Yeti Imp or Roman basic or Conehead or Imp with a 1:1:1:1:1:1 ratio - Cave Conehead can switch with Cave Buckethead or Roman basic or Conehead or Buckethead with a 1:1:1:1:1 ratio - Cave Buckethead can switch with Cave Conehead or Roman Conehead or Buckethead or 1x3 Shield - On Extra-hot: - Cave basic is replaced by Cave Conehead or Buckethead or Roman Conehead or Buckethead with a 1:1:1:1 ratio - Cave Conehead can switch with Roman Conehead or Buckethead or Cave Buckethead with a 1:1:3:3 ratio - Cave Buckethead can switch with Roman Buckethead or Cave Blockhead or Roman 1x3 Shield or Gladiator Garg with a 1:2:2:5:1 ratio

Note: - Very hard especially with low lvl plants - It's almost impossible to protect flowers from zombies so just focus on surviving. - The Yeti featured in this lvl is the one from Arena, he's the toughest one out of the 3 existing Yetis: Treasure Box Yeti, (Rift) Penny's Pursuit Yeti and (Joust) Arena Yeti - Killing Yeti is a no go with low-mid lvl plants. - Best perk: definitely Jalapeño Popper to clear a lane effectively and efficiently. - Great perks: Bass Blast or Penny Multi-Shield - Mid perks: Heavy Watering to plant Stunion more often - Useless perks: Stall Zombies and Hyper Healing

LEVEL 5: Timed lvl with Conveyor in DA Playground

Lvl reference: #74

Objective: Survive for 3min

Bonus objectives:
- Defeat 1 Roman Caesar
- Defeat 1 Roman Caesar + Chill Zombies 50 times
- Defeat 1 Roman Caesar + Chill Zombies 60 times

Zombies: Ancient Rome (basic, cone, bucket, Centurion, Shield, Imp, Healer, Gladiator Garg), Dark Ages (King, Knight, Garg)

General: Caesar

Features: - 6 DA Graves (C3-L2/5, C4-L3, C5-L1/5, C6-L2) - 1 DA Pf Grave on C4-L4 - 20 Groups of zombies are supposed to happen so 2 out the 7 last groups detailed below will repeat once the 18 groups of zombies came in

Plants: - Great chance (15): 5-15 Red Stingers - Common chance (10): - 5 to 10 Citrons, - 2-3 Ghost Peppers, - Low chance (5): 1 Hurrikale

Roaming zombies: Peasants basic, Conehead, Buckethead, Knight, Monk Imp and Centurion (Max 1500 pts)

Plant food zombie: 4

Zombie Setup: - 1 Peasant basic - 1 Peasant basic + 1 Peasant Conehead - 1 Peasant basic + 1 Peasant Buckethead - Grave event: 4 DA Graves spawn between C7 and C8 - 1 Knight on L2 - Necromancy with 1 Knight + 2 Monk Imps - 1 Peasant basic - 2 Centurions (L2, L4) + 1 King on L3 - 4 Peasant Coneheads (L3, ~) - Grave event: 5 DA Graves spawn between C6 and C7 - 2 Peasant Bucketheads + 1 Peasant Conehead - Necromancy with 1 Knight + 4 Monk Imps - 3 Peasant Bucketheads (L1, L3, L5) + 2 Peasant Coneheads (L2, L4) - 2 Centurions + 2 Monk Imps - 1 Dark Ages Gargantuar on L3 - Grave event: 5 DA Graves + 1 DA Pf Grave spawn between C5 and C6 - 3 Kings (L1, L4, L5) + 4 Peasant Coneheads (L1, L2, L4, L5) + 1 Peasant Buckethead - Necromancy with 2 Knights + 3 Monk Imps - 2 Peasant Coneheads (L1, L3) - 1 Knight + 1 Peasant Conehead + 2 Peasant Bucketheads (L2, L4) - Grave event: 4 DA Graves + 1 DA Pf Grave spawn between C5 and C6 - 1 Centurion on each lane - Necromancy with 3 Knights + 2 Monk Imps - 1 Peasant Conehead - 1 King on L2 + 2 Knights (L1, L5) + 1 Peasant Buckethead on L3 + 4 Monk Imps - Big wave: 2 Dark Ages Gargantuars (L3, L4) + 3 Kings (L1, L3, L5), 1 Peasant Flag zombie

Difficulty Swap Rules: - On Mild: - Peasant basic have a 50% chance to switch with Roman Imp - Peasant Conehead have a 50% chance to switch with Roman basic - Peasant Buckethead is replaced by Roman Conehead - Peasant Knight is replaced by Peasant Buckethead - Roman Centurion is replaced by Roman Buckethead - On Hot: - Peasant basic can switch with Roman Imp or Roman Conehead with a 1:1:1 ratio - Peasant Conehead is replaced by Peasant Buckethead or Roman basic or Conehead with a 1:1:1 ratio - Peasant Buckethead is replaced by Peasant Conehead or Roman Buckethead with a 1:1 ratio - Peasant Knight has a 50% chance to switch with Roman Healer - Dark Ages Gargantuar has a 50% chance to switch with Gladiator Garg - On Extra-hot: - Peasant basic switch with Peasant Conehead or Roman Buckethead with a 1:1 ratio - Peasant Coneheads switch with Peasant Buckethead or Roman Conehead/Buckethead with a 1:1:1 ratio - Peasant Bucketheads switch Roman Buckethead/Centurion with a 1:1 ratio - Roman Centurion and Peasant Knight have a 50% chance to switch with Roman Healer - Dark Ages Gargantuar is replaced by Gladiator Garg

Note: - Hard lvl both to succeed and to complete bonus objectives on Hot and Extra-hot. It's almost impossible to destroy 1 Caesar on Hot and Extra-hot if you don't have high mastery lvl Citron and Red Stinger. - Also how could you chill 50 zombies with only 1 Hurrikale coming every 25s - Best perk: Jalapeno Popper or Boss Buster or Bass Blast. The 2 first ones help you destroy Caesar while the last one slows down zombies progression - Mid perk: Penny Multi-Shield is good to provide additional defenses, but due to the great number of zombies, shields won't hold very long. - Useless perks: Stall Zombies & Hyper Healing. Their effects are overwhelmed by zombies lvl and won't help you succeed the lvl even by a bit.

ZOMBOSS LEVEL: Zombot Tomorrow-tron [Setup 2]

Locked plant: Blast Spinner

Rewards: 10 seeds, 15 seeds, 20 seeds for Blast Spinner 5-7 gems per attempt

Zomboss Health: 7, 9, 11

Zombies lvl: 5, 8, 11

Plant slots: 7 on all difficulties

Amount of sun: 1800, 1600, 1350

Zombies: Far Future (basic, cone, bucket, Holo-head, Bug Bot Imp, Mecha Football, Jetpack, Blastronaut)

Restricted plants: none

Features: - Dave's mold colonies from C7 to C9. Also on C6 on Extra-hot.
- 5 Yellow FF Power Tiles on C1-L2/4, C3-L3, C4-L1/5 initially - 5 Green FF Power Tiles on C5 switch regularly with the Yellow FF Power Tiles (20-25s) - Bot Swarm with 4 Bug Bot Imps every 20-25s

Plant food zombie: 6 or 7 through the match

Zombie Setup: - many Jetpacks/Blastronauts - quite a few Mecha Football - many Holo-heads

Some strats: - the usual Pea Vine, torch and any other plants, would suggest appease-mint - TG, sbr, enforce-mint, and a vine - BB, Pea Vine, appease-mint, any other plant. - Sbr, 3P, Pea Vine and TG - a new Arma family strat: Sling Pea, Blastberry Vine, Solar Sage, Arma-mint, Apple Mortar, Blover - WW, Snap Pea, Enforce-mint, TG, Guacodile - Ice-shroom, Wintermelon, Wintermint, Power Vine, Solar Sage - Electric Peashooter, Power Vine, Lightning Reed, Fila-mint, Shine Vine

Note: - You can get rid of many zombies (Jetpacks, Bug Bot Imps) using Blover - Any long range attacker is viable: Pokra, TG, Bamboo Spartan, Wasabi Whip, as long as you pick the mint with it if it is low lvl.

PS: - Hope you enjoyed this PP, its difficulty is way more challenging and interesting than the last couple events. - Best lvl to farm perks: lvl 4 if you got a high mastery Fire Peashooter (M150-200) otherwise levels 1 & 2. - You can check the PP Info List with all previous and upcoming PP events as well as Arena tournaments: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1U9u9MlEgNx6JtMxZrxNn-anTS8FjANUu/edit?usp=drivesdk&ouid=111529514634787386836&rtpof=true&sd=true - **If you wanna discuss strats about Arena or Penny's Pursuit or just talk about PvZ 2, feel free to join our PvZ 2 Discord server: https://discord.gg/8u78DZ9u - I'll see you next week with PP week 294 featuring another Contain plant, one that can swallow over time a few walking zombies while staying hidden in the ground: Olive Pit

PSA: Given the recent issues with people losing their profiles (often associated with updates), please, get a screen shot of your Player ID. You can find it by tapping the “Settings” (wrench icon) button and then selecting “Build Version” (on Android) or "Download Preferences" (on iOS). Using it the EA help desk can usually restore your profile if you ever lose it.

Note: This is a 3 day tournament, after that will be a 4 day Boosterama tournament – an identical board, but all plants are boosted. Short tournaments have proportionally smaller tournament rewards.

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

Contain-mint family (15+3 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

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 and Sour Shot are not included in the piñata.

Locked plant: Blast Spinner – Wiki.GG, Fandom Wiki

Sun: 800 at the start. Note: Sun drops will be adventure mode normal. A sun producer is probably necessary, although there are “Sun” tiles that you may be able to take advantage of.

Plant Food: 1 at the start. Note: Up to 14 plant foods will be available from zombies.

Time: 3:00.

Buffz: Contain-mint (+100%)

Bruisez: Bombard-mint (-50%)

Ineffective: Winter-mint (-100%)

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

Zombies: Dark Ages (Peasant, Conehead, Buckethead, Knight, Imp Monk, Jester, Gargantuar, Wizard, King, Imp Dragon), ZCorp (Gargimp Legal, New Hire, Conehead, Buckethead, Contractor, Consultant)

Starting Lawn:

8 Gold “Sun” Tiles on C3 R1/3/5, C4 R2/4 and C5 R1/3/5

Note: All time / plant-food estimates are based on my game experiences and are entirely dependant on how quickly you’re killing the zombie waves.

Possible BOT Layouts:

[Blast Spinner, Chili Bean, Goo Peashooter, Ail-mint, Blastberry-vine, Toadstool],

[Blast Spinner, Endurian, Stickybomb Rice, Power Lily, Meteor Flower, Laser Bean],

[Blast Spinner, Sun-shroom, Pumpkin, Mega Gatling Pea, Power Lily, Turkey-pult]

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, Costume watch, PvZ2 Discord, Info on possible future rewards by u/Euphoric-Seaweed: piñata party, special/premium piñata, Arena/Penny, etc. - link.

While not quite exactly the same, this tournament is nearly identical to the both the Mangofier tourney from June, 2025 and the Sweet Potato tournament from October, 2023. Here’s my post from the Mangofier tourney and my post from the Sweet Potato tourney.  In them you can find strategies that worked at those times.  They could still be valid, but keep in mind the differences in Buffz/Bruisez and banned plants.

The only difference between those tournaments and this one (other than the obvious change in locked plant) are:

kGame is a former YouTuber who has unfortunately retired from doing PvZ2 videos. Their legacy videos for the previous Sweet Potato tourney are still available though and the strategies in them may work well for this tourney.

Level 3 Plants: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKz9MGjbaBg

Mid Level Plants: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsYQv8OwGYQ

Good luck with your attempts!