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What is the highest DPS plant?

Arqade Asked on April 26, 2021

I was wondering lately what plant had the highest DPS.
I was thinking about this because I might make a mod for it, and I want to know which plants might need a slight nerf.
But of course, for some bizarre reason, the wiki doesn’t seem to have a page for it!
What plants have the highest DPS?

4 Answers

Here are some of the highest DPS plants that do not have a long recharge:

  • Winter Melon: 80 DPS with slow.
  • Melon Pult: 80 DPS.
  • Gloom Shrooms: 80 DPS.
  • Gatling Pea: 80 DPS (with Torchwood:160 DPS and splash).

I will keep updating my list as I find more plants with high DPS.

Correct answer by Bloonchipper on April 26, 2021

Cob Cannon would have the highest DPS then. Once the corn cob is produced, the player can click on the Cob Cannon and can manually launch the corn cob onto an area that the player targets. The corn cob will explode and deal 1800 damage to all zombies in a 3x3 area, like the Cherry Bomb.

Answered by Hmm on April 26, 2021

I think Melon Pult's answer is the way to go. Do consider also that for masses of zombies coming onto you (in Survival and Last Stand), splash or area damage may cause a weak plant to be dealing more damage than a stronger one.

The wiki says that Spikeweed will do damage to a single zombie at a rate about 4/3 that of a peashooter. A peashooter will do 20 points of damage per shot, so a Spikeweed would be doing ~26 damage per tick.

Against a single zombie, a Gatling Pea without the aid of a Torchwood will do 80 DPS, which is practically 3x the damage that a Spikeweed could do. But if you have 10 zombies stepping on it at the same time, the Spikeweed will be dishing about 260 DPS, and it will bypass screen-door shields. A Spikerock would be dealing 520 DPS total!

So you might also with to consider nerfing Spikeweed and Spikerock.

Answered by Old Gamer on April 26, 2021

DPS is but one of many characteristics. Damage per tile moved seems more useful. If a fast-moving zombie is coming at you, DPS doesn't help much unless it kills them. But, if you can slow or stop them, then you gain time.

Another statistic is cost. The little tiny mushrooms do little damage, but they are free, and need to be eaten (most of the time) and thus will slow zombies a little.

For example, the watermelon slows enemies, thus creating more damage per tile moved. Same with the spikeweed, and other things also slow or stop them.

On levels with a lot of zombies, plants that can damage more than one zombie gain more use.

Depending on which PvZ game, Hypnoshroom can do the most damage, if it gets eaten by a powerful zombie.

Damage per:

  1. second
  2. tile
  3. cost
  4. total zombies on the board
  5. slow, insta-kill, etc...

Answered by MikeP on April 26, 2021

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