Plants VS Zombies 2 Redesigned Plants TIER LIST

One of the many comparisons between the first two Plants VS Zombies tower defence games stems from the plant designs (plant pun har har). Some like the raggedy, old-school look of the plants in the original game while others prefer the rounded, sleek appearance in the sequel, and this tier list compares every single plant that returned in PVZ2. Yes, the Chinese version counts too!
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[@GNVS300]

I've now done the same for zombies, check it out here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pmPUqnyejbppi6csi=mjM2E1n3hP6aVemS

[@Victor0176_]

ok.

[@helheim58]

I agree with putting scaredy-shroom at the lowest tier, idk what were the devs were thinking or what drugs they were on when redesigning scaredy-shroom

[@togarashi6437]

It's even worse in motion

[@helheim58]

@@togarashi6437 fr

[@nobodyimportant281]

New Scardy Shroom looks like he hasn't slept in 6 months.

[@MrMan002]

It skinned the original scaredy-shroom and then wore it.

[@JeffreyChang-tp6vd]

I agree. As much as I like that it’s coming back, the new design sucks, especially because it had concept design for Dark Ages that I actually liked.

[@JeffreyChang-tp6vd]

The worst part about Scaredy Shroom’s redesign is that when it was originally going to appear in dark ages, it had a different design that resembled its PvZ1 design. I really dislike its new design, especially the eyes. I also dislike Sea Shroom, but I can see why people would like it. My favorite Seedium design is probably Buttercup. Oh yeah, the upcoming Catapult zombie design looks really bad.

[@thatpoorlonelyguywhonobody2143]

Sea shroom design in pvz2 is definitely better than the pvz1. It has more depth and detail into it. The upcoming catapult zombie looks fine. The cart he uses is well designed and looks better but they should have designed the zombie too instead of just reusing that same buffed zombie

[@IdiotxnderTheMoon]

​@@thatpoorlonelyguywhonobody2143 Look, people have diffrent opinions then you, let them like what they whant. Also what's up with your user name-

[@shellder_gaming]

Seashroom looks better, but Scaredy shroom, yea, definitely worse

[@capncookie1110]

The design doesn’t look bad, the animation does

[@onedude1389]

The upcoming catapult design looks really good on my opinion

[@thatliquidthing1903]

If they bring back Umbrella Leaf in any future games, I really hope they don’t give them a mouth. What they should do is give it that flower on its head they gave it in Heroes, that was cute.

[@weirdguylol]

Forgot Umbrella even exist, but damn would it be useful in big wave beach against octo

[@budcat64xd88]

The umbrella leat is in pvz heroes and it looks good

[@puzzledhypnoshroom1004]

He’s saying that because catapult is returning which I also mentioned in another vidoe it’s probably gonna come back and I hope they do it right

[@starfruit6078]

Imagine if umbrella leafs just straight up only able to counter catapult zombie ONLY

[@puzzledhypnoshroom1004]

@Conically Insane lol I say the same for a lot of ppl I watch a lot of stuff

[@thebestnoob9336]

The scaredy shroom has not animation just photo shop smudge tool

[@GNVS300]

LMAOOOO TRUE 😂

[@milkuetea]

agree with basically everything except explode o nut. explode o nut is literally just wallnut with a red filter in the original game, i think the new one is better. just an opinion tho.

[@CottonBunn]

agreed, he considered a wall-nut recolor far superior? like at least pvz2 explodo is original

[@enterguavastuff]

wal-nut recolor funni tho :(

[@TheKnight80421]

You can't forget the new animations, in PvZ 1 it just goes BOWLING, but in PvZ2 you can see it getting increasingly anxious to explode as they devour it, and it just adds so much to it that doesn't feel like a nut recolor, but more like a new kind of nut.

[@rafa7428]

explosive wallnut in pvz1 is literally regular wallnut but painted red

[@user-jh6ik1qd7p]

Exactly should be worthy makeover.

[@NasuNanu]

I think that pvzHeroes has the best designed plants in the series. It keeps the same style as pvz2 but everything looks more sleek and interesting

[@thatpoorlonelyguywhonobody2143]

Alot of Designs are really just perfect like peashooter, sunflower, wall nut, umbrella leaf but then there are plants like spore shroom

[@soggySmoggy]

I can say I’d definitely prefer the heroes designs over any of the 1st versions which looks… drained, and the 2nd version looks too marketable, but the heroes designs are perfection, even with more original plant designs

[@kidsIIIII009]

PvZ Heroes also keeps the PvZ1 designs like Wallnut, Sea Shroom, and Plantern

[@ShakirUddin-hu3gk]

Yah they nailed the designs. Too bad they used it in a spinoff

[@thatonebonkchoyguy]

I swear, I never remembered Coffee Bean having wings. I just remembered him as a bean. I feel like I'm being gaslighted en masse by the entire Plants Vs. Zombies community.

[@togarashi6437]

Coffee Bean only had wings in PvZ1's promotional material before being his default look in PvZ2C

[@berdwatcher5125]

Coffee bean doesnt have wings in pvz1.

[@luckylaniang5574]

Wdym he always had wings

[@EpikBirb]

Only had wings in promotional art, prototype sprites, and in UE

[@BabyGhast4]

You’re right, coffee bean does not have wings. However, they do look better with them.

[@NasuNanu]

I find the mega gatling pea looks much worse than the normal gatling pea from pvz1 because they removed the 4-barrel cannon from it's mouth. Yes it shows up when it attacks, but it just doesn't look right having it pop out of the mouth and go back in, and it doesn't even rotate.

[@vrxVI]

Fr

[@onedude1389]

It's just a minor detail,it doesn't make it look ""MUCH WORSE"",his design it's pretty fire and better than the original design,but they should have kept the gatling

[@thehottoast1348]

Bro the new one has a mf mullet

[@marioalbertomoreno3819]

IdK man, I always found weird that it had metal tubes in its mouth all the time, besides the leaf mullet and the condecorated helmet gives much more personality than simply being repeater with "4 guns"

[@trixsomethingsomething2095]

Love how you and the two TorchWoods on the thumbnail are doing the same face

[@GNVS300]

Lol yeah that was the intention! 😂

[@voltfox2466]

Scaredy shroom in PvZ 2 style looks more scared, while the PvZ one is more bold and courageous I like the first design way more than the second one

[@shriveborn9422]

did you just say how PvZ's original one "looks more bold and courageous" as a good thing??

[@VeryE69420]

The point of scaredy shroom is being scared, even if its design looks bad on pvz2, pvz1 design dosent have to look bold and courageous

[@voltfox2466]

Bruh, it's not that deep, I just like how he doesn't seem all that scared in the first PvZ, in the second he just looks like he is not just scared, but freaking... traumatized Idk 💀

[@ColonelKlink1965]

I actually believe that the pumpkin in has the worst redesign out of all of them. He looks so flat and bland in PvZ 2 and what always confused me is the fact the he has two faces, one in the front and one in the back. It's so weird to me that you can just see through him in PvZ 2.

[@monsi3379]

What! I love the og squash! It looks so soft, almost as if it it melting, makes sense how it goes flat af after jumping, just a fat blob jumping on top of the zombies. In pvz2 it looks hard, like really raw, he uses actual power, not just his mass

[@limo1132]

Its scary how i agree with almost everything in this tierlist

[@RegularPea]

Yeah except tangle kelp for me. The og look more better than the new one

[@clicktuck]

you should have also done the Chinese versions of gatling pea and scaredy-shroom to be more fair

[@djm334wog]

PvZ All Stars Scaredy is literally a polished one

[@blocks4857]

International because it's the version most play

[@clicktuck]

​@@blocks4857but he included multiple chinese exclusive redesigns (plantern and a few upgrade plants)

[@muai]

​Bro's practically the Buddah of the PVZ community

[@monstar3626]

Finger

[@monstar3626]

WALTUH

[@Grilled_Cheese_is_yum]

I have finally found him guys

[@monstar3626]

@@Grilled_Cheese_is_yum it's mike. We found him boys

[@BabyGhast4]

Put your sunflowah away Waltuh.

[@gameteamsk6892]

pvz1 scaredy shroom looks scared while the other one looks like he has seen horrors beyond comprehension

[@puzzledhypnoshroom1004]

I love this idea of a tier list especially on how I love seeing pvz 1 plants return.

[@Ramherewas]

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[@puzzledhypnoshroom1004]

@@Ramherewas my brother you get a sub

[@IanMCgaming]

Too bad Cat Tail, Cob Cannon, Gloom shroom, Umbrella leaf, Lantern, Coffee bean never came back Some are still useless tho

[@nishamag-3917]

Bro the old grave buster looks like a Minecraft stone slab💀💀💀💀

[@use-r814]

Flower pot in pvz1 happy☺️ Flower pot in pvz2(Chinese)sad😞 12:52

[@clementchuah6706]

I thought wall nut and explode o nut in PVZ1 are just pallete swaps of each other

[@GNVS300]

Exactly lol, which is why it's probably the most controversial placement on here

[@chaosthebaryonyx6344]

I feel like starfruit while plain doesn't look that bad in the first game but this particular image of it makes it look like it's on drugs.

[@Pnuemonia-Nakey]

The tall nut redesign looks like a fish finger

[@GNVS300]

LMAOOOOOOO

[@yes_and_so_what]

Wait it actually looks like a giant fish stick over a nut

[@urtiyayeah1946]

What were u on about with explodo nut💀 it should have been at the top

[@aaronta6573]

Scaredy Shroom looks cursed with the eyes and his head looks like the top half of a cracked egg painted purple for easter

[@slappybird4660]

I want to mention that Fume Shroom has a different design in PvZ: All Star, before being replaced with the current design Same goes to Scaredy-Shroom, but wasn't replaced since the game shut down long before the current design And Gold Magnet appeared in that game as well How would you rank the 3 based on their design?

[@lankylank274]

I usually try to ignore the art style change and try to compare the designs to the best of my abilities (and some of them are harder to do because SOME PEOPLE decide to not make edited art of PvZ1 returners as PvZ2 plants that gives them their PvZ1 designs and vice-versa), so plants that have had barely any changes like Peashooter, Puff Shroom and Flower Pot I usually skip while plants with more noticeable changes like Cherry Bomb and Tangle Kelp are the ones I usually end up comparing their designs for, even if it isn’t exactly a competition due to many of the redesigns actually looking lazier than the original designs, one example being Cherry Bomb where it has green stems and a singular leaf as opposed to three leaves and occasionally brown stems, and to make matters worse, Cherry Bomb is the one plant that they keep BRINGING BACK the original design for in the case of PvZH of all things

[@thatpoorlonelyguywhonobody2143]

Idk, i think the Design of cherry bomb in pvz2 is a hundred times better. I like the green stem, it makes them look more fresh and the single leaf look stylish, like a cool hair style

[@lankylank274]

another case of lazier redesigns is Magnet Shroom, take a guess why

[@thatpoorlonelyguywhonobody2143]

@@lankylank274, no eyebros? It's not even a redesign. It's simply the same design of magnet shroom from the first game just drawn in a different artstyle. It shouldn't even count. You should put it in the same category of peashooter, puff shroom design since, it's about the design not the art you are looking for (that's literally what you said before)

[@theamazingtommo]

i wish the grave buster kept the pvz1 appearance: it rly looks like a gravestone as it should; it's got leaves, it's intimidating. As soon as you pulled up the tier list, i knew it would land in the bottom tier😂

[@glaberbeast]

I love the PvZ2 designs ten times better than the original PvZ except Grave Buster, Scaredy-Shroom, Tangle Kelp.

[@AldiarRaimbekov]

And Pumpkin.

[@Chilli_bean]

I actually like the pvz2 grave buster because he looks like a plants and not just a black sheet

[@onedude1389]

We have quite different opinions,and i respect that,good tier overall!

[@sunthorn4782]

I’m not a fan of Gatling pea’s redesign in PvZ2 because it removed the four barrel cannon and just have it awkwardly pop out during the attack animation. I prefer the Chinese design because of that and also because the helmet design is more unique

[@HashimAl-Atassi2013]

why the long face

[@enterguavastuff]

im gonna be honest, torchwood got a MASSIVE glow-up. it has so much more personality imo

[@randomgem8087]

there's a lot of things i would change on this tier list... but most importantly i would've added a tier for plants that got a whole new look like gatling pea or grave buster since they're too different

[@gyakutenryu]

I never knew plant pots had faces omg

[@KPoWasTaken]

2:29 if we're factoring animation then PvZ 2 peashooter and its varients should be put higher because PvZ 1 only has the slight mouth movement to shoot animation and the moving side to side. PvZ 2 peashooter actually has an animation for pulling the pea into it's mouth from the stem then shooting it out. It's subtle but it's such a nice detail in design

[@superspun9944]

12:44 um… I see, that PvZ 2’s garlic is lightly brighter… it’s now automatically bottom tier because edginess

[@FilmCutsReal]

Ngl the pvz 1 spikerock is creepy as hell. 15:28 Its just staring at your soul

[@snapslingpeavine1371]

How did you get that moving background for your laptop in the background?? It’s amazing and I would love to have something similar.

[@GNVS300]

I think it's exclusive to Mac, it's just the 'Floating' preset on the Mac Screen Saver settings

[@snapslingpeavine1371]

@@GNVS300 cool thanks

[@ShimmerismYT]

@@snapslingpeavine1371 theres also wallpaper engine but its not free

[@hunter082706]

next time, could you do the chinese versions of the pvz 2 plants? they actually remade every single pvz1 plant in pvz2 in the chinese version, including the original gravebuster, instead of a snake-like gravebuster

[@cadronagaming]

putting melon-pult in the Slight Downgrade tier is an absolute bad take, just look at it! how adorable it is 😭

[@randomMSMtuber]

My blindass never saw the face on the flower pot until now

[@Scott...]

The big issue I have with Wall-Nut’s redesign is they messed with the original’s simplicity too much. In the first game, he goes from happy, to neutral, to sad depending on his health. In the second game not only is the damage far less noticeable, but they also replaced the simple expressions with these weird, pained, brain-damaged expressions, which is not only less readable, but also kinda retcons his almanac entry from the first game.

[@gdmrhotshot3731]

dont diss explode o nut redesign, or scaredy shroom (which they look same)

[@djm334wog]

Fun fact: Scaredy-shroom was meant to return with Dark Ages during it’s old iteration. It was scrapped however. BTW, Scaredy is now in game and his plant food is OP. Sea-shroom however is not added, and not even an almanac entry has been datamined.

[@ammaryt1186]

Cob Cannon and Cattail look good in my opinion. But Cob Cannon is horrible in the chinese game

[@MimiAndOsc]

It think starfruit has a better design in pvz 1 (I think about 90% plants look better in pvz 1) because it looks less cute, and I don’t like the cuter art style in the second game that much

[@duckpond777]

i hate tall-nuts new design because he looks stupid. in PVZ1 he's tanky, serious and cool, while in PVZ2 he looks dumb with the square shape and looks way less strong

[@DNYA_mortis]

Squash should be slight upgrade, reason why? They removed the "mmh?"

[@AnAnimatorsWorld]

Can you do a Battle For Neighbourvile redesigned characters tier list next?

[@GNVS300]

There are very few characters if any at all I prefer the BFN design of, I wouldn't want to come across as even more biased against the game 😂🥲

[@AnAnimatorsWorld]

@@GNVS300 Fair enough

[@TwilightChomperEnthusiast]

@@GNVS300 Yeah, it’s best if you don’t touch that game if you want to make it out alive lol

[@grootunknown]

The only time Lily Pad will be a top tier plant

[@ugandaknuckles7082]

I'll gota say something, in my opininon some pvz 2 plants look unalive, like look at blover he looks so lifeless, also threepeater, all of the small heads and that body was joyfull but in pvz 2 looks like a robot

[@sagittarius9298]

WE FOUND THE HORSE THAT ENTERED THE BAR

[@Jesty.r]

4:46 actually, in the mobile version, it gives you an option to place an explode-o-nut by watching an ad.

[@GNVS300]

Didn't know that because when I got the free mobile version, the game reset my progress after completing Day so I uninstalled it lol

[@ozthebeeman]

7:08 OMFG pvz2 scardy shroom looks like he just broke into the police snorted 6 kilotons of cocane and just realised he is on camera

[@Jello-mt5cx]

Call me weird but I don’t see how the first snow peashooter is different then the 2nd one it just a little brighter then the first

[@GNVS300]

As I explained I only gave PVZ1 Snow Pea the edge because his projectile has a better design

[@fireyhitmyfuse]

Yay i got reccomended gnvs after so long i havent seen this channel in a while

[@GNVS300]

Thanks! Have fun catching up 🤪

[@Gamebuilder2000]

I think Cabbage Pult looks way better in PVZ2

[@BrainyTB]

The new scaredy shroom looks like a damn cartoon character when he sees a zombie

[@rigboy1234]

12:51 WAIT THE POT HAS A FACE EVER SINCE THE FIRST GAME WTH I DIDN'T EVEN REALIZE UNTIL NOW HOW

[@lukaluigilucario]

ik everyone agrees that scaredy-shroom is a half-assed plant with no actual purpose in the game now that adventure is over, but ever since Blockoli there’s been a drastic decline in the quality of animation. for example, if you plant food a puff-shroom, its animation shows it shooting for the duration of its plant food, but if you plant food a sea-shroom, THEIR SHOOTING ANIMATION DOES NOT LINE UP WITH THE SPEED OF THEIR PROJECTILES. they’ll also continue their idle animation in the middle of their plant food which screams lazy and rushed to me.

[@Starfruit1]

ME

[@spicyicedcoffee1150]

12:45 the chin i think its a slight upgrade just because first looks so akward while second looks more round

[@nitrumlegal7470]

that spike rock from pvz1 is totally diferent lol, the actual desing is pretty much like the 2 game

[@necroprogaming6851]

AM I THE ONLY PERSON WHO JUST REALISED PLANT POT HAS A FACE?!?

[@pyrethistle7551]

Pvz 2 china teirlists would be great

[@eggseed6543]

I can't deny I like all redesigns BUT the newest doom shroom

[@0nogs]

THERES A FACE ON THE FLOWER POT?!

[@GNVS300]

Yep!

[@0nogs]

​@@GNVS300 trippy

[@GNVS300]

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[@monstar3626]

Do Zombies next please Great video btw

[@whatthesigma150]

the old threepeater looks like 3 clown horns

[@monsi3379]

Pvz1 tallnut looks like a wall while the pvz2 one looks like it can be pushed down easily

[@bluy3llow9787]

Can you share this tierlist template?

[@GNVS300]

Good shout! Just updated the description to link it!

[@bluy3llow9787]

@@GNVS300 Nice thanks

[@IanMCgaming]

"Gloom shroom and Gold magnet never ruturned" Lantern, Cofee bean, Flower Pot,Cat Tail and Cob Cannon: uhh

[@stargazer-elite]

Rip to all the pvz 1 plants that haven’t been added to pvz 2

[@GNVS300]

There's only 5 at this point: Ice-Shroom, Doom-Shroom (although makes a cameo), Umbrella Leaf, Gold Magnet and Gloom-Shroom

[@ffcdgf]

​@@GNVS300 it sucks that they will most likely be another trash design

[@stargazer-elite]

@@GNVS300 sorry it took so long for me to respond lol With how pvz2 loves zombie spam I am guessing that doom shroom would just be to op that’s why we can’t get him the closest we will probably get is that plant food But the others (besides umbrella leaf) have probably not been added yet because other plants have the exact same effect like iceberg lettuce’s plant food for Ice shroom and phat beet for gloom shroom (although not exactly the same) they are planning to bring back catapult zombie so we might see umbrella leaf but idk. As for gold magnet it would have almost no use without plantable marigolds maybe it could be something in the zen garden. Sorry this is so long

[@Lissy_YT481]

​@@GNVS300hey there, they're going to add Ice-Shroom back, just telling you.

[@GNVS300]

@@Lissy_YT481 yep, I’ve seen that!

[@Detour-_-]

13:41 And Cob cannon never returned 😢 BRING COB CANNON BACK and SPIKEROCK TOO

[@GNVS300]

Uh... Spikerock is in PVZ2 and has been since day 1. Also Cob Cannon was replaced by Banana Launcher, which is better IMO

[@Explosivepotat0]

You cant perfect the perfection of Garlic

[@warnerd8746]

You should do the same with zombies too

[@WaffleRareBowgart]

He isn't Ranking, he's playing in the background 😭

[@jetpackdog3427]

14:18 so we aren't doing the pvz2 china version of gatling? aw man

[@sbd2639]

I never knew the flower pot even had a face!!!!!! I used to think it was odd that every other plants were living things and the pot was just a normal object....

[@EEFISCOOL]

me too lol

[@Tomshas_the_2nd]

I kinda feel like its wrong to compare mega gatling to regular gatling since the chinese one i feel like is closer to being the regular one. Neat video though

[@sanicthehegehag9118]

Biggest nostalgia merchant I've ever seen 😭

[@elijahlee929]

He looks like jacksfilms

[@KhajaSodhu]

Not really?

[@AmongSussy1]

Yeah no this tier list is WACK. I agree with most of it, but there’s a few here and there that were polished up from the first game and given a much more sleek, intimidating look as a result, only for you to say that they’re “less intimidating and more cartoony.” I dunno man, just seems like nostalgia clouds your reasoning for most of the points you make. That being said, you were spot on about cherry bomb and scaredy shroom.

[@GNVS300]

Well in my video 5 Reasons Why PVZ2 Is Better Than PVZ1, one of the placements was better graphics and I mention a few redesigns in PVZ2 that I prefer

[@gerardoescalante5432]

Fun Fact:Scardy shroom is been added in a new update

[@bylobat6822]

i was today years old when i found out that the pot plant has a face

[@PapkaFavorit66]

nah, the game is called plants vs zombies, and the grave buster in the first game looked like a rock

[@IsmaelHernandez123]

BRI'ISH???

[@GreyJackJack]

"Even more ludicrous than scaredy-shroom's return" He done my boy Scaredy-Shroom dirty, instant unsub. SCAREDY-SHROOM BEST

[@drago252]

now Doom Shrool is in pvz 2 and he looks so weird af where would you put him?

[@SlimTheBugGuy]

It can never be the same tho😔

[@user-ht3sg1kn5m]

I just realized that flower pot has a face 💀

[@leedandy2368]

just leaving a comment here

[@randomguyonyt1009]

Why the long face (loved the vid)

[@mrteddy718]

am i the only one who thought torchwoods from pvz was facing backwards and looking forwards from a side view?

[@GNVS300]

Nope, there was a whole Reddit post about it, lol, people have said they didn't realise he was facing right until watching this video

[@amn2760]

In my opinion, I think Gatling Pea should be in slight downgrade because the PvZ 1 design fits perfectly to it's name because of the barrels in its mouth.

[@Marker_fan.lol2433]

Well I guess you can say that phat beat is kinda like gloom sroom because of its attack

[@KhajaSodhu]

What about gloom vine?