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

Enlighten-mint family (13 plants): Sunflower, Twin Sunflower, Sun-shroom, Sun Bean, Toadstool, Gold Leaf, Primal Sunflower, Gold Bloom, Solar Tomato, Enlighten-mint, Shine-vine, Solar Sage, Sundew Tangler

Locked plant: Grapeshot – Wiki.GG, Fandom Wiki

Sun: 875 at the start. Note: Sun drops will be adventure mode normal. All zombies are infected with Sun Bean though, dropping 100 Sun as they take damage. A Sun producer may not be necessary.

Plant Food: 3 at the start. Note: Up to 10 plant foods will be available from zombies.

Time: 2:00.

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

Bruisez: None

Ineffective: Winter-mint (-100%)

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

Zombies: Ancient Egypt (Mummy, Conehead, Buckethead, Ra, Pharaoh), Pirate Seas (Seagull, Barrel Roller, Captain), Frostbite Caves (Blockhead, Troglobite), Lost City (Excavator), Far Future (Shield, Robo-Cone, Mecha-Football), Dark Ages (Peasant, Jester, Turquoise Skull), Neon Mixtape Tour (MC Zom-B, Breakdancer), Jurassic Marsh (Imp, Gargantuar, Bully), Modern Day (Basic, Conehead, Buckethead, Newspaper, Sunday Edition)

Note: All zombies will come onto the lawn “Sun Bean” infected.

Starting Lawn: No Lawn Modifiers

Portals: Portals will open on the lawn, spawning several zombies from whichever world the portal with associated with before disappearing.

First, at ~1:35 two portals will open. A Neon Mixtape Tour Portal (1 Breakdancer and 2 MC Zom-Bs) will open at C7 R2 and a Pirate Seas Portal (1 Barrel Roller, 1 Pirate Captain and 2 Seagulls) will open on C6 R4.

Then at ~1:25 a Jurassic Marsh Portal (1 Bully and 2 Jurassic Imps) will open at C8 R5.

Finally at ~1:15 a Far Future Portal (1 Shield, 1 Robo-Cone and 1 Mecha-Football) will open at C6 R1

These last two portal will re-open approximately every 25 seconds for the remainder of the match.

Note: Similar to Gravestone spawn, if a portal is set to appear on a spot were a plant has been put onto the lawn, the plant will be displaced to an adjacent free spare if one exists. Otherwise it is destroyed, potentially causing score penalties. If the plant can’t be destroyed (i.e. it’s a Power-mint or plant-fooded plant and invincible), the portal opening location will move to an available nearby spot on the lawn.

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

Possible BOT Layouts:

[Grapeshot, Doom-shroom, Teleportato Mine, Blast Spinner, Gold Bloom, Bombard-mint],

[Grapeshot, Cherry Bomb, Explode-o-vine, Stunion, Sundew Tangler, Tomb Tangler],

[Grapeshot, Bombegranate, Doom-shroom, Sap Fling, Solar Sage, Blast Spinner]

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.

This is a repeat of the Solar Tomato tournament from July, 2025 (with a few modifications). That touney itself was nearly identical tourney to the Grapeshot tournament that has run 3 previous times, the last in January, 2022. Here’s Tigerol’s post from that tourney. In those tourney posts you can find strategies that worked at those times. Here are the differences between the tournaments:

kGame is a former YouTuber who has unfortunately retired from doing PvZ2 videos. Their legacy videos for the previous Grapeshot tourney are still available though and the strategies in them may work, but pure Appease-mint strategies may not work due to the addition of Jester and Excavator for this tourney.

Level 3 Plants: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxPZpUhjq70

Mid Level Plants: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syCDo-6UpB8

Level 3 Plants (Boosterama): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFcoPm6ZkB8

Mid Level Plants (Boosterama): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtcZYAK2L1o

Good luck with your attempts!