Ah yes, this Plant is a thorn in every Zombie's side! Rose just loooves to be in control of the battle. She'll protect her teammates by freezing and bouncing your Zombies...and by turning them into Goats. So goat luck! I mean, GOOD luck.
Rose controls the Zombie side with chilling Freeze effects which power up her Snowdrop to massive size.
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Rose is all about taking control of the battle. She can outsmart the zombie hero and ruin their strategies to give her time to set up her defense. This way she will be able to protect her sun-generating plants so she can play powerful plants early, destroy any threats, and be on the offensive in the late game.
Rose can use the Freeze and Bounce abilities from the Smarty class to her advantage to protect plants from zombie attacks. She is also capable of weakening zombie fighters significantly, which she does with Transmogrify, and most notably, Goatify. Due to her Solar class, Rose can get more sun quickly, which allows her to completely suppress the opponent with clever tactics such as healing herself and playing Winter Melon early.
With access to more flowers than any other plant hero (tied with Wall-Knight), Rose has one of the greatest flower synergies around. The Solar class sure gives her access to most flowers, but the Smarty class also provides many useful flowers. There are useful examples like Mayflower, Go-Nuts, Spyris, and Snapdragon. While these flowers are a bit frail, Rose has stalling tricks up her sleeve to protect them well.
As a result of her overall strategy, Rose focuses on tactics too much, and not so much on direct offense or defense. Many of her plants have below average stats. If the opponent manages to outfox her, outlast her, or overwhelm her, she can get in a tight spot, and there is not much she can do. The fact that she lacks boosting tricks does not help at all, so the only way for her to deal with tough zombies is to use tricks to stall them or outright destroy them. Her greatest weakness, however, is her lack of reliable card draw. Fortunately, to make up for it, she can use cards like Sage Sage, 2nd-Best Taco of All Time, and especially Planet of the Grapes.
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Always be one step ahead of her. Destroy any problematic plants like Pepper M.D., Snowdrop, and Heartichoke early so you don't end up in an unfavorable situation. It is also advisable to counter her tricks so she cannot take advantage over you. If you cannot nullify her tricks, then she will end up controlling the game and leading you away from victory. Make sure you overwhelm her. You can try spamming cheap zombies to stress her into stalling them, although be warned, as Rose does have her share of cheap cards like Morning Glory and Cosmoss. As mentioned before, her greatest weakness is her low card draw, so if she wastes all her cards, you can use this to your advantage to turn the tide of the battle, so as to outsmart her.
Remember that just like Wall-Knight, Rose is able to destroy any zombies she chooses to. Her Winter Squash + Cool Bean combo means not even Gravestone zombies are safe from being destroyed easily. As such, swarm the field with zombies that are equally dangerous and make sure all your zombies have a chance to hit her.
Power to the Flowers[]
This is Rose's flower deck. If you cannot get rid of the early Sunflowers, Rose will be able to gather enough sun to play either a Cornucopia or a Dark Matter Dragonfruit, basically sealing your defeat. Use damaging tricks, abilities, and environments to destroy any Sunflowers played on the field.
Cool Deck, Bro[]
This is Rose's Freeze deck. If you recklessly just play zombies, Rose will be able to easily Freeze your zombies to boost her Snowdrops and destroy them with Winter Squash. Brainy heroes are best suited against this deck as they can play zombies during the Zombie Tricks phase and granting them immunity to freezing for that turn, or thaw already frozen ones with bonus attack cards.
Control Freak[]
This deck is about controlling the early game for late-game domination. Try to take out any sun producers and counter setup tricks to slow down and delay any control attempts Rose may pull out.
This is Rose's Colossal Fossils deck with an emphasis on control and Team-Up synergy with ramp support. Rose will first generate sun with her Sunflowers and Solar Winds, try to go for a powerful Team-Up synergy with Go-Nuts, Mixed Nuts, and Laser Cattail, then destroy your early zombies with Whack-a-Zombie and wreak havoc on groups of zombies with Cob Cannon's abilities to allow the Cob Cannons to hit you directly. This deck also has other means of indirect removal via Whack-a-Zombie, Lawnmower, Squash, and Kernel-Pult. However, this deck requires heavy setup, so you should try to ruin that.
Watch your game blossom with this flower-packed Strategy Deck. Harness the power of Briar Rose and Power Flower for the good of all their floral friends.
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Cool Deck, Bro
This Strategy Deck is all about cold and control. Snowdrop, Winter Squash, and Cool Bean put the chill on Zombies while 2nd-Best Taco of All Time heals you and Three-Headed Chomper chews through the enemy.
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Control Freak
Take control as you pick off the Zombies one by one or wipe the board with a Tactical Cuke. Solar Winds and Toadstool help you get powerhouses like Astro Vera, The Great Zucchini and Cornucopia into the game faster.
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Environmental Protection
Ample Environments here keep your hand and health topped off, while letting Leaf Blower give you the tailwinds to sail to victory. Once you have the board locked down, seal the deal with a Shooting Starfruit.
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Cob Cannonade
Cob Cannon has always been the ultimate corn-based battlestation. All you need is some cheap Team-Up Plants to play it on, like Sunflower, Kernel-Pult, and Laser Cattail. Go-Nuts pump your Team-Up Plants even more!
Please note that only official translations are used.
Language
Name
Description
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Rose
Simplified Chinese
玫瑰
Traditional Chinese
玫瑰
Brazilian Portuguese
Rosa
Trivia[]
Rose gets herself turned into a goat at the end of the mission "Everything's Coming Up Goats!" when she tries to goatify Super Brainz after hitting his mirror.
Rose, Citron, Beta-Carrotina and Night cap are the only plant heroes that do not have a specific known plant fighter counterpart.
Before update 1.16.10, in the boss battle of Stormin' the Castle, Rose had the ability to use Sunburn without it being conjured from Bird of Paradise (the only card that can give a plant hero superpowers).
Her description is a reference to nerfing, a common term in online multiplayer games, in which the character was made even weaker than they previously were in a patch or update due to them having too much power in the game.
In particular, Rose used to be incredibly powerful in Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2, resulting in many players calling for her to be nerfed. This description seems to reference this.
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Solar classes. Her signature superpower is Goatify, which transforms a zombie with the highest strength into a Goat. Her closest zombie counerparts are Super Brainz and Huge-Gigantacus.
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Freeze and Bounce abilities from the Smarty class to her advantage to protect plants from zombie attacks. She is also capable of weakening zombie fighters significantly, which she does with Transmogrify, and most notably, Goatify. Due to her Solar class, Rose can get more sun quickly, which allows her to completely suppress the opponent with clever tactics such as healing herself and playing Winter Melon early.
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Guardian plant, Rose is able to play him in (Mission)RED Alert.
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