

In addition, her signature superpower, Octo-Pult, which allows her to make a zombie fighter during the Zombie Tricks phase, makes sure the plant hero won't know an Octo-Pet is being played before it's too late. As such, make an effort not to play Bounced Gravestone zombies shortly after they have returned to your hand. This means balancing how many zombies are on the board, which may be done by allowing older, low-strength/health zombies to be destroyed or by using cards such as Firefighter to Bounce useful zombies back into your hand for use later on.Īlso, remember that Neptuna's primary asset is unpredictability. When playing as Neptuna, care must be taken to ensure that you can play gravestones whenever necessary. You can combine the use of gravestones to keep activating zombies with very useful abilities such as the Intergalactic Warlord able to continuously activate his ability and keep on buffing your zombies. Laser Base Alpha allows her to strike quickly and do severe damage to her opponent's defenses. Amphibious zombies are also potentially dangerous to plants if the enemy hero lacks removal or Amphibious plants to counter. She can effectively hold the board during the plants' turn, as her gravestones are immune to plant tricks (with the exception of Grave Buster, Blockbuster and Grave Mistake) and zombie tricks allows her to utilize the aforementioned movement or boosting cards to ensure that zombies remain to hold the board. Several Sneaky cards allow her to move her zombies out of harm's way or Bounce dangerous plants, and Hearty cards include both health boosts and the ability to move plants away from frail zombies. With access to both Hearty and Sneaky cards, she can also effectively improve the survivability of any weaker zombie fighters, such as Imps. Neptuna relies on her vast array of Gravestone zombies to keep the opponent guessing. Neptuna bamboozles her opponents with a variety of deceptive Gravestone Zombies, while hitting hard in the water lane. She is the very first Zombie to fight in a tank. Plant Mission 25: Something Fishy at the Seafront.Plant Mission 14: She Came From The Sea.Plant Mission 06: Attack of the Tentacles!.In-Crypted - A Zombie hides in a Gravestone.Possessed - A Zombie gets +2 and Frenzy.Signature: Octo-Pult - Make a 3 /2 Octo-Pet with Amphibious.Neptuna's hair may also reference a scene in Wabby Wabbo in which Crazy Dave is shown with an octopus on his head. Another strategy decks, “Go! Fight! Imp!”, is a play on “Go! Fight! Win!”, a cheer used among cheerleaders. Her strategy deck Grave Danger references one of the canceled mini-games from Plants vs. Her description has a pun: the word "tank" can either mean an aquarium tank (her fish bowl) or a type of armored war vehicle. Neptuna is inspired by aquatic superheroes such as Detective Comics' Aquaman and Marvel Comics' Namor The Sub-Mariner. Her name is a portmanteau of ‘Neptune’, referring to her appearance, and ‘tuna’, referring to the fact that she is half fish. Her holding a trident and wearing a crown (technically, it is her octopus ‘hair’ who’s wearing it) may be a reference to Neptune, the Roman god of the sea. She is based on a mermaid, a mythical aquatic creature with the head and upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish.
