Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville

casterisknt Pointed out a great AFK farm for this so use it while it lasts. i can confirm that this method works as of 14-3-2021
Credits goes to Youtuber Psycho Sibs Gaming for making the video


As of october 31st they nerfed the xp gains across the board and bounty rewards took the biggest hit making this an even longer grind than usual
Bounty reward xp has been lowered from 625xp to 55xp with the leveling up perk wich is a massive decrease in xp.
As of October 1st the xp farm spots listed under the spoiler have been patched

To get this achievement you will have to promote every character 5 times. There is a total of 20 characters that you'll need to do. 10 for the plants and 10 for the zombies.
They have added a total of 3 new characters. 2 for the zombies and 1 for the plants. these also counts for the achievements so it can save some grinds near the end.
You can promote a character after every 10 levels. When every character is fully leveled you wil have a total level of 901
To promote a character you need to go to the promotion station in the hubworld in giddy park.



When going for this achievement and you want to make the grind a bit shorter i reccomend equiping the Leveling up Perk this gives you more xp for everything that you do.


And dont forget to use the XP station. This can be used 5 times every 24hrs for 2.000xp per time for 15.000 coins each. this is 10.000xp for 75000 coins.
Thil will make the leveling go slightly faster.


Ive highlighted some tips from the comments but ill also recomend to look at the comment section on this solution for some tips and tricks offered by the community




DiegoCaldo said:
I was thinking about a method using the Giddy Park that may help us. I'm looking for people to test it during the week. The method is the following:

- If you kill another player in Giddy Park, you receive from 164XP to 194XP, plus some extra XP (up to 27XP) depending on how you kill them (critical shot, max zoom, ZPG etc.);
- Apparently, if you create a group of 4 players, in a private Giddy Park, it is possible to have one plant against three zombies or vice versa. The "lone wolf" can kill two enemies and then wait for the third one to revive the dead. Kill both enemies again, wait them to be revived, rinse and repeat. Using these method, the killer player will receive around 400XP per double kill in seconds and the "necromancer" 100XP per double revival;
- While the players are revived, gold targets might be destroyed for some extra 82XP.
- I have been playing in Giddy Park with snipers to gain XP and both Cactus and Captain leveled pretty fast. I think in a Private Game, it will go faster since everybody is grinding together.

according to UNDEADZ3LD4 this works.
DiegoCaldo - I can say that this truly works, i used my main account with a random profile to split screen another friend who wanted cheevo, and a dummy account on seperate xbox to just die, had the 2 dummy accounts to die, and me and friend switched between killing and reviving best way I have found so far

Here is a video for the Bitey Bros bounty in the Town Center for the zombies




vl Insane lv said this
The xp has been nerfed so the yetis will only give 100xp now.

Here is a tip from Lythiris
ive also found a video for it to show a bit whats it about




This method has been patched


If you feel like something is missing from this guide? Feel free to let me know so I can adjust it accordingly

The method I'm gonna put really helped me level the zombies fast except for the Super Brain and Scientist, as this is a kind of ranged way of doing things, and my Scientist was done the regular grinding way forever ago.

Go to a private Turf Takeover, set the difficulty to Crazy then the following settings down below~

For Zombies set the only teammates to Scientists, the only plants to Cactus. I chose the Tourist Trap Island where the Zombies are defending. You can stand on the payload and kill the Cactus that spawn basically right away. you get 50 exp for defending the objective, 25 for the plant hero kill, 5 for the critical kill if you crit kill, and if that cactus had shot anyone you get 25 for saving an ally. Don't worry about moving or healing as the Scientists will stay around and non stop heals going on. There's also another map you can do this with for Zombies where you have to defend the zone, if you do that i recommend lowering the amount of Scientists on your team as they will overwhelm the cactus spawn and you'll get a lot less kills. On Tourist Trap it took me about 45 minutes to finish a Super Elite from fresh off the rank to Master getting 100+ kills a match and it only takes 5 minutes a match!

Plants are a little slower, at least in my opinion, I did the Lodge map where again the plants are stopping a payload. The team setups would be Pirates for Zombies, Sunflowers for Plants. big downside of that map is the Pirates can easily Barrel Blast a lot of Sunflowers away and then kill you so you 're wasting time running back to the objective. There is a defend the zone for the plants, I forget the map name, that's a lot safer but at the cost of kills. I did not do this for the Chomper or the Snapdragon, but everyone else was fine.

Biggest downside is you don't get Taco's from anything to grind the Plumbing Gig, but you do get coins fast so it helps build up coins for the free Daily Exp at least.

I wrote a shorter version of this in the comment section of the first solution but thought I could elaborate more on this. This is a solo method that benefits both the Zombies and the Plants (though it helps your progress for the Plants more).

You are going to use the Zombies and the bounty Tiger Klaus. This bounty involves killing 6 Acorns and then a Oak. With the XP boost on you will obtain around 600-800xp depending on the character and whether you utilize their abilities. Each run will take you between 20 seconds to 1 minute depending on your character (and then you use the 15 second window to heal and refresh your abilities).

However, the most important aspect of the Tiger Klaus bounty is that you can also obtain around 17-23 Tacos per run as well. This is the fastest way to get Tacos in the game currently and will allow you to get enough Tacos to do several runs of Plumbing Gig for the Plants. Plumbing Gig is by far the fastest way to level up in the game with Plants earning between 1800-2200xp plus around 30-40 tacos back from the 75 you spent to do it.

A simple example of this method from a run I did last night. I went from Advanced to Specialist with my Electric Slide and it produced almost 500 tacos. I had around 1950 tacos after that which allowed me to do the following:

SnapDragon from Level 7 Specialist to Elite
Acorn from Elite to Super Elite
Cactus from Specialist to Elite
Corn from Elite to Super Elite

The 500 tacos alone should be enough to get a Plant from Specialist to Elite

Once all the Plants are done, you have a choice between doing this or Solar Sisters bounty. It depends on the character and your efficiency

To get a Plant from Super Elite to Master, it should take between 700-900 tacos (again depends on the character also factoring that sometimes, the game will decide to end the Plumbing Gig run before you get the 15 yetis). A zombie can get you up to 1000 tacos when going from Elite to Super Elite

Also note that once you are finished the Plants, the tacos that you get can be converted to coins for the daily XP (15K for 2000xp up to a maximum of 75K for 10000xp). 50 tacos gets you 6000 coins

Update: An update around August 2020 introduced Private Matches to the game. If you have a second controller or other players then this is a good way to get XP and you can do it without the fear of bots. How I am going to explain it is through Split Screen only.

In the settings select Private Play and the following options:
Mode: Vanquished Confirmed, Map: Pressure Pier, Difficulty: Crazy (this gives the regular coin and xp multiplier as matchmaking). Team Setup: 1 Plant and 1 Zombie (You have to set it this way so that you can get the XP and also not have any bots in the game).

Now, Vanquished Confirmed with the XP boost gives an additional 55 XP (with the XP boost) per kill due to the collection of the orb. The important thing is that you are going back and forth between killing the other player and running away far enough in order to trigger the same spawn or somewhere very close to it (as shown in the video). With this, you should get over 10,000 xp after 20 minutes of work. I found that this was faster than the bounty hunts for some zombies like the IMP and the 80s Action Hero

Short and sweet! But not really. Ugh.
You need to rank 20 characters up to 5 Stars for this insult of an achievement.
NOTE- Every day(24hrs.) you can spend 75,000 coin to buy XP if you play and earn it.

The quickest way seems to be:
-Get a buddy with a second controller with a Gold tag and meet in the park. The host doesn't seem to be able to bring in a split screen companion. Be sure you're on Private with No AI.
-For the second controller use the Imp or Acorn because they only have 75 Health and put it against an object to keep it from moving. One tag kills it for 192xp and the other revives for 55xp. Most characters have a special kill that gets you an extra 27xp. Rinse and repeat. Over and over and over....
-During those down moments shoot Red Targets for 5xp and Gold ones for 82xp plus some coin to buy XP that spawn randomly about every 1-2 minutes.
-It took about an hour to go from 4 to 5 Stars being the killer. Quicker for 2 to 3 and 3 to 4 Stars
SWITCH yea!
-All in all it took 2.5hrs. To bring one character from 3Srars to 5 switching rolls with a buddy. So saved about a half hour per character which adds up.

-Solo boosting works too. A guest sign-in works here. Go Private with NO AI. Put yourself where the other character lands from respawning so you can see about 7 Targets. You'll figure out a rhythm so you can one hand the dummy's controller and take out 3-4 Targets inbetween respawns. It takes a little less than 1.5hrs. this way to go from 4 to 5 Stars this way but it's sooooooo tedious.

-Bonus! I was getting about a dozen Prize Bulbs and 20k coin along the way from 4 to 5 Stars. I wonder if they put "Seriously" in this cheevo as a salute to GoW? Mfr's!

It’s not very often I stop and look at a game like I did with this one, but it helped me get through in a way I felt was more efficient than tediously repeating the same Bounty or what ever over and over again.

At he time of writing this there are 23 characters that you can choose from. I’ve tried to lay out what I remember doing to level up each of the characters I used, there are some I didn’t get along with very well so I did a bit of guessing here and there with their Plant or Zombie counterparts.


This is for those of you who want to be more active when leveling your preferred 20 characters to Master rank. I mainly played Garden & Graveyard Ops to do all this because multiplayer can be a rough time and like the previous Garden Warfare games, the Zombie team seemed to win like 75% of the time because of their steam roller characters and because repeating same boring ass bounty grinds in the story areas put me to sleep.

Below is a rough guide to what I did to try and maximise the XP gained for each character / class.
I rarely used the Leveling Up perk as I felt it wasn’t worth it in my eyes, unless you are good in multiplayer the extra 10%xp makes very little difference when most enemies give you 5xp.
Playing ruthlessly helps a lot, get as many multi-kills as possible because some skills with have their own multi-kill reward. Reviving other players helps as well if their body isn’t too crowded and as stated in other guides, spending 75k coins every 24 hours at the XP machine helps to take a chunk out of leveling up a character you are focusing on or another you don’t want to touch (brrr, Captain Deadbeard…). If I ever had a character that had a few hundred xp left to get I would drop into Giddy Park and smash a few gold targets or a few players trying to camp out the spawns / just minding their own business XD


Anyway:

Swarm - Newbies to the roster, gaining an armour buff when near other pots / bots and similar minions.

TV Head + Wild Flower - The extra health perk is a must for these 2 once you get them, then what ever you want to do with the other 3 points is up to you.
I generally played territorially with them and stayed near and pots or bots because not many people had gotten them once they were available to unlock (currently October 2020, can be bought for 500k coins or 1000 stars each), that way I got an extra 5xp for each armour bonus given by the pots, and a 5xp bonus for armoured pot kills (both tested on Town Centre at the Plant’s base, gaining a +55% armour bonus from the 2 peashooter pots and 2 grown scaredy shrooms on the wall above, effectively any browncoat I killed was giving me 25xp).
If there is more than one of you in a match then try to travel together to get armour assists on any enemy you might have missed. I did this just before earning this achievement with Wildflower and got a little giddy watching all the 5s pop up in the xp feed, saying “The numbers Mason, what do they mean?!”


Assault - ALL Assault characters benefit the most from having the Combo perk on, it is a must have.

Foot Soldier - Bit of a tough one. He mainly gets bonuses from kills with his ZPG and if allies kill enemies inside his Stink Cloud. Leveling Up would make progressing him easier. I had him using Liftoff and Sticky! for quick escapes and sticking the gas grenade to bosses.

Imp - The Imp benefits from being in his mech as much as possible, so having Mech Hunter when you unlock it will help keep that up. Until you do get Mech Hunter, Combo will have to carry you a lot of the way, be sure to cycle through each weapon as you use another or overheat your main gun.
Aside from accompanying Impkata, Supermassive is another useful perk to have. If your mech has a small amount of fuel left and you think you will make it, push into a group of plants, eject from the mech to start its self-destruct, then as you are flying up throw your Gravity Grenade at the mech and it’s increased range should lock any plants nearby in place so that the mech can take them out or severely damage them.
Earning kills whilst in your mech will earn you a bonus that will start at 10xp and increase up to 25 extra xp from the 5th kill onward for the remainder of you are time in the mech.

Super Brainz - Be aggressive, always first to the fight, if there’s an group of plants your teammates are shooting at, Hyper Jump over them and follow up with a Turbo Twister or Ultra Ball. Focus your perks on healing, so Vampiric and Fearless will go well with Combo.

80s Action Hero - This character took a while to work out a rough plan for him, but I believe I finally found out his best use. You need to focus on earning tags on enemies with the appropriate perks and a fully charged bow shot. Ultimately I finished leveling him with Combo and The Huntsman.
What I found is that the Can’t-miss-ile gets you 75xp for earning a multi-kill, on top of the 20xp for a multi-kill, and if you are lucky an extra 5xp per plant you kill for a critical kill. So for 2 wildflower or weed kills, you can earn at least 105 - 115xp, Combo will help refresh Can’t-miss-ile quickly, so you could just romp around a Town Center or Weirding woods taking out the small groups of plants and possibly the larger fights you can trigger.
Solo plants should be killed with a fully charged shot to their weak point as you will get a 25xp bonus for the fully charged bow and the extra 5 for a critical kill.

Electric Slide - She quickly became one of my favourite characters because of how evil you can be with her. My setup for her bounced between Combo, Cooling Sparks and Malfunction, to Combo, Amplification and Chain Lightning.
Disco Tornado is amazing for crowd control, especially to save the objective from being swarmed in Ops and the ability to arch her basic attack off multiple enemies is very useful to, being the most destructive and most profitable when fighting the Pumpkin Squash when you have the damage boost active, I was able to go well over 300 kills in a match where the other 3 players didn’t know what to do, by simply arching my shots off the boss, which would zap everything around him.
On maps with cliffs or other lethal drops, Funky Bouncer can be a game changer. Take Rocky Flats, in Ops the objective has a clear view on the cliff side behind the upright tanker, simply throw a Funky Bouncer towards the cliff if things are getting crowded and watch huge clumps of plants bounce away to their doom, netting you a nice chunk of xp and a guaranteed multi-vanquish. This doesn’t work with the cheese river though, that will just kill them and yield no xp. You should also be careful to not do this to the gluttonous chomper that gives you the seed during the Elite Pumpkin Squash boss as you can’t get hold of the seed and must waste more time to kill another.

Peashooter - This plant earns the most xp when earning kills while Pea Suped is active. So try to charge a group of zombies with Pea Suped on, toss a Chili Bean Bomb and you should get a good amount of xp. I mostly ran around with Combo, Bean Party and Fearless on. Activating Gatling Pea will cancel Pea Suped.

Chomper - Chomper is kind of a combination of Super Brainz and Foot Soldier. Aggressive play is advised with him primarily being a melee character, drop spike weeds in strategic places or on the objective in Ops. Face Bite is a must as you will earn a Critical Vanquish xp bonus more often, which pairs nicely with Critical Blow for a faster refresh on your abilities. Grody Goop should be used in a similar fashion to Foot Soldier’s Stink Cloud, hit a group of enemies that your allies are fighting with it, then go to focus on another group, that way you can pick up assists on the kills they make.

Kernel Corn - I mainly used Combo, Mob Cobs and Hopscotch for him, but he also works well with Husk Hop and Shuck Shot. I used Mob Cobs a means to get quick kills to trigger the faster cool down from Combo. In Multiplayer, you might be able to get more from boosting his Butter Beacon, 20/10 practically doubles the range, meaning you could lob it at a wall where zombie players can’t see you an mark a lot more of them for your team.

Night Cap - Looking back at what I did to level this characters, I can see it was a lot similar to 80s Action Hero. I tried to stay out of the way, medium to long range if I could and only really used my stealth skills as a way to escape being swarmed and Fung Fu to clear an objective if it was taking a beating in Ops.
I mostly used Piercing Power, Vampiric and Fearless.

Snapdragon - The king of Ops for the plants IMO and oddly, despite his ability to burn a map to the ground, I didn’t use Combo on him, focusing mainly on Coolant, Vampiric and either Excellent Accelerant or as I found more recently, Engulf, as Blazing Trail can yield an xp bonus for multiple hits.
Pretty much the same as Super Brainz and Chomper:
- Play aggressively, use Swoop Slam to get to a group of zombies first if you must;
- Burn every zombie you can to extend you Flame Blower usage and use Blue Blazes if you end up overheating;
- Toss a Blazing Trail down one path to defend one direction and go down another to take out other groups.


Defend - Most Defend characters will earn their xp best from assists unless you are willing to take big risks to play aggressively.

Captain Deadbeard + Cactus - Despite being snipers I played in close quarters with these 2 and used Leveling up to help them along as I’m really not a fan of their skill set in this game. Cactus is the only one I got to Master rank and its was mostly with perks like Health Regeneration and Health Regeneration Delay. Pressure Point is very useful for a random multi-kill or a kill and damage to a nearby hero etc for clean up by you or an ally. If you want to provide even more of a supporting role, Spud Spotting can be handy.
I used Long Barrel, Health Regeneration Delay and Leveling up on Deadbeard, really couldn’t get along with his abilities while using him which is why I haven’t provided much info’ for him, sorry :(
Never use your drones in Ops, they will get shot down very quickly by the AI’s precision accuracy.

All-Star - I mainly used the health regen’ perks and Supercharged Football Coolant so that I was firing as much as possible.
You could probably use Star Struck or Follow Through to knock plants off cliffs but other than that he plays best when always doing damage like Super Brainz, add a Scientist and Wizard to him and you’ve got a tank that can push into a crowds quickly for a Spell Disaster massacre.

Space Cadet + Acorn - Since only 2 people in my xbox friend lists play this and when they do is very rare, i tried to play these characters by myself. If someone hopped onto me cool, free assists if they managed to kill something, but I was there to earn xp for ME, so I played greedily and used their heavy attacks to clear groups my allies had softened up.
- Focus on multi-kills, pop a shot at lone non-hero enemies for a lazy assist from allies;
- I think I recall them being able to stop a Squash / Zom-bomb from moving in Ops if you block their path, not sure if they changed this is the recent rebalancing patch.

Citron - You primarily want to focus on staying alive and keeping your Peel Shield charged as it will give 10xp for X amount of damage blocked, as well as reward you with 15xp for allies who make a kill that fired through / near it.
A good way to boost some xp with your shield is to block an Elite Disco Zombie’s spin attack until your shield shatters (do it on the final time you have to lure him to a record player so you don’t screw up too much and fail the fight), then regain it however you want and repeat, you’ll see a string of 10xp rewards pop up for blocking so much damage (or 11s if you use Leveling Up).
Kinetic Energy, and the 2 Health Regen’ perks work well with this.


Support - Can be played offensively but will mainly gain the most xp from playing their role.

Scientist + Sunflower - Always, be, healing. You will gain 3xp for every so many points of health you heal, and as long as you are healing another player, pot / bot when they make a kill, you will get a “Heal Assist” as well.
I originally used Blossom and Full Bloom on Sunflower to do as much healing as possible but it seems the dev’s decided Blossom was a tad OP and it is now 5 points instead of 4… so tie what ever you want to use with that.
For the Scientist I originally used, Diffusion, CPR, Super Savior and Refreshing Revive. I did swap him to use the Steam Blaster when it was available to unlock and have been able to be both aggressive with my kills and warp around to heal my allies.

Engineer - Engineer was a relatively quick character to level because I would make sure I could build a healing bot, then slap my turret down near it when ever I could, that way I could get a regular stream of 3xp for healing my turret, sometimes other Engineers would drop their turrets too and I got even more xp from healing multiple turrets.
For perks, I worked my way up to Progress Report, Signal Amp and Super Savior.

Rose - Rose’s xp gains are all from supporting her allies:
- You will earn 25xp for killing a Jinxed enemy, or a 10xp assist for an ally killing a Jinxed enemy;
- You will earn 10xp for every zombie that is turned into a goat and get 10xp for an ally killing them;
- You will earn 1xp every few seconds while Arcane Enigma is active for each player that is in your area of effect.
Rose only has one skill that boosts skill cool down and I never really noticed if I was getting critical kills so you will have to play patiently with her, however you can build her towards having a Goatify or Jinx focus with Psychedelic Goatify and Goatality, or Pollination.


All together, this achievement took me approximately 330 hours of playtime to unlock.

PvZ BFN XP GRIND:
First you wanna do zombies, go to the town centre and go to right at the top of the map where you get the hunting pass for bounty hunts, then right near there is a bounty hunt where you kill 6 acorns then an oak just repeat this you will get tons of tacos and gems too the only problem with this was superbrains couldnt efficiently kill the acorns without killing the oak and if you kill the oak first it just completely nope you and tell you to fuck off so i just kept buying his levels

Then for Plants, you need to first collect all secret invoices (i will post a map of there locations in a sec) this will then unlock the plumbing gig you need to go into the sewer and in the open area there is a picture you need to give 75 tacos (you should have shit ton after doing zombies) then when doing this jump off weild the legendary plunjolnir and you will get a 10% increase of XP and a 400% damage increase then you have to kill 15 yetis scoring 100 XP each and just repeat this if you die it will reset and you have to pay again