#explosher

[gambeque]

somethin 4 the Alterna Zine 🦖🦖

[palossssssand]

My piece for an art telephone game run by @pythosart !! The theme of this game was Genre-switching, so each artist will take inspiration from the previous piece and change the genre! Obviously, I had to go with Splatoon (western flavor)

See the whole chain here!

[saltyfinalboss]

old salmon run doodle i found while cleaning up my files

[splatsvilles-fashionista]

You have no idea how much I've wanted to actually pull this off in a real match.

[benisbeaaaaans]

I love being an artist, I can make anything I want.

[tapoutspl]

just a quick artfight post, drew a ref for my inkling and an attack on @cephiwyrm :) this year has been fun for me, i have other character sheets i could make for my own profile but idk if i should spend time doing that before more attacks

[bugslap]

i don't think these have any nutritional value but they haven't been tested so...

[my new merch — coming soon!!]

[pepto-dismal2]

My genuine reaction to fresh season 2024

[tonikensalegend]

HEHEHEHHEHEHE IM SO HAPPY NOW I FINALLY GOT BOTH 4☆ EXPLOSHER BADGES :3333

[robojade]

i made the thumbnail for my friend @tapoutspl ‘s new explosher video :)! custom explosher is coming.

[octomae]

every time the explosher is in salmon run rotation, people flock to it because it can take out flyfish buckets and mudmouths just by firing at them. except explosher is kind of a one trick pony in that regard. it's pretty mid, i'd even say not very good when it's in salmon run. the explosher's gimmick is a focus on paint - trapping the target in its ink and then finishing them off with another blow. since salmonids dont get stuck in ink (anymore) the explosher loses its trick in salmon run.(and i say this as someone who plays explosher! i love it. its not the best in salmon run.)

so how do you play it well in this mode? by knowing what it's bad at, of course!

it can help take out bosses, but its really not very good against lessers, which, any experienced salmon runner will tell you, are just as important to take out as the bosses themselves are. if you get cornered by a hoard of lessers with the explosher, you're as good as dead, and whats the difference if you're killed by a boss vs if you're killed by lessers? how are you gonna take out flyfish if you're dead?

the one boss that explosher is severely bad at taking out are fishsticks. fish sticks have several, moving, very tiny targets that rapidly paint a huge area of the field, and the explosher is a heavy, slow firing weapon that focuses on explosions - it can't move through fishstick areas without getting stuck pretty much instantly.

so now throw fishsticks in, and the explosher can't make it to shore to take care of the one boss its gimmick is good at taking care of, since flyfish never come inland!!!

things explosher is good at:

painting the ground

painting WALLS (fishstick sides)

painting the flipper flopper circle

taking out flyfish buckets

killing mudmouths

things explosher is okay at:

killing other bosses

taking out stinger pots

knocking down drizzler balloons

ink recovery

things explosher is bad at:

killing fishsticks

killing steelheads

killing lessers (cohocks, chum, and smallfry)

movement through the field (all heavy weapons have this weakness in SR; hydra, dynamo, tenta brella, grizzco slosher, ect.)

things that are an extreme threat level to explosher:

fishsticks (rapid enemy ink that covers a huge area of the field, and the slow firing explosher can't kill multiple tiny moving targets efficiently)

part of playing salmon run is not just knowing what your weapon's strengths are, it's also knowing what your teammate's weapons weaknesses are. how do you expect your teammate with the explosher to make it to shore to kill the flyfish if they're bad at killing lessers, a fishstick is in their way, and they're slow?

playing support for your teammates is just as important as killing bosses/lessers and transporting eggs to the basket. explosher is one of those weapons that needs more support than other weapons because it can't take out lessers efficiently, and it definitely can't deal with fishsticks. if you want that flyfish dead and your teammate has the bucket that can do it, kill the lessers around them and clear a path for them to safely do it without dying.

[midnightmoonbeams]

Bugs drew a squid and octo holding hands; PEACE & LOVE! Capt Astro asks, "Why are you, an explosher, ignoring Flyfish?" See, this is where I learned that exploshers are GREAT against Flyfish. Klonoa IRL asks, "The Hell's going on with the servers?!" Ah yes... I remember now. This was the date of the dreaded "Great Splatoon 3 Outage." Not sure what happened, but that whole DAY, the game servers were just DOWN.

From October 21st, 2022

[splatsvilles-fashionista]

Funny Custom Explosher quad I got the other day. Blowing them up with my mind.

[window-pane-membrane]

in reference to a weapon datamine last month

[tapoutspl]

carrie (caroline) and barry (barold) say hi and be kind :)