#but the have a new splattershot pro that actually feels like i can do something w it

[samarecharm]

I think. I am going to try ranked splatoon…

[aggressive-almond-cookie]

I realized I missed keeping notes on my experiences one-starring each weapon, so here’s some brief summaries of what I remember (poorly).

Tentatek Splattershot: I only barely remember using this so I must have not found it painful to use. Placing inkstrike effectively is kind of a challenge (though I was playing this pre-patch)

Heavy Splatling: I really struggle to be effective with this and I don’t like splatlings in general BUT my loathing for playing them in salmon run doesn’t carry over as much to turf, where there’s more space to work with and less pressure in general. Still not really the weapon for me but not as bad as I thought it would be.

Tri-Stringer: I feel like this weapon is weirdly versatile and has a lot of depth to it. It feels like it can do a lot of things well and is probably deadly in the right hands. However, I mostly used it to ink a ton and exploding-shot the ground to be annoying. I feel like Be Annoying/Distracting is my preferred role in general in this game, rather than Be Deadly.

Splat Dualies: I like dualies anyway and this was a nice little dualies experience. I’m getting a better hang of crab, though it’s a little awkward to usually have to go backwards from where I’m usually fighting to position myself well for it. I also just need more practice effectively using suction bombs.

Rapid Blaster: I really disliked using this thing but I kept getting tons of splats with it. It feels like the “nice” thing about it (being ‘rapid’) isn’t actually useful to me because it’s still just too slow and if I don’t hit my first shot I rarely hit my second, or third, or fourth, etc. I also just really hated how I couldn’t ink for beans, having to rely on my teammates for that was really frustrating. I don’t know how I had such a high number of splats with this, it might have just been luck with matchups because it felt like they were just walking into it. Ink mines were also very satisfying when they worked.

Carbon Roller: The roller part is kind of fun, I like how fast it is and sort of gives me those chaotic vibes I loved playing inkbrush, but I struggle to use autobombs effectively as anything more than a slight distraction and I have no idea what the heck I’m supposed to be doing with zipcaster.

Splatana Wiper: This actually went way better than expected. Like maybe it was just that I played this shortly after Christmas and was matching against new players but it felt like the number of splats I got on this was more than I should have. It feels weirdly easy to just one-shot people if they’re even a little bit slow. I might have to seriously consider this one later. It also has those really fun “be quick and chaotic and annoying” vibes I got from inkbrush without the button mashing.

Octobrush: This just feels like a worse inkbrush. I didn’t enjoy it because I kept wanting it to be like inkbrush. Also, again, I don’t know what the heck to do with zipcaster.

Squiffer: AAAGahsdh I hated this. I hate all chargers. I spent most of these matches spamming the heck out of point sensor and hoping more competent teammates could make use of that information. At one point I had ANOTHER squiffer on my team that was clearly taking the same strategy and it was just point sensors going off everywhere constantly. We lost but it was very funny.

Splattershot Pro: I don’t like how...chunky and messy the inking is, but the range is nice. I think I also just really liked that I wasn’t playing squiffer anymore. The sheer relief of using any weapon that isn’t a charger makes me like it way more than I probably would otherwise.

Slosher Deco: I really need to look up guides or something for how other people are actually using zipcaster to do anything useful instead of complaining about it. I’m also not a huge fan of slosher type weapons but they do tend to remind me that I actually can attack players who have high ground on me sometimes. I think I got most of my splats like this. Also angle shooter is weird and I don’t really feel like I’m using it effectively but I’m using it a lot just because the ink cost is so low.

.52 Gal: I actually really, really had a lot of fun with this. It was my first time using something with splash wall and oh my god I just. Threw it out there and started getting splats constantly. It was amazing. I couldn’t believe how much success I had with it like, immediately out the gate. Splash wall almost feels like cheating especially when I’m paired up with another shooter teammate. After I’m done exploring all these weapons I might need to come back to this one.

Dynamo Roller: I fully expected to hate this. With my expectations at rock bottom, it actually wasn’t bad. It forced me to slow down and pay closer attention to my surroundings and really plan my shots instead of firing in a general direction. And I had a lot of very satisfying plays, including one in which I somehow hit 3 members of the other team in one go because they were all clumped up together. I.... don’t think I’ll come back to this one just because it was so slow for my tastes but... It’s not impossible that I might evolve to really favor it at some point. If nothing else it was definitely one of those weapons that I felt taught me a lot about the game in general.

Splatterscope: AAshjdfgafjd I didn’t think chargers could get WORSE, but scoping just makes it so hard to even see anything on the field. I seriously got 90% of my splats these matches just tossing splat bombs like no tomorrow. This weapon taught me how to use splat bombs. Seriously.

Tri-Slosher: Okay I had a lot of fun with this but it was mostly because I had a friend drop in with me and change their weapon to match mine and we proceeded to destroy in nearly every game we went into for some reason. It was pretty fantastic actually. I feel like sloshers were some of my least favorite weapons when I started out but they’re growing on me, even though they’ll probably never be my favorites. I struggle to figure out how to use inkjet effectively since I can’t aim for beans and it doesn’t help that the travel time is so long. But it was still pretty fun overall.