#it says boy and king but shokumaw is actually female

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ahhhh decided to make a salmon run oc, just for my lil filth son Stir Fry :D

me rambling under the cut lmao

I think Shokumaw is pretty straightforward, she’s basically just a big maw with a few more stuff and HP

she has a lifesaver lure to bait players into getting close enough for her attacks

I imagine she has a bit more HP than the Cohozuna (like how maws have a lot of hp when you’re trying to kill em without using bombs)

Shokumaws attacks would probably be a bit similar to Shiver’s boss fight mixed with regular maws stuff

she can dash through the stage like a reefslider with her jaws open, you can throw bombs in her path to stop her dash early and do a pretty significant amount of damage

she also has the regular maws attack where she lunches upward to eat players from underneath when she’s close enough to a player, these attacks can also be triggered when she’s hiding if the player shoots/throws a bomb at her life saver

i imagine her Xtra Wave would be a lil bit extra, like at the end of wave 3, the animation of everyone jumping back plays, except a small cutscene animation plays where the copter just fucking crashes in this random ass island, like some kind of abandoned shifty station/small single player stage with ink rails and stuff

the island also has lil rivers and stuff dividing the dry land, i should probably draw this lmao

(also those grind rails arent entirely safe, Shokumaw can also still reach those)

oh also, alsode from the lesser salmonids, the only bosses that can spawn are stingers, maws and steel eels

because every other problem will be caused by fry with 6 special weapons he can spam (specifically reefslider, wail, zip, crab, big bubbler... and missiles)

fry targets the nearest player and will only change targets every 10 seconds or if the player gets splatted, aside from the specials, he can switch between grizzco splatana and charger, and if a player gets too close, he can switch to grizzco blaster (yk, just to not make things fair, best counter for this is to have a teammate splat him from behind or have a long range weapon)