Choosing a Competitive Main 

If I had to say one thing. A "flex" is good at most weapons. But being good at one weapon in every class to me is what I call a "joker" and it absolutely while not the most optimal is definitely rewarding to feel like you make progress and all you needed to do was switch it up for the day. Some days I do stamper, some I do Nova and some I do flingza, etc. It depends on what feels good that day

“All of these players are massive nerds with well organized brains and fast fingers who play this game more than the average person would consider healthy” my new favorite quote

as a low level player who plays everything from the dapples to the e-liter, choosing a main is really hard! they're all fun and i'd rather change up my play style than play something that got boring 100 hours ago. i do agree with everything in this video, in theory at least, but having fun with the game is definitely more important to me than getting wins.

Hey Gem, have you covered the S curve of learning? I think it might be a good visual aid for squids that want to progress and understand where they might land on the graph and how hard it is to make improvements near the top. It’s a quick progression to the sweet spot, but that last 10% or so is hard, but rewarding. Anyways, cheers (I am nowhere near the top btw).

I have been playing brush since I picked up the game, I still brached out a LOT, though. I have experience in nearly every weapon class. but recently, I have been trying to narrow my weapon pool. I think I'll go for rollers and dualies (in addition to brushes). gives me enough variety to be flexible but still similar enough in playstyle. ty gem!

Perfect breakdown

I play every weapon :o I only play ranked anyways and don't attend any tournaments. So even if i am X rank i still show of the undercover brella every now and then, because it's FUN!!! My teammates probably hate me whenever they see my weapon pick. I play for FUN because Splatoon is FUN :)

Also, because each weapon class has different niches within it, you can also flex across one weapon class, like for instance being a Splatling main and picking which Splatling to use based on the match's needs.

Interesting to hear it put into words what I’ve been doing since S3 came out! I was a hardcore Aerospray Main for most of my splatoon 2 experience, switching to N’Zap 89 & Kensa Splattershot towards the end there, before not playing for a long time Flash forward to Splatoon 3, I’ve recently beaten a full playthrough as Mechromancer in Borderlands 2 for switch, and I start with my usual aerospray, before trying out Dapple Dualies, and omfg I loved ‘em instantly. They played very similarly to how Aerospray felt, with the added maneuverability & improved aim of the dodge rolls, and from that point on, the game opened up to me. I still have a rather unique, close-range playstyle with Stick Aim (can’t do motion) but I’ve been experimenting with weapons a lot more, and it’s been really fun. I really enjoy both Dapples sets quite a bit, the Splat Jrs are Incredibly fun, especially on Zones, I’ve discovered the magic of the inkbrush & binchslapping someone to death with one, I’ve even tried experimenting with the Tri-Slosher as another QR Slayer, and the tri-stringer as an interesting foray into backlining - And even picked up the TTek, Hero Shot & Splash to experiment with Better Aim at more normal gameplay ranges

What happens when you REALLY like a main weapon, and it feels amazing to control and shoot, but hate the kit it comes on?

As someone who likes long-range shooters... uhh... there's the squeezer?

I'm a long range zoning player all the way. Range blaster, Explosher, and Tri-stringer all the way. Although I've also been enjoying the playstyle of the Custom Splattershot Jr. as well.

I main Dualie Squelchers, but I also enjoy using other weapons too. N’ Zap (my second most used), and I also mess around with the Reeflux and Stamper. I’ve picked up the Tri-Slosher recently and love it.

"Thats the down side, if a patch comes out that guts your weapon. .. " Where the Jet mains from 2 at? We all on the "get every weapon to X stars" team now waiting for a real main

I think hubris is funny. Biases are biases. Flex, or solo main, or somewhere in between... whatever stance you select you WILL NOT fully understand the strengths of the others. Know that and you'll have some humility or modesty. It's one thing that makes Splatoon great.

Since I primarily play in turf war & haven't touched ranked since Splatoon 2 was somewhat new, I probably don't have advice that helps out many people but I have been playing ever since late 2015 so speaking on my weapon choices throughout the years might help people consider stuff but applying that to however they work might not transfer over well? I don't know, I just want to share my experience with weapons & hope someone learns something from me & if anyone actually reads past the first paragraph & is open for giving me advice, I always love receiving it. When I started playing Splatoon, it was around December 2015, I had just moved back in with my parents right around the beginning of fall due to rent being too high & could actually afford a WiiU since I didn't have rent, woo! I got the Black Friday edition because it already had Splatoon on it & that was my reason for getting a WiiU in the first place. I was so excited to get started & because we had to deal with the Splatershot Jr. in the beginning, it felt natural to stick to shooters although I did get experimental, I ended up maining a shooter, the N-Zap 89. So I found out what I like doing most in the game, inking turf. I know right, not like that's the concept or anything. Joking aside, I definitely enjoyed being a more supportive role, I loved just spreading ink & I also appreciated mobility like there was a point when if I was too slow, I'd freak out. Another thing I discovered about how I play is that I like trolling chargers like I absolutely hated them because they'd always know where I was & how to stop me & for a bit, I tried running Ninja Squid so I could slip past by swimming in my ink & I don't like being slower so that caused a lot of trouble for me but then I found out, just troll the chargers, if you play hard to hit & they want to get you, they'll focus on your instead of your teammates so I did a lot of that in the first game. Another thing I loved was finding fun spots to put my sprinkler, heck, there's this video I remember watching years ago where it showed good spots to place a sprinkler & sometimes when I see those places on maps, I remember the video fondly, heck, I can't remember who uploaded it, was too long ago. The sprinkler actually did something in the first game, it was so satisfying to be laying some ink down, no enemy team in sight, & then getting the notification that you splatted someone. Oh! Speaking of splatting people from afar, ink strike, LOVE it! It taught me how to read the map like I was able to figure out where people are by watching ink spread on my game pad, back when you had that option, I'd often times try my best to pay attention to it when I could to get an idea on positions so I knew where to fire my ink strikes. Alright so I explained a little bit on how I played the 89, I didn't even go into explanation on how I use to use the sprinklers as decoys so it'd give me a free hit on the enemy team. One thing about how I play is that I like knowing the positions of the enemy team. Mobility & getting to know others' positions were big for me so I did play into that with other weapons I chose to play. I probably played the Carbon Roller Deco almost as much as I did the N-Zap 89, my favorite sub weapon was the Seeker because it could sniff out the opposing team for me & charge at them & even if they were able to avoid my seekers, I knew their location which was all I needed. I did laugh maniacally when launching my seeker bomb rush, yes. Also love the speed of the carbon roller, splatting enemies was never my main objective so it having less power than a roller never bothered me, I love just being able to get around & knowing where the enemy was assisted me greatly in either avoiding them, relaying that knowledge to my teammates when I was in a call with them, or taking them out myself of which I did do if I had to. Another weapon that played into my style was the Tri Slosher Nouveau, it had seekers & echolocator so the seekers helped with mobility & sniffing out the enemy while echolocator would just flat out tell me where they were. Seekers are still my favorite sub, I like the auto bomb & the torpedo but man, seekers were the full package, mobility that curling bombs give & can sniff out the enemy? I miss them. I also learned how to use sloshers because of this weapon, it's helped me change how I play a little but I can't slosh too much due to thumb cramps. In Splatoon 2, I tried out the N-Zap 85 as soon as I unlocked it & eh, it was alright. Played in a way I can appreciate since I enjoy support, most aggressive I ever got in the first game was when I was using the Carbon Roller Deco & laughing as if I just conquered the world when launching out my seeker rush so being support is fine by me, I like the 85 in the second game but I didn't love it. Due to trying different things, I actually found appreciation for the roller, the curling bomb giving mobility was a huge plus for me. Sometimes I used the Krak-On Splat Roller because kraken is fun but I didn't like how slow it was. In the second game, if I was using the roller & wanted more mobility, curling bomb was my friend. With playing the splat roller, I then decided to give the Sploosh-O-Matic a shot & dang, I LOVED it! It was probably my secondary main, right behind the 89. Gave me mobility with the curling bomb & the ink spread is so nice. I didn't like it in the first game because I didn't care for how it didn't have much range but I learned how to use it in the second. This is where I ended up becoming more territorial of the middle like typically, I was super mobile & liked just getting everywhere & inking those spots but with playing Sploosh, I became more aggressive somewhat. I still swam around & made sure the map was inked & I usually held onto my splashdown in case I was being attacked but I'd always keep an eye of the middle of the map & if I notice the enemy overtaking it, I'd jump to a teammate over in the middle if I had splashdown & fired my special as I was jumping in & then work to defend the middle until it was safe to move away. This actually helped lead into a play style I lean into a lot in the third game. The 89 in the second game had exactly what I needed although I felt so dirty playing missiles so I didn't use it as often as I would of liked. Yeah, the kit gave me ways to target down the enemy & I love how it plays, I just didn't use it as much as I would of liked because it just felt too easy & it made it kinda dull sometimes. It's perfect for me but at the same time, I just didn't want to use it as much, I still did but I kinda got turned off of playing Splatoon as a whole because of the 89. That & Pokemon games coming out on the Switch killed my desire to play more Splatoon 2, maybe had more to do with that. In the third game, I started out with the 85 & I loved it at first but I just got tired of it so I tried out so many different things. 89 still isn't back yet, boo! I'm kinda hoping on the 89 having triple ink strike, it will be different from how it was in the first game but I just want to be reunited with my first main, alright? The Bloblobber. I didn't like playing it in the second game because I didn't understand it but playing it in the third actually helped me out. I'd get claustrophobic on some of these maps & hated the spots where it got narrow but playing the Bloblobber helped me out with that, something about setting up a sprinkler & lobbing blobs down those paths is just soothing. Also, I ran thermal ink so I always knew where the enemy was since my blobs would reach them. Sploosh, I did not like ultra stamp for the longest time but I enjoyed sploosh in the second game so much, I learned how to use stamp just so I could wreck with Sploosh in the third game & somehow, playing this weapon with like barely any range at all, I became so much more aggressive. Curling bomb would get me in fast & then I'd stamp once I was in position to. I even learned about tossing stamp effectively, I once hit a guy out of the air that was using ink jet with my stamp, it was awesome! This helped me get a taste for blood. There's so many more weapons I can touch on like I did go back to Tri Slosher in later games but this is super long so I'll go ahead & wrap up with highlighting the weapon I currently default to. Custom Splatershot Jr. Oh my goodness, this thing is amazing! The defending the middle thing I learned from playing Sploosh in 2, I apply it here in the third game with the Custom Jr. & dang, it feels so good! I'm constantly aware of my enemies' positions & I try my best to not let a leak through. Since I wasn't aggressive for the longest time, I am still not the best at that like my aim sucks, alright? Still, I do my best & have so much fun playing this thing. Its kit is probably my favorite kit ever, well, other than Carbon Roller Deco in the first game, hard to beat Seekers & MORE SEEKERS! I get crazy when it comes to Seekers, alright? If I could main a sub weapon, it'd be seekers, I'd just play every weapon that has Seekers. I do love the kit they gave Custom Jr. even if people don't like Torpedo, I still do since even when it's shot down, it still gives you information & for people who are hit with your wavebreaker & aren't paying attention, a Torpedo can even take them out, need the stars to align properly for that sometimes but it's happened before. Sorry that was long, I know I'm not a great player, I do what I can to add to the team, playing to my strengths, but as someone who likes trying out a wide range in weapons yet know how I like playing, this is information I can provide.

I just noticed youtube on desktop now puts a glow behind the video like a TV effect. I think it's kind of annoying. I'm using dark mode.

ive been maining both splatanas and tetra pretty much since the start of the game. i kinda dropped stamper a bit since the nerf and have been using wiper deco a lot and also light tetras

When you main a weapin wich has a unique property

Okayyyy Gem, you're right. After playing 100 hours of Dualie Squelchers, I'll stop playing them more aggressively than they should be played and pick up the Testra Dualies again 😮‍💨

i feel like my effective weapon pool works as kind of a gradient for the playstyles i feel comfortable with. Dapple Dualies let me play at close range and leverage a fast kill time against more supportive weapons, Bamboozler lets me sit back and take non-committal shots from a distance and force players into my teammates, and Wiper lets me swap between the two in a single battle at a mild efficiency cost. I've also been considering picking up, Forge Pro, VJr, and Splat Dualies, but they feel just a tiny bit off of the mechanical skill I'm used to to feel fluid right now.

Me, a flingza, eliter and wiper main: 👀 I’m mostly a solo main with flingza, but I do branch out with my eliter and wiper >:)

me putting at least 20 hours into each weapon to understand how every single one functions. then picking my mains with better knowledge of how its counters play.

In that case, would tetras, ndapples, vdualies, and carbon deco be a good pool?

I've been playing with flazinga since I got splatoon 3, but now after the patch I've picked up nautilus and I've been having a lot of fun with it. The kit isn't perfect but I enjoy the mechanics of the main weapon

Me after sloshing machine was gutted: ue ue ue (sound of crying)

When talking about a "flex" player, one quote by Bruce Lee comes to mind. "I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."

I've always played chargers and I will switch between them fairly comfortably other than the goo-tuber and now snipewriter. I main the squiffer much more than any other charger though and I'm always uncomfortable and bad at using anything other than a charger or heavy splatling, I have used a bit of tri-stringer in this game though and it plays a little like squiffer with a longer range backline thing going on

I say I'm pretty good with a couple different weapons I'm practicing my charger skills but I got so pissed off today when playing dualies with clam blitz I felt I kept losing with nothing I can do about it

Clash blaster mains Hmmm, so it has better turfing, this has better range, ooh crash blaster

If .52 Gal gets nerfed I'll scream

the moment you starter talking about flex I expected you to just copy and paste that Bruce Lee quote about not fearing someone who's practiced 10000kicks once bit fearing someone who's practiced one kick 10000times

In splatoon 2 I badged the heavy splatling flingza roller splat roller and sploosh o matic. Recently (in x rank) I’ve beeen using the tri stringer explosher and splash o matic the most, but I would love to try the splat roller next time I play. If I play weapons of 2 completely different ranges, what should I main? Do I have to give up half of the weapons I play to use my time most efficiently? (What also doesn’t help is that I always feel a need to switch weapons if I’m doing well with one 🥴)

Ok so Im speaking as someone who is brand new to competitive Splatoon and has played casually since the start of Splatoon 2. What is a good gun to main in Splatoon 3 if your main was the Nzap-89? I played it a little aggressively but also switched from slayer to support often with it.

I'm stuck on Inkbrush, it's actually the only weapon I use and I'm terrified the moment I go into practice mode with anything else, I am just so deeply in love with it and while I wish I could have another weapon in my pool I'm very enthralled with being the absolute best Inkbrush I can 🐙

At the beginning of the game I actually didn't like the batch of weapons. I picked up Wiper as a joke novelty and now it's almost 5*. At this point I've picked up a dive-heavy Wiper/Tetra/TTek role with a few older picks like Mini and Naut because of Splat 2 muscle memory.

it's so hard to pick one weapon and only one weapon! I LOVE THEM ALL!! :(

the levels lol 11:37

Am I the only person who picks a weapon based map/mode rather than "maining" a weapon? I have over a dozen 4 star weapons and too many loadouts for the 5 save slots haha

ngl I saw this 2 weeks 2 late

hey gem i just wanted to ask, you know how even when you lose all of your series battles you still get a few points. would the best way to earn the most points actually be to have 2 losses and 5 wins.

Anyone have any recommendations on what to try next for someone who’s been solo maining Tristringer?

Ttek ❤

Not a comp player, mostly for lack of incentive, and also because I'm not X rank But I tend to play similar weapons not in playstyle but in role, I like being either a support or a disruptor, so my two mains are inkbrush and wiper But I also am enjoying big swig as a support and used to play sloshing machine also as a support in 2 When the role is similar enough, I feel it's fine having a big pool Even if you're playing tetra, dapple, inkbrush or wiper, your gameplay is similar, and all you have to account for is mobility and range

Weapon pool. *shows a literal pool with weapons* This made my day. Other than that joke, a weapon pool helped me cover situations and matchups I normally couldn't play well on. Thanks for sharing this, Gem.

I always get a bit burned out right before splatfests and then use splatfest to just play a lot of different fun weapons because my main isn't great on turf, but I'm starting to get back into the swing of things and the biggest thing I had to learn was not to just play other weapons when it wasn't my perfect rotation. I just play every rotation with my main and it's helped me improve a LOT. If I trust my skills in the map mode for series, I just play series, but if I'm unsure about it, instead of just switching weapons, I just play open for that rotation, and it helps me improve with my weapon without having to risk points or worry about wins/losses

Every weapon has at least a good niche at some skill level. Aerospray's paint support is great and its inaccuracy with high fire rate great when everyone sucks at aiming, but falls off later. Then there's the tri-stringer that really needs a lot of mechanical skill to be effective in pvp. Also a bit after chill season started, I can really see the letter ranks tell more about what skill level you are at. B was hard before but definitely worth a B rank now, and A gets tougher but still not as difficult as B before chill season (it's not just me getting better I had splat 2)

You see, I'm bizarre. I mained E-Liter for about a year in the second game. Then I mained tetras for a while. Now I play Tri stringer, Pencil, Tetras, Liter, Wiper, to some extent Stamper, Octobrush, to some extent bucket, and I will sometimes play other stuff too. Yeah I both play the most stationary, least aggressive stuff in the game and both good qr weapons. I am a bizarre, very ADHD creature.

Disregard all of this and play squiffer

I really love Bloblobber as a main weapon, but I really feel the Sprinkler holding me back. I just can't find anything else that scratches the same poking-based itch.

I’m an Octobrush main. I easily worked my way through A & S up to S+ in the first season, getting top kills in 90% of matches, but things got pretty rough in season 2. I couldn’t Ninja swim to the enemies and get an instant team wipe so easily anymore. They got better. And after 10 tries to get S+ I got annoyed and picked up Splash. I wasn’t proud, but it worked. Still an Octobrush main in my heart, but I might variate to some weapons with a little bit more range.

I like playing a variety weapons . Part of the reason is I get bored with the weapon after a while . Of course that is probably far from optimal as Gem stated . But right now I focus on 4 weapon classes Chargers- Splatterscope/Eliter Splatana - Wiper/Stamper Shooters-Splash/Ttek Dualies- Tetra Bit of overlap in the roles of Dualies and tetra. Shooter for consistency and chargers because it’s my favorite class and is a backliner.

Just play a couple of weapons you have the most fun playing. If you have fun playing them then that's the weapon you should play.

you have a really formidable skill of putting out a video that answers the questions my baby comp team was just asking ourselves the day before 😂 i think it's happened like 5 times now?? anyway great timing and I think I'm gonna try to properly stick to a couple of weapons now, despite so many being fun to play and try for extended periods of time it's absolutely ruining my skill with my main

I agree with this video but I will continue being a flex, because while some people play to get better, I play to get holo stickers for every weapon so I can make them fight each other in an epic mural inside my locker

10:26 I’m in A rank. Mechanically I’m really good at this game, but I’m extremely impulsive when it come to decisions which leads to me putting myself in bad situations.

For me I switch weapons often because if I didn’t I would not be able to play the game as long. This is one of the reasons I like this game because if I get into a rut I can just switch weapons. This probably doesn’t help in the long run but in the short term it feels good.

Do you plan to visit the "What am I doing" series of videos again? I think doing one for atleast each ranked mode could help people out vastly, especially clam blitz because the mode handles so differently than the others.

As a charger main I find Splatlings an easy jump. I main mostly e-liter and splat charger. I’ve been messing around with the heavy splatling and while there are some differences, like I can behave in a more aggressive fashion if I need to, I find that a lot of the evasive skills I’ve learned as a charger player are still applicable and the aim I’ve developed as a charger main has made the splatling super deadly in my hands. I like the heavy splatling though because it has a wave breaker like the e-liter and I know how to use that pretty well

im not a competitive player, nor do i have any urge to be, but despite that i still love watching your videos and often get very useful information out of them thats able to help me improve at the game. with this in mind there are some videos like this one that make me glad im sticking to casual, i have a small variety of mains but the main reason i use them is BECAUSE they all have a different play style, i enjoy changing up my strategy based on how i want to play, and if i find myself getting too aggressive/too passive for my weapon then just switching to a different one is a quick and enjoyable fix. knowing that this is going against having a weapon pool youre good with in two different ways, yeah, no wonder im stuck in s rank.

I have a problem... I main a few different weapons but several of them vary in playstyle and in mechanical skill. If I picked 4, they would be Ballpoint, Hydra, Wiper, and Rapid Blaster. Of those, only the ballpoint and hydra have significant similarities. I also do play as a flex sometimes - able to play most shooters, blasters, and the tri stringer. I don't know how to start limiting myself while still having *fun* with the game. A lot of what Splatoon is to me is all the unique weapon choices, but I'm also looking to break into competitive. Any suggestions?

Yeah im just sticking to Gootuber. Or Nautilus... Or Anova... Or Wiper... Or Swig express... Or Rapid... Or Splattersc-

Another thing to add, a good way to pick-up weapons is go to turf war with random weapons. I main Dapples and Octobrush, but I experimented with Hydra that way and found out it wasn't meant to be (I'm also weird though I main Explosher after playing it in only x-rank for 15 matches and winning every one, don't do that unless you know what your doing though)

Is it weird that after playing dynamo for 6 years I can main every weapon but brella and blasters?

I have 3 main weapons, but i have found that getting to know different kinds of weapons can sometimes give you a new perspective on how to use your own. I have learned a lot of things from playing chargers as a dualie main, for example.

Being mechanically proficient at splatoon doesn't even matter half of the time in soloQ. No amount of perfect aim or perfect movement will save you when you are off position, surrounded by enemy ink. Or if you are stuck in a 2v1. Or if you are fighting an opponent who just surprise activated a special. So for 95% of players, it doesnt matter if they pick one weapon, or many

I've had to branch the hell out ever since the Brella got obliterated, and while I feel bad for having to learn shooters, my main pool consists of support weapons (the Nova and Jrs) inkstrikers (like the ttek, though I might wanna pick up bucket and rapid) and some aggressive midliners (like blasters, Rapid Pro and now that it's not busted Machine). Still gotta learn them all though . . .

I may be a "flex" but thats bcuz choosing 1 solid main weapon is just impossible in my eyes bcuz splatoon is still so unbalanced that theres not 1 weapon that works great in every mode, i mean if i cant main bamboozler and make it fit in every mode and map then its a game over for me.

A great Splatoon player does need to have knowledge of how all weapons work. This helps you counter weapons, and teaches you the best effective range for you weapon. I'd recommend just choosing a main weapon for competitive with a 2nd choice off-main. These will be your main weapons you'll use most of the time. When playing non-competitive games or fun games, it's very important to learn all the weapons. This will help you greatly, by knowing where a good enemy will stand when using a weapon. It will also help you defend against the subs and specials.

My choice of main didn't change, it strengthened. I chose Ttek and was worried it might be holding me down. Post-patch, my doubts are gone.

This all makes sense in concept to me. However, I'm having the problem of my Carbon Deco game just isn't running as smoothly as I want. I like the playstyle of sneaking around and getting kills, but especially right now, when I've got no team and am playing through solo queue, I'm struggling to find the right openings to get those sneak attack kills because I can't communicate with my team, however I don't want to give up on the play style just because solo queue doesn't fit it. I have also liked playing vanilla Splattershot and have generally seen better results playing that, but I think it's because I'm not quite as reliant on my teammates to distract the enemies.

As always, I'm reminded of your incredibly salient phrasing of "If your only goal is to win..." I've played Octobrush for the last SEVEN YEARS-- since the day it was released; but when Splatoon 3 came out, I said "I'm not using it anymore. I want to try something else." And I've just been honest that being that person who plays just about anything is actually really fun! I _really_ want to pick up Nautilus and I've never played a Splatling outside of messing around with the original Zink Mini that I've been doing recently. So... yeah, I think this video DID help me! I'm understanding where to split "I want to play everything" and "I should get good at this one thing", and that it isn't all so black and white.

Gonna be honest, I have played Inkbrush for about 400 hours now exclusively and I haven't really found another weapon that matches the playstyle yet: I don't need to aim, I can run very quickly on any ink including uninkable surfaces which offers unique flanks other weapons can't do (ex. the side grates on mincemeat near spawn), requires a lot of mashing, and extremely short range. I think my biggest flaw is definitely my aim, I've always had poor aim in every shooter I play, which is why I play Inkbrush in the first place, and I've played Inkbrush so long, I no longer know how to aim with gyro controls and switching off into a shooter throws me off a lot. I have heard seen that Carbon Deco seems to play somewhat similarly to Inkbrush so I might give that a try, or an Octobrush, but alas...I wish there were more brushes too.

i literally just wanna be the best solo q reef i can be/in my area lol Used Foil flingza a lot in S2 because it was great for Zones but without Succ, in 3, I realized I can do better with Reef lol

0:57 Robots who desire only victory - that's us.

10:27 that's kinda me lol. Been playing a few months and am in A rank and could probably get at least to S if I actually played anarchy more, although I'm not sure how I should play my role in gamemodes sometimes and can be pretty inconsistent. When I play S+ players in open I often can still do well but there's a lot of times where things don't work, they're clearly smarter and better at things that I still struggle with etc

I'm not a competitive player but I guess maining dualie squelcher, RBD (and pro) and splash o matic doesn't really make sense since they're all pretty different... the spacing of DS and RBP are pretty similar and I play the SOM as more support... I only use SOM for clams and sometimes RM where I feel like I need to at least have the ability to make plays alone and that's easier (at my skill level anyway) with a fast shooter My best mode by far is TC with RBD

Theres a couple weapons i really like, right now my go-tos are the flingza and the ttek

Ughhhhh.... If only my beloved Dapples were good competitively..... I picked up Dapples back in A in my Splatoon 2 days, and have brought them all the way up to Splatoon 3 X 2150avg (2400 on blitz), but I am hitting a wall there that I am beginning to think is weapon based. I have learned hydra and e-liter for competitive, and despite knowing that my personal skillset in these weapons is far lesser, I am winning just as much. In fact, when I'm looking at my strategy for dapples in solo que, I am almost always doing the objective because I am so movement based (I am best at clam blitz; I'm the one getting clams, causing skirmishes, getting openings for my team. I often lost battles just because of range, and though I've learned how to close the distance, it's rough). I know I can keep moving my backlining skills up and I intend to continue doing so, but it's so frustrating when my main leaves me doing worse. I tried tetras, but I hate how slow they are, so I'm hoping to combine my backline skills with my dualie dodge skills and learn regular dualies, but realizing your main may not be the best anymore is rough.

"Multiple weapons with similar playstyles" well hello here is a Splatterscope/Carbon Roller Dual-Main °L° always worked well for me. just switch depending on either map or whether I think we need me as backline... only playing with random "friends" in my friendlist btw.

NO CAP YOU JUST SQUID ROLL POP THAT MAN 9:13

Interesting. Here I'm the complete opposite to basically everything you are saying. I absolutely love 3 weapons and those 3 alone (L3, Bamboozler, and most of all reef-lux.) I at least believe I have the mechanical skill and knowledge of X rank (have over 1500 hours of experience across all 3 games and was around a 2200-2300 in splat 2) but in this game have actually gone from S to A rank and still lay in A rank even now. Why? Because I absolutely love using Reef-lux (for clarification not missle spamming reef-lux, I mean playing it as primarily a sweeper/skrimishing weapon and switching to support if the team comp demands it) in all my games and if I don't feel like playing reef-lux I'll just use L3 or bamboo because that's what I find fun. Even if I don't do well in a match I just have equal amount of fun, win or loss, with the satisfaction of getting that snipe on that ninja squid splash who thought I'd be an easy kill or sniping that one cowering hydra by arcing my shot over a wall. That's what I enjoy, hell I play more turf war than ranked nowadays since I can enjoy a higher rate of games. Only time I'm ever mad is when I am losing 10+ games in a row then I can just switch to something easy to use like splash and get a 13-2 game with ease. That's just how I like to play though, sorry about hte pointless rant.

My Sheldon license farming journey has given me a lot of experience with different weapons, but Flingza is still my main.

honestly, I'm not sure what type of... Player I am. Kinda flex, I think. I'm good with dynamo, and also know how to use dark tetras (and can easily use splat dualies), and have been trying to practice other weapons, like the luna blaster, and splatana wiper... maybe I could try for weapons that are similar in playstyle to dynamo that isn't another roller. I also can kinda play ballpoint, so maybe splatling? It's so hard to narrow down haha

In Splatoon 2 I literally only played the vanilla splattershot. No rekits or anything just the vanilla splattershot. At least in Splatoon 3 I’ve learned a couple more weapons for better play on different modes

not important or helpful but THE WAY I HOWLED WHEN I SAW 3 TTEKS AT THE STAR OF THE VIDEO

I definitely try to have a somewhat varied playstyle. I often lean into an aggro support playstyle making me able to do both front and back line pretty well. My main pool of weapons include the Splat dualies, Splattershot nova, Hydra Splatling, N-zap 85 and to a lesser extent the carbon roller deco. The Nova especially has quickly become my go to, giving me insane results, especially in clam Blitz where this weapon does absolute wonders. I consistently get kill counts in the 20's on the top of my team and consistent wins with the Nova even before the buffs. The buffs will just help me get more specials which was the one shortcoming I had with the weapon.

I played a lot of Brella in Splatoon 2, but in Splatoon 3 it was holding me back so I dropped it. What weapons are similar that I could play?

Idk if I have the wrong mentality. Because there is a meta the higher you climb in competitive, I find it less fun. I want to be able to play against a variety of weapons and not the same teams.

I pretty much stick exclusively with splattershot and Nautilus, I will use some other weapons but those are my go to

This is really helpful! My main got kinda gutted in the latest patch and I've been a bit stuck on whether to branch out or not. This has really helped me in deciding how to go about it! Thank you :]

what's it called if you can play most weapons in a class, like if you get really good at splatlings and just play that, would that be a solo main, or the amount of splatlings there are?

What should you pick as your main weapon? That's easy. The one that looks best with your fashion!

3:42 thats why i main the reef-lux, they can’t gut it more than they already have so Im safe

*gem talking about picking main weapons* meanwhile I'm analyzing this game play against him and kyo

ah yes playing big swig is exactly like playing tri stringer thats why i duo main them

Squiffer is fun

what would you guys say are weapons in the same 'pool' as the jet squelcher?

I just play any weapon that kills in 1 hit or has a kill time that's fast as hell like dapples

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