Fixing EVERY Slosher - Splatoon 3 

The fact they made a Tri kit with Fizzy Bomb and Tacticooler and didn't call it Soda Tri-Slosher is perhaps the biggest fumble in weapon naming history

Chara: Explosher really needs something to help it be less vulnerable against long range specials that it can't defend itself from! Nintendo: Oh, like _triple splashdown?_

i think we should appreciate how logi's editing is PERFECT for this series also imo that blob buff is WAY too drastic, the shot velocity absolutely needs to be buffed but i think that 250% and 175% is way too fast, maybe they could increase the shot velocity by 100% and decrease the amount of time in between blobs launching ? i just think it'd be too difficult to control

Even as a vBucket main, the burst bait has me audibly saying no LMAO

As a blob main, yelling 'ha, MATH!' from beyond the grave when my opponent gets spatted by a bounced bubble after he rushed me down is one of the joys. I wonder if the much faster velocity would make up for that.

I like playing agressive blob and those changes would make it hilariously strong against people who already struggle against it. I love it.

I feel like the main thing that's annoying about blob is how the slightest bit of lag (which is in almost every single game) causes the hitbox to conpletely desync. It's practically luck based to avoid it because the area that it deals damage in is really just invisible. There has been too many times where the blobs don't even collide with my player and I still get OHKO'd. Unless the netcode actually gets improved, I think it also needs a slight hitbox size decrease to mediate this, and it wouldn't nerf it too hard with the increased shot velocity

I honestly think that the Blob buff is WAY too drastic. It would make the weapon much harder to react to, and you'd end up getting splatted in just one slosh from like Dualie Squelcher range. A slight velocity increase would be good, but a 250% increase is just far too much.

Serious shoutouts to whoever's been designing the tri kits throughout the games. There hasn't been a single game where it's been held back by whatever kit its had, and even its worst kits in the series still feel like they have a use case (potential exception to S1 nouveau). Legitimately a contender for best kit luck of any weapon.

That bloblobber rework is kinda terrifying lol, not gonna lie. I could be wrong, but I think you might be sleeping on just how powerful that shot velocity would be. The reason Bloblobber is such a weird weapon in the first place is because it disregards the rules that every other weapon is balanced around. Every other weapon has a clear and distinct range that they want to play around, and they can never affect areas outside their range with their main weapon. The shorter that range is, the better their time to kill will be, and likewise the worse it is for longer range weapons. But bloblobber completely disregards all of this. If you land all 4 blobs it has a faster time to kill than tri-slosher, but then it also technically has more range than the explosher. It's actual swinging speed is only 3 frames slower than normal slosher even though it's the only slosher with access to a one-shot. It's extremely silly, and I think the only reason it's able to get away with this flagrant rule-breaking is because of it also having the worst shot velocity in the game. It's so slow that players just see the blobs coming and move out the way: the range where it can effectively kill is far worse than the range where it paints, leading to the spammy playstyle it's known for where it just abuses that. But if you increase its shot velocity, you're getting rid of the one thing holding it back, massively increasing its effective range and _potentially creating an absolute monster of a weapon the likes we haven't seen since Splatoon 2 ballpoint._ Maybe. I could be wrong and maybe it'd just be more fun to play, lol.

Wow the editor killed it on this one. What a joy to watch. Lining up the relevant info and video to what's being said is so important to get across s change to a weapon. Especially when they're not real changes. Good job.

Plus just give Explo the ability to exist in this game without being countered by everything

My favorite weapon you reworked in this video was explosher… all the changes felt super fair… and the new kit… * chef’s kiss * I just love crab with it, basically turning it into a better version of itself that can survive when it needs to, and mine would allow for some really cool combos!!

Dread Wringer is made by Dolphin so it should be Dread Wringer Dolphin not Custom Dread Wringer BTW. But anyway, your Bloblobber rework is insane and I love it. Bloblobber is usually my go to Slosher, and while I like Tri-Slosher, I think a slight range nerf could work but nothing too insane.

I do love the idea of Blob as, you know, a PROJECTILE WEAPON rather than a hitbox generator!

That soda slosher kit would be a dream!

I think the change to the shot velocity on blob is a bit too fast. Blob was never meant to be a fighting weapon, I think if anything it just needs a kit that can help it stay alive, and get players off of it. I do think having the bubbles disapear when they get splatted is a good change tho

Nintendo should turn a blender into a slosher

Here's a random and very silly "buff" I would give Explo: If an opponent pops their Tenta Missiles but doesn't fire them, Explo can one-shot them. This is a Salmon Run reference.

“Noooo! Don’t let a blob have fast bullet travel! It’s too long range!” Chargers, Splatlings, and Squeezer: 👀

I think that blobs bubbles leaving after is just too drastic I actually like that feature I would just do a. Kit to defend it more I liked the wall for it and maybe a wave breaker for combos and location

The machine rework is perfection, the dread wringer kit is perfection, perfect explo changes. Ion think velocity is the right thing for blob tho and crab tank on bucket sounds ew.

That vSlosher kit sounds AMAZING. Torpedo seems like it would be super fun on it.

I was gonna watch this in the bsckground of some sr but then i remembered how well edited these videos are so im watching it on its own. Very nice

I think it could be cool to give Wringer a way to delay the second shot making it easier to attack several opponents if you wanted to. Plus it could maybe allow you to be more selective about where your paint goes.

i agree with the explo kit, but i think kraken would be really fun for it too

I feel like your blob rework brings it slightly closer to being a sniper. It might be similar to bamboo or pencil with a slower shot velocity at range, and probably have a closer fighting style to squiffer up close. It already has splat charger range on flat ground, and with height advantage even gets scoped liter range sometimes. While it would make the weapon better at keeping up I'm not sure that's a direction for buffs I'd enjoy. The ink efficiency nerf is a valid place for blob to take a nerf if it's getting any significant buffs, but it would change it's roll to less suppression and chipping space control. I know the full burst even after death is almost certainly just a quirk of how they programmed it, but it still "feels" like a bug and probably should go no matter what. Personally as a blob player I'd prefer having better damage up close that falls off to the normal 30, or possibly even lower long range damage depending on the close range damage buffs. If close range was super over buffed to be a 2 shot it could even get a slower burst fire rate or extra frames between sloshes to compensate on top of an ink efficiency nerf. Anything other than these two options really should be a rework of the weapon somehow imo. Shots that slow to a stop and float before popping, but become destructible. Later blobs in the burst having a faster move speed and combining with other blobs they touch to do little explosions. There are plenty of ideas to be had.

I think torpedo would work with dread wringer a lot more than splat bomb. It wouldn’t be able to spam it a lot (since it’s so god damn ink hungry) but ANY hot from the torpedo (even the outside radius) will make it a 2-shot. (I mean I guess burst bomb works as well but torpedo locates to and I like it more than burst on dread wringer)

I dont care if it s good or balanced : soda slosher needs fizzy and tacticooler for ultimate sugar rush

Probably a bad idea, but blober shots could have a small amount of knockback to help it prevent rush downs from players

i like the idea of blob's bubbles getting slower the further they go, but that initial speed increase feels way too fast and kinda just hits all four bubbles instantly

Blobs identity is angled shots and bubble persistence. You can flood an area with bubbles and make it a nightmare to do anything. You can do bank shots that no other weapon can do. I don't find it a back line weapon more that others. The current blob feels balanced to me, though I don't like any of its kits. I miss having wall, for example. Beacon would be interesting for it too. I would like to see blob variants like a tri-blob with 3 shots of 3 bubbles (9 bubbles) that spread but do less damage and go short range, and a big blob that is slower but shoots bigger bubbles that bounce and persist longer. I could see another one 'blob launcher' that shoots bubbles from a projectile shooter and has the behavior outlined in this video. It shoots 1 at a time with high initial speed followed by slow bounces. Maybe the shots don't paint much during the high speed part of the shot.

Absolutely would love mine on explosher. Spot on with the tank as well. Explosher really needs ways to defend itself and escape, especially against inkjets.

I think Torpedo would be the perfect sub for Dread. The 60 direct combos with either slosh (48 and 42) and even the 12 damage mini-blasts combo with the 90 from both sloshes combined. Granted, if they're running even a single sub of Sub Defense, the 42 wouldn't combo with the direct but I don't think it'd be a huge deal.

Not surprised to hear Angel Island, since Splatoon reminds me of Sonic.

random big bubbler buff idea: touching that thing inside the big bubbler refills your ink tank. this basicly allows for a speudo bomb rush. especially since most of these have relatively cheap subs. the weapons this would affect are jr / h-3D / splat roller / squiffer / zimi and blaster. out of these the only one that is REALLY problematic is jr. but after that the rest actually really benefit from that.

That blob change is actually insane, there is no way that would be healthy for casual or comp. Blob is already overly hated for being passive, now you’re just making it even harder to react to. At least if a blob sat back in casual play, you can see where the bubbles are going and react. And in comp, now you just have near unreactable blob shots in smart positioning and coordination. You hate zooka falling from the heavens to instakill, well now you’d get blob doing that too

As a bucket player myself I think these are some good changes. I still think dread needs some more buffs. maybe rebalancing the damage on the sloshes to 50 and 40 damage so that two main sloshes kill just for a little more reliability. I also think given how ink hungry it is, burst bomb wouldn't actually be broken. You would either need a direct with either slosh to combo or an indirect with both sloshes which is still a fairly slow kill and would drain ~ half your tank. I would love to see something like burst wail for a more offensive kit. Wail would be ideal for locating and getting the 10 damage needed to one shot.

As a bucket enthusiast, this videos makes me so happy!

I think am interesting add-on for the blob rework would be the ability to cancel your slosh mid-slosh by going into squid form. This would help with mobility so much

At least for blob my one complaint with it, that allows it to play far back just as easily is the fact that even the small blobs do 30 damage. I feel like as the blobs shrink in size, they should just do less damage cuz that’s kinda how it would in many other games

Tbh dread could really use some buffs first buff i would make dread winger faster by 2.5frames so can deal with ppl rushing it down next buff i would Increase its range by 4% and Next i would also changes the dmg of dread to make it more consistent by letting the First hit do 50dmg and the seacond hit do 40dmg so that dread has a easier time Killing the enemy

I think for explo it could use super chump pretty nicely, lots of stuff going on and with mine you could clear the area with chump and place mines in it when your team pushes

I would really like these Explosher buffs, or at least the Shot Velocity one.

omg yesterday I was thinking about the same issue with the bloblobber shooting all the shots even when it dies halfway through, it killed me more often than i'd like to believe

as much as ntri is in a good spot rn, having a 3rd tri kit that aims to be more agro would be cool, at opposed to ntri's more supportive playstyle with poking fizzies and cooler support. Yes vtri exists but toxic mist just does not feel right on that weap even though jet is good for it. Maybe something like splat bomb (s2 ntri worked well with it), and really any agro special

Love the Explo buffs and as an explo main I think it’d be just about perfect after. For the second kit, Ink Mine definitely cooks (and all of us Explo mains are begging for Crab Tank or Zooka lol), but I actually most wanna see it get Angle Shooter. A fast combo tool (to overcome the long time between shots and even finish off 90 damage hits) that tracks foes and even exceeds the range of the main? Yes please! Dart still needs buffs of course, but otherwise I think it’d be just as synergistic with Explo as it is with Rapid Pro

“Blob can’t be good” *makes blob unbelievably op*

A dread kit with torpedo and tristrike would make it a BEAST in zones and tower control. I’m a proud supporter of Tornado Dread Wringer

I would love to see a video like this talking about rollers. I think almost every weapon in that class needs a buff to help it.

Ik your here to fix em but Vanilla tri-slosh is a really good kit no one’s talking about. Toxic mist is really good for walling off areas and slowing enemy’s down, spam this at the tower or rainmaker and the enemy team pretty much can’t do anything, it’s still good on zones but not as great. ink jet is already self explanatory with already being a really solid special right now and with this gives you an extra tool with range that your tri can’t output . Yk Just like splat dualies where despite having a good kit and being at the start of the game. No one was talking about it up until like 2-3 months ago, I feel like still no one’s talking about vanilla tri mostly because it’s overshadowed by its nouvoe kit with fizzy and tac. I recommend y’all try it cause it deserves WAY more attention.

i personally think for blob, each individual bubble should paint, in the game right now, the first one covers most the ground and the rest only paint where they land

I wonder how people can make those cool pose shots with the player holding weapons in their hand with a variety of emotes. I’m mostly down for the colour palette of the soda slosher since it looks nostalgic from the first game and how it remained consistent with its design, we only have to wait for the 3rd kit to see if they still go along with it lol

I’ve always wanted crab on slosher, this would rock :D

0:08 that moment was… elegant!

Obligatory “This is a bucket” reference

I think it might also be important to change how easy it is to parry explo because rn it's so easy to just squid roll, take 0 damage, and get out of the paint it's just placed

I think that the ideal special for explo would be kilerwail since it locates people and usually does enough damage to combo with the 90 damage

As a blob main the changes made are perfect and not bad at all. I already run main saver anyways due to the fact it helps curb problems if I have to fight up close and the faster paint will definitely help with mobility and make moving around a little less labored so it feels like the midline it wants to be Although knowing Ninty this change does feel too drastic, so my compromise and something I’ve always asked for is to make the shot velocity better the lower you aim to the ground. This makes you choose between max range max linger but slow dps and attack speed, or minimal linger and range but very fast dps and paint. This still helps with getting rushed down and also adds some dynamic things you can do with the 2 firing speeds. It also ensures the blob user gets punished for sitting and spamming ZR still since if they fire wrong they’ll die like they normally do now. Ink efficiency nerf can still be applied and that’s pretty much the compromise. Very easy change for Nintendo to do

These are really cool and i think theyd be interesting to play with And unrelated but sloshers are hell on tricolor crableg

so the change i personally would make to machine is that the ink efficiency is the bigger problem for machine than the frames. my proposal is to buff the efficiency by 10% while maintaining the nerfs to 220p and the 38 sloshing frames. given that it was side nerfed by the LDE nerf and other weapons with ok matchups against it doing really well now would be a good buff thatll bring back to its former ink saving ways

we all know that Explo is going to recieve smt like angle shooter + triple splashdown ;-;

Soda slosher needs to come back. Wave breaker soda slosher would be the most fun, but that may just be my opinion.

can we just make chara a splatoon dev at this point bc he cooks every time with buffs/nerfs to weapons

I want aggro blob to be real 😢

you should do stringers next! you pretty much only see reef getting serious comp play which is a little sad because its the freaking box art cover for the game!

that wringer kit would make it a viable option,i like that as i main the current wringer

Blob is a weapon that is not good competitively but annoying as hell casually, Blob is my least favorite weapon to fight against but the map is also a big problem

If I got these explo buffs I would go crazy with this and bp

As a blobber player I gotta say I like alot of the ideas but can't help to feel it's alittle extreme. It would be interesting tho to say the least.

Finally someone thinks of making my blob do more damage...even if its just one more damage

I don't believe that bobblobler should get that quick attacks, because there annoying for me to deal with, but they should get faster ones still, like 150% on the first bounce and 125% on the next bounce.

im a blob main ( not competitive just sweaty and got into S with it this and last season) and honestly the main weapon is fine it just really needs a mew kit and i think they remember it in splatoon 2 and dont want to make something meta so it gets the actually two worst subs. i like ur rework idea except for the no more blobs on death its really like having that for getting its jumps ambushed

id also add a direct sound to explosher just so u know how much damage youre doing

The bolober buff I think would be way to over powered but if you just decrease the speed a little bit it would be a little more balanced but overall great reworks and kits

Personally I would change Tri Slosher by swapping it's damage values and calculations with Painbrush (probably would need more fine tuning tho to not just make Tri EVEN better) as to diversify Short Range AoE weapons a bit more and make it so Painbrush actually gets value from getting through the wind up time it thus allowing it to consistently 2 shot for the most part and giving Tri a reason for it's insane Firerate as it no longer 2 shots no matter where you hit it from. I know it's not perfect balance wise but it would help I feel

I am exited for rhe dulies!

Can Nintendo hire this mf already? 🔥💪

I think tri-slosh should have a reticle rework to know where the bigger sloshes are going. putting the same specials on multiple kits for one weapon class makes the game feel like it has less variety, so i would probably swap out the special of soda slosh and custom dread. Soda slosh could get a new special like superchump, soda had burst bomb launcher in s2 so that could fit. But soda could have like, splashdown or screen and i would aprove of those kits. And for dread, i would like wail, wavebreaker or screen to trip up the opponents. Anything other than reefslider would feel way better anyway lmao.

I'd love an explo kit with mines and booyah. it just needs better survivability since its ink consumption is so terrible. kraken could also be really nice on it, even though I'm not a huge fan of the special.

The only problem I see with the Explosher kit is that even one slot of Sub Resistance Up would make the Ink Mine (45 dmg) + main shot (55 dmg) combo not 100% reliable. Therefore, you would either have to hope the enemy has no Sub Resistance or have the main shot land directly on the spot where the enemy is standing (90 dmg). I have an idea for a second kit. A Burst Bomb (60 dmg) + main shot combo would be 100% reliable, easier to pull off since Burst is less situational, and Burst could help with mobility by offering a quicker option for painting your feet or a wall. Big Bubbler, like Crab, could provide protection and allow the weapon to hold its ground. Please give your thoughts.

YES

All I care about is if Explo's Crab-ball can do the instant kill combo Baller could.

What if Explo got dart? Wouldn’t that work as a great combo tool, since you could near instantly combo off of a 90 damage hit from any range?

I'd probably give Soda Slosher Kraken Royale as a closer Splat 1 reference. Also we could use some more Kraken kits.

You almost lost me with the 20% ink consumption but faster blobs would be a great trade off, esp when dealing with dualies or the occasional feral sploosh main. I wouldnt mind seeing this as a rework tbh but def would take time to get used to having less sloshes for sure

i feel like explo should just flat out have better object damage in general, because for how sluggish the weapon is it’s really tedious and slow when it comes to breaking objects like chumps and wave breaker. maybe don’t buff it’s object damage against brella of course but to everything else it needs a lot more

As a slosher main, I agree thay need this

Blob continuing its blobs once you kill it explains a lot to me that I didn't know

Then they add the Heavy Crab Ball.

My thoughts: Slosher: Great third kit! Tri-slosher: Yeah this one’s good enough as is Machine: I like the changes on this one, makes it feel more fair for both sides Dread Wringer: I like the alt kit you gave it, and making it a support option is an interesting idea, but because of the sheer amount of cooler options, I thought a different special like bubble, wave, or maybe even wail could work? I’m not a competitive player so I don’t really know how good a lot of these would be Explo: Nice 👍 Blob: I like the changes, some like the blobs not continuing to spawn after death were really needed, but with that being said, while I feel this would be better for balance, to me it kinda doesn’t really feel like blob anymore, especially with the speed change. But like you said, it would be difficult to rework this one well without making it special spam hell, and I don’t have any better ideas so…

Just saying, Slosher with Burst bomb and reefslider could finally put the shark on a meta weapon

unrelated to the video, but how were you able to do poses with weapons on?

If you buff explo you gotta buff pain. That wind up has difficulty with a lot of stuff

i think mini splatling needs +16% shot velocity and 10% less shot rng

Blob rework sounds cool

Can you do Stringers next? The devs really dropped the ball when it came to designing stringers but balancing them in a way that made them really weak and somewhat pointless to use.

I think bloblobber should also be nerfed so where if the blobs travel a good amount they will become weaker, and the further they go, the less damage they do. That way it’s not always a easy 4 shot kill. This is just my opinion and I’m not sure if it will make the weapon reallly weak.

Wouldn’t velocity increase its range too because of how explo works? That’s seems a little extreme.

Here my hot take. I'm nearly a veteran player, watching video to improve my skills and understand why some weapons are currently better in competitive area. So, if you disagree what I say, it's fine! While Blobbloper is a very paint weapon for a slosher, it may also become a slayer weapon if we play very well with the bubbles. That is shoot, swim, shoot, slightly curly, etc... In my experience, I was kiled easily because there was too much bubbles around, especially if I play dualies. The nerf give me advantage and I tolerate the little damage buff, which as you point out, dealing 90 is not enough for a combo unless the kit is good. However, like I said, I'm easily be killed because of too much bubbles. One shoot is on k.o for me. I have to find a way to not hit those bubble, but the player is front of me can predict my movement. So I'm against the velocity buff. Because it will kill faster and easily, with one less bubbles. The bubbles must be slower so we can more easily avoid them. I wish to have tips against them if I haven't the hate toward this weapon. Thank for the video and hope Nintendo will at least take some of your idea.