How Squidbagging Makes You Worse at Splatoon - Squid School 

But squidbagging at the end of the Salmon Run shift is always 100% ehtically correct. Especially in Splat 3 after beating the Cohozuna.

It's rare, but I love it when someone squidbags me and then a teammate splats them while I watch. Priceless.

I wish they would have squidbagged in the Salmon Run trailer. The celebration feels empty.

The entire reason I picked up Splatoon 1 was because it lacked voice chat. My experience with voice chat with randoms has not been good, typical boys don't know how to talk to a girl situation. But Splatoon made me unafraid to pick up and play an online game with strangers. It's been wonderful and I continue to enjoy this game as it's turned into a series, and I've roped in more friends than ever with the third one!

I remember one time I was fighting my friend and after I kill them 10 times in a row they got me. They then proceeded to squidbag while my other teammate flanked them and scored the winning clam. It was hilarious

squidbagging and squidflopping are mechanically same but name changes based on the intent Malicious = Squidbagging Innocent = Squidflopping this isnt that relevent i just wanted to say it lol

I dont mind being squidbagged, but i got super triggered when a teammate did it to me in SALMON RUN DURING THE WAVE INSTEAD OF REVIVING ME. That put me on tilt so hard lol.

I play backline, so I dont tend to die a lot. I'm pretty prone to getting squidbagged just because a lot of my matches end up having me kill the same few people feeding to me over and over, so they get *really* excited when they finally get me, I guess. Doesn't really bother me, I think its hilarious.

I do get mad when I get squidbagged, not because I was bested, but because the person squidbagging is actively trying to make the experience worse for everyone else, and I think that's a pretty scummy thing to do.

Squidbaggging should be reserved for salmon run after the end of each successful shift.

I remember a day when I cued up with a player named Agent 56. A really good player who was using the Kensa Gal. They splatted me over and over. Eventually I got a splat on them and I got so hyped I started squidbagging like crazy. They got like 5 more splats on me before I got one on them. Immediate squidbagging. So then we start this squidbagging cycle. It went on for so long it got to the point that we had squid parties in the middle of matches. Looking back it’s probably my favorite memory from Splatoon 2.

Something I realized that makes getting seabagged more humiliating: They're saying that you're so bad that they can _get away with wasting their time._

I actually haven't seen even one malicious instance of squidbagging in 100+ hours of Splatoon 3, feels really good to be a part of such an awesome and friendly game community.

imo the best way to get back at squidbaggers is to just not do it back when you do end up splatting them again lol

I remember being one of the first ones to bring this up in a stream because while I don't do it, I was curious on the community consensus on it, this put it all into perspective and more! If anyone needs a good way to not get tilted when an opponent does it (not an excuse to do it >:[ ), just think of it that you were so cracked that match that your splat was exciting enough to them that they felt the need to waste their time celebrating.

Squidbagging also boosts a person's ego, which will make them more susceptible to tilting.

One story in which squid bagging in this context was a positive experience: I made good friends with the 8 random people I played with one day in turf war once and we kept squidbagging each other after every splat and that's the only time I've been squidbagged after being splatted as a sign of kinship instead of disrespect lol we were all just being incredibly silly and I really cherish having those replays. No voice chat and yet we all carried the same impeccably chaotic energy and were on exactly the same page. All 8 of us swapped to the dab emote and squid partied in the lobby between games, squidbagging or playing leap frog. My favorite moment is when one of them killed me with the undercover brella and then proceeded to throw themselves off the map. That was the single best session of turf war I ever played. Also on your point about voice chat; as someone who is neurodivergent and afab, I've always been turned off by shooters. One too many R slurs and sexist comments will make you never want to play if you also deal with that shit irl. And my heart was racing on my first ever online game in Splatoon because I genuinely worried so much about what others would think if I played badly. Yet the moment that game was over, I was in love with this game. The lack of voice chat being a feature of the game rather than a downside is an understatement and genuinely make this game such a treat for someone who may have never known they could enjoy a shooter before

I'm a mod for a Twitch streamer who primarily streams Splatoon. Any time someone new joins and maybe squidbags, my streamer friend shuts it down immediately. No squidbags, no spinning, none of that, even if the person you taunt doesn't mind. Because even if that one person is okay with it, allowing that sort of taunting at all encourages others to do it to more people, including some who may not be okay with it. I think it's great that he discourages it entirely, and our little community is rather friendly and tight-knit, likely at least in part due not allowing squidbags or taunts.

I played 3 sports for my whole life. Won a lot. Lost a lot. I never taunted anyone. I’ve been taunted. I did not think it was good sportsmanship. Friendship, competition, self improvement. Respect

This is a topic I thought I would never need to learn. But glad I learnt it.

If you get squidbagged, remember: That's not something to get mad about. They're the one wasting time, that's a dumb move on their end.

I love the fact that someone actually made a video about why not to squid bag.

I once had a player bow to me in a game. It was a Japanese player. I occasionally use it online to other players. How about we do that instead? You hold the R button down, but do not release it while tilting the controller up & down once slowly (if you have motion controls enabled).

Another thing that people who squidbag don't realize is that many people look at the map when they die so they don't even notice that they're being squidbagged because they are gaining information on the map. One time someone tried to squidbag me and the only reason I knew it happened was because it was in a clip I saved and I saw it in the corner of the map screen.

im ONLY okay with squid bagging if they got a good kill on me in a fight where we're dancing around each other, but if youre just killing and we're feeding, the bagging needs to stop

Im always afraid I’ll accidentally squidbag when really I’m just trying to swim near enemy ink or trying to place a beacon without enough ink, I hope people don’t get the wrong idea from my clumsy gameplay lol

I've considered Squidbagging an example of a CoD Worm, named after both the game and the fish parasite. It's something that derived from the other shooter communities and could be considered harmless. But much like seeing worms in your fish fillet, you'd prefer it wasn't there.

Awesome video. When I get squidbagged II tend to assume it was a little kid or someone who is really insecure.

This is one of those things I have never really thought about coming from other online pvp games (such as CSGO and League). While I don't normally "disrespect" others - unless they really get under my skin first - I've never really thought of it from an outside perspective, and your points have made me realize just how damaging it actually can be. On a more positive note, I enjoy crouch spamming as regular emoting in games however, and I love that it's pretty much universal in gaming!

This is such a wonderful message, thank you for this! We have such a kind and generous community, it’s a big reason I’m still such a fan of this series. Though, I do personally find it VERY funny when somebody splats me and then just stands still/looks up and down for a second. For some reason it never makes me tilt, I think it’s just so silly. Best form of BM

This extends to just being respectful in general. I think one of the best things someone told me when I was scrimming another team was to always be respectful, no matter how "bad" you think that team is. You treat every team with the same amount of respect no matter how new to seasoned they may be. They're competitive players too, and driving them off the scene does nothing but hurt the community. This also includes other signs of disrespect, such as purposefully trolling another team with a meme comp in what is supposed to be a serious scrim, having one or more of your teammates throw because "you can still win without them", etc. You show respect, no matter what. Also, don't purposefully scrim with teams significantly below your level, unless your trying to see how they play so you can help them

quite honestly i feel like squidbagging depends on who youre playing with , like said earlier in the video with friends its fine and if its squidbagging for the sake of partying then its fine , but if youre doing it in ranked ?? _why ?????_

It is always socially acceptable to squidbag with your team at the end of a salmon run match ESPECIALLY on top of the basket drop off

Honestly your videos are as much life lessons as they are video game commentary and lessons. Thank you for what you do. Your format is amazing.

now in splatoon 3, inbetween matches occasionally people come together and have a little party and i absolutely adore it

I agree that the lack of voice chat in public matches is a feature, but when i want to play with friends it sucks, i can't hear both the game and the discord chat from the same headset, at least i don't know how to do it from my headset, even if there is a method, i usualy play on docked mode, with a bluetooth usb to my headset, using some wierd cable to conect to both my phone and the switch is just a whole other layer of inconvenience, in fact untill now i can't talk with then with headset, and without headset it's horrible becouse there are a lot of cars driving near my house and they're annoying without the noise canceling headset, making everytime i want to play with voice chat with friends a whole new issue that i usaly think it's not worthit and then i end up playing alone.

well hello from 2023. I see way less squidbagging in Splatoon 3 - in fact almost none at all. Woohoo!

I’m pretty sure thatsrb2dude made a video and in a game he was about to get ko’d but the dude who just killed him squidbagged him, throwing the win. The thatsrb2dude began to kick their butt and win. Also I can get pretty heated in game but I don’t teabag unless I get teabagged

I recall another time some douche squidbags me whenever i died, however lucky for me whilst that dude was busy squidbagging me, he wasn't paying attention to the bomb i threw 2 seconds ago....

I squidbagged at some random player, and they squidbagged back. We were squid partying in X rank. It was fun

Whenever i get squidbagged, i do it back even though I know i shouldn't. I'll even admit, once i went into turf war after going on a losing streak in clam blitz and going from A rank back to B. So i was already upset and i got squidbagged by some dude. I made it my mission to go after him and only him, and he eventually ended up DCing. It felt good to get some revenge out but then i felt guilty because i basically trolled a dude out of a game.

That thumbnail is so cursed

This is a well constructed video and I do feel as if I resonate with a lot of the points made here, but I feel like overall I disagree about squid bagging being this horribly toxic god complex people have. I do think that it is inherently toxic and when it’s used to harass a player over and over and over again I think it’s terrible. When it’s used as just a playful gesture amidst a game though I’ve never seen it as troublesome. Like if you got another inkjet with your inkjet or got a quad from the rainmaker bubble. I think that most people that do the action are either doing because they’re getting revenge on someone that’s done it to them or because they’ve done a really good play and want to show that off. Whether that leads to their downfall or not. I do think it can be harmful if used too much, but overall I think it’s just a part of gaming in general. Nice video though, I do think having conversations around this topic would be beneficial for the community overall.

In my opinion, seabagging (the term I prefer for Octoling inclusivity) should be reserved exclusively for 3 scenarios: - sea parties (especially if someone disconnects on either team in a competitive setting) - end of salmon run - splatoon 3: in queue when celebrating a win with your teammates (not private battles)

i teabag/squidbag in games whenever i kill someone in a funny way/something funny happened or when Im celebrating a multikill or something.

I don't mind being squidbagged/squidbagging when it's in the right context. Taunting is a feature in a lot of games for a reason. If you get an insane kill on me, taunt all you like, I can't even be mad at that. The stuff about toxic behaviour scaring off potential community members is very true though. When it's being done just to be a vindictive douche is when it becomes a problem.

It's bad sportsmanship basically.

I never really thought of it like that. :o I legit had a match earlier where I just squidbagged in front of a Booyah Bomb because I find it absolutely funny to do so. I got splatted soon after as the forces of karma got me.

I have been squidbagged yet in S3 but S2 was really bad, esp. when I was first learning. At first it was humiliating but I just considered the player a poor sport. Another thing that use to happen is when you splat someone and they'd chase you all over the map every time they saw you. As my play improved, when they did it to me, I'd give it right back. Not good sportmanship, but it always seemed to teach them a lesson. the best lesson was the win we'd normally have.

absolutely. I literally cannot bring myself to play online tf2 because the communication through chat and voice chat makes it way more terrifying and just makes me think my team will probably hate me or i wont read or hear what theyre saying properly and mess something up. Splatoon is way more relaxing in that regard. i DO really REALLY wish though that there was an optional ingame feature to voice chat with friends as setting up discord calls and having to use two separate audio inputs is kinda annoying. btw i usually only squid bag for short little bits if im really proud or surprised or excited by a win, and also usually less as a taunt to the enemy but more just as a show of excitement and happiness to myself and my team. (and i only do it for like a split second typically) basically the same youd use ''booyah''

Bro just got squidbagged and made a video XD

I have only played Splatoon 3, so maybe I have no place to say anything, but I think now that we can interact in the lobby, squid bagging has changed. Sure, people still use it to be toxic, but I feel like in the lobby waiting for a match it's more of a friendly gesture and sort of a way to read the room, so to speak. People who I squidbag with in the lobby seem to not be as aggressive than those who don't. The battles are still reasonably tough, but your less likely to be stuck in base all match. I've only really been squid bagged on twice in a match and it just made me roll my eyes. I understand that the connotations are kinda gross in different games, but it seems to me at least it's a more friendly gesture in 3. Of course, that's just my two cents

I never knew it was called squidbagging until I started interacting with the online community which as always is mostly male centric. I just thought it was a fun way to celebrate at the end of a game (Salmon run) or a fun way to splash around with your team mates especially pre game when were in the lobby now. I never saw it with malicious intent just a way of celebration. I didnt see it as a way of one uping or taunting. At the same time I've never really played FPS games. Splatoon is the only game I've ever played like this.

I squid bag those who squid bag my teammates. I hope that by splatting them and being better at the game they can know how their actions made others feel :/

I hate squid-bagging. I die a lot. It’s how I play! And every time (about 1/7 of people who kill me who have the opportunity to squid-bag do squid-bag.) someone squid-bags me, I get frustrated and I ask myself ‘Why? you already showed me you’re “better” than me by killing me. Why do you need to show me how much i suck when you’ve already killed me?’ It’s just a rude thing to do. What really wows me is when I kill someone, and then again, and again, but then they get me back. Neither of us have squid-bagged each other. After that match, they got a different weapon out. Then they killed me a lot. After that round, stages changed. They friend requested me. It was pretty cool. I respect them.

Squidbagging is low tier taunting, anyway. 0 points for creativity. The best way to taunt is to deplete your ink, then try to throw a curling bomb. You won’t have enough ink, but if you hold down the sub button, you’ll look like your dabbing on them. At least put some effort into your taunt. That being said, the only place I enjoy squidbagging is with my crew in Salmon Run.

Great insight on an oh-so-common action! Squidbagging is a fast track to developing a toxic mentality towards your growth as a player. Think about it, you're celebrating YOUR kill. Not only does it come off as cocky, but I believe it gives players a sort of blind spot. They think the game is about how good THEY can play 1v1 as opposed to 4v4, as the game is intended. Splatoon is simply way too team based to allow for players who play and think only for/of themselves to go far.

Turns out toxicity is a sub-optimal play, who would’ve thought

Maybe that team did get a knockout in 15 seconds, but I killed one of them and pressed ZL 7 times really fast! Beat that!

Back in splatoon 1 I was a teenager and get so upset over being squidbagged. I already had bad confidence so it just made it worse. So I would squidbag back thinking that would make them stop. Or I would have my friends who were on their team just stop playing so they would lose over and over again until they left probably from rage quitting. I calmed down during 2 and just learned to ignore them and keep on inking. I would still get deeply angry when it happened but I wouldn't try to get revenge. Now in 3 at 24 years old I just don't even blink an eye. I just don't care and just say oh wow how rude. But care for if one of my own team mates bag the enemy. Then I silently judge my team mate and keep on inking. Been a learning curve with age.

To be completely honest, until about a year ago, I didn't know the dirty meaning of teabagging, and thought it was just a taunt lol. I mean it's still a taunt but there should be a cleaner way to do it (especially because I prefer to avoid inappropriate things). When playing with my friends, it's fun to taunt when it's not out of disrespect lol. I don't take offense to it, but it could really set many people off. So it's not really right. I feel the only time you should be doing it is like in a private match with your friends.

When I used to play Splatoon (1), I was much more inclined to get tilted by seabaggers. Back then, I was still a teenager, and I can totally see how this drives away potential new players. One person doing it might not feel like much, but you could leave that lobby and encounter another seabagger just as easily. I hope newcomers learn to block these players if they're upsetting them, and continue playing the game at the very least.

Ya know, the whole, “squidbagging after a splat” thing reminds me of this one time me and a few friends where in a turf war, and my friends where just standing there. I kept saying “this way!” And they only came after like a few seconds. We lost the match. It wasn’t a private battle, either. I’m still mad at them to this day, despite the fact that I forgot what friends of mine where in that match lol Edit: great video too! You deserve a million subs! Your content is great 👍! You also explain things in a way that a dumby like me can understand! Thanks for telling a dumby like me to not do dumb things!

1:30 Finally someone gets it

I usually never even notice because when I get splatted, I immediately open up my map

I'm glad you brought up the smash community, that in particular hit home for me. I used to play quite a bit, but the rampant toxicity of the community online wound up scaring me away. Meanwhile, I haven't been squidbagged once in a game of splatoon 3 since the testfire a few months back.

Thank you for this video. I wish more gamers shared your mentality

Thank you for this!! I love this channel!

I squidbag excitedly when someone's hologram walks up the lobby stairs

I squidbagged people and we started to party after a match started...then I quickly killed both of em, never let em know your next move

Splatoon squidbagging is way of communicating to other squid kids who want good time

I still have a toxic habit of splatting the person who squid bagged me and squid bag back

i didn’t realize squidbagging was a negative thing, i rarely ever did it but i did it as a celebration if i won a particularly hard fight, not to put the other person down. i always found it silly when others did it to me so i didnt realize people got genuinely upset. thanks for informing me!!

The only time I squid bagged someone was this poor nautilus in rainmaker who was trying to shoot me but refused to come closer (I had gootuber locked and loaded) once I realized the poor guys problem I was extremely amused. I squid bagged in place (to be silly, I only had tomfoolery in mind) before hopping forward and sniping the poor guy. Hope he's doing alright and has been climbing ranked alright.

I thought this was a splatoon 3 video. I thought the squid was a zipcaster

I saw someone's Splatoon 1 gameplay video where some players were doing that, and now I know what it is. Thanks!

I don't think I've even seen squidbagging in splatoon3, the devs changing the animation on it really seems to have helped

This is a hot take but I remember getting gravestoned in SP2 (when someone puts a suction bomb on the spot where they splatted you). I remember that was hilarious, maybe just because it was far less common? But for some reason it hurt my feelings a lot less 😂

I rotate between being a slayer and being a back liner depending on what my team needs, so I tend to get squidbagged a lot thanks to me being a vicious murderer. It doesn’t bother me; I more find it funny that I got into someone’s head so easily that they forgot the objective just to chase me around lol

whoever squid bags me, I will haunt for you and squid bag you back

I always draw a heart for the people I splat

when I get a particularly crazy or hype kill like a kill streak or something I might tap the squid button 2-3 times mostly as a way to pop off.

I usually only squidbag In Salmon run, and when im about to KO in tower control to celebrate with my team. I appreciate you making this video because i value these games greatly.

i ALWAYS squidbag after i kill someone because it's kind of like a "haha i killed you" and sometimes people will squidbag back and it's really fun if there's a scope trying to target you, just squidbag from a distance and you might see them start to flop around

Oh I didn’t know what squid bagging is and my friend kept talking about this but I have never done this

i really dont like t-bagging or squid-bagging. i dont mind if i lose, but t-bagging is grossly sexually aggressive. you can win and maybe jump around happily, but t-bagging has a sexual aggression to it that always makes me uneasy even if the player didnt do it on purpose or is aware of the connotations. i also agree that doing it in friendly ways like saying hello is totally different. esp as a woman whos into video games, which is often male-dominated and therefore has more aggression/ sexual aggression (not saying all men, just saying that compared to female dominated communities male ones have more aggression and sexual aggression, this DOES NOT MEAN ALL MEN)

a year almost into playing & im just now learning what this is lol I knew about squid parties not this i thought the people doing this a lot in game were just having issues with their controllers 😆

Its mostly a victory thing for me, done after a successful round/full clear of salmon run, the same as ringing out booyahs. I do avoid it in turfwar specifically because of the analogy to teabagging though.

I only squidbag at the end of a wave and when someone squidbags me and I return the gesture

i squidbag in salmon run mostly after a successful shift or in lobbies between matches. its goofy fun for that

When someone gets an extremely good kill on me that was genuinely something I didn’t see coming I tend to booyah and I feel bad cuz sometimes my teammates booyah back without realizing I died and it was respect to the other team

I was getting really Salty at People Squidbaggin when I started playing, to Change that I changed my Name to SquidbagMe so that when I get Squidbagged I could Tell myself that it's because of my Name, I've changed my Name again after a few months of doing that and I've never been Salty after I got Squidbagged ever again :)

Squid Bag is when someone taunts you after they kill you...Squid partying is for lobby and Salmon run celebration!

There are three situations where I squidbag. 1 - They squidbag me 2 - They squidbag my teamate 3 - They are doing that stupid thing where they just beeline to your spawn over and over.

I remember Squid Bagging being a lot more common of an issue in Splatoon 2 instead of 3, that's something I think is because a lot of people playing 3 either grew up since 2, or are starting with 3 and literally don't know what it is outside of Salmon Runs and maybe Squid Parties (which are seemingly also really rare from my perspective). And in Salmon Run it's used in a positive context to the extreme (WE BEAT A HARD WAVE or KING SALMONOID DOWN!!!)

U gotta squidbag to celebrate in salmon run, to squid party, and to mess around w/ ur hologram friends in the lobby before the match starts And that's it

Is there a term for those squid parties in solo games where they start having a little party right from the start, when nobody has disconnected, or nobody didn’t play the objective? Because it happened three times in two days for me when I hadn’t seen it in over a month’s play, and the fact that nobody besides my friends seem to care about it, accept it even, is making me take my first break of this game. And it takes a lot for me to do that, as it’s one of my few joys in life right now.

The Video makes sense. All i wanted to say was, I think its funny that you have to squidbag to get a tacticooler.

squid bagging in competitive is toxic, but in salmon run it is a necesity

I love this so much because people who watch get to laugh at people that squidbag *you*