Splatoon 2: Rainmaker with a pinch of salt 

"Stop." "...ok."

You're basically setting up for "Aerospray with a Pinch of Salt"

The little Off the hook scenes were adorable and this was done well. Naisu Scott.

Gosh, where can I sign up for Ranked Modes 101 with Scott and Cyborg-chan?

Also, use Toxic Mist. If you throw it at the general direction of where the Rainmaker carrier is, you’ll slow them down significantly in which you and your team can easily splat the Rainmaker carrier making it a great defensive tool. There has been many times where I’ve been using Toxic Mist and has saved us losing at the last second when they are one point away of them taking the lead.

Oh, it's like Payload. The gamemode where no one actually does the objective...

Scott Splatoon upload on Splatoon 2 anniversary? BEST GIFT EVER!

I like C.C! ... and i guess the video was good too.

ScottFalco with a game full of AeroSpray

Yeaahh Cyborg-Chan is back

I'm just gonna come out and ask, was there ever an intention of Cyborg-chan having like a real voice? Like did a collaboration with a VA fall through and you just had to meet your vid deadline, or you really just wanted a mascot-ish OC voiced by Microsoft Sally from the get go for this series of vids? I'm not baggin' on it, just really curious.

It's ok to move backwards sometimes. Backing up and trying to regroup when you're completely outmatched can be good, but only move back a little; too much and you're just giving the enemy ground. Also, when you're winning AND there's 30 seconds on the clock AND your team is completely overwhelming the other team, you can grab the rainmaker and run backwards so the other team can't get to it. This ends the game more quickly instead of going into overtime, so it's kind of a mercy kill.

I don't know if I should watch these videos since salt is bad for your health.

"book of inuendos instead of good writing" so every fanfiction ever?

He said the word Undertale! Undertale side of salt?

Rain Maker in a Nutshell: *TARGET ACQUIRED. PROTECT THE PRESIDENT AT ALL COSTS.*

It's Sodium Chloride

Something about the concept of Christian inklings makes me uncomfortable

You have the rainmaker *TEST FAILED*

“Don’t move Backwards” yeah lemme just move forward while surrounded by enemies

I know I said, in the last video, I only wanted to pet Cyborg-chan's head, but just in case... She's legal right? Edit: After long consideration, I've decided Cyborg-chan is too pure and must be protected from corruption.

Don't walk backwards you say? *moonwalks backwards with rainmaker*

Sometimes the quickest route to the pedestal is not the best option. Try and stay alive with the rainmaker and take the safest path (unless your in overtime) and if your team is covering you, it should normally get you much closer to the pedestal. Constantly dying over and over will not help your team. It will constantly become a 3v4 and the odds are the enemy team will win.

I tried my hand at Rainmaker after the video and I gotta say, your advice really helped! Thanks!

Areospray: * exists * Scott: 1:31

Man, I wonder if the next game mode video will have more jokes about the garbage can

I love this mini series so much

Your animation style... It's so... GODDAMN CUTE THIS EPISODE! Keep up the good work Scott

Did I just hear that tenta missiles were good?

I forgot C C talked

My tip for playing rainmaker is: If you have the rainmaker, its a good strategy to throw your shots at your feet. It makes enemies around you run away, or explode them. Only pickup the rainmaker if nobody else will. Its a big risk, so its sometimes better to play support. If your teammates are nowhere around you, let the other team take the rainmaker, so you can just kill them after they take it. Theres many styles to playing with a rainmaker. The defensive, where you try to protect yourself with the rainmaker, (you dont get far, tho.) The offensive, you try to kill all enemies you see, (leaves you vulnerable and sometimes might hold you back,) And the pusher, you just push through, only really shoot ahead, (this gets you closer much quicker, but leaves you vulnerable. It gets a big amount of kills though.) Those are my tips.

Thanks for the mini-course on the Rainmaker! 😊

“Cyborgchan with a side of salt” This is best idea

When ScottFalco realises that whenever you shoot the rainmaker the kick moves you BACKWARDS!

Started getting into ranked. Scott, ma dude, these videos have helped so much

I honestly didn’t know about jumping off the edge to reset the RM... that’s actually super useful; thanks!

(DISCLAIMER: I'm a charger user) Well... to be fair, if you pump up the Curling Bomb rush to the max on bonuses, the Aerospray becomes quite useful for RM, since you burst the bubble quickly, pave a straight line for the RM to instantly follow and have a barrage of curling bombs to throw off incoming enemies. You still need protection from the sides, but that 1 single Aerospray user has just solved half the match if you've got good enough teamwork going on.

0:52 *top 10 moments caught before a disaster*

Really liking the new art style Scott, keep up the great work and keep improving!

Yeeeeaaaa CC is the best!!!! Also, great video Scott! I never really got Rainmaker mode so I usually just stuck to casual turf but this helps make more sense of it

Unless you have god like aim, I try to kind of spam the rn for added pressure to the enemy team. The rainmaker is not fast enough to kill enemy squids/octos unless you get a direct hit. It also helps your team by inking and applying pressure.

You forgot the pepper.

Thank Goodness! you gave her subtitles, I had a hard time understanding her before

I love that someone else treats splatoon two tactics like war.

I just got asked out to go with friends for the first time in 5 months and scott uploaded a video Fml man

God I'm such trash but that random Sans sound cracked me up. XD

Awesome vid! I love your splatoon vids, keep em up!

Wow Scott! Your drawings have really improved!

Cyborg-Chan is love. Cyborg-Chan is life.

Cyborg-Chan is as cute as always

a tip i have, the RM shield is effected by object shredder, for most weapons that is an extra 10% damage on the RM, and it applies to your sub and special as well, there is very few reasons to not bring object shred into RM, it can make a sizeable difference

i like to think I'm pretty okay at Rainmaker, but I still learned a lot of new tactics from this video. Nice job!

Feel like he should have also mentioned how if either player makes it to the other team's goal with the rainmaker, it is NOT an automatic victory, as the player will enter an animation of them slamming it down onto the goal that is scripted and can be interrupted. So if you feel like either team is going for the goal, (GOOD) charger players can easily intercept the predictable movement with a well timed shot, meaning keep an eye out for anyone who may be waiting if it's you pushing.

1:54 did anyone see sans, like if you did

As someone who's pretty good at turf war but just can't make the transition to ranked mode, this really helped! Please make more of these if you ever feel inspired to!

I remember looking forward to these in days long past.

The best special in Rainmaker (in my opinion) is the ink storm.

Did he make an undertake joke? Alrighty

Cyborg Chan and Alpha interacting had me heccin done, so good!

For those who really don't take the rainmaker often, you forgot to add a pretty big thing: holding it slows you down by QUITE A LOT, and is why you shouldn't move backwards, since the distance you're losing is just more time wasted getting back to. Also, a note for those who wants to dedicate themselves in holding the rainmaker, Run Speed Up and Swim Speed Up DOES affect your speed with the rainmaker.

Was that an undertale reference!!!?!

Cyborg-chan is my waifu I'm sorry Scott

man love this art

Rainmaker ranks are basically: C ranks: no one on your team knows what their doing but the other team ALWAYS knows what their doing B ranks: If you got to b ranks you were probably the only person on your team in c ranks who knew what they were doing. You think that you’re going to carry the team, but everyone else thinks that THEY will carry your team. There is zero teamwork because everyone is used to carrying their teams in c ranks. A ranks and onward: People actually seem to know what their doing, this is when the mode really gets fun. Everyone has a fair understanding of what roles they have to fill and how to cooperate with one another (mostly).

Lol I'm loving the banter between Scott and C.C

I like using the splat brella in rainmaker the most because it has the sprinkler which can do the extra player trick, you can protec yourself from the rainmaker explosion so you can get up close and kill the guy with the rainmaker, and its a two hit kill so you can kill fast. You can set a sprinkler on the rainmaker guy's path so he has no escape from his doom of the brella

Yaaaayyy! Cyborg chan is back!! Cutest inkling in all of splatoon!! (Now, seriously, I wasnt a fan of splatoon until i began to watch your videos) keep up the good work!!

and with the recent addition with the bobblobler, the aerospray now actually is good against it when you have runspeed up, you turf, move left and right, then try to rng them more then they can put a wave of shots around, unless they slowly kill with an actual wave shot

I tried it with the Flingza Roller and it worked. Thank you, Salt Knight.

I like the aerospray I've got like several kills with it and it covers a good amount of turf if you keep moving or you can try the bathtub that's also pretty fun.

I feel it's nice to mention some other, additional tips. 1) Throw Toxic Mists down choke points to avoid the enemy pushing in. 2) Bombs detonate on contact with Rainmaker Barier, making Bomb Launchers very good specials. 3) Use the Object Shredder ability if you're Barrier Breaking. Object Shredder is also generally a good ability in Competitive for Bubblers, Ink Armor, and Ballers, as well as the occasional Splash Wall and Squid Beacon

Scott and Cyborg-Chan are THE BEST AUGH

I love these splatoon punch of salt

0:30 CC telling you to stop was probably the best part of the video

Actually if you're winning and you have the rainmaker and there are 20 seconds left, it is suggested to do so, because you don't have to confront the enemy team, and e en if you run out of time, if the enemy team doesn't pick up the rainmaker before the match ends, they lose. Also if you're following a teammate and they die, it is suggested to retreat, or you could die. You can wait for the rest of your team to come, or you can follow another path that they create.

A couple tips if you have the RM: • Stay with your team. • if an enemy player is super close to you and is rushing you, aim and shoot on bottom of you so the explosion of the shot will kill everyone in the bubble • if you’re at enemy spawn and close to the goal, stay behind and support your team with the RM. once it’s clear, rush it.

Yes my two favorite games you referenced my two favorite games in this Splatoon and undertale perfect

"Stop. .....ok." love it

There are some situations where firing nonstop with the rainmaker can be very helpful, although it depends on how you go about it; try to fire it in paths you would expect the opposing team to take and use it to push back your opponents. The best example I can think of is in Inkblot Art Academy where I find it helpful to let your teammates go up onto the first raised area and just continuously fire the rainmaker up onto that ledge, forcing your opponents to retreat or be splatted, then follow your teammates up ahead. In other words, the rainmaker is about suppression, not kills. A weapon which in my opinion is great for rainmaker is the Splash-o-matic. It kills very fast and its accuracy means it retains a fast kill speed at any point in its range. the recent buff which made accuracy while jumping the same as on the ground means that jumping around a lot helps you to avoid being hit without affecting your accuracy. It suffers a little from lack of range but a very aggressive play style works well with this weapon and in rainmaker in general. It also has excellent turfing and you can very quickly create paths with it which is very useful for both pushing and for quickly reaching the centre at the start of a match. (Also a side note: I find that using the rainmaker well requires some of the same skills that the dynamo requires, mainly that you need to be very good at predicting what other players will do.)

i love how scott has switched from overwatch to splatoon

Should also be mentioned that the special that makes the raincloud (don’t remember its name) can be really good, since it deals a surprising amount of damage, which when paired with the somewhat difficult-to-read health display can result in splatting people. On a more general note, it’s great to help with bubble-oriented teamfights, since it can force people to abandon convenient firing spots, and even make them give you the RM on some maps, and it’s pretty good at shutting down an enemy push due to its huge AOE and decent inking power. It’s... not horrible at helping a friendly push, but most of the enemies will probably just retreat a little and bunch up to steamroll whoever has the RM, since even in A competent teammates are somewhat rare, and so the 1-2 players actually making a push will get stomped by the entire enemy team being forced to group up instead of running at you one by one.

That intro that ended in Scott holding a book saying "innuendo instead of good writing" was actually just really really good writing and delivery xD

That was a lot more informative than I expected. I feel like I just went to Splatoon academy.

I remember a particular challenge in the Octo Expansion where I was put against NPC Octos and could chose between the Aerospray and a splatling that took 9 years to charge. With the splatling it was impossible.

Gotta love how this is one of the more PG scottfalco videos on this channel. LOOKING AT YOU LUCIO WITH A SIDE OF SALT THUMBNAIL

-Stop ~...okay... this can easily represent the majority of conversations I have with my friends

I was sitting outside while I was watching this and a big boi beetle appeared right in front of me and he was doing the cutest walk I’ve ever seen lol

Aerosprays can be good for helping make a path for the Rainmaker because of its high fire rate and special. It can also help keep the turf around you inked for more breathing room, but you still need to keep in mind that it’s not a turf war. The aerospray can be a good weapon if you know what you’re doing. (I agree that it’s trash, depending on how you look at it. Most high fire-rate weapons perform just as well as it, if not better) it does depend on the user.

Don't forget you can use the bomb launchers to insta pop the rainmaker shield if you throw a bunch as it's respawning. Or just that throwing bombs into the shield in general is a good way to get near by opponents since they explode on contact.

I was playing splat 3 and saw you in my lobby and I audibly screamed I didn't expect that It was like a jumpscare but the best kind

One thing you should do is the splash down... cause you can do it while super jumping... it’s perfect for jumping at the rainmaker carrier and using it mid super jump to create more ink near the carrier

When I played splatoon and played ranked I kept winning non-stop until I was like A rank bc I took ur awesome tips and tricks and used some exclusive gear as in opening gambit (it’s good for lower level rank, fight me) watching this again make me feel nostalgic it was easier and funnier back then in the lower ranks since you don’t have much to lose and now it’s just more forced focused

I prefer using the custom jet squelcher. It has good range, not only that but it supports with both burst bombs and sting ray. You can use burst bombs on your opponents when fighting in close battle or for the one who holds the rainmaker as you could block and ruin their path. The sting ray is used for long distance, I use it for those who has the rainmaker and just get them with that, splat them and gone. It’s a good weapon but yet you need a good set of gear with the right slots to use it

I think rainmaker is my favorite mode of all the comp game modes

This should be called "what are you doing, its right there!"

I 100 percent agree, Aerosprays are the most respected and hated community and..friends. 😌

I'm surprised this helped me in Splatoon 1 this scott

My experience with rainmaker: My whole team: alright, we will go right to their spawn thinking that we will be able to kill them and die Me: or protect me from everyone while I carry the rainmaker? My team: nah...kills first. Than rainmaker. Me: this is the reason why I rank down guys...

The N-Zap 89' is pretty good here too. The thing deals great damage, is decently accurate, AND has Tenta Missiles, which, when used when all players are alive and remain good little targets, is good in ANY mode, as it can spread ink and pin players down and kill them.

(This comment is in a series of comments explaining the ranked modes to people coming from other shooters) Rainmaker is basically a reverse CTF mixed with Doomsday. Get the thing to the other thing. But instead of a flag, rooster, or briefcase, it's a powerful bomb launcher. When you have the Rainmaker and you *_need_* to fight, try to keep your distance. It's only powerful if you can actually hurt someone. Try to use the inksplosion of the shield to your advantage. It splats *every* rival in the direct damage radius, and heavy damage in the indirect radius.