Splatoon PRO Reviews EVERY Ranked Mode + Turf War [Splatoon 2] 

Honestly, I wish that the ranked modes were in rotation with turf war or something. Just make it so I can play ranked modes casually so I don't need to worry about loosing, but not turf war all the time. It gets very stale after awhile.

I remember having the idea of having the tower being pushed by a specialized fan which only appears when someone is standing on the tower.

8:42 | I feel like what you said here also applies to Rainmaker as well. A single wipe can cost you the lead and straight up the entire game sometimes. It's partly due to Splatoon 2's more cramped map design, but it's still too drastic of a penalty for *a single* team wipe. None of the other Ranked modes have this problem.

I think the issue of "splat zones is just painting the zones all game" is much more of an issue in solo queue. In a team you can collectively agree to push forward and call out enemy positions, whereas in solo queue often people can slip past and paint the zone behind you. So I think often the best strategy for playing zones in solo queue is just to sit by zone after you capture it

maybe throwing one clam to a teammate that results in them getting a power clam should give you special charge, but also there should be a counter on the map to show how many clams every teammate has rather than only showing who has the most clams with a tiny ass indicator over their heads

I dont think standing on the tower is boring, especially if the enamy team is trying to kill you. You have to do your best to stay alive and know when to get of it.

Splat Zones is by far my favourite mode. It almost feels like playing chess in a way, since you sometimes need to know when to retreat and give up the zone so that you can more effectively mount an offensive to retake the zone. Tower Control is pretty good too since it also requires good timing and positioning, though the tower can be a bit janky at times and certain maps are a pain. Rainmaker is just so.....volatile. If your team loses an initial exchange then it's totally possible that the opposing team can make it to 30 off of a single push. Definitely a harder mode to rank up in and my least favourite mode that I still play. No interest in Clam Blitz, so I don't play it lol.

My favorite mode is actually clam blitz. Idk it’s just the most exciting mode for me and while it sucks that you can’t communicate well with your team, it is the most fun mode when you find good teammates and are in sync :D

I think that the new medal system could at least help with the whole tricking people into working as a team thing, especially since they are going to be more of a personal private thing, but we aren't really sure if it will work as of right now.

My main fix for Tower Control is something I've been asking for since Splatoon 1, and is pretty simple: Make the tower platform larger. Right now, the platform is barely an inkling-width, which makes it easy to accidentally fall off, makes fights on the tower itself cramped and uncomfortable, and most importantly almost any AoE damage can easily cover 90% of the platform. A bigger platform gives the tower rider more maneuverability and would force the defending team to need more than a single blaster to stop the rider from pushing.

Clam Blitz is like 5CP in TF2. Both modes REQUIRE team coordination, it's not optional and you cannot solo carry your team. Because of this, both modes are very unpopular in their respective games for casual play, but they're great for competitive play. But with the restrictive communication in each game (only 2 things you can say in S2, communication locked behind paywall in TF2) these modes are awful to play in soloqueue, but a blast if you're playing with friends/on a team. I really hope Clam Blitz comes back in S3, it's my favorite mode, but also that they give us more meaningful ways to communicate. (Also imo "To me" was way better than "This way" and can serve multiple purposes, ie. pass clams "To me")

I actually think Zones can be improved by using what halo has done with king of the hill: move the zone after a certain time/points gained has passed. Not only does this negate spawn killing being a lockout 100% of the time, but it also draws attention to other parts of the map not commonly used in zones. Teams can also make strategic decisions like “should we prioritize continuing to defend this position or scout ahead and make sure we can capture the zone when it changes.” I would really like to see this change at some point since zones is one of my favorite modes.

I find myself disliking "map/mode" combos more than modes or maps themselves Also not thinking of the consequences, but maybe 2 ranked modes could run at the same time and you could choose the one you want to play. This of course would cause one of them to be neglected but hopefully the combinations would make it so it's not always the same mode that gets ignored.

6:23 That portion is actually an RFZ... for the other team. Meaning if Starburst had the rainmaker in that section, their clock would tick faster. The devs are so smart 🙃

I feel like putting a cannon on tower would just make it RM on a set path. I think it should instead work on proximity and not being directly on it so you have more maneuverability while pushing it.

An idea for turf war: There would be a Ranked style counter for each team that counts down if that team has more turf covered at that moment. If the difference is large, it counts down faster.

I’ve never really understood what the “don’t retreat” and “rainmaker free zone” messages meant. I’ve hardly ever seen them in person and I’ve never seen an explanation as to what they do.

“As long as the maps are well” did not age well

Loving the calamity ost choices for this video! This was a good video, so keep up the good work!

"Riding the tower is boring" Meanwhile I'm pacing back and forth ready to go ham with my Octobrush if someone is trying to board the platform

It is good that Splatoon 2 improved Spat Zones and I am not really sure how they would be able to improve the mode in Splatoon 3

Bruh every single pro splatoon player i know despises turf war for some reason 💀

They must making very good those Rainmaker-free zones-I have over 250 hours in Splatoon 2 and have never seen them or had them impact a game.

I think a good way to make it so turf war doesn't just come down to "Don't wipe in the last 30 seconds" is to include the scores of each player in the ending calculation. So a team that scored four 1000p games would get an advantage over a team that scored four 500p games, despite the 500p team covering 60% of the map. Maybe each % of the ending map counts as 10 points, so the map is worth 10,000. In the example, this would mean that 500p would get 6,000 map points vs 4,000 map points, but team 1000p would get 4000 team points vs 2000 team points, meaning that the teams have drawn in this scenario. The formula would definitely need some tweaking to feel balanced though.

Right now, I like Tower because it challenges how well I can read players, Rainmaker extremely handicaps you if your mates aren't reading you and if you focus on moving, you rarely use the mega powerful part of the Rainmaker. I can't pinpoint what I dislike about Zones, but I feel no matter how well I preform, I still have a high chance of loss. Turf is literally just a practice mode to see if my aim and awareness is good enough for ranked. Clams is actually my favourite, yes you can struggle but the fact that you don't have much to communicate with makes me feel rewarded after all that time subconsciously memorising body language and such and utilising it, it may not work sometimes but you can still salvage some pride in 1v1s and such for some pride. Please pick apart my arguments so I can improve my opinions.

Rainmaker is my favorite mode because like you said, the objective is the most fun. It's the only mode that lets you use a weapon like rainmaker, and the way it can be used for and against your team makes it really interesting to play. Clam blitz is my least favorite to play, but my favorite to watch in competitive play for the reasons you listed too. It's a real shame, because sometimes you do get a team of players who are quite good by themselves, but if you can't mesh well as a team, you'll probably still lose.

For a ranked turf war, they could make it sort of like Splat Zones where the current map control is displayed at the top and whoever is currently in the lead (by a certain margin) will begin gaining points, faster if they have more turf.

Agreed with all these points. It would also be nice to see a turf war but styled like league. Meaning it would be nice if a friend could join you in turf and you could make it where they are on your team everytime. I’m more of a ranked player but sometimes my husband will play with me. However he’s not a fan of ranked so we always play turf. More often then not we end up on separate teams. And eventually he gets frustrated and stops playing for the day. I know it’s nothing wild but something like that could be nice to have as an option for people who don’t have enough friends for private battles or don’t like ranked.

I agree with most of what you said, and I like the idea of the Tower rider having access to some other ability or weapon. For CB, I think the way clams spawn is just a little too messy. If they all appeared in a central area or maybe across a couple of clearly marked zones, I think it would be easier for people to understand which parts of the map need to be controlled and where the objectives need to be moved. And I definitely like the idea of some kind of selfish reward for teamplay. Giving people more of a reason to pass clams/ score a lot of points in a single push could totally change how the mode plays in solo. It’ll be interesting to see how Nintendo approaches it

8:50 that is such a cool idea! I wish they brought back special splatfest stages

Great video Chara, I’ve always liked clamblitz but I still don’t understand how overtime works in that mode

Praying that clam Blitz gets ported, its my favorite and my teams best mode for some reason xD, the difference between how well we do in clams vs the other modes is MASSIVE

Easy fix to turf war: just do the last minute three times. At every minute mark, score the teams cumulatively. Then at the very end, do the big reveal to see how the last minute _changed the scores..._ rather than just having the map state at the very last minute determine the results of the whole game. This would keep almost everything about turf war exactly the game but it would be way more fun.

I feel like all the points you made in this video were very good, except for the one at 9:03. The spawn being painted at the start would completely alter turf war strategy for the worse and make it harder to come back. The optimal way to play turf war is to leave your base for when you die/ need to fall back, at which point you paint some of it to charge your special to repel whoever is being an issue. Taking away this option means there are fewer options for a losing team, leading to more of the one sided matches you discussed earlier in the section. Otherwise, great video. I wish the tower control points were considered at all in splatoon 3 ;-;

turf war, a mode that new players play me who still plays turf war but has played since splatoon 1:

I heard you mentioned that Shifty Station stage called The Bunker Games, and it's really good for controlling the turf, but another good example is another Shifty Station called Bridge to Tentaswitchia, where your team has to paint this turf in the very middle of the stage, but there's a switch you can flip that causes that turf to go behind glass, And when that happens, you can't paint that turf anymore.

Completely agree on the take that the objectives are great ideas but could use some tweaking to REALLY reach their full potential. I dropped out of 2 before clam blitz happened so I can't speak for that but they were making improvements to the splat 1 modes overall. The zones being in better spots, the rainmaker not being a giant tornado (Even though it was quite fun but not on the receiving end lol) and tower having checkpoints added kinda making it into a mini king of the hill objective vs a push objective. But they still have somethings to iron out which you pointed out great in the video. Hopefully they find better ways to route/place objectives in better maps for 3. However, there is one thing that would be really cool and quite frankly boost these modes further. A little something called SERVERS and just plain a better online experience. Splatoon would be so much better if you know, it just worked and actively wanted you to experiment instead of it feeling like Nintendo wants you to play the game their way and not in your own. Something very simple would be turf war ranked or the other objectives as non-ranked modes. Something simple like that would do wonders to allow the playerbase to more easily take in the modes and figure them out. Even allow for better community feed back to see what could use some tweaks. They need to let us play how we want not how they want, I'm looking at you, fucking rotations. Let the lobby vote on the map and not decide what we want, we should get that say and Nintendo should see what maps to rework based on pick rate

For Turf War, I believe there should be a 'snapshot' of the field every 30-60 seconds or so, and whoever has the most turf inked gets a point. Then whoever can get more points wins, and the match can end early without dragging out if a team gets more than half the points. That way, early game becomes pretty important rather than the non-element it kind of is. Also, I'd imagine Tower Control could be remade so that each of its faces are panels like out of Splat Zones, and whichever team has more sides covered in ink will be in control of the Tower. Someone would still need to be on it to pass checkpoints, but it becomes a little more dynamic since it splits the targets of the defending team, and people have to engage with all sides rather than just hop aboard. Level geometries can also make it trickier to get at certain faces, but clever players could find certain vantage points to get at them anyway, including the bottom of the Tower.

Honestly even in duo clams getting the other two lads to work with you is hard to impossible, but in quad games or a competitive setting with coordination it is amazing like you said, even more so with comms. If splatoon adopted a ping system like overwatch or apex, he’ll even if it was like battlefield or siege it would be SO much better. A simple ping of an enemy or where to go or a voice quip requesting a clam or something would be so useful to making clams more solo friendly it’s insane. And think of what a ping system could do for other game modes, earn a rainmaker to stay back a moment while you check a corner, ping a flanker on tower control, coordinate a retake on zones by saying you are gonna use your special before it is used. It would be nice to have more comms, but alas I don’t think Nintendo is gonna do it.

It might be extreme, but giving players a bonus clam when combining your clams into a power clam could work as a nice incentive to get players to understand the power of passing clams, cuz now you can score an extra 3 points by helping your team break the basket

Don’t ask me about a specific plan but I do have an idea for tower control to make it more interesting; it would be cool if there’s a mechanism where the players could trigger something to modify the tower control path/line. Something like placing some buttons/keys in the opposing team spawn zone that if we trigger while we’re pushing the tower, it goes on a faster route.

Ranked turf war was something i never knew i needed till now

Thank you for using my clip. Great video

I think they should add a mode where kill based like in pvz gw. They have a mode where when you splat someone they drop an orb, maybe a power egg, and then if you pick up it counts as a point but if the other team picks up it doesn't count maybe?

I now know how to play splat zones. I shall go play splat zones to use my new found knowledge.

For tower control I feel if there was a way to sort of cap the tower a little bit like in zones your team could figure out strategies to play around the tower so one person wouldn’t have to sit at tower all game.

For tower control, I would like if they implement inking it like splat zones, which helps move the person off the tower and help keep it active by moving the teams around as they try keep control of tower.

Tower control was always one of my favorites. There were so many intense matches I was apart of.

I find it really weird that despite playing solo exclusively Clam Blitz is my favorite mode. I think that the main reason for my Clam Blitz appreciation is that it feels like you can do the most stuff in it so it's rarely boring. Can't say I'm a big Tower Control fan though. I find interactions with the tower very awkward and riding it is a yawn fest.

Haven't even watched the video yet but I bet it's going to be 🔥🔥🔥

One problem I've had with rainmaker that wasn't mentioned in this video is the opening push. Other modes don't reward you for being the first to the objective if you can't hold on to it, but if you pop the rainmaker and push on the path that doesn't have ink on it yet, you can get a huge advantage even if your team isn't really as good. If the rainmaker didn't spawn until the 15 second mark or so, it would give teams plenty of time to ink different paths on their way to the center instead of taking the fastest route possible to pop the rainmaker. I also think that the shield should explode after a delay so that it's more of an area denial tool than a real attack.

My favorite mode is Clam Blitz. It’s fun to play and harder in solo cue because maybe not that many people are looking out for the things that are happening (lower ranks) or if they just simply don’t know how to play coordinated. A possibly good way to be able to help people notice things is additional callouts on the d-pad. Just use the extra two (left and right arrows) for mode-specific callouts, along with ouch, this way, and booyah.

My preferred modes (in order) are Zones, Clam, Tower, & Rainmaker. RM gives me anxiety on solo Q because, it’s probably the only mode, where if there is a wipe or three are down, and the enemy team gets a KO or a really good push.

my idea for a ranked turf war would be have a counter that goes up while you have the most paint on the map (kinda like splat zones but it would count up, not down) this counter could go up faster depending on how much more turf you have compared to your opponents. A KO would happen when it is impossible for the losing team to get enough points to win within the time limit, overtime could happen when a team is narrowly losing in points when the game is ending.

Hey Chara, you may have actually came up with a very interesting concept... What if there were Turf Wars variations to mix things up? Perhaps make it map dependent? As mentioned, one map could have the dome mechanic that locks down portions of the map. Another map could have cannons, one could have extra Ink Rails... And there could even be "extra features" that occasionally show up roulette-style, such as having everyone's Special Meter build automatically, weapon pick ups scattered through the map ala singleplayer mode, or significantly reduced spawn times for everyone! ...Now I'd make all of this optional too. If one wants to play simple basic Turf War, they can just do that.

I love riding tower with my brella, I've had a lot of moments where I barely manage to clutch a checkpoint or knockout by hiding behind the shield and doing everything I can to keep on that thing Also, the bridge splatfest map was also good for rewarding teams for continuing to hold control in turf war, I'm surprised you didn't mention it

I'm thinking that breaking the barrier in clams should give you a percentage of your special meter or refill your ink tank

8:13 I was brainstorming ideas to make this seem like it could work while also not feeling like the game ended randomly, and the best one I came up with is a live percentage tracker. Like, I don't understand why that already isn't in the game, it's basically just the same info presented to you in a more convenient manner, but whatever. I know it isn't gonna be in 3, but this idea plus a live percentage tracker thing would actually make turf war feel a lot better. Although from my experience even with bad match making, 70-75% is usually the range for when you're beating the other teams ass, so I'd say the number should be lowered

concept for a mode: get 20 kills as a team, and once you do, a zone opens in their base. capture it and you win. timer runs out means that the number of need kills for both teams is however many the winning team needs plus 1.

The problem with a knockout feature in Turf War is that you would have to make it so the losing team gets little or no cash (just like in the Ranked modes) otherwise teams would throw matches just so they could quickly earn cash/points. But this would take away one of Turf War's best features: It allows a sure-fire way to steadily level up in that you are guaranteed to get at least 800 cash/points in just a 3-minute match as long as you make the effort to paint (compared to Ranked modes where you get little or nothing if you get KO'd). Take this away, and you would have to win all your matches to have any chance to level up. This would discourage new players. Another benefit to Turf War is that it is more relaxing because you can't rank up so you don't feel as much pressure to win.

I’ve been playing Splatoon since the first games original release day and I only ever play turf war. It’s just what I like most. It’s the game they pitched when it was announced and was the idea that made me want the game.

I found a way that I can indicate when I'm doing a push in clam blitz when using Kunder and w/o voice chat. Basically I gather clams near a viable push spot (eg. The bottom right corner of Snapper Canal but up the slope) and use the fact that I have a power clam along with the "this way" command to gather teammates and activate ink armor to send us forward and are guaranteed to score at least 1 power clam if everyone listens. Yet Another reason I love Kunder and why clam blitz has grown on me recently (similar to how pre-nerf Ballpoint made rainmaker my favorite mode for awhile before I dropped the game a couple months after the final fest and came back early this year)

Changes I want to see: - Turf should either have a knockout feature for being in Danger for too long, or its matchmaking should put more emphasis on matching players by skill level. - Clam Blitz: Like you said, some kind of "reward" for teamplay. Maybe make it so if you throw a Clam at someone and they open the basket within a few seconds, you get a significant chunk of Special charge. - Tower Control: This mode is fine as-is, just make the routes not suck. Looking at you, Camp Triggerfish. - Rainmaker: I think what they did here is a good change. They added a checkpoint that you have to put the Rainmaker down on, in order to open up the next leg of the journey. Just put the checkpoints somewhere that still lets you use multiple routes, and we're good. - Zones: Nothing. This gamemode works great as-is. Overall: Open up the different game-modes to casual play. The Anarchy Battle format is a decent step towards this, with ranks not *always* being on the line, but I'd like to see Ranked and Casual Objective Mode separated out entirely.

Clam Blitz, I get a adrenaline rush every time I play the mode and I love how the mode keeps on my toes more than the other modes

Unranked ranked modes is my biggest hope for Splatoon 3 On the subject of Turf War though, the issue of the first half of the game not really being important could be solved in some other ways as well: 1. Factor in the number of splats (though this could end up favoring slayers super hard) 2. weigh it based on how long one team was in the lead and by how much. this would be a lot more complicated and possibly too hard to understand though

I definitely remember Turf War matches in 2 that were so one-sided I couldn’t even leave spawn for a minute without getting splatted. So all I could do was stand there and wait for the game to end. 😖

Hot take: People dislike clams because it forces you to learn to play the objective because most people don't do it enough

I REALLLLY hope clam blitz adds an indicator or incentive to passive the powerclam, like marking the person closest to the basket on the team's screen so they can superjump or pass a powerclam to score, maybe incentivize building a power clam by providing the wielder of the ball and whoever threw the last clam to build it a small speed boost? something small that isnt abuseable in a communicated team environment, but is powerful enough to force teamwork amongst teammates in a soloq environment.

Thanks Chara. Needed this vid

My favorite is Splat Zones and I hope they balance things well with patches or whatever in Splatoon 3.

As a charger player who mostly does solo, rainmaker is the overall best mode for us. We are no longer seen as useless to the team when we carry the rainmaker and being a backliner/anchor is second nature to the mode. The idea about bringing the cannon to tower control sounds amazing but my only concern is what will happen to bombs or other players that wish to push it the tower while in use.

I think it's very good to have Ko system for turf war ,however I am sure amount of casual players still like original 3 minutes turf war, so maybe they can add a new mode Quick Turf, just the turf war with Ko system you suggested. I am a mid-tier rank x and I still play turf sometimes because don't want to lose too many points for some reason and sometimes (most for me) turf ,so turf is still a good mode for people to have fun (my comment is quite long btw)

Honestly the easiest fix for clam blitz is to make the counter’s on people’s heads more visible. Make it so you can see all your teammates counts on the map screen, and make the counts over their heads always show

Only one team gets passive special charge at a time. If the losing team controls the Splat Zone, they get no charge while the winning team does. Regardless which team is riding the tower, the other will get zero special charge. If the losing team has someone carrying the rainmaker, they get no charge while the winning team does. If the winning team has someone holding a Power Clam and the losing one doesn't, they prevent the losing team from gaining charge.

Tableturf Battle is OBVIOUSLY the best mode, hands down.

My favorite has to be Zones. I love it, mainly because it’s turf war on a smaller scale.

7:48 level 36: chuckles I'm in danger 😃

7:20 that's fair! I'd like a surrender feature like in pokemon unite.

An idea for coordination encouragement in Clam Blitz: Instead of simply throwing clams at teammate’s feet, the player receiving the throw can “catch” the clam in some way. This would mean the player wouldn’t have to wait for the clan to hit the ground to pick it up, and could keep moving. Catching a clam would also give a small bonus to the points it would score and this bonus could stack, with the clans starting at 1 point each and maxing out at 5. Power clams would start at 10 and cap at 30. The clam could also be thrown faster and slightly farther. However, if the clam is dropped, the buff would disappear. I think a mechanic like this would make the game a lot more interesting, and would p be so much better than having something like a “pass clams to teammates” daily quest or something. I do like the idea of daily quests like that, but it shouldn’t be responsible for encouraging teamwork.

Did anyone first play clam blitz, super excited to play the mode, collecting a large handful of clams then tossing them at the net trying to figure out “why the hell are these not going in?!?” I swear it took me 2-3 games (and a look at the manual) to figure out you need to collect 10 to make a football, then break the net open with said football, and ONLY THEN can you throw mini clams in.

Idea: There could be another league battle mode called random league battle mode. To participate, you have to verify account age. In just this mode, you could choose to enable vc and in this mode only you could also customize d-pad communication options. While this would not fix every problem, it would be a great foundation for Nintendo to work off of.

Different idea for turf war. Bonus rewards for personal skill. Stuff like kills, special uses, and cumulative area covered should give rewards regardless of how good your team is and how the final 30 seconds turns out. Even if your team is losing you can still have fun making picks or controlling key territory. For a casual mode it should primarily reward personal growth rather than team play.

SZ/TC/RM got really thoughtful changes in the move from 1 to 2, so I'm hoping we'll see similar here. I think map design plays a big part. When S2 launched with Pump Track, I thought "this is a perfect successor to Blackbelly - same vibe of being hilly and sporty, still small-ish but not so tiny they have to pull TC and RM from rotation". And then Blackbelly came back anyway.

Maybe to encourage teamwork in clams they could have it where if a player is far enough away from their teammate and they throw the super clam to them, then they will get extra points for dunking it

I feel like tower should stay a vulnerable position. Maybe after 1 minute the person on tower gets a turret shot they can use to suppress the enemy team, but any more and it’ll be too hard to approach. I’m excited to see any new ranked modes in s3, though I wonder what they can do. Rocket and 8ball were in this game’s code, and maybe they can do a bomb defusal one where the teams have different objectives?

My favorite is definitely rainmaker. It’s fun to lob giant explosives at the enemy team. I just got my first X rank and it was in rainmaker so. I’m also a little biased.

6:12 hold on hold on hold on, since when did rainmaker free zones exist?

Nice!

I love how the first three modes where just like good mode but uhhh... map design. I think it would be cool if they combined tc and rm for splat 3 like maybe the tower has a weapon you control and when you ride and you can shoot switches to determine if the tower goes left or right along different paths. For clams it might be cool if while the basket is open whoever throws 20 points worth of clams in gets some of the effects comeback or something but I definitely agree that overall Splatoon needs to do a better job of rewarding people for being supportive and playing the objective.

Turf war ko is an awesome idea!

I think for Clam, you could get special charge from tossing clams into the basket, give more incentive for big pushes. I think maybe around 1-.5 P per clam (Might be a bit too much) and maybe around 10 P for each football.

Clam Blitz is the most frustrating mode for me since it requires so much teamwork that you basically have to pray your team is on the same wavelength as you when solo queueing. It's the entire reason why I never reached X with it, every other mode has proven way better. So I had ideas floating in my mind about how to fix this issue, but I think going the opposite approach and reworking it to be more selfish but still require teamwork for actual advantages. I drew inspiration from Team Fortress 2's PASS Time mode, the only mode in the game that has an active goal system. You carry the Jack to one of few goals and score points. Now let's take the idea of several goals and apply it to Clam Blitz, with clam adjustments. 1. There are two baskets; an aggressive one that's easy to push into, and a passive one that's easy to defend and flank. Using the Reef as an example, you have a basket closer to your spawn either by the car or perhaps even closer, and one that's facing the bridge ramp on mid that takes a bit longer to approach. Both baskets must be somewhat close to each other so that a team being capped can flip flop between fronts. 2. Clams spawn in abundance across the map constantly. 3. All baskets are permanently active, but Clams and Power Clams have their point gains reduced; Regular Clams provide one and Power Clams give five. Regular Clams cannot be scored until a Power is scored (i.e. when the later mentioned bonus timer starts), and Power Clams still require ten clams. 4. Every time a Power Clam score is made, it activates a bonus timer for multiplying the score; The multiplier for how many points you earn is increased based on Clam type. 5. Power Clams are worth +1.0x and regular Clams are worth +0.2x; While it would be safer to just throw tons of Powers, you perhaps could get even better returns by creating an opening for those with regular Clams to get even more points if a multiplier is high enough. Any decimals to the multiplier automatically round down regular Clam gains. 6. The timer's length is 5 seconds and is refilled to 5 seconds for every Power Clam thrown in. 7. The game ends if one team has more points than the other; A max of 100 points must be reached for a KO. The game is put into Overtime if there is a stalemate in points or a Power Clam/Bonus Timer is currently active. With this overhaul, teamwork is still rewarded heavily but being the lone wolf can get a push going to pull ahead whenever possible. Plus it would play into Splatoon's movement shooter core much better since you aren't confined to pushing into one specific basket, and almost any weapon can flourish in Clam Blitz rather than leaning heavily into quicker slaying types.

Certain objectives drastically impact weapon balance. The Tenta Brellas can get free points enough to win games of Tower Control, and Zones maps heavily reward Booya bomb and Ink Mine kits. There is NOTHING for anchor players to do in Clam Blitz, especially since most maps have large enough flanks to get past the range of most chargers and splatlings. This problem is only going to get compounded in Splatoon 3 when Inkstrike comes back and we get 8-ball mode or Rocket Control, modes that are primarily played by shooting directly at the objective.

I was thinking about making clam blitz more coordinated, and was considering the idea of a score multiplier that increases the longer the barrier is down, but come to think of it I’ve seen plenty of times where clam count is not a problem. What if clams thrown couldn’t be picked up by the opponent (as a visual indicator they could be coloured your teams ink colour), so it would encourage passing the clams around more????? To make it not overpowered though the clams would be neutral when dropped after dying. Which ones do you guys prefer?

Maybe clam blitz could be a league exclusive mode, so that coordination is mandatory, because people usually play league in a vc or something

After playing Splatoon 3 for so long I completely forgot Rainmaker Free zones were even a thing

I may not play very competitively, but as someone who focuses on the objective all the time, I think all modes have their own problems in S2 outside the ones mentioned in the vid (which I agree with all). Turf War almost always has the tightest version of the map. Ranked modes give the map an extension (we can exclude RM Pit from this) that almost always helps with counterpushes and positioning, though I can agree with the argument that more map = more special spam. Maybe in S3 this can work better Splat Zones is SO annoying to retake when the room has lag, which is 80% of the time. You need to paint like 90% of the zone to retake it and sometimes that might be generous. I don't mind the aggression and other than that, I agree with the zones needing to be bigger as long as S3 netcode is better Tower Control I don't have anything substantial to add, other than ink collision needs to be reworked, sometimes you cant even get on the tower because one pixel is not painted. Paths a la Kelp Dome can burn in hell and passive special is very unfair Rainmaker is an automatic loss if they wipe your team and its not staggered. I have numerous clips where Ive won entire RM matches and being the losing team definitely sucks Clam Blitz it may be because I haven't learned how to play (but I also don't want to) but I couldn't care less if it was removed. It's basically you trying to start a murder spree so you can score a power clam. I don't know, maybe it's just me wanting to focus on an objective constantly and by myself, but I never enjoy CB, even with friends Ranked Turf War would be wonderful so it can have an actual objective, but I would also like them to incorporate unranked Ranked Modes. A way to train and learn the modes without changing your rank. It could still matchmake on rank brackets so as not to have X rank vs C-, but it would not affect your rank *at all*. No gains, no deductions/cracks

I actually think the worst solo queue mode is Rainmaker. In Clam Blitz solo, theoretically one guy who knows what they’re doing can actually score on the basket by sneaking in, and that’s guaranteed to get points. It won’t be a good push, but it is some kind of individual participation. But in Rainmaker, you *need* the whole team backing up a Rainmaker push, making sure not to overextend, actually grabbing the Rainmaker at all… it requires so much coordination to score at all that it can be very frustrating for me. People don’t know what a good push looks like in that mode and it always shows.

Ima just airdrop this thing i thought of here, like, for ranked what if they limited it to only the smaller more competitive close-quarter maps instead of like Albacore hotel thats really *oomi*ing wide to maps like Walleye warehouse, port mackerel etc. I think it would then have the entire team be more team-like than like albacore hotel, you can't help your team mates fast enough bc of how big it is. Walleye warehouse for example, you can easily reach your team mates its its small areas and back them up, it's the same with port mackerel, yes it may be wider but overall it's still a close quarter type map to me. I've had matches on the big maps where all my team mates were doing their own thing while i'm trying to do the objective. That sucks man

Just think it’s unfair to say turf is just an introductory mode. It is but it’s also the only “casual” mode. Many players that play ranked (or get burned out but the way x works) default to turf even just for the simple fun of it. Could it be better? Yes. I love the 80% end rule.