The Biggest Flops in Splatoon 3 History 

The SEQUEL: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bxdXII5ami4.html

I recall a very early period in S3 with Ninja Squid being overtuned and people not realizing that Wave Breaker is weak, which resulted in CJr. of all things being hyped up

Feels like both Splatana Wiper and Stamper's second kits were immediately forgotten when they came out because I only ever see the Vanilla/Order kits.

I've always thought the S-Blast was basically a trap. It sounds cool to be a Range Blaster and a Luna at the same time, but really, you're switching between being a Range that lacks the main thing people fear Range for, and a Luna that doesn't have the fire rate to make it worth respecting. Just like Range, if you fight it up close, it better direct you in one shot or else it dies before it wins. It's not Range and Luna at the same time. It's bad Range and bad Luna at the same time.

I was over hyped about recycle brella due to me thinking it would get its shield back right after it breaks

5 stared both S-Blast '92 and '91 and I can def agree with the 'having to play it perfectly" problem. It's weird seeing the devs give it a burst combo that can just... not kill if you're even slightly off your aim. If they tweaked the radius on the long range mode, leave a bit more room for error, I think we'd see more of it. I'll main '91 regardless tho, it's no flop to me, lol

This video deserve a follow up. It's really funny to look back we actually hype up a lot of weapons that are seem good on paper. And at the end, those kit really just only good on paper. (Also, I actually main a lot of weapons in this video which I might be crazy but I have a great time. So, why not.)

I feel like Painbrush had the most unrealized potential. But it was kneecapped by startup and end lag that was never retuned, and neither kit is great, with the second being downright bad. For a video going the other direction: c’mon, we all know pencil is going to be #1 on that list.

The fact that I play 4 these weapons is very depressing. But I kinda signed up for it being a splatoon 2 tetra main.

I feel like big bubbler as a special is one of the biggest flops I mean on paper its really strong Huge high hp shield you can set up for your teamates yet it falls really flat

I'm not sure this counts but I remember when wiper deco was announced my friend group on discord were freaking out that it had both beakons and missiles as it's kit. But when we had the chance to play with the weapon we found out that it can't be as aggressive with a comeback + quick respawn build as its vanilla kit and it had to be played as more of a budget support. And I guess as the meta evolved people just dropped the weapon in favor of the other splatana weapons

As a tetra main, I confirm that sprinkler KILLS light tetra dualies. It is still very fun casually, but in competitive yeah I get it.

Off topic but Sloshing machines nerf was unjustified

I feel like all the brella player knew a new kit wouldn't be enough for brella

Zimi, my baby💔I hope it can take some of the hype Jr🤢gets. There's a lot of weapons that look like they should or should have seen more use in comp, so thanks for tapping into this subject. Hope you consider a part 2 :)

Not me and Geenie getting clipped at the start 😂 Good video as always man

tbh, sblasts main issue i feel is consistency issues. like yeah, it definitely has its fair share of problems, but i feel as though its strengths would be more worth it if it didn't feel like you had to flip a coin and land heads to use them sometimes (saying as someone whos 5 stared 92 and halfway to the 91 5 star)

One I would say is definitely Custom JR many people were saying back in Chill season it would be the anti meta pick because how good it was against most top tiers back then Blasters, Dualies and pretty much all stealth weapons but when the meta moved to more long range pressure it had no spot in team comps and completely faded away

Splatana Wiper Deco was feared upon by many just for everyone to use the original kit instead

I agree with Sblast; one shot range blaster with perfect jump Rng sounds good on paper, but we have yet to see results. I make a claim for Dwiper. A gun with missiles that can be more threatening than Flingza or Goo had the community in a uproar, but quickly fizzled out and haven't heard about it since. As for underhyped weapons, I would say stamper. Both it and wiper were undervalued at release for their slow kill times at there effective ranges, but as time went on, they became much more threatening.

a successes video would be pretty good i think the wellstring woul probably be on that cause i never saw hype for it and personally wasnt going to pick it up but its now my main and favourite weapon

7:42 Don’t do that. Don’t give me hope.

I would love to see a list on the unexpected winners of weapons

i dont agree with your s blast take. I dont think the wepon is under tuned, i think that the weapon is just very hard and unforgiving "inconsistant" , the skill sealing for the weapon is probably one of the highest in the game , it probably has the best versitility out of any blaster , tldr longrange is to hard to hit consistantly for most peapol thats why its not played in comp mutch .

Honorable mention definitely has to go to wiper deco. I remembered everyone was freaking out because of a good main weapon with missiles, but the kit didn’t really have any synergy. Great video btw

I wanna you saying how pencil went from the worst charger to the best one somehow

Maybe because I wasn’t on splat twt all that much then, but even on RU-vid I don’t remember seeing anyone thinking that Zimi was gonna be that good. This was like November 2022, when crab Meta really started cementing, and we realized that it hard counter big bubbler so it wasn’t worth running anymore by this time. And we’ve all been knew that mist was useless since S2, sooo….😭 I think most who saw the reveal knew it was going to be a pretty subpar kit

light tetra would’ve been better if it had a damaging bomb , it was also outclassed in qr meta by splatana

I think the biggest problem of s-blast is just the meta, if like all of its counters (like 52, squeezer, range) we’re not there it might be not too but really high tier But I do agree that there is no good reason actually to pick sblast over rb (maybe in a more short range oriented meta)

It isn't in the best content, but I enjoy seeing Zimi being talked about regardless as my favorite weapon, lol- I remember being disappointed time and time again when people spoke about bubble, Zimi was mostly seen as inferior to Jr. 😭 Sometimes, I wish the 1st kit was burst and Trizooka but that would be awful to fight. Hopefully a third kit can save the weapon's reputation.

Maybe if Brella shields blocked Trizooka shots, they’d be better, right? …right?

I would like to see that video you mentioned in the end, that would be fun

Thing is, i was on board with what you were saying bout s blast, even accepting of putting both in there, RIGHT UP TIL the point where you said “the problem is the main weapon is weak and undertuned”. I thoroughly believe this isn’t the case, the main weapon is impressive enough, and that one particular other sentence belonged there: The problem is, there’s just no reason to run it. It’s the same story with picking Lucina over Marth in smash ultimate; why would you, in a comp context, wanting to win, pick the s blast, even with a booyah bomb, even IN TC, if range is right there? And tbh that’s, at least somewhat, even Before it got crb, that’s all it’s a matter of; there’s just no point in picking it when other easier things already happen to be meta. That’s what I think anyhow. The only other thing i can say is, I’d absolutely love to get the opposite video you proposed at the end, go for it

As a tetra main, i completely agree with where tetra is. I think it can go a little higher, but that is probably due to me being biased.

I was never that good with splatlings, but was so excited for Zimi. Even with buffs to bubbler, I never see anyone pick it. Tbh the vanilla mini kit is kinda better because of burst bomb combo even tho ultra stamp sucks XD

Neo-splash’s kit is the worst weapon kit flop imo. It was SUPPOSED to have Zipcaster and they changed it to Ttek 2 like how did they fumble that hard. I can safely say, had it gotten zipcaster, it would’ve been my fav weapon

I understand this is your opinion, but trust me when I say that I got the S-BLAST '91 as soon as I could and in my hands, it's AMAZING. I mean, I originally got it based off the looks. It's based off the SNES Super Scope, and it's purple (my fave color). But then I took a look at what it's stacked with, and it was pretty much a no-brainer. To me, the Burst Balloon is like the standard Splat Bombs but they explode on contact (which eliminates the chance of the enemy running away from it without taking damage), and the Booyah Bomb is a very simple special, just charge it with the "Booyah!" command, aim it wherever needed, fire it off, and watch it go. Even if you don't take out enemy teams in the blast, you'll still leave ink behind where the shot landed. And if you ask me, the original S-BLAST '92 kit was far too "meh" in my opinion. The Reefslider special can be amazing when used in the right hands (those hands are not mine), but Sprinkler...that thing makes a noise when active and can be broken in only a few hits (or one if you're using something like a Blaster, WHICH IS WHAT THE S-BLAST IS), so not the greatest choice. The '91 simplified things a bit. But, at the end of the day, these are _opinions,_ so yeah.

I was a big brella fan when sorella brella came out... It was so much fun until i realized that there are a lot of classes that can counter it + the fact that brella had it's DMG nerf which rlly made it's gameplay irritating... Inkjet was amazing for it but yeah... the amount of times it gets countered by a zooka or makes it very sad.. After I managed to 5 star sorella, I dropped it immediately after cuz of how frustrating it can be to be a brella (less emphasis if ur a tent). I would go back to maining it but damn... this thing makes me sad everytime I see it :')

I see more of Mint than Charcoal out there which is crazy

As a Decavitater main I am happy, because I use the Mint one. Ha.

Honestly i never saw zmini get insane hype with its kit bavk then. Its had ots moments, but i think it just gets outshined by jr and now the mint splatana (i cant remember the full name)

Cellstring is the biggest flop of the bow class. Reef deco was recently buffed to be decent but it still has curse of slider. Gus trust me this is coming from a bow main

I think vanilla E liter could be an honorable mention I personally haven’t seen much play or discussion from it since the beginning of s3

I was in a Gus video. The match at 0.42 made one of my team mates rage quit

#1 sorella undercover brella (I 5⃣ stared it)

I’ve been playing decav for a while now and I wouldn’t say it’s anywhere near being bad. yeah, I think it was a little overhyped, but definitely not a “flop”.

I would wanna see an underrated one but I think #1 is gonna be pencil, that shit STILL defines the meta

the sub weapon does really hurt light tetra. it didn't need something super broken to work, but sprinkler is quite possibly the worst sub for tetra, since it's destroyed when the player is splatted. It is absolutely the sprinkler that ruins this kit, and I'd honestly argue that it would've been insane even in cooler meta if it had something like Fizzy bomb Zipcaster. Now, because of how strong Zip is rn, I'd argue that light tetra is currently the better tetra kit

It's kinda sad to see Light Tetra not pop off. It's so much fun and it's truly just in the wrong game. I like to argue that even a good chunk of the mid tier kits in S3 would be meta in any game aside from Splatoon 3 (okay that's an exaggeration but at least for Splatoon 2 as example)

i thought this was going to be about teams-

The biggest WHAT?

Wiper deco was another overhyped weapon. S2 did a number on people.

This is only a me thing but my personal biggest flop weapon was the sorella undercover... Like, I dont hate the kit but it just feels odd compared to splat 2's splat bomb + baller :( I dreamed of splat bomb + inkstorm/booyah bomb since day 1 so that can also be a reason?

A blast would be good if long range mode had a faster firing rate or either a larger blast radius. But as it stands it’s just terrible

Tbh i dis agree with part of your tetras take if it had a bomb or even just autobomb we would never see the vanilla kit unless you wabted to run some splash zones cheese

The saddest part of this list, is the fact most of these weapons are victims of the kit system. Nintendo will over tune weapons with bad kit synergy and will either nerf or neglect weapons that finally get a good kit. The current kit system often gets exploited by Nintendo as a way of "balancing" main weapons rather than an opportunity to explore different playstyles that play to the weapon's strengths. A good kit is merely the bare minimum, the main weapon has to be good and everything around it has to go in its favour. 3rd should've been the focus, and made part of the main update cycle in the first place imo. They shouldn't just be content extensions. As for my personal flop, that would go to the neo sploosh, as a long time sploosh fan, my worst fears for this weapon were realised and my disappointment remains immeasurable, this neo variant did nothing but reinforce all the stereotypes people had with the sploosh, being a braindead casual weapon that has no place in the meta. And in a game where shooter privilege is a thing, the sorry state of Sploosh is unacceptable. And seeing that were never getting Sploosh 7 let alone third kits, Sploosh will continue to remain at the rock bottom of every competitive players' tier list and a joke for all the wrong reasons. If anyone is wondering why I was an advocate for custom kits, this is basically why. I was basically for custom kits as early as Splatoon 2 after all the content updates. Sploosh was very lucky to get the 7 variant twice, but as anyone would say about luck, it eventually runs out, and that pretty much applies with this weapon.

Bro's turning into prochara

a least all these weapons ended up being pretty fun, except ziny in my opinion, ziny in 3 is kinda sad honestly.

wait arnt both tent kits meta?

I remember when splatana wiper deco got revealed and everyone thought it was going to be a missile spammer and ruin the game, nowadays I barely see anyone play it

Do success

wait how can you say that s blast suck? do you really mean it? i think its the third best blaster after costume range and rapid deco

DECAVITATER IS NOT A FLOP 😡

In ,y opinion i see a lot of these weapons, but that might just be cuz I’m S+0?

Am i the only one confusedd not to see wiper deco