The Harsh Reality Of Splatoon 3 Top 500 Rank 

Legends say he’s still looking for one more game

this happened to me for the first time yesterday where I couldn’t find a game. I felt so proud of myself, I have been a splatoon player for half a year and being so good that i couldn’t find people to play with felt like such a win 💪

idk what’s further back my skill compared to his or his hairline 💀 (joke)

Having the bragging rights of being a Top 500 comes with a great cost

If they want to maintain the division system, a solution they should implement is to add a prompt to temporarily access the other division if the game has spent a certain amount of time failing to find a match

Uhh, yeah, this is totally why I choose to stay low rank, not cause im bad or anything. Yeah, I just don't like waiting too long for matches.

The worst part is the "please try again" thing, like, why don't they just keep you in queue instead of having you continually spam the a button to rejoin

Tbh I wouldn’t be surprised if dude reached top 10 at one point 😭 love ur content, dude! 🫶

I'm only top 3000 so I haven't had this issue, but I've heard at higher powers it becomes impossible to find games, ttek division is a ghost town compared to JP I think 💀

13:32 There I am, Gary, there I am! I was Forima, it was fun bumping into you, DUDE. I've been also using the Splatling Deco and it's been working like a charm for Rainmaker :0

I've never been in top 500 nor am I British so I wouldn't know🤷

Dude is so skillful with basically every weapon. I don't know how he does it.

Splatoon 2 X rank: No points?! Splatoon 3 X rank: No players?!

My experience in X is mostly very very grindy cause I only get +10 s 😭

I love Splatoon, but I wish we could play the ranked modes without being ranked. Idk, just knowing each loss matters more really makes anarchy just too stressfull for me to enjoy.

There's so many days where I just completely suck at the game and some days where I feel like a god, so my gameplay is not consistant enough to ever feel the pains of a top 500 player

I'm surprised to hear people downplay X battle achievements. Like, man, the sheer endurance of just *finding a match* seems to be the real challenge here. It takes fortitude.

DUDE is the most competitive casual player in Splatoon

i’ve been top 80 in rainmaker and after that point i practically spent the entire rotation looking for just 1 game, haha

problem with Splatoon 3 is that it had so much hype when it first started only to make people utterly hate the gmae due to its match making system now there is so many modes and the players keep leaving so.

Was in top 3000 when X first dropped and yeah, can confirm that things were a little weird even back then, and it’s only gotten more so with each season To the point where I’m almost convinced that, if you wanna see the game absolutely shatter, go to X matches Ya get throwers, this way spammers, dc’s aplenty, and ya break your back for pocket change points~!! Kinda lost my drive for it and only really stick with the placement matches

Its a tough time up here and dropping a single set can cost you everything not to mention how long it takes to push up thanks to long queue times (still better than splatoon 2 x rank though)

Maybe Splatoon 3 X rank's message was you may have reached the top, but now you are alone, now wait for other opposing climbers to take you down lol

Spagonia music > any other music

I have the same issue when I play. It’s a motivation killer to get all the way up to #50 in Rainmaker and then never get into a match again

Welcome to the Overwatch Top 500 experience: Splatoon 3 edition

They really say it’s lonely at the top

Tearing it up with heavy deco?

Everytime i get a good winning streak, i get the most brutal losing streak

your editing's gotten so top notch!!

This is I switched to Asia. To get matches faster.

Damn, that s even slower than finding a game in S1 now... Oh wait, you can't anymore

he got too good at splatoon 3

My experience with X Rank: I don't know it.

Rumor has it, he's still waiting to find that last game.

I cant even get to x rank im still in S :(

I’m far from being a ”good” player, my x power hovers around 1700 for all modes, but like even for me, who uses mostly melee weapons, mainly brushes and rollers, once or twice splatana wiper, and raremy duallies, each and everytime I need to try 6-7 times before I find a match (then I loose but that’s another story😂)

the Splatoon 2 matchmaking system was awful. But now the Splatoon 3 matchmaking system is so much embarrassingly worse, i wish they would revert the whole thing to the system Splatoon 2 had.

legend says hes still queueing up for that last game

Is the pro controller best controller for splatoon 3 ? Because i have 8bitdo ultimate and i think it's not the best for splatoon 3 I think i'll change the controller

What’s the music that plays at 4:27? I know it’s from Pokémon but what game? And vs who?

I don’t even know why I watched this, I’ve never played any splatoon game. I was completely lost during all the gameplay lol

Man... whats the point of playing this game, when you start getting matched against people thats seems to have aimbots installed in their hands xD...

DJ Khalid: Suffering From Success

Are you excited for the splat fest?! I chose team vanilla!!!

I’m not top anything, very far away from it lol and I can’t find a game at all. I think they broke x rank :(:(

I was gone from Splatoon 3 since chocolate splatfest, good to see that Rank X is back

Anyone know what song was used for the outro? Its sounds so familiar but i can't remember what it is lmao

I lost all of my clams placements and cot cursed to 1300 x power so I guess I can’t play x clams

this is literally what happened to me last night 💔

Really good video. I enjoyed watching it.

Why does he make this look like a piece of cake bro I can't even get past A+💀

Bro updates the leaderboard in every match

On a 3-1 you made +67 on a 3-1 i made a +20 i don't know why

Not enough players. Please try again!

If you don’t finish a series in x rank and the season ends does it still take your current power or will it apply the power changes of the matches in the series? Asking to see if I lose 2 times but I have a high power so I know if I should play another match cause it’s going to change anyway or just leave it at that and don’t play anymore.

What is your main weapon

12:15 hes slowly losing his sanity lol

Everyone is scared of blud 💀

What splatfest team are you on Dude?

My experience with x rank? Im not in it yet 😁

I would like an in the mind with pencil

‘And now we got the balls’

Seeing that thatsrb2dude can not find a match base on his placement is a good thing as it shows that the match making is heavily superior to what ever Splatoon match making is. That is a step in the right direction, no?

It's lonely at the top.

It's lonely at the top

I'm rank 23 in tower control right now and it took me an hour to find 2 games.

It’s the reality of skill based matchmaking. It’s either this or be paired to hyper-carry people who don’t know how to play the game. Anyone that played Pokémon Unite, would understand. (Scenario exaggerated for effect but you’d be very much surprised.)

The rank X division created the worst scenarios and expanded the problem many people faced already in Splatoon 2 The more players closer to each other the less likely are they to find both matches and climb the power ladder. When everyone was "suggesting": -less people in Rank X, get those "timmies" out of X -A rank above X for only 2400, only 2400 are good players Well welcome to rank X in Splatoon 3. But at least the greatest thing above all, We dont take heavy losses for losing 1 singular match. The match making, if it only relied on the players that you are close by, can not exist outside of Japan. When playing Splatoon 1 in 2018 and 2019 my matches were composed 99% of the time of Japanese players, and i live on the complete opposite of the country (that was even a gig during the Olympics, Japan Brazil) The active japan base player always passed us in anyway keeping them apart was a double edge sword. I have no clue to what to do to fix this entirely with what we have. All i know rank X is a anxiety cause if you want those badges.

This happens to me as well Right now I’m currently 2600xp in Tower control and I couldn’t even finish a series the whole 2 hours I was in waiting I even streamed yesterday x rank in rainmaker where I’m 2500xp and only found 1 game the whole 2 hours I was waiting😭

I had this same issue. I’m top 500 and i couldn’t find a game for like 10 minutes and when I did it would always be laggy somewhat. Im connected to ethernet btw

Dude is bald!

I think I may have the opposite problem. "we are having a hard time finding other X ranks that suck as much as you. try again!"

Well lucky to have s+ rank anarchy and series bcuz i will be just happy if i ever reach Top 500 x rank so that i have just achieved it, the accomplishment is what you want so if its hard to match then just switch to anarchy to have fun and train, but they should make it better.

4:20 it‘s me :O

Meanwhile my a$$ playing X-Rank in the Top 500 at 3:00 AM trying to find a match:

Promo-SM 😀

X Ranked The first or second match of the day always goes wrong for some reason like when I wake up and eat breakfast settle down and play Splatoon the first match always goes wrong for some reason getting spawn camped , getting chased , some dude hiding on the other side of the map waiting to throw a clam in our basket stuff like that

it’s like once u get to 2500 it’s hard to find players

omg i was there for that stream i loved watching my favorite splatoon guy play one of my favorite weapons

"And now we've got the balls" - DUDE 2023

I'm not even a consistent top 1000 player and i keep going against top 500 💀

Damn imagine being good enough at splatoon to make it to top 500🥹

Nicer

The harsh reality of being too good at the game to have anyone to play with loooool

cool video !! Who many stars do you have on this weapon ?

Legend has it DUDE is still searching for a game to this day

_Legends say Dude is still waiting to find his last game..._

This is what waiting for a match does to a man at 12:15

I’m having the same issue at bottom 500

They say that those on top are also the loneliest

imagine being able to stay in X rank :(

For real, I got to top50 and suddenly was having to wait 30 minutes for 1 game… it would say not enough players like 5-8 times before it found a match. Hella annoying.

Question: what weapon do you main? I see you use a lot of weapons but I don’t really see you use one weapon over every other weapon.

Even now i feel like lower Xpower match making is not the best, the match ups are never the best, in the range of 1900-2200 some teams are just immediately obviously better than the other team or vise verso or its a stale mate the entire game

I’m glad I play other games like SF6 instead of dedicating my life to only one game.

Y’all will never admit the whole game is awful and almost everything needs a rework

Why do you want to rank up, if you can not play the game after that anymor?😆