The Ultimate Salmonid Lore Compendium (Splatoon 3) 

Finally, someone else who read the employee manual :D

Salmon is lore officianado here. Wanted to point out a few things you seemed to have missed or gotten wrong. Just want to spread more knowledge about these little goobers! -Fish Sticks are directly relate to Stingers. As stated in the Employee Manuel, they are Stingers in training, working to improve their lung capacity in order to operate the powerful face-mounted laser used by Stingers. -As far as we know, all Salmonid are the same species. Instances of specific species being referenced in Salmonid names don’t exist in the original Japanese version. Steelheads are just called “Bomb” and Chinooks are just called “Salmon ‘Copter”. Maws’ color is quite strange, though I doubt their Japanese name of “Mole” has anything to do with that. -We do have some information regarding Smallfry and their transformation into Hugefry, albeit mainly in Japanese sources. According to one of the Sunken Scroll’s Japanese text, Smallfry is a “keiji”, a phenomena which refers to smallfry that are separated from their schools during Big Runs. These keiji Salmonid have notorious hungers and are capable of turning into a Hugefry, for reason unclear. This is actually a reference to a real world phenomena regarding salmon. A keiji salmon refers to a baby salmon born in Russian waters that gets mixed up during migration and end up in Japanese waters. These keiji salmon are very rare and very expensive due to supposedly having fattier meat.

it's so interesting that salmonids have their own culture and tribes

the smallfry we get in splatoon 3 basically split up from its school and found agent 3 but im sure we all knew that. what im here to explain is why smallfry turns into hugefry. smallfry is actually a rare type of salmonid called a "keiji" which has the ability to transform into hugefry. this is also why smallfry has such a huge appetite. keiji salmon are also a real thing and only 1 in 10,000 are caught, this is also what the splatoon dev team used for smallfry. keiji are usually born in russian steams but if they stray to far they might end up following a different school back to japan and thats why they're called keiji. (also smallfry gets split up from its school during a big run.)

goldies also appear during fog waves in splatoon 3, sometimes but usually only once or twice a wave

I thought I knew a lot about the Salmonids but tbh I had no idea about their extreme ideology of "Eat or be eaten", a little morbid ngl

i actually didnt think salmonids wanted to be cooked and eaten 💀

Fun fact: Calamari Inkantation is Little Buddy's favorite song! Sometimes He even sings it while in the plaza

SALMONIDS MY BELOVED SALMONIDS MY BELOVED SALMONIDS MY BELOVED 🐟🐟🐟🐟🍣🍣🍣🍣🍣🍣🍣🍣🍣🍣🍣🍣🍣🍣🍳🍳🍳🍳🍳🍳🍳🍳🍳🍳

The names of the salmon in omega - 3 hinted at the existence of multiple salmon kings as far back as splatoon 2

Im just retack thus here: I like to think king salmonids are the result of salmonids living in the splatland's harsh landscape

1:16 Grizz isn’t made of ink. He’s the last non-domestic mammal.

I don't think it's weird that only the salmon mutated since the other anthro aquatic animals we see in-universe can't even enter water, while the Salmonids literally live there, so I think it makes sense that genetic damage (or i guess enhancements in this case?) would only happen to the creatures who are always in the radioactive water

Btw this showed me a lot of new stuff about the salmonids that I dident know

ACCCIIIID!!! Thats splatoon lore of any kind. At least the official lore is.

this was a really well put together video :D i actually learned a lot of things i didnt know before :3c thank you

As someone who loves/studies marine biology and studys salmons I have an urge to write out my findings from my studies that relate to salmon run xD

I personally think that hugefry isn’t actually a type of salmonid and that he’s mutating because he’s IN SPACE

Truly amazing lore video, loved to watch stuff like this while playing salmon run

This makes me wonder if they have cities and stuff in all the polluted water! I wonder what they do when they're not doing Salmon Runs. Im also curious about their connections to the Octarian army, considering they do trading.

In the salmonid field guide in the fish stick section one of the notes states that some of them are promoted to become stingers 3:58

this was a great video and I learned so much!! thank you!!

samin...

I think that the king salmonids are the ones that hatch from golden eggs, that's why the salmonids care so much about them, but the ones that hatch from these eggs not always become Kings (as an example, there is a huge similarity with megalodontia and maws, this may prove that maws didn't have the training/life condition or are simply too young to become a king salmonid) Oh and the goldies probably do not serve any purpose to the battlefield, because they only come out during the night and most importantly, only in certain nights, when there is the fog (the goldie needs to give oxygen to the eggs she carries, and the fog is the safest enviorment given the low visibility, even other fish species do so, like the mudskipper) when there is the rush (they didn't have any training since their purpose is just laying eggs, they get lured out of the water from the glowflies) and during the sewer nights (when they just hide in the sewers, where they probably take care of their eggs, they also get defended by the lessers hidden in the sewers with them)

(you could probably could use some more SR gameplay if you have a capturecard) Another thing to note that the sunken scroll for our smallfry has a few things omitted from the japanese text. Being that sometimes in a school of 10,000 salmonids will have a rare 'rogue' smallfry that usually ends up separated from its school during a big run. As for Hugefry, irl salmons do go through metamorphosis during a salmon run and calamari inkantation is a weird song with mystical properties as we seen when agent 8 and Marina leave the octarians cause of it but otherwise, I'm not sure what exactly causes smallfry to evolve so to speak.

Thank you🙂

Wait, the Mudmouths are “lessers”? That has to be a mistake.

Yeah, the fact that lesser salmonids use pans and kitchen utensils to attack you ruined my headcannon that Inklings/Octings use ink-based weaponry because conventional weapons wouldn't affect them.

how is this both the most and least professional video i’ve ever seen

Your description of the salmonids doesn’t exclude them for being animals, we for example clasify as animals

So, how can you tell the difference between rainbow trout and salmon? Is it the green vs. orange hair! Where did you get this info?

;J D

isnt it a thing that specials are powered by excitement, so isnt it reasonable that smallfry did they same, from sonme combination of being domesticated by an inkling or perhaps its natural for salmon as well