Triple Inkstrike: Painfully terrible | Splatoon 3 

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I don't think triple inkstrike is terrible, while yes I agree that booyah bomb is overall better, it doesn't make inkstrike worthless, it has alot of displacement ability and it's just that people treat it as a panic button which the special isn't as it makes the player an easy target, I see it as an aggressive option to back off unwanted enimes to pressure them, and the only change that might be needed is a radius buff prob

We have to make something clear: Booyah bomb is a panic button. Tri Strike is NOT a panic button. Also, booyah bomb is just a special that gets you the job just done for minimal effort, on the other hand, tri strike is a much more versatile special but you actually have to learn it. To make it more clear, booyah bomb will always work fine, but tri strike will do the job better if used correctly. Its a high effort, high reward special and that doesn't make it ''Painfully terrible'' by any means.

I think inkstrike isn’t super horrible of a special tbh, it’s better than ink vac and reefslider, but it does share a lot of the same issues those two specials have, being vulnerability. A lot of the specials that are worse in splatoon 3 at the moment tend to be very vulnerable during the special. Tri strike has this same problem, but it’s able to get around it enough by being able to end the special early. It’s still very vulnerable without being able to swim through ink though. I think the change that needs to happen to tri strike for it to get better is that it needs the ability to use swim form during the special, maybe with a speed penalty like trizooka has.

U never played vs quad inkstrike on brinewater. THERE IS NO PLACE TO RUN IF ALL USE IT AT THE SAME F-ING TIME. 😂

Tri strike is one of the best specials since the buff. This is literally incorrect, lol

they act like two legends cannot coexist

The most confusing part to me is that Booyah Bomb is already an Inkstrike rework. They put Booyah Bomb in S3, then reworked Inkstrike again for the sake of... what? Theming? Consistency? Tristrike failed because the devs tried to make s rework that's 'different to Booyah Bomb' when Booyah is already one of the most well-designed specials in the game and nailed everything that an Instrike rework should be. I suspect that the devs see Nooyah Bomb as the strongest special in the game, and their overall balance philosophy with S3 is to make the game balanced properly and get it right this time. As a result, everything is weak and disappointing, and Tristrike is a big example. It's the weaker, "better-balanced" version of Booyah Bomb that's safe to throw on a larger number of weapons without causing balance upsets.

Strikes are kinda iffy in the current environment. They are actually quite powerful in terms of area and DPS after thee 2.1 buff. That should have been useful in a crab filled meta, but due to the weapons it was on (Rapid simply wasn't ideal, Brella has an incomprehensibly unsynergetic kit, and the Vanilla slosher completely breaking its playstyle to use the strikes since it's actually too close and strikes can't keep you alive, leaving Ttek which even then struggled in a splash and machine filled meta) made strikes simply not worth using. Until NEO Splash, which even then was hard to justify because of the vanilla splash and Machine. I feel 4.0 gave strikes a real chance. Chargers were seen more often on niche maps, including Zekkofin charger on Manta, Slosher is AMAZING for the cooler buff and upon respawn with special saver allows slosher to not have to completely break its playstyle by popping it (also major machine and stamper nerfs so yay). Ttek got accuracy buff so it started being real competition to NEO Splash. Inkjet was also becoming popular and burning a special to kill a jet was worth it compared to only breaking a crab with the crab user still alive. Overall, aside from DPS, Booyah is better, but the booyah options at the moment are even worse than the strike options. That being said, I don't really want strikes to be buffed because making its traits more extreme or making those traits more reliable would leave a bad impact on other specials, notaly HP and displacement specials. And Vanilla slosher would probably be broken then.

I don’t think this special is unsalvagable, I think a simple thing is maybe just making them last maybe 15-20% longer per strike, so they can keep areas denied for longer (which is great because there's 3 of them

It's competively awful, but painful to fight against bc it can kill you in 0.5 second.

It’s absolutely insane how wrong this is now 😂😂😂