Weapon Compositions 

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8:18 i love how, in the middle of his class, he just tells us "look at this stoopid i clipped"

Little cheat sheet for this lesson: Whenever you roll out ask yourself the following 4 things: 1. Do we have at least 2 frontliners to apply offensive pressure? 2. Do we have enough paint? 3. Do we have a backliner to anchor? 4. If one or more of these are lacking, which role can my weapon fill best? If you are just learning this, don't mind the match up and mode specific weapon comp considerations Gem mentions in the second half of the video to not overwhelm yourself. Once asking these 4 questions comes naturally to you, then you can move on.

I'm a Nautilus main, so very frequently I am praying that a Charger shows up next to me, or that one _doesn't_ show up on the enemy team, because it is AGONIZING. The game loves to treat me as a backliner, and while I can _sometimes_ play that way, jumping up on the classic Hagglefish gazebo, I just don't have the range to stay up there once things get moving. Adapting is ALWAYS the goal, though! Shoutouts to the midliners who find themselves shifting playstyles every other match.

The Crab was Observed.

"Adapt your weapon role depending on rest of your comp" bold of you to assume I know what role my weapon is supposed to play in the first place -bamboozler main Very informative video btw :)

I observed the crab

I remember a game where our team was all front liners against a team with 2 back liners and 2 midliners. If we lost map control once, I was sure we'd never leave spawn again. We all recognized this and pushed aggressively for an early lead before they had a chance to set up, and ended up winning.

Honestly, if you're not interested in playing competitively, don't worry about what weapons you pick. Obviously you'll need backliners, frontliners, all that sort of stuff but if you have a fun weapon you play well, just stick with it. Even if Splash is meta, or Undercover is weak, you can still take down a Splash or Crab Tank with any "bad" weapons you play, as long as you play your cards right. Splatoon is beautiful in this sense, as everything is pretty much balanced. Although, I would recommend a very versatile weapon, or one you have different play styles for, just in case.

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I feel like some of these things are why I had a lot of success with Flingza in solo queue. It can fulfill just about any role in the game decently enough. Need an anchor? Those 40 damage chips from long range can add up for your teammates, not to mention missile support. Need a support? Vertical flick has great paint from a safe distance, and again, missiles. Need a frontline? Horizontal flick is basically a splat roller, and v-flick can poke for itself without a bomb. There have definitely been time where I looked at the team comps, saw two or three backlines on my team, and just said "well, I guess I'm being aggressive today".

Observe the crab

Dude, one of the most frustrating things with solo queue is identifying stuff like this, playing your role perfectly and then having the remainder of your team ignore the objective despite being perfectly suited for it with ample opportunity. Like having 2 splatlings and a charger on your team try to go for splats and ignore the tower while you have 3 enemy players distracted in thier spawn with a sploosh-o-matic. Hurts sometimes.

One thing I learned for playing mini splatling a lot: Don't play it on map/modes where you need a backliner. Its long-range-ish enough so the game won't put any actual backliner in your team if it doesn't have to because the lobby has like 4 of them to split between the teams. Same goes for flingza/dynamo or any mid/long range weapon that isn't a backliner.

The title sequences ever

This is why naut is best supportive weapon. It has good paint for slayers, has point sensor for backliners, has ink storm for weapons like zap or jet who 4 shots and might need it, and is a midliner that can take the role of a frontliner or backliner if needed.

I've played very aggressive Explosher more times than I can count just because of getting stuck with double backline comps. It's pretty fun!

You should make a movie length documentary on competitive splatoon

that title sequence caught me off guard fr

I play CJS every once in a while and I swear, whenever I see anything that has a longer range than me, I know I'm going to get targeted by them. Honestly, I get targeted the entire game because I do bully anyone that gets within my range. It's fun for Pete's sake! My motto for playing this game sometimes is to find a way to be as annoying as possible to the other team that doesn't get me splatted instantly. It works!

The sad thing right now when I play solo queue or ranked is that there’s no strategy; everyone just slams subs and specials and attacks anyone they see like if it’s some kind of war.

Something weird I've noticed it throwing at me a lot in solo queue lately - Double tri-slosh. ...I mean, it would be more unlikely if I wasn't using one of the two tri-sloshes when it happened, but... Not nearly as strong when it happens as it was back in early S2

Hey Gem, I just want to say thank you for releasing this video exactly yesterday. I wouldn’t have known how to carry a team of 3 Aerospray RG’s against a team of Bloblobber, Z+F, N-Zap 89’ and a REEF-Lux when was grinding for the holo Bamboozler sticker. I somehow left that game with 22 kills-

This is what makes solo que fun, it's funny having to be backliner as a dualie squelcher once in a while

I have started doing something like this recently, where I try and look at the enemy team and say who is the biggest problem going to be, but after watching this, yeah, this is a team game. You have to be aware of everyone on both teams.

Well this makes more sense in terms of comp and how to balance those out for your gameplay.

Yooo I was literally just about to ask for a video about this!!!

amazing title sequence

So example here, would a Splatana Stamper have to be more of like Midline or Anchor if there is 2 shooters and one Anchor? Not sure on the better roles for Stamper atm and I wanna relarn it from ground up.

Great video overall. I wonder wich book you where refering and what other advantage and disadvantage a comp can have.

This video made me realize I’m probably a midline. I tend to juggle between support and aggression depending on the match and opportunity.

Gosh I hate it when teams don't paint. The counter push ends up being really bad if that push with no ink support falls short and it usually does. Also the amount of times I see teammates just let a brush waltz by them in clams when I'm on a weapon too slow to backup and guard the basket is beyond frustrating. . .had it happen 3-4 times in one match recently and I just had to sit there and watch my teammates waltz off to die every time they made a power clam. (and yes, I tried to help with their solo pushes. . .it didn't end well).

One of the strangest weapon comps that worked (and it shouldn’t have) was a random comp that I had for an open splat zones time. We had 2 TriStringers (one was me), ELiter, and Dapples. We kept staying together for the whole two hours, and we made it work. The other TriStringer and I played super aggressively, following up the dapples to get assists or pick off the now heavily damaged opponents, effectively creating a wall directly between the eliter and the dapples to hold the zone. We also focused on supportive painting to keep the dapples mobile and the eliter protected. We went roughtly 20-10 over the whole two hours together because we didn’t end up with triple backline despite running three typical back line weapons. I will admit the maps that day helped a lot, hammerhead and scorch gorge. ELiter has a great snipe and positioning with Tri-Stringer is pretty easy on those maps even when the snipe is taken.

The number of weapon options is a major part of why I love this game ❤️ always something new to try! I may have done the math incorrectly so someone pls weigh in if so, but with 91 current weapons and 4 to a team, the number of possible teams comps (allowing for repeats) looks to be a whopping 3,049,501. (Crab observed)

solo q always manages to give me 3 backliners

I once had soloQ match the team as 2 exploshers and 2 splatterscopes, No can do in that situation

OBSERVE THE CRAB

Just today I had a match in wich my team comp was two hydras, a try-stringer and a tentatek. (I was one of the hydras) We lost very badly

Does a Charger count as a weapon that can’t paint well? Aka having a charger and a blaster is a bad idea?

Are all the weapon playstyles ambush, zoner, backliner, skirmisher, support and slayer? Am I missing anything out?

poor crab :(

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im tetras so i just roll around :)

Not related to the lesson but ggs for that first game! 👋

0:30 "As I suggested in the title, yes, this video does apply to solo queue" Title: Weapon Compositions What did he mean by this...

I’m looking for some teammates to experiment with I have 2k x rank points in tc and sz and I main ttec, neo splash, and custom jr. lmk if u wanna play w me

I thought crab tank went out of meta now ?

Fun little tip: *_Don't pick Splattershot Nova_* /j

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