What's The BEST And WORST Special Design In Splatoon? 

I was too generous nvm, Splatoon 1 is a 6.5 and Splatoon 2 is a 6. Also Echo can go a tier up I was too bias vs location stuff honestly.

Inkjet will probably go down as my personal favorite special in splatoon history. Hitting you're shots feels so satisfying and the respect you get for being one of the few people that are actually "good" with it is amazing. My only real gripe a have with the special is that, sometimes, using inkjet feels like trying to strike an ant with a tiny peeble.

I have very fond memories of maining aerospray and spamming inkstrike into the enemy base. My 11 y/o self did not have any decency or chill, whatsoever

It's funny how S2's tier distribution is perfectly mirrored if you ignore bombs since they're on both games.

"if any special is to return in Splatoon 3 stamp would be my #1 pick" *monkey paw curls*

Idea to fix missiles, make it like inkstrike, you pick an area on the map from a top down perspective and any enemies in said area get missiled

a counter to baller I'd like to see is when you shoot it, it starts to fill with enemy ink slowing it down, then can explode in enemy ink if it's filled enough. the baller can still detonate at any time to stop from being taken out.

I wonder how the s3 specials will be during launch? I’m so excited to see honestly.

Stamp for S3

"It will work so well" you jinxed it for all of hs

I noticed how the devs are getting better ever since September of 2018. A lot of the Kensa Collection and Sheldon Picks kits are better than the others, the special and sub design gets better, and they even reworked lots of maps that ended in success… most of them.

Personally, I really don't like Booyah Bomb. With the range and control that it has, it shouldn't be usable as a panic button; it shouldn't have the armor. Splashdown, on the other hand, should've had similar armor so that it could've worked well as a panic button

If they do bring back splashdown for some reason I think a cool way to have more interaction would have it combo with the new squid roll/surge. If you’re moving normally it would function like it does already, but if you activate it while performing a squid roll you would launch yourself diagonally upwards in the direction you rolled at the cost of slower activation or longer air time so it isn’t complete bs.

I personally like splashdown as a special, not because it's a panic button, but I find it very useful as a dive bomb maneuver, When combined with the super jump.

look, i know inkzooka was over powered, but only three shots is a bit low imo.

Killer Wail is my favorite special of all time (perhaps because I don't use any of the small handful of weapons that have Stamp or Booyah). I can see it being a bit too powerful in its S1 iteration going forward, but I guess that's why we're getting the new Wail in S3.

Funnily enough in Splatoon 1, both Kraken and Bubbler could eat/defuse bombs by running over them so that they don't go off, but it was so niche, situational, and unreliable in the heat of the moment. So few opportunities to actually take advantage of that capability as far as I know. Granted, it's been too long I played Splatoon 1 and it may have been patched out or something, but it was there last I checked, but it was very obscure and not so helpful. Splatoon 2's another Splatoon special had this aspect too. Splashdown had that capability at least, but it was even more niche and situational due because of the startup time. And to an extent Booyah Bomb has that anti-bomb capability, but that more, "No you will not toss bombs here for two seconds" than full blown bomb defusing. All in all, Ultra Stamp did Bomb Defusing best and I hope more specials can more reliably deal with bomb spam.

fizzy bomb rush would have been madlads

"A special to eat bombs" Vacuum special: Hey!

"Stamp would work out so well in Splatoon 3" Well that aged poorly...

Okay, I just thought about something. Tenta Missiles can lock on from far away, but considering it also locates from across the map, it should REALLY be able to be reduced in range by running cold blooded (bomb defence dx).

You gave me an idea to fix bubbler, bubble blower, and baller. You use bubble blower to make a shield around you. Activation slightly faster than baller. Has a lot of hp and is very big. If the opponent shoots at it, it shrinks, and if teammates shoot at it, it expands. If teammates shoot at it enough, it explodes. The user can shoot outside the bubble. If other teammates walk into the bubble, they get smaller bubbles to protect them that work the same way. When it ends, it just pops, no explosion.

How to save missiles: they do less damage the farther you are from the target.

I like the Mario Galaxy music.

I think keeping armor the same functionally, while making it only chain to teammates within a radius around you (when activated) could be good

I had an idea for splashdown where you woukd have armor scaling to your current hp= full health-100 armor health 75-99 health-50 armor health 51-74 health-25 armor points Below half gives none If you are low on health you cant panic it but if you use it well placed on full healthyou will probably live

Idea: in 3, we could get splat net 3 with a a proto type page. This would make weapons more balanced at launch. And would allow people to give opinions on how to balance the weapon or special. It's a free way to balance a game while also seeing what buffs and nerfs are more effective. If there's no way to balance it *cough* sting ray *cough* then it could be removed with a reason. I would ask want to see a trash bin behind Sheldon's shop that has these weapons to see why it didn't get in

Kinda off topic, but just recently thought of a new special idea for Splat 3: Manta Rain. Basically, a throwable deploy (like Ink Storm) and a manta ray machine spawns and flies over in the direction it was deployed, raining ink down. The difference is that the space it covers is much narrower and it moves much faster (meaning it lasts shorter, about half as much time as ink storm currently). The difference is that it deals damage twice as fast.

I remember when tenta missiles were an underrated special- good days.

Hi ProChara, the Baller is not that bad of a weapon in Splatoon 2, at least in my experience. I hope it comes back in Splatoon 3 because it's my favorite weapon and I used it a lot in online battles.

Ok, I kinda want to say baller is bad but salvageable. You can just make it shred-able, and the less HP it has, the less of a powerful explosion it has.

the best specials are the ones I like and the worst ones are the ones I don't like

yo if we don’t get splash wall, ink mine, point sensor, toxic mist/disruptor or torpedo rush in splatoon 3 the wait wasn’t worth it.

Inkstrike will always be my favorite because it’s basically just a nuke

another cool thing about stamp is how it works differently with the different weapons its on. sploosh and l3 are light weapons, so stamp swims faster with them, so swim to hammer jump is better. tent, however, is slow, so it cant do suprise swim ups as well, but it can launch shield before hand and use the shield to cover its approach.

So there is one void left with ray being well.. ray. How would you make a complex (self controlled) backline special? Cause we do ‘t really have many seeing booyah bomb and bomrushes are more midline. I’m excited for the new whail but it’s just something you throw down

Idk why but explosher with echolocator and splat bomb sounds sorta funky

honestly id love to see some sort of mix between the tenta missles and inkstrike from s1. like you shoot one very small tornado per player. it acts like a missle but when it lands it acts like a mini inkstrike. it would be a great way to change tenta missles while making it a better special imo edit: saw someone else already gave that idea, so my bad. didnt see it when i wrote the comment but yeah i didnt mean to copy anyone who also had that idea

Missiles would be great as long as it stayed in one game. I was okay with dealing with missiles in S2, but having to deal with it for another 5 years is something which I don’t know if I can handle.

I think crab tank is supposed to be kraken merged with baller and how Nintendo seems to want to design it

tbh, i miss the splat 1 specials. i want an event where we get to use splat 1 specials in their original form.

Inkjet's so hard 😭

Great video, but I don't think Bubble Blower was covered in the Invincibility Specials episode.

Despite the video stating the opposite I feel like it just further convinced me of a very unpopular opinion. Sting Ray is salvageable. In its current state its sole redeeming quality is its difficulty and beyond that it is easily the most unhealthy special in either game. That being said the main problem with it is the main problem with a lot of other specials- Infinite range is DUMB. Being able to apply pressure throughout the entire stage regardless of positioning so effortlessly is not something that should be possible. If you want Sting Ray to not be cancer take away its infinite range. If you're still worried about not being able to find a sweet spot between overwhelming long range pressure and high vulnerability give it falloff damage.

Hey chara, great video! But I have a question/comment unrelated to it, if you don't mind. If I remember correctly, the Wii U gamepad and Splatoon 1 had a lower motion input delay than the switch does. But I also just remembered that in order to play the demo, and presumably the full game, of switch sports, you need to update your joycon (I don't think there's one for pro controllers). My main point is that with this update I remember some people finding motion was being read more accurately than before. Would you be able to test this to see if it's true? And if so, who knows, it might be an interesting little video for ya. Thanks, and have a good one :)

ive always thought that splashdown should be a chase tool. imagine if it had a little longer of start up but could angled a little but (reticle showing where to thats visible by the enemy akin to tenta missle reticles but big)

“Stamp blocks shots from a specific angle” NOT ANYMORE AHHAHAhahhahha… ha

with the concept of cancelling specials i wonder if vacuum can suck up ink from things like trizooka or crab shots

A little bit irrelevant to the video but I just found your fanmade kensa and sheldon's picks weapons and I was wondering what website you used to make those

I feel like armor can be saved. It could work if the armor only went to people nearby and maybe it was a bit shorter.

this dude is making these sound much stronger than they are- is that just me-

To salvage ray they could make it like Sova's ultimate from valorant where its individual shots that go through walls and are only 1 hit

I kinda wish we could have seen a torpedo bomb rush, but at the same time glad we didn't

I actually think stamp lasts too long. This is just my opinion, but they should lower the duration a smidge. Then again, you could argue that they can end the special earlier by throwing it sooo idk?

I think i have a way to reduce special spam as a whole if it becomes meta in Splatoon 3. What if every single time you use a special, the points for special increases temporarily. Could be every single time until you kill an enemy with a main/sub weapon.

7:57 proflogamer9 really grinds my gears .

9:41 reef slider seems to be exactly this!

Whenever I see stamp in action i feel inclined to hum the hammer music from smash bros.

maybe tenta missiles could be revamped to a team special? you can tenta miscle one enemy and one teammate each. The enemy gets 5 miscles sent at them. The teammate gets some sent too plus other pluses (extr special points or ability boosts like LDE). The concept could be extremely cool but would need to be throughout carefully to not be broken.

17:20 what a fuckn play, holy shit, WP

tenta missles are my nightmare

I wonder if Booyah Bomb and Ultra Stamp will just get straight ported into Splatoon 3 seeing as they had such limited distribution in Splatoon 2?

As someone who didn’t really play through ink armor meta, what if ink armor was applied after a splashdown, to teammates caught in the radius? Make it a defensive button to deny a special and turn the tide of a fight. Would that be broken?

Dang, it's been a year already?

Inkjet was so fun on Octo expansion

Splashdown is my fave special,because i like simple specials.Its quick,is strong,and nice to use.

What if they combined inkstrike and missiles into like a tactical missile from modern warfare that you can control?

Honestly I hate stamp and whenever I use it I just want to throw it instantly so my controls will stop being an awkward clunky mess and I can see in front of me again. I guess the bomb eating thing is cool for very coordinated meta play if you're in that niche.

I know this ain't the time buuuut if I were to change the specials here what I would do. Tenta missles: instead of being like how it is I would change it as if it were area denial tool you still fire rockets (20) exept it all storms the middle and if an enemy crosses the special 5 rockets will go after them if the middle is big then there will be 2 points of rocket each point having 10 rockets. Stingray: more like the killer wail but it's small and you shoot it twice Inkjet: change the rocket into a minigun with a arc and after it ends instead of going back ro the original spot you the jet fails and you fall down and explodes covering a small area Splashdown: smaller radius and 200 point at the least of and you use it three time ever time the radius become smaller but higher Ink armor: it's basically the same but you can use it for 10 seconds (invisibility for 3 seconds if active) and you can toggle it on and off (if you toggle it you use time let's say 3 seconds then you have 7 seconds left on it) Bomb rush: the same can't do much Ink storm: almost like the tentacle missle Fire out 3 storms to 3 locations of Choice each storm will be small and stay in place doing small damage if a player goes across it and the player that used ir has special power up it will last loner bigger radius and will have thunder that does 50 damage Baller: it stays the same but you can jump higher go faster and dash forward to insta kill enemy's however you if it breaks you die and each layer take only 2 hits to break. Bubble blower: instead pull out a revolver that shoots once (twice with two special power up) fire the the bullet to anywhere on the map and where it land 3 bubbles will pop from which are invincible and pop after 10 seconds Booyah bomb: after charging up a you can move around in the air going anywhere (if you go to close to enemy spawn the booyahs bomb team affiliation will change and instantly explode) enemy that enter the booyah bombs radius and laser will shoot them like the sting ray after the special end the player with throw the booyah bomb under them making a minor radius. Ultra stamp: tbh I would remove and put it in s3 like he said.

Sting Ray is also ridiculously hard to control and aim with

I’d love to see an inkjet Mk II in splatoon 3

I really agree with this tear list

Wonder what would happen if an Ultra Stamp fought a Zooka

Pretty sure both Tenta Missiles and an Inkjet recall icon have been spotted in Splatoon 3 trailers

I love the special design series

I wonder if chara is nervous about whether or not they changed tenta missles at all for splatoon 3 because we already saw that missles r probably in the game from screen shots and the oled trailer

And then, they broke stamp in 3. Yay.

Bomb Rush can be fixed, just make the Sub Weapon Throws not use up ink up to 10 times without being in a time limit

Hi, I have a question how do splatfests work? Like do they just come randomly or do they come on holidays or something like that?

personally i’d like if missiles was just random, you don’t know who you’re hitting, or how many you’re hitting, or where they are.

Displacement specials should require skill

inkjet from the few times ive used it has always felt underwhelming im getting rid of the weapon i had for a weapon that (imo) is worse in most cases, and now im up a little when there are things like tank and missiles, just having a little boost at the cost of subs and the weapon you're used to just feels bland

I chara

What if the Kraken had HP and you can also go in Humanoid form and stomp on your enemies

Personally i think that missiles are in the perfect design, yeah maybe it has the infinite range and many missiles and locks on to 5 people max BUT they’re not to hard to dodge aswell

I also want to see kraken again in s3.. but isn't the crab just that? I mean, the baller is s2's kraken and the crab basically pretty much is baller but it shoots. Also, for the missiles, I would allow a maximum of two lock-ons and the area circle should instead be a reticle and you hit the ZR button to lock onto the two you want to disrupt. this can still get those times where two teammates accidentally kill each other, or you can just send them towards anchors.

Hey chara i just got my account back love your vids, you deserve way more subs. Id also love to play with yous sometime.

Make the missiles destroyable?

i dont get how ink armor is overpowered, i can count how many times it helped me not die on one hand... with all my fingers having been amputated

Using both games special in a match, oddly Inkstrike would be a decent counter to Stingray as Ray's delayed movement would allow Inkstrike to land a hit Well in theory that is

Also Kranken should 100% come back, but better. Like… make it so instead you have 3x the health rather than invincibility, you do 40 damage when you jump, and you swim faster with more swim speed up in kraken compared to normal squid/octo

my favorite special is the killer wail in splatoon 1

princess wail😳

I think you were a bit hard on the very concept of sting ray. It had a good idea, and then executed it really poorly. If Sting Ray was changed to be, like, a one time sniper shot that went through cover without giving vision, it could have been balanced, rather than the extended dps beam we ended up getting.

what if tenta missiles could only target 2-3 people rather than as many people as possible

Personally, I'd prefer more powerful specials that are overpowered, but take longer to get ready. After all, if everybody has a moment to be overpowered, then it's still balanced. I'm not a super competitive player though, and I understand that having specials be too strong can lead to an unfun meta. But I feel like you could still design specials to be fun and balanced at all levels of play and still make them feel more powerful than just an big bomb.

Splashdown should have special power up increase it’s speed not size

Look I get kraken isn't a good special for like competitive and stuff. But imma be honest I remember playing splatoon 1 when I was I think 13 or 14 and I absolutely loved using it just cause it felt so cool to turn into a giant kraken to destroy enemies. I think that's something splatoon 1's specials excelled at a lot. Just pure excitement of getting enough turf to pull off something very simple and cool

Tentamissiles was good for displacing people quickly, whereas the new Killer wail isn’t as quick…. They only ruined missiles because they buffed it too much, because before the update those things were literally useless. But now when you get 4 users who use the damn special, you hate the entire game for that. Then again, not every special can be designed perfectly. Making something like inkjet, that is easy to use but difficult to master for every special, won’t make people play the game more. Something simpler like missiles, ink armour, rain, and even splashdown I guess, sort of add to that where you don’t need to spend hours and hours on the game practicing to use them effectively enough.

i like missles bcs I have skill issue and ye