Which Salmon Run Map is THE BEST? - Splatoon 3 

If no frame drops occurred whatsoever, Bay would be a lot more fun imo.

JSJ is my favorite as well but personally, i think its the easiest stage. designed well especially low tide.

My personal favourite SR map HAS to be sockeye station. I can actually MOVE about in all 3 tides without feeling overly constricted!

Pretty much exactly how I feel. It's crazy to think that Marooner's Bay and Spawning Grounds were the debut maps for salmon run in Splatoon 2, we've certainly come a long way with map design. Also what you said about spawning grounds? As much as the map can infuriate me sometimes, it's actually really fun if you get a team who knows it and knows what they're doing.

I find that Gone Fission Hydroplant is pretty good. There is quite a bit of space on the map and I like it

I had completely forgotten about smokeyard when they announced it, but now it’s one of my favorites. That map works really well for the updated salmon run mode in 3.

I think Junction is better than you give it credit for. I'm not exactly a Salmon Run expert, I have reached (gotten carried) all the way up to EVP 600 in Sockeye, got 400 in Junction and Gone Fission, Spawning Grounds and Marooner's are both at 200 and I haven't played on Smokeyard yet. However, Junction is consistently the most fun map, it has routes to get out of basket, navigating shore to splat stingers isn't riskless but if you know what you're doing it's really satisfying, low tide is a blast and I love the volatility and how good it feels to dominate the game but how everything can turn south fast and you need to multitask 30 things at once in such limited space, high tide is a bit weaker but jumping from one side to the other is still really fun, even the flyfish spots feel fair. I genuinely can't think of a negative for the map, when it gets hard it's because it's putting your skill and split decision problem-solving to test, not because it's being unfair like Marooner's Bane

not even sure I have a fav. for the main maps. I like Hydroplant, Junction and Sockeye all just as much as eachother but my actual fav was Inkblot Big Run I had the most fun with Salmon Run there ever ngl. especially Horrorboros' introduction

It's kinda funny how different the splatoon 2 maps are from the new ones in 3 (honestly it's kinda wild that none of the old maps were adjusted at all). I remember back in splatoon 2, salmon run (and also just the game as a whole) was much easier, and so as new maps came out they were kinda meant to be where the challenge of salmon run comes from. Stuff like the grates, the long peirs, the elevator and moving platforms were all meant to act as an added challenge to spice up normal gameplay that would otherwise be mindlessly easy at what was the highest difficulty at the time. But then in 3 salmon run as a whole got much harder, and the new maps are explicitly designed to help players rather than hinder them (open space on high-tide, plenty of safe high ground, a layout that confines all stingers and flyfish to one half of the map rather than surrounding players on all sides). The difference in design is honestly night and day.

Great video quality

The Bay, baby!!!

The returning splatoon 2 maps excite me for their distinct aesthetics, while the new ones from 3 are better designed. Just wish more maps balanced both

I miss ark Polaris but by far my least fav is spawning grounds ;-; (especially during high tide glowflies)

Personally, the only thing I disagree with is Marooner's being in a tier below spawning grounds. Personally, I'd move spawning grounds into Marooner's tier, leave an empty tier above them, and then have the rest of the maps. Spawning grounds is a map where, no matter where you're standing, part of your vision is inhibited unless you stand on the smallest platform ever. Sure, you have verticality that you can paint, and thats good. However that verticality always funnels new players to that top platform so they can actively see the rest of the map because you can't see half of it without physically going to that half. Then high tide renders that half of the map functionally useless and kills about 80% of salmon run freelance matches unless you're in the top 1% of players. I may personally really enjoy marooner's due to personally liking *how* the slamonids get funneled but I won't deny that it sucks. That being said, from the boat, you can see both sides of the map rather than having half of the map always cut off from your sightlines. So yeah, both deserve to be at the *bottom* with an empty tier above them, then the rest of the maps. To me, those maps are just *that* terrible. At least smokeyard is unique, paintable, and most of your sightlines are open.

Spawning Grounds & Sockeye Station are meh to me, don’t hate them, but don’t love them either. I’ll give both a 5.5/10, a passing grade. I do like Marooner’s Bay, probably because that’s the map that was always in rotation when I played Splatoon 2’s Salmon Run. I only dislike the elevators when no one inks the sides and you get trapped and die. I give this one a 6.5/10, map is a bit annoying with the wrong team. Jammin’ Salmon Junction and Salmonid Smokeyard are my two favorite maps (even though I haven’t played the latter that much). Jammin’ gets a solid 10/10 and Smokeyard gets a 8.5 or 9/10 (further playing required). I absolutely hate Gone Fission Hydroplant though. It’s a cube and therefore I always lose sight of where everything is because every corner outside of the inner square looks the same to me. This map makes me dizzy and disorients me, which is something I only like on spinny rollercoasters. 3/10, makes me wanna barf.

Not putting spawning grounds in C tier is a crime

The funny thing about sockeye is that it can only be hard when the rotation is tortuous though that could be said for all the other maps as well

The hell happend to the ship? It wasnt that bad on splatoon 2

I say junction is way better than hydro just because hydros lowtide is very bad. Its not grounds lowtide but trying to get high scores on bad spawns is insufferable. Jsj ht is definitely reminiscent of ark ht because of the side ledges and how good night waves can be on it. Hydro might have better seeking but junction has similar if not better placements. The right side is genius on how you can get to yhe statics while not having too much aggro. And you have full view of the map regardless of where you are which isnt the same for hydro since the block obscures statics on the other side.

Your list is the same as mine, except I have Jammin Salmon Junction and Hydroplant switched.

Now the question is, which is worse to play on, Mincemeat Metalworks or Marooner’s Bay Freelance?

Bay? More like Bae 😍

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Looking for new salmon run buddies 😊

Close your trap

Had to stop the video when you said one of the best maps is the lowest. Marooner’s is a great map if people would just learn how to play it.