Tacorona72
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Did this too. Thought I was going crazy lol.
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Splatoon 2 |OT2| From Smallfry to FlyFish in 5 Easy Steps!
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Did this too. Thought I was going crazy lol.
Merchandise
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How many ranked games do you guys play where you'll go what feels like 20-30 seconds as the only one on your team contesting the match? I just went through an entire inkjet special and then another five or so seconds of hand to hand combat in splat zones and no one on my team was there the entire time
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Unfortunately I just found that out the hard way, contributed to a full wipe during a frantic Goldie rush as all my team ran around in circles drawing the mobs into my ink-less squid
PS - A roller during Mothership is just cruel torture, can barely do enough damage and no one else has realised that shooting down the cargo boxes gives you eggs.
luna blaster + curling bombs are ace, especially with ninja squid
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Deleted member 125677
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I wish I could browse the gear in my inventory on the mobile app. Would make it a bit easier to decide on what gear to order from SplatNet.
Magnet_Man
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Guys! Guys! Guys!
During Griller attacks, get rid of the Smallfry! The Grillers are super easy to avoid as long as we don't have 30+ little maggots chewing our ankles. Leave the Charger and the Splattershot to the Grillers, Dynamo and Dualies kill the runts..
During Griller attacks, get rid of the Smallfry! The Grillers are super easy to avoid as long as we don't have 30+ little maggots chewing our ankles. Leave the Charger and the Splattershot to the Grillers, Dynamo and Dualies kill the runts..
D.Lo
Member
Overtime pisses me off sometimes though. Even when it's to my advantage.
In back and forth, even matches, whoever happens to be in control in any ranked mode at the time of the clock ticking over has a huge second chance the other team did not get.
Magnet_Man
Member
I just used both of my Splashdowns on a Flyfish, pods open, and it was during high tide so I was practically face to face with it--
No effect.
What do you need to do to kill them with it? If we're not going to patch the Flyfish at all, then limit how many can spawn at once. Two at the very most. With how demanding they are to deal with in terms of attention and resources, any more than two and you're letting the other bosses have free reign.
No effect.
What do you need to do to kill them with it? If we're not going to patch the Flyfish at all, then limit how many can spawn at once. Two at the very most. With how demanding they are to deal with in terms of attention and resources, any more than two and you're letting the other bosses have free reign.
Lmao that video is nuts
Yeah I've definitely been on the losing end of that. Sucks when it happens in Rainmaker the most since the yeah whoever has final possession will always have a shot. That's why when we're up and there's like less than a minute left I stall like hell if I have the rainmaker lol. On the flip side in my last rainmaker game I was on the winning end thanks to OT. It was pretty nice seeing my teammate patiently waiting for us to clear a path then once we cleared the way he breezed through for the closest to the goal win.
everyone sees the clock though so they should know when to redouble their efforts or to play safe and defensive (to lame it out, especially in rainmaker... grrr)
The one thing that weirds me out about ranked is that there's no music change for that last minute remaining so there's no sense of urgency like in turf wars. I get that they time the music and account for possible overtime but there really should be some kind of sound thing that tells everyone "YO YOU GOTTA WRAP THIS SHIT UP THE FUZZ ARE GONNA BE HERE ANY SECOND"
D.Lo
Member
I think you should be required a knockout in TC and RM if it's extra time. So you get a chance for a proper win, but not a 'sneak one point over' win which is the unfair part, if you didn't manage to gain enough ground in regular time you shouldn't get a chance to grind a non KO win in extra time.
Kind of like boxing, if you're behind in points, you have to go for a KO.
Is it possible that people can make it to B+ rank and not know how Tower Control works? I was literally the only member of my team on the tower and the only one trying to take the lead as the clock was counting down. Everyone else was camping and chasing people around, for the entire match. I've never experienced that before.
Maybe they're thinking that somebody from their team will ride the tower while they keep the enemies busy fighting them. They just so happen to think the same thing lol.
It's definitely true that good voice chat would help communication in ranked modes a ton, but still, at the end of the match you need at least 2 people on or around the tower. These players were off wandering like it was turf wars.
donkey show
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It's currently available in local play. So many damn grates. :S
zenspider
Member
Is Ninja Squid crazy popular in S+ all of a sudden, or is it just me? It doesn't seem to be slowing anyone down.
I'm finding some success with .52 and point sensors (please buff ink consumption!), but I'm basically off the objective and hunting players - 2 or 3 is unmanagable.
Is a "meta" taking shape? Because I know I have to play an anti-ninja flanker (sploosh, tri-slosher, brush, splat w/burst) with high ink cost subs (sensors, disruptors) or situations gear perks (haunt, thermal ink) to deal with it.
Once the nerf happened in S1, you rarely saw anyone running Ninja Squid. I don't know if we still have the scientists breaking down the speed reduction, but I'm wondering if it's enough.
I'm finding some success with .52 and point sensors (please buff ink consumption!), but I'm basically off the objective and hunting players - 2 or 3 is unmanagable.
Is a "meta" taking shape? Because I know I have to play an anti-ninja flanker (sploosh, tri-slosher, brush, splat w/burst) with high ink cost subs (sensors, disruptors) or situations gear perks (haunt, thermal ink) to deal with it.
Once the nerf happened in S1, you rarely saw anyone running Ninja Squid. I don't know if we still have the scientists breaking down the speed reduction, but I'm wondering if it's enough.
waterproofjesus
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It ain't just S+, because I've definitely been noticing more and more Ninja Squid users who have clearly formed a playstyle around the ability - rather than just people perhaps new to the game thinking the ability seems cool without having actually integrated it into their actual approach overal.
Been noticing a lot of Brush, Tri-Slosher and Luna users skating around with Ninja + usually a bunch of swim speed and ink resistance, and they're usually running offense in TC and RM, disrupting our front line/defensive positions.
Kinda reminds me of how I used to play when I mained the Sploosh in Splatoon 1; sneaking my way to an advantageous spot behind enemy lines, dropping a bunch of Beacons and then throwing myself at the enemy with enough unpredictability to reduce the overall friction for my team's push.
tonyh24613
Member
Maybe it's my unlucky day, just naturally grind 19 sub slots but only 1 of them is the brand ability. No drink.
PadWarrior
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I've always used ninja squid for my short to mid range shooters even with the nerf. Here's my current build
I use this with tentatek splat dualies and nzap.
This is extremely real sadly. I went down a rank due to a couple bad teams and a game I played very poorly in.
It only gets worse the lower you go.Argh, last time I was playing Salmon Run we needed one egg with none to be seen except with someone that had died. I inked them, only watch them throw themselves off the bow of the ship near the egg basket with 2 seconds to go instead of depositing it.
AlexFlame116
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Out of the hospital and into Splatoon 2 again after such a long time of not playing! Need to catch up for the Splatfest!
Because they implemented ping based matchmaking, which effectively split Japan players and Western players up. With this, the skill gap in our S+ compared to theirs is, sadly, large.
Yep. Against players who aren't that good at keeping track of you, Ninja Squid will save your life more times than you can count. Juking enemies and getting easy kills is so fun with it. Can't tell you how many times I've won a fight by pretending to run away, getting the enemy to lose track, then turning around and blasting them.
Smiles and Cries
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The à¹ÛBronx
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Ninja Squid for me if I'm going in ranked. Such a useful ability. Sucks you don't have it for Splatfests though.
The ๖ۜBronx;246875954 said:
I wish Splatfests would alternate between forcing certain headgear and shoes on you instead of just shirts. It sucks to always lose cool abilities that you can only get on shirts, like Ninja Squid.
I'm not sure how that'd work, but I like to think the devs are smart enough to come up with something.
HackTheSlash
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Hell, im a roller main and i use Ninja. An evil smile comes over my face at just the mere thought of me jumping out of the ink point blank with a vertical flick (which pretty much guarantees death at close range). I can only imagine the look of terror the other player has on the other end.
RecRoulette
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-Lost Outpost in Salmon Run Saturday night
-Manta Maria probably in the rotation all weekend
-Splatfest voting starts (aka ability chunk farming).
Going to be busy with Splatoon most of this weekend.
-Manta Maria probably in the rotation all weekend
-Splatfest voting starts (aka ability chunk farming).
Going to be busy with Splatoon most of this weekend.
HackTheSlash
Member
Yeah! Im trying to cap off Uncharted Lost Legacy by tomorrow so i can jump back in! There is not enough time in the day
tonyh24613
Member
Callie and Marie gave some special names to special weapons if you use them at the end of match, so I try to find if there's some from Off the Hook.
In S1
Use Inkstrike at the end: Final Crystal Dust(ファイナルクリスタルダスト
Share Barrier at the end with everyone: Eternal Phalanx Omega(エターナルファランクスΩ
Use Bomb Rush at the end: Infinite Tears of Heaven(ティアーズオブヘブン∞
S2
Use TentaMissiles at the end: Happy Ending Twinkle Star?
In S1
Use Inkstrike at the end: Final Crystal Dust(ファイナルクリスタルダスト
Share Barrier at the end with everyone: Eternal Phalanx Omega(エターナルファランクスΩ
Use Bomb Rush at the end: Infinite Tears of Heaven(ティアーズオブヘブン∞
S2
Use TentaMissiles at the end: Happy Ending Twinkle Star?
Wait a second, Splat Charger is stuck with the stingray, but a variant gets a suction rush? What kind of bullshit is this?
Most of these were in the US version were slightly different names.Callie and Marie gave some special names to special weapons if you use them at the end of match, so I try to find if there's some from Off the Hook.
In S1
Use Inkstrike at the end: Final Crystal Dust(ファイナルクリスタルダスト
Share Barrier at the end with everyone: Eternal Phalanx Omega(エターナルファランクスΩ
Use Bomb Rush at the end: Infinite Tears of Heaven(ティアーズオブヘブン∞
S2
Use TentaMissiles at the end: Happy Ending Twinkle Star?
Man you pulled a lucky straw on the first game, the team colors in both of my Grayscale games were dark gray versus slightly less dark gray -- on Starfish Mainstage, where the floor was sort of in-between the two grays. 😂
"Nuts" is the proper term for it!
Outside of the game, the plaza certainly looks nice. So even if one doesn't want to play with grayscale, y'all should still check out the option there!
On a different note, last night I gave the Dynamo a shot in Ranked. I was +18 in Splat Zones, I figured, "hey, why not, even though it's garbage I have a buffer." Lost every game with it and my tank cracked. It dropped me to S+0. Whether it was a glitch or that's just how it works, I don't know. It was enough to have me putting the game off (sans Salmon Run with VC) for a few days. I'm still bummed out about it, that was a whole month's worth of play lost because I didn't know how the + system really worked.
What I'm really posting the above to say is, don't experiment in things with Ranked if you don't want to lose progress. Lots. Of progress. ;-;