Holy crap, sat down to the splatfest when it started (Team Marie) and I won like.....20+ matches in a row. Kept saying I would stop for the night when I lost a match, but it never happened. And they were mostly blowouts, 80%+ map inked, 10+ kos, etc. I'm pretty good but I've never seen a run like this before. Poor Team Callie lol ;-;
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Splatoon |OT4| You're a detriment to your squad
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Yeah, I fully expecting Team Callie to be crushed, but it's even larger than I would have believed. It's a bit frustrating... Usually 45/40 for me, though, and victory for Marie obtained in the last minute.
I don't know if I'm part of the problem... The festive shirt doesn't help since I always play ninja squid.
Valjean Lafitte
Banned
"Returning to the lobby because not enough players joined the battle."
Is everybody playing Pokemon Go instead?
Edit: judging by the lack of replies, I guess so. In other news, fuck Walleye Warehouse.
Is everybody playing Pokemon Go instead?
Edit: judging by the lack of replies, I guess so. In other news, fuck Walleye Warehouse.
This is my first Splatfest, and we (Team Callie) are getting our asses waxed! I sort of expected this after seeing the plethora of Team Marie posts in the lobby for the last few weeks though.
So far it's been about 30% wins, 70% losses from the games I've played. Still fun as hell!
So far it's been about 30% wins, 70% losses from the games I've played. Still fun as hell!
Valjean Lafitte
Banned
Is it just me or have all the serious Callie players finally woken up and are starting to kick Team Marie's butts? 
HawthorneKitty
Sgt. 2nd Class in the Creep Battalion, Waifu Wars
If Marie loses, I'm blaming it on you.Is it just me or have all the serious Callie players finally woken up and are starting to kick Team Marie's butts?
Valjean Lafitte
Banned
As prone as I am to being a detriment to my squad, I don't think I can blame myself this time. We were kicking ass earlier, but the more experienced Callie players seem to have finally joined the fray.
Edit: SERIOUSLY, FUCK WALLEYE
Seems so. I'm almost to champion with like 3 wins.Is it just me or have all the serious Callie players finally woken up and are starting to kick Team Marie's butts?
Jeff Vader
Member
SinCityAssassin
Member
Is it just me or have all the serious Callie players finally woken up and are starting to kick Team Marie's butts?
"Says you," I said, standing over dozens of corpses. Slosher in hand.
PreyingShark
Member
Yep.
It's not like Moray Towers, where matches are often decided the moment teams are decided, at all.
This is my first (and last) Splatfest since the Power Update and I was able to hit Callie Queen in record time. Without a single Callie on Callie battle, I suspect we are the less popular team. That saddens me, but bodes well for winning the Fest as a whole. I think I'll hop on tomorrow and try to score some wins on the stragglers too, anything that will secure Mai Waifu the ultimate victory.
PREACH!
Triforce141
Member
Oh yeah, Splatfest started early, maybe I should play the game's grind just to get something that means almost absolutely nothing.
The amount of time needed to invest / play the game for this, and for the reward you get, it's just not worth it.
Oh yeah, Splatfest started early, maybe I should play the game's grind just to get something that means almost absolutely nothing.
Magnet_Man
Member
Oh yeah, Splatfest started early, maybe I should play the game's grind just to get something that means almost absolutely nothing.
The amount of time needed to invest / play the game for this, and for the reward you get, it's just not worth it.
As opposed to the reward you get playing any other game?
It's just having some fun. The updates have made it a lot easier to max out too.
HawthorneKitty
Sgt. 2nd Class in the Creep Battalion, Waifu Wars
Have team Maries ever fought each other?
US? I've had half a dozen Callie on Callie, I'd say it's the opposite. Or maybe it's linked to level (usually, Marie teams are 20-100 higher for me).
At the beginning, I would have said that Callie teams were slaughtered here. It's getting better, but I still have the opposite feeling. Well...
I'm awful at meta (I just play what I like... I'm using the carbon roller, and I haven't seen another for ages!) and since I'm lower A at best, I can't say it's obvious either. What team win on Moray towers? A couple chargers? And?
The Awesomest
Member
Well, this is a nice change of pace. I'm actually winning the majority of my matches! Let's go Marie.
Edit: maybe I spoke too soon.
Edit: maybe I spoke too soon.
You Callies with your Edited Gear are going down. Paints a very nice target on your head.
I didn't have any mirrors until I read this post, then the lobby filled to Marie's lol
I didn't have any mirrors until I read this post, then the lobby filled to Marie's lol
PreyingShark
Member
Not just chargers. The team with more range in general usually has a huge advantage, barring awful comps like 4 e-liters.
Even if you get past the center, the rest of the map is mostly highly vertical ramps. Battles will often take place on these ramps, and if the opponent knows what they're doing then, say, a Tentatek (especially with a charged zooka) or DS will almost always beat a splat roller or splooshy (everything goes if the Tentatek user sucks, though). The map being highly vertical also means that you have to deal with shit coming down from way above you while invading without having any real way to hit the person raining shit down at you.
At lower levels of play you can out-skill people but at higher levels of play the map is just dumb.
tl;dr: Tentateks are why we can't have nice things.
Yep, I hated them after the first few, but then the Power Update hit and it was actually fun. I just wasn't giving the game a break, so I was still down on them.
Turns out, I was just down on the game, this is actually pretty fun.
Yeah, I've got some stuff I'd like to roll now that I'm looking again.. Shame I'll have to resort to money for them after this ends.
Hear, hear!
The Awesomest
Member
I notice a distinct lack of chargers on both teams. My Jet Squelcher or even Berry Pro will be the rangiest weapons in the match.
Charger in every game on enemy side is my experience.
Also Team Marie is so screwed lol.
I'm in the UK. Didn't think there'd be this much regional variation on this.
Well, that's concerning.
Cruised my way from defender to royal. Splash wall and bubbler is amazing
....I was in Defender for an hour. I'm playing so bad.
Can you go super pro mode to make up for the dozen losses I've thrown into her records
Holy jeez I've lost my past nine rounds. Haven't played in like a month, and these S+'s are playing for keeps. I'm just trying to roll as a Carbon and getting my face bashed in.
I see...
That was my general feeling, indeed, but I wasn't sure I was right. As I say, I suck on the meta. It's true that I have troubles with this map on turf wars with the roller. At least, I know it well enough to surprise opponents that don't perfectly know the map. Not having ninja squid is hard, though, when furtivity is still your best weapon :/
It's nice to know I'm not alone, even if it's not nice to know someone else is having the same issue.
Junahu
Member
Small world. Now I wish I was playing better, instead of dragging everyone down into a stream of avoidable losses.
I made up for it somewhat in my second play session, and ended with a higher splatfest power than I started with.
Hey, I'm not the only carbon roller!
How do you recognize S+? From power?
Some do (I've had a 3 rollers + brush against 2 tentatek + 2 chargers match on the Towers, we managed to win 75-15...
)That being said, I think team Callie sucks as much, myself included (I'm slightly down from my initial power, so I must have more losses than wins)
Similar to the points in ranked matches, except that there's no levels.
This allows the game to make matches based on estimated skill...
It's used in the leaderboards posted to tumblr, and matchmaking I think.
Huge huge huge shoutouts to ariel, Carolyn, and BR242 for carrying my sorry butt to Queen. Talk about disheartening man... I lost like fifteen games in a row before I got in their lobby. From there it was all wins. Though most of them were Marie mirrors. At least 80% of my rounds were MarieVsMarie.