u/Defiant-Meeting-4001

I LOVE ALL OF THEIR MODELS, just in my opinion, some are a little worse than others!!

Honorable mentions:

Callie’s pink star outfit in splatoon 2

shivers splatoween fit

frye‘s summerfest fit

pearl in octo expansion

Only talking about their regular idol designs.

Ranked on visual appeal not lore relevancy!! by visual appeal i mean cohesive design, strong color palettes, and nice outfits.

also this is just my opinion!

not to be a hater, but i don't really understand the point of him at all. i like that he's calm between frye and shivers personality’s but other than that he's a pretty flat character (hilarious).

also, why doesnt he wear clothes in a game thats so fashion focused? why didnt they make him any other aquatic species that could properly wear clothes? i know he kinda dresses up in splatfests, and he wears a harness in raiders, but honestly those barely count as clothes and are rarely seen. also the thing on his head is weird and doesn’t make sense, i know its supposed to imitate fins on manta rays but first of all it looks nothing like cephalic fins (partially because its orange) and second of all its touching his eyes and looks super awkward and uncomfortable.

the idols are always somewhat music focused too, so whats the point of big man? he kinda grumbles and makes weird noises in the background of deep cut’s songs but he adds basically nothing to the music. He also looks super awkward dancing because of his lack of limbs. it would've been cool if they made him like a crab that could clap his claws and add percussion, or maybe like a turtle that could chirp or something.

splatoon is also so combat focused so why choose a manta ray?? not to be annoying, but he doesn't even have thumbs, a pincer, hands or any barely understandable way to pick up a weapon and use it, Let alone a SLOSHER with a HANDLE. I know the salmonids have fins and weapons, but their fins are thinner and flimsier and im assuming they did develop muscles inside their actual fins, because of how theyre animated carrying weapons. big mans fins are way too big to reasonably do that. theres a lot of different sea creatures that have appendages that could have creatively been used as an idol, but instead we have big man just awkwardly using floating weapons touching one side of his fins. hes also a huge target on the battlefield, just saying.

basically music, fashion, and combat are all important parts of splatoon, so why choose this guy as an idol when he’s bad at all of them?

also his feet look stupid

sorry for ranting and my lack of grammar im just pissed

EDIT: forgot to mention that i do think his design is visibly appealing shape-wise and kinda cute but i think nintendo totally could‘ve designed an equally cute, visibally appealing character, that made sense as a splatoon idol.