r/Saltoon

Do you guys play certain weapons mainly to WIN games or to have FUN? I want to play weapons just to have fun but I can’t carry my team. In Solo Q in this game you pretty much HAVE to be able to carry your team in order to win games or pray to the Splat GODS that the give you non crayon eating teammates. That being said, the weapons I can carry with are BORING to play. I’ve beat most goals that I set for myself in this game so I’m thinking of trying to start playing fun instead of being so serious all the time. Any idea of how to do this or how do you guys balance this?

i'm not even that good at salmon run yet i still manage to outpreform the randoms who keep on bordering on a crew wipe

i just want evp400 or evp-600 man for the love of god can these randoms genuinely stop playing like if you gave a lobster some joycons

its either that or us missing egg quota because someone thinks its acceptable to get 4 gold eggs in the basket

Like how the fuck are you gonna get on anarchy and fucking play like you just started yesterday like get the hell off the game if you're that bad its obvious this game isnt for you and you're just terrible at it and your messing up my games

i would personally say this is the worst game in the series next to raiders bc its single player and j looks like side order pt 2 the only ups it had was the main campaign now the issues multiplayer in every mode ppl just run the same broken guns its the same game every game aka dapple dualies both aerosprays and sploosh o matic that always guarantee ur gonna lose and u stand no chance at all alongside any camping brush/roller/mint players in the game but does nintendo do anything to fix their game nope and they never fixed a 5 yr old game u cant even enjoy using other weapons and side order is a joke of a dlc compared to octo expansion. Awful unbalanced game

I've been playing dread D and hornz dread wringer to practice a support role lately. Here are some things I've noticed:

1. If I ouch ping, turn around. I ping for a reason. I played a game where I got a triple THREE times and was sharked out by the last remaining player, which was a mint decav. My teammates weren't even facing the right direction all 3 times, so we got instantly wiped out.
2. If we have map control and you are playing a blaster, roller, or some other slaying weapon, MOVE UP. You are completely useless if you're not fighting and getting the picks (or even just trade) that we need. If you want to play passively and farm specials, play bow or jet.
3. If we are winning in tower control, rainmaker, or clams, DO NOT rush in and suicide push at the last second. I don't even understand the logic behind this. Why give them overtime? Literally just camp anywhere in mid and shark out the opponents. Stop snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
4. Please stop pushing when we are at a disadvantage. There's conveniently placed information at the top of your screen that lets you see how many people are alive. If we have 2 alive and the enemy team has 4, just farm special and prepare for a counterattack. So many games end when we go two down and my last remaining teammate rushes in like a braindead salmonid, and now I'm facing 4 enemy teammates, one of which is a vblaster with aura.
5. Similarly, if the enemy team is using tristrikes, crab, and has a bubble set up on tower, do NOT rush in and die. Literally just wait a few seconds and survive, then counterattack with your own special. Why would you rush at the enemy when they have so much advantage?
6. Don't play weapons in X that you suck at. I cannot count the number of times I hit an enemy with 90 damage and my teammate still loses the fight or trades. If you're fighting sloshing machine (a weapon that takes over half a second to shoot once) with n-zap and you can't hit literally one shot out of the 12 shots you shoot per second, get off the game or switch to brush.

Edit: one more

1. If we are losing, and the match is almost over, now is the time to make a hero play. Why do you rush into 1v3s and 1v2s the whole game, but when we're losing and time is running out, you stop doing it and play insanely passively? Are we trying to lose?

Ok so I was using eliter. During this one match, there was a sploosh o matic that's sole purpose was to hunt me down. Like he wasnt even playing the objective he just wanted me dead. And sorry for not having perfect aim but he def killed me alot more than i killed him due to how close he was getting. And my teammates just werent doing shit to help me. Sploosh was rushing both of us, and my teammate with another shooter instead of helping just ran away. This happened like 4 times during the game. Like dude. Ur life is worth less than mine u can afford to die more. Help me tf out man.

Zones is quite literally the campest mode I have ever seen in all of gaming. The mode 100% revolves around camping. It's worse fucking turf war because they're not pushing up, they legit HAVE to camp in this corner of the map and when they get comfortable, retake is borderline impossible. Tell me how this shite mode is more balanced than Clams and tell me how this mode deserves to get the competitive love it does, because newsflash, it really fucking doesn't.

All the hate going towards Clam Blitz deserves to go towards this shitfest of a campy mode.

Mostly talking about the Splatoon 3 special. The Splatoon 1 version was just a ”use it at the end and you insta-win a turf war match”

This special does not feel good to use, like, at all.

On one hand, you get a special that paints fast, that caps most zones in the game, that you get three of these, and shreds every object special in the game with a single one of them. On top of that, if you get slightly grazed by it, you just explode.

On the other hand, you have slow movement, you can’t use your main or sub weapons, and you can’t go in ink form, so you’re heavily restricted in movement options and killing powerm for the most part

Did I forget that this is a GG special on three of the four ranked modes? Either it does way too much damage (Rainmaker), covers the whole platform (Tower), or paints everything (Zones). It’s a terribly designed special for the game as a whole.

It’s the opposite of Hammer, where you have multiple options on how use it, doesn’t restrict you that much in movement, and is fair on every mode. Hell, I now think that Splashdown is also well designed, because you can use it fairly (for the most part, as it’s still completely bullshit on Zones) without limiting the way you use it. There’s also a fair bit of counterplay to these two specials (Though Splashdown still have some issues)

Imo, it gets to do everything, or nothing, and I don’t like that. I hope they don’t bring it back in the next game.

Like yeah maybe the damage is strong but omfg do you have to have blatant bloom reducers or Chronus Zen to actually make it any good. I have 4 stars on it and I can't seem to understand why people hate it so much.

You can literally sink five shots onto a barely moving or not even moving at all target with the crosshair on them the whole time and the rng finds some way to count 4 shots as a miss. It's such a bullshit gambling ass weapon man and I don't understand why people hate on this instead of the actually no skill camp cheeses.

So I’m a casual X rank player, and every few matches, my teammates, sometimes disconnect from the match which obviously ruins the match and we lose every few matches like that’s retarded they did not even move tf up I started spamming this way and they did not even listen it makes me wanna rage quit and getting penalized for 10 minutes that makes me want to quit Splatoon

what the fuck is going on with these fucking snipers? I find it pathetic they try to walk in front so that they kill them so easily and in the end they don't get kills

wtf is the logic in that??????

Holy shit, I am so ass at being aware in this game. it honestly amazes me.

”Dead by Splashdown”

”Dead by reedslider”

”Dead by looking at the map for one second and then get obliterated from nowhere”

”Dead by taking two routes but that player is covering both routes so I just die.”

If I check the maps for flanks, I’m getting splashdowned or reefed. If I even stop paying attention for A SINGLE SECOND, I’m dead. I’m garbage. Don’t even know how I made it into S+. I suck. I can’t even pay attention at two things at once. I’m bad.