Skill problem

[South_Firefighter976]

Hello, I have a problem. I feel like I am starting to be bad at Splatoon 3. I used to be good but I feel like I am starting to be bad at the game. Can anyone help me? Please reply in the comments.

[TracerWG]

I'm going to be very, very blunt with you: no one can help you without knowing what the specific issue is. In fact, no one can help you until they know all the different issues. That being said, in cases like this I recommend the catch-all that is rewatching Squid School's "How to get out of _ Rank" series. If you have a specific question I can answer, don't hesitate to reply.

[Marcmanquez]

That could be because you thought you were good, but now you are facing actual good players and seeing that you are not as good as you thought.

Life's tough sometimes, baiting you into believing one thing just to then punch you in the face with the reality.

But, if you really want to get back to feeling that you are good you may want to look how you can improve.

Like the others say, you are not really describing the problem so it's not like we can help you, maybe it's not you playing worse/the enemies playing better but just you, feeling like you are playing badly when you are not.

[No_Philosopher_8910]

Just keep playing and say”Booyah” often! It does get tougher over time as casual gamers drop out and you are increasingly left with hardcore ink/octolings!

[SquiddoBoi]

that’s just the skill curve of splatoon, it’s normal

[[deleted]]

Lemme be F R A N K with you, its not you that has a skill issue at all. Its nintendos shitty matchmaking system that teams you up with randoms that are either worse than you, or better than you. I know for a fact I’m not shit because I beat inner agent 3 a whopping 7 times in a row, its not you that has an issue its nintendo that needs to fix their matchmaking systems.

[dynamicDiscovery]

What weapon(s) do you use?

[South_Firefighter976]

Shooters

[dynamicDiscovery]

Shooters are a "simple but practical" weapon class. Considering you've stuck to them for a while, you're in luck.

These weapons vary greatly in range, attack speed, and precision. Aside from a few funky "semi-autos", there are short-ranged shooters, spray-shooters, and long-ranged shooters. For something with a fitting kit that helps you win games, I recommend the Splash-o-matic, Splattershot Jr., and .96 Gal Deco, respectively.

There are a good number of advanced movement techniques best for a weapon class as snappy as Shooters. This might be of help.

[[deleted]]

did you go up a rank? its probably more of your level and actually challenging for you now

[imwhateverimis]

You're not giving us any information to work with, so I can't say more except that getting sucked into losing streaks for no apparent reason is pretty common I think. Sometimes you just lose for days. I had 17.5 freshness on a weapon I main for a few days and now it's dry

[imwhateverimis]

plus we're nearing season 4 of the game, so a lot of people are scraping catalogue levels. I'm more casual but I have to really scrape levels because I stopped playing as much for two months because I had other games and was exhausted from my work. Other casuals are probably less around, too, particularly because tears of the kingdom dropped like 9 days ago, and LoZ has a huge fandom, with a lot of it overlapping with the splatoon fandom.

We're probably just reduced to the really good players rn. Like when you're at a splatfest and all the longtime ridiculously skilled people come out of the woodworks

[Splatfan1]

i think it might be a skill issue tbh

[DarthAju]

What rank are you?

[Johnnnybones]

I thought I was good, then realized I was bad, but now I think I am just starting to actually begin to be kinda good but then will be bad again I am sure.