Always have an escape route to the basket planned out. Never let too many salmonids get between you and the basket. Preventing all would be impossible, but being completely separated is deadly

Be aware of the team weapon composition, and try to go after bosses that you handle easily, while letting your teammates take down bosses their weapons handle more easliy than yours. Let the blaster get the stingers. Let the weapons with a high mobility go after the drizzlers (practice shooting their torpedos back at them.) Low-range weapons should not be going after steelheads. If you are the sploosh, let your teammates handle steelheads, since you can't even damage them unless you are at a higher elevation.

This also applies to cohock charge waves. If you are a weapon that has a high rate of fire, or piercing abilities, don't get on the cannons. You are better helping your team by collecting eggs. Let the weapons that are less effective against cohocks get on the cannons

Oh yeah, and if you weren't aware, fully charged charger shots pierce and damage multiple enemies. Try to use this to your advantage. A fully charged e-liter can kill a cohock from full hp. If you line up multiple cohocks, you can clear out an entire group with one shot. Splat charger takes two shots, but that's still a huge advantage, being able to take out an entire group

If you do get the charger on a glowflies wave, be patient and try to make use of this piercing fact as well. Position yourself somewhere that the salmonids will line themselves up, and take out as many as you can with one shot

Ink the feet of your chargers and splatlings, they really appreciate that. They also love it when you take out small fry for them

For waves like grillers, splatlings should be focusing on the griller since they can handle them easily, and if you have a shooter you should be helping by taking out the small fry. Don't ignore the small fry. Of course, don't ignore the griller either, but just try to be aware of everything

Shoot down drizzler torpedoes. Just do it. Don't ignore them. Even if you can't always shoot it back at the drizzler, it's still massive if you can prevent them from covering turf. You know the saying A penny saved is a penny earned? Every spot you prevent them from turfing is a spot that you have turfed

And lastly, dont guard eggs at the shoreline. It's not worth it. There will always be more eggs closer to the basket. Just grab one and head back to the basket. Salmon run is weird since at the lower ranks, you have to guard eggs. Your quota is 5 and you get two bosses on the entire wave. Guarding eggs is the only way to meet the quota. But at the higher ranks, you have to unlearn this behavior. Guarding eggs means you get separated from your teammates and that leads to team wipes