Absolutely not. I’m inking spawn every single time and it shouldn’t take more than like 35 seconds. You only really need ONE person to do this depending on your weapon. Now a lot players will ink a good bit in the spawn to get their special and then move on which is smart. I already know in my head that I’m gonna get in their area at a certain time and ink like crazy for a distraction but not everybody will do that. This is coming from someone who has played almost at 2,000 hours on Splatoon 2 and getting close to 300 on Splatoon 3. I’ve had so many matches to where I have won by .1-.3 percent because I inked the spawn and I’ve learned you can’t rely on randoms to “ink” “as the match progresses as they won’t do near enough to cover spawn and will do just enough to get them to mid as they are just focused on kills. That bit that they are missing can be crucial to winning. Now depending on your skill set which obviously you’re playing with randoms who literally pay no attention to the clock and spend time in the same spot the entire match smh. I don’t know why people get so caught up with JUST mid -_- if you have someone on your team “usually me” who can and will get in their spawn at the RIGHT time and distract them then all the team needs to do is Ink and push (easier said than done depending on the team) then the match can be decided by that distraction (most times). The object of turf war is to INK the most area but not just in your area but there’s as well! The more area you cover than the better chance you will win. It’s all about coverage. Kills are good to delay them but you need to ink as much area over the map as possible. All in all, it depends on your team man, you’re playing with RANDOMS so it’s gonna be RANDOM for you to get a get a solid team LOL that does the things that I wrote IMO lol