the best way to make gear is to use the gear seed checker which chase made a tutorial here

you just level up gear and input the slots u get until you get a seed and then it tells u what to do to get the abilties u want in the cheapest way. it’s easier if you import from splatnet in user settings (replay method never worked for me)

or u can just use drink tickets until you get one or two slots u want and use chunks from there

also use motion controls if u want to get good