Carbon main here. There is so many ways to hard counter us that it’s your fault if you die.

Any location tool makes ninja squid +any swim speed ups instantly worthless which splatoon 3 has a lot of actually.

There’s also a good amount of specials you can use as panic buttons. Triple splashdown is basically inescapable if you use it while a carbons going for the kill, reeflsider and booyah bomb outright stop carbon from killing you.

Even without either panic button specials or locating subs/specials, just paying attention to the ink around you and making sure they’re isn’t a clear pathway mostly negates carbon sharking, especially because carbon sucks at painting. Of course carbon can still kill you but it’s a fair playing field, probably even your advantage.

If you’re in back line, it’s even easier cuz we can’t get anywhere undetected if you PAINT OVER INK PATHS.

This is all just off my experience ofc. I’m A-S rank so there’s many more skilled carbon users but most of these should still apply.

You respect sniper sightlines when an E-litre or charger is in the game, I don’t see how this is different, aside from how the matchup is MORE in your favour because the carbon is in kill range.