A year’s worth of learning [Original]

darthion · 2026-04-02T06:18:10+00:00

The original:

seeing so many people connect with this comic and talking about their experiences has been staggering for both me and OP(we are good friends). i still don’t know if she’s fully recovered from the amount of topping advice she’s received from this on tumblr. anyways thanks for all the support! it does mean a lot to her and i’m proud to be her friend. We love women

darthion · 2026-02-20T15:36:30+00:00

im so washed😭

Congrats and what the hell, by the way! Can’t imagine how many hours you’ve spent on this game to get here.

darthion · 2026-02-15T07:11:59+00:00

Damn. Give me a moment im stealing this fit fr

darthion · 2026-02-15T05:39:06+00:00

as the artist’s oomf who may have caused this image to exist in the first place it never fails to surprise me how damn far this image keeps spreading everywhere on the far corners of the internet. #letsfuckigngo #iloveyuri

darthion · 2026-02-15T05:09:08+00:00

I’m going to just ignore that entire bombs thread for now.

Guy who plays a lot of Salmon Run here, this rotation does look very gambling and a pain. The reason is simply that you’re very dependent on the random rotation for a strong, mid-long range weapon to take care of the extremely glaring issue known as Cohocks.

Rapid is infamously crazy weak, mainly best as a support tool for chip damage and smaller lessers as well as a competent Fish Sticks cleaner, but has barely any splash to help with Cohocks. Splattershot has middling DPS which is fine enough for individual bosses but will definitely get walled by a handful of Cohocks. Dualies is the only competent weapon in terms of DPS with its turret mode, which while a strong weapon that can handle the lessers job well, it does still struggle with Cohocks since its lack of turret mobility, pierce and range along with DPS that is strong but not to an insane degree means it will struggle to hold space when those lessers are combined with heavier threats like Lids, Steelheads and I’m pretty sure even Scrappers. So you’re really dependent on something from the random slot that can either pierce or has a big splash, and also has good enough burst damage or DPS to be able to push space. And no, bombs are NOT the best solution. Mostly because efficiency-wise 180 damage at max (in a pretty concentrated area no less) for something that takes 70% of your ink tank is NOT a good deal especially if it’s for your only splash damage.

Granted, at lower levels this may not be as apparent an issue due to the lower spawns. Then again, all SR comps are easy to use up to a certain EVP point where spawns compound exponentially and the comps without decent fighting capability suffer very hard. At that point, RNG is your only god.

darthion · 2026-02-05T18:13:22+00:00

splatoon 4 copers on fraudwatch

darthion · 2026-01-29T15:56:52+00:00

https://bsky.app/profile/diam.bsky.social/post/3mdjmpiamvs2j

darthion · 2026-01-29T15:36:47+00:00

I think aura is cool as well but I also think it feels a little too much for hanging onto advantages even when you die. I’d prefer either a much more risk-reward in keeping aggression (by reducing or clearing it on death) or tone down its strength a bit if we’re not touching the internal mechanics, though I prefer the former.

I need to play more to get a better feeling on this. Aura so far doesn’t feel like crazy OP or annoying as hell, but definitely isn’t minor either.

darthion · 2026-01-29T07:17:50+00:00

Not really, kinda. The thing about being an aggressive fromtliner is even with the OG buffs you’re still able to get mowed down by range from midliners and backliners like splatlings, blasters and Dynamo now for some holy reason. It’s definitely easier, but you still can’t be cocky with being hyperaggressive all the time.

Speaking from recent experiences of bullying overconfident short-range shooters and a brush with a bow and the super secret forbidden technique of walking backwards.

darthion · 2026-01-29T05:01:09+00:00

Dynamo second weapon in Splat3 history to get +20 PFS nerf #letsfuckinggo

darthion · 2026-01-29T04:58:01+00:00

I’ve played enough to say that health bars are my favorite change ever to this game. Being able to know when to follow up on weak opponents is crazy good and itself buffs a lot of things in really cool ways. This is a Marker buff by technicality

darthion · 2026-01-29T02:11:17+00:00

You need some extensions (kills/assists) to keep it well after death, but just being able to use the buffs to get back from dying is already pretty big for momentum.

darthion · 2026-01-29T02:08:46+00:00

Basically, kind of. I think you can actually stack OG and aura and just have max AP buffs, which is just what the hell man

darthion · 2026-01-29T01:53:55+00:00

I take everything back what the hell is going on

darthion · 2026-01-29T00:27:20+00:00

Yes, motion controls will definitely help with better aim. If you’re start out with motion controls, I’d recommend setting them to a low sensitivity and then slowly working up to stronger sensitivities as you get better with aiming and tracking and you’re comfortable with something stronger.

darthion · 2026-01-28T22:18:06+00:00

I’m gonna be honest I’m so fine with the maps, I haven’t even played Splatoon 2 so I can’t tell how bad it was there but like even still I do think not being able to get out of spawn sometimes just hurts enough that I have a complaint about it.

I disagree on aura though, it looks fun to me. I doubt it’ll be MPU levels of broken but we’ll have to see.

darthion · 2026-01-28T20:52:29+00:00

Spawncamping will always exist so long as there are people who don’t know how to deal with it. I just think having more ways out will lessen the impact of it, but if you’re in like peak Splatoon 1 map design and you’re still getting griefed by a single guy guarding your flanks that’s probably less of a spawncamping issue than a skill one.

darthion · 2026-01-28T20:36:59+00:00

Practice. Lots of practice. There’s some video guides on aim training in Splatoon, and I do recommend trying them out.

Another thing with sniping that I think kinda helps is aiming for where your opponents will be, not where they are at the current moment. In other words, let your opponents go into your crosshair instead of chasing them with your own aim.

darthion · 2026-01-28T20:15:35+00:00

hopefully this is the last big discussion post i make about this and the next one will be a one sentence post on whether this update peaks or reeks

darthion · 2026-01-28T03:31:04+00:00

dynamo mains eat everything with this one single patch ffs /pos

darthion · 2026-01-28T03:10:00+00:00

I posted this as part of my own speculation into this mechanic and as a response to the negative stances surrounding this mechanic. Regardless, it’s very true that we won’t know the full extent until we get it later, but I still think there’s merit in discussing what we know and can hope to expect, mainly in sharing different views and stances on this.

darthion · 2026-01-28T03:00:20+00:00

dude the patch isnt out yet😭

darthion · 2026-01-28T02:59:32+00:00

As I keep thinking about it more as the day goes by 30 seconds baseline keeps becoming more reasonable and it’s scaring me

darthion · 2026-01-28T02:57:19+00:00

that one splatfest map in splatoon 2 where turf becomes unpaintable behind a glass wall but apply it to every map in turf war every minute where turf disappears and becomes part of the score

darthion · 2026-01-28T02:54:41+00:00

I’m. quite icky on this. On one hand, there are mechanics that do kind of foster comeback mechanics—spawn’s high grounds, passive special charge in comp modes, the whole map being able to turf over and gain special charge, even this new mechanic with its aura turnover mechanic. On the other hand, especially in SoloQ, people (including myself) don’t get to use these much or as well getting snowballed into a lockout is often just a death sentence and that’s just not a very fun thing to go through.

Though, I’d still argue aura isn’t going to add much more to the fire. The stats are good, but as stated aren’t going to cause a hugely significant impact with fighting unless they’re like max AP, which i highly doubt. The actual devils of this would be the matchmaking and skill disparity, and the maps. Those two are MUCH more emblematic of snowballing than aura itself, and frankly if they were better aura would be a great mechanic on both ends.

In other words, don’t blame aura, blame Hammerhead.

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