Splatoon

Guess I should aim for Royalty then.

I managed to win a 10x battle for team salsa, but in general I'm not doing too hot. Really not a fan of the massive bottleneck in the middle of Shifty Station. It's way too easy for one team to control.

I'm now at Champion rank and I'm doing a little bit better. My wins have almost caught up to my losses. Usually, I'd be at King rank by this point in the day, but I had a hockey game to watch and errands to run today.

My internet is crapping out so I think it's time to call it quits. Managed to reach max rank which is nice. I think I've finally gotten good with the Custom Splattershot Jr. since I was consistently getting top ranks every match.

Edited by RodimusMinor on Nov 17th 2018 at 6:00:29 AM

Holy crap this splatfest was a shitshow. I usually take about an hour to get up to champion, take a break for a while, then take another hour to get up to royalty. Today it took me three and a half hours to get to royalty because my teammates were utter shit from start to finish. My final record was 16 wins out of 40 matches. I was the top scorer in about 75% of matches, and the top two in 95% of them. The hate filling my soul would make a sith lord blush.

Out of curiosity, which team did you pick? Didn't think there would be such a power difference between the two.

an apology

I'm done with my splatting for the night. I got up to King rank, after which I played some Normal mode matches. Here's my stats.

Rank: Salsa King

• Normal Mode
  • Win/Loss Record:
    • Vs. Team Guacamole: 8/8
    • Vs. Team Salsa: 1/4
    • Total: 9/12
  • Clout: 23,907

• Pro Mode
  • Salsa Power:
    • Initial: 1952.4
    • Highest: 2071.5
    • Ending: 2065.8
  • Win/Loss Record:
    • Vs. Team Guacamole: 13/9
    • Vs. Team Salsa: 6/4
    • Total: 19/13
  • Clout: 25,650

I seemed to have an easier time in Pro mode than in Normal mode. Though this run had some definite highlights (like getting a quadkill, or somehow surviving getting cornered by a Booyah Bomb), as well as some embarrassing lowlights ("Splatted by a Gusher"). I'm thinking about creating a Twitter account to post these videos to.

Finally, as I was running errands earlier today, I picked up some tortilla chips and salsa to eat even though I don't usually have salsa with my chips. While the salsa wasn't terrible, it's still not something I'd go out of my way for.

Man, I did badly today. Managed to pick up a bit towards the end, but overall ran out of time just short of maxing out.

I did have dinner at a Mexican restaurant, though.

The results are in already! It's... the complete opposite of what I expected. Salsa completely cleans house with a 3-0 victory: 57.12% popularity, 52.47% normal clout, 54% pro clout.

So all the competent people have good taste after all.

It was quite obvious. Just take a quick look into the Reddit Sub forum. You will find far more Team Guacamole players complaining about losing streaks (and severe ones) than the Salsa players. And keep in mind, there were many mirror matches on Team Salsa.

Doing my own analysis on Splatfest Run, I had 25 victories and 20 defeats. Of those 20 defeats, 14 were against Guacamole. The rest were mirror matches. Of the 25 victories I had, 22 were against Guacamole and you can figure out the rest.

I had two 10x battles, one win and one loss. Since 10x battles are worth 10 times more than regular Splatfest Battles, I had this win-lose ratio:

32-24

And 7 of those battles were Pro Battles. Out of the 7 Pro Battles, I won 6. Easily one of the best runs for me.

And here's my Octoling Boy and his stats.

Oh, and here's the final results on video.

Edited by Shadao on Nov 17th 2018 at 10:55:57 AM

I kept my nose out of this one personally. But from the matches I've seen it seemed like the Salsa players had their heads elsewhere, while Guac had the dominant hand in the matches.

See? This is what happens when I don't participate to defend my team's honor!

Guess this is one example where thorough research would have benefited me. Oh well. I hate both, so it matters little.

Couldn't play in this splatfest. Was stuck in an airport thanks to United Air's impressive BS. Though, not like it mattered. I never did pick a team. My approach to salsa and guac is the same as CGPGrey's approach to french toast and pancakes. Just replace french toast with guac and pancakes with salsa.

I now have a Twitter account to post my gaming highlights and lowlights to. Here's my page.

And here's my first batch of highlight/lowlight videos;

My first encounter with the Ultra Stamp

Note to self; watch where you're standing

Inkoming!

3 splats in about 5 seconds.

I'll just jump down to the lower level and...

Booyah!

How did I survive that?

The Jr.'s crazy ink output has spoiled me. I'm having a hard time using other guns now.

If you are looking for a weapon with similar ink output, try the Aerosprays or the Splash-o-matics. If you are running out of ink with the different weapons, try using ink recovery or ink saver main in your clothes. I would also try using the regular Splatter Shot or the Splat Dualies as their ink output is still pretty high.

Yeah I've been dabbling with the Splash-O-Matic since it come with Toxic Mist, which is helpful. But between the wide spray, nigh-infinite ink and autobombs for flanking and ambush, the unique combo of the CSJ is hard to beat, except for when I die all the time and start raging anyway.

Patch 4.3 launches on December 5th.

• Bomb Defense and Cold Blooded to be merged together into Bomb Defense DX.
• New gear ability: "Main Power Up," buff a weapon and is different for each weapon.
  • Examples:
    • Splattershot: Increases shot accuracy while jumping
    • Aerospray MG: Increases ink coverage
    • Splat Roller:Increases damage
    • Heavy Splatling: Increases fire during a burst
    • Undercover Brella: Speeds up Brella Canopy generation
    • Inkbrush:Slightly increases movement speed while inking.
• 8 new weapons
  • Ballpoint Splatling Noveau with Squid Beakon and Inkstorm
  • Nautilus 79 with Suction Bomb and Inkjet
  • Custom Explosher with Point Sensor and Baller
  • Bloblobber Deco with Sprinkler and Suction Bomb Launcher
  • And 4 additional unknown Kensa weapons.
• This will be the final update with new content, but additional content including Splatfests, balance changes, and possible stage changes will continue.

Here's what Off the Hook would sound like if they were human.

Mwahahaha I managed to get the Amiibos for Agent 8 and Off the Hook :D

I had the weirdest Splatoon 2 nightmare last night.

Orion Aurora, No Limit, and I were doing some kind of co-op Octo Expansion mission. But I was seeing things as though I was actually in the game instead of just playing it. We had to bank curling bombs off walls to hit switches. But I'd found a way to bypass that and go right up to the switch and hit it with my main. That opened up a new path by sliding a piece of railroad track into place to walk across, but then a train (I didn't recognize it while I was in the dream, but maybe it was the Deepsea Metro?) came hurtling down the track before flying off the end and dropping into the void below.

So I went up to the track and followed it to where the Metro came from, and found a strange weapon sitting there. It looked like a rounded, bent ink tank with a fat top end and a trigger on the inner curve. So I picked it up and found that it had a fire rate to rival a Grizzco weapon!

Then we were all in some store (Mako Mart, maybe? Again, I didn't recognize it as such at the time), at the checkout, with me holding the weapon. I was shocked to find out it cost $549 (yes, that's US Dollars, not whatever the Inklings call their currency). I now wondered if this busted weapon was really worth it, so I tried to bring up its info. I got a glitchy info page. Its name was shown as "WSSSSSSSSSS" or something that was probably put there by the glitch instead of its actual name, and instead of the pictures of the main, sub, and special, it had question marks. Then the game, which I was experiencing as if it were real, froze.

Then, I slowly regained consciousness. The first thing I was aware of was seeing everything through a blue haze, but I could see that I was behind a counter. The next thing I knew was that I couldn't move. Then it dawned on me; I was inside the weapon! But then, I saw Orion walking up to the counter to buy the weapon. I started screaming at him, but he didn't seem to hear me. But when he held the weapon, a look of sheer terror appeared on his face. That face was the last thing I saw before I woke up.

Well... That's something. Now I want to see an artwork based on that.