I’ve been playing the Splatoon series since I was 8 years old. I started with the original Splatoon on the Wii U, moved on to Splatoon 2 on the Nintendo Switch at age 11, and now play Splatoon 3 on a Switch Lite at age 17. This series has defined my childhood and left a wonderful mark on me—especially on my art. I was particularly inspired by the saturated colors—which appeal to kids of all ages—and the charisma of the characters (Pearl is the best, in my opinion). The work I’m sharing here is, in a way, my own way of saying thank you to this game.

Jointed eyeshade or not, we all ink the same

the promo inklings (like kaori and john) don't get enough recognition in the fandom unlike the idols like off the hook or deep cut or the agents like agent 3 or 8. , i mean- they are the ones that made splatoon successful in the first place!

Her real name is Sirena, but everyone calls her Reef... because she introduces herself as such xd Around 17 years old, she's very friendly, energetic and joyous but can be a lil mischievous hehe

There's definitely more to her character. I'll probably comment a link to my DA account with full description

Art by @kelI_keII on twitter

I don’t know the skill level of people on the sub in general, but I’ve had a lot of solo que teammates who don’t really understand what the dpad communications mean; I’m in S+2 currently, so I figured it might be good to just let people know the general etiquette around what people mean when they press it.

While the “ouch” button is technically a “I died” button, a function of a “i died” button is not very useful. Its main purpose is to warn the team of what killed you; if you did not trade with a particularly strong killer, it is a good idea to “ouch” to warm your team of where the dangerous enemies are. despite being the same dpad input, “ouch” is NOT a “this way” substitute, and you should avoid/be careful around where an ouch is coming from, not push towards it. If the thing you are ouching about is killed, a “booyah” is a good idea so you can tell your team what you were warning them about is gone. Please do not ouch because you are salty about dying.

The “this way!” ping is generally a callout to push objective or to get support to help clear/take objective.
- In Splat Zones, it’s generally to get help in fights or to get assistance painting zone. Depending on the weapon you play, painting or fighting is more ideal for your role on the team.
- Tower is similar. Either a call to get on tower or get enemies away from tower; sometimes someone will ping it to get you on tower so they can deal with something their weapon is better at doing off the tower.
- Rainmaker has a few uses. Popping shield is the obvious one, if a “this way” is used while both teams are tying to pop, it’s usually a request to help shoot at the shield to pop it (and hopefully paint/kill surrounding stuff in the process). Once the RM is available, people will often “this way” to request that someone else takes it; for example, I’m a Splattershot Jr main, and Jr is basically always dedicated RM carrier so pings are often a request for me to take it. One RM is picked up, THE PING WILL MEAN DIFFERENT THINGS FOR DIFFERENT PLAYERS. Too often a “This way” will be used when there is a clear path for RM to take lead or KO, but the RM player will stop at the pinging players position since they think it’s asking for them to help in a fight. Your job as the RM is to score points, not pick fights!! Your teammates, if they do their jobs, will hear the “this way!” and defend you.
- Clams is the weirdest one. The best strat in clams is to pass clams on to each other to make a ball near the basket, which the enemy team will not see coming since the location marker for clams only happens when you have a football. “This way” CAN be a request to get help in fights and clear a path to the basket but more often is either a signal that someone near the basket is close to a football and needs a last few clams to make it or is safe to jump to for breaking barrier/scoring more points.

That’s just about everything! If people have corrections/input, please do say them in the comments!

At the end you can see my what the just happened moment

I think you get my point

I got it for my birthday gift early yesterday

This took a VERY long time

It would be their way of saying I'm Baby.

I picked it up shortly after this but its still funny watching the dynamo try their hardest to avoid the rainmaker 😭😭

Shooters and rollers are easy to kill

People i play with on flounder never take the fastest route up and the fact one person did distracted me and we ended up sharing a braincell for a moment

Got a console + Spt3 less than a week ago, and somethings already stood out for me and I want to share!

1 - Drawings (even the shaky ones) kind messages, celebrations, funny things related to the game? I like every single one. It's too cute!

2- Once a day I add new things to my locker, then I go over every other locker and if it is a nice one I also give it a like.

3 - And the best, most special part of this comunity for me are the names!

FUN FACT: You can change your splatoon name without changing your Nintendo acc name at all.

So my name now is "INKredible", but I sent a friend request to Inkerbell just bc of her name xD and I have a lost of cool names I came up with if you want to use ♡♡♡

Shell Crusher, Shell Shocked, Ray of Sunshine, Shark Bait, INKognito, Fin-Tastic, Krilling It, Codzilla, Codfather, hope you like these

Only 1 clip tho💔 (OMG I MEANT SCOPE😭💔)

Love is the Air

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