Get managed idiot
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Like, often Tetras will paint more than an Aerospray, the most efficient and paint-focused gun in the game. Thatās not because Tetras are better at painting. Thatās because the Aerospray dies 12 times or is stuck in base because it canāt fight for shit, while Tetras are actually able to dive enemy ink
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The most paint-focused guns are generally middling at best in ranked modes and nobody plays Turf War (hte pure āwho can paint the most groundā mode) competitively in the West. Aerospray is a meme weapon. Itās meta-defining in Turf but nobody here gives a shit
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Whatās the mode you guys are playing
Except Nintendo who seed their official tournament brackets with Turf War which ends up with wild results because nobody here practices Turf War
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Right here weāre playing Tower Control, which is you ride a tower along a set path into the enemy base. You stand on the tower it goes forward, they stand on hte tower it goes backwards. Tower rider is obviously very vulnerable to enemy fire so you gotta clear out the path ahead of the tower before you move it. This is my worst mode
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Itās like the robot thing in overwatch?
Iāve never played an Overwatch
Itās a bot you baby sit and if your team is near it, it goes towards the enemy base, while reverse if other thing happens
My weaponās strength is its mobility and having the tower moving through all your Areas makes it get boxed in, blocks rolls. Itās also a very, likeā¦ not so much positioning-dependent, but, likeā¦ you have to think a lot about where youāre pushing up to. You want to be just ahead of the tower, clearing out the perches enemies can shoot at it from and then holding them while you wait for the slow-ass tower to move forward, and my default thought process goes āam I being actively shot at? If no, hold forward some moreā which is not conducive to not overextending and wiping
Yeah that sounds about right
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If I got invested into splatoon I would probably do so much research into positioning before I even touched it lmao
Thereās a similar mode called Rainmaker where you push the objective into the enemy base, but in that case itās a special weapon carried by a player, and Iām better at that one because, like, the player chooses how fast they move. Youāre slightly slower with the Rainmaker but you can still any% speedrun by pushing all the way into the enemy base and having them follow behind. Tower you have to have TIMING
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i LOVE rainmaker
i LOVE make it rain
gholdengo is a very balanced addition to the gen 9 meta and doesnāt perpetuate a hazard stacking meta that renders the tier inhospitable without heavy duty boots
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Off topic Bookworm makes me genuinely angry at the villains
This is probably because this is the first competent villian the series has seen and itās out right horrible whay tbey are doing
If youāre frontlining the optimal positioning ends up super conditional on what the game looks like cause thereās such a wide variety of weapon types in the game that āwhere can I stand to not get shot atā is not a question with one definitive answer. Positions that are perfectly safe from a regular gun will end up very vulnerable to someone with a literal bucket of ink sloshing over walls without line of sight, or someone lobbing bombs at you, or a special that fires chip damage lasers through walls. Splatoon positioning is something you learn in your hands before your head
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Backlining is a different situation cause thereās only so many places with good sightlines you can stand. There are positioning maps out there for backliners that literally show you the exact spots to stand