Nintendo Reveals Details About Rank X In Splatoon 2

Seems like an X-cellent addition for competitive players that's for sure.

Splatoon 2 is game of the decade. A free season pass that keeps on giving. Yet metascore punished this with 83? smh

Sounds good to me! I like the limited map rotation - makes it easier to play the maps well.

Current ranks:
Splat zones: S+1
Tower control: S+2
Rainmaker: S+3
Clam blitz: S+0

Will be a long and rocky road for me, but maybe I got a chance to rank up in at least one mode. definitely looking forward to the update.

arrr, almost. Splat zones had me at S+8 last time I played, gonna take some days with more splatting to see if I can nail an X-rank

@NewAdvent Yeah true, Splatoon 2 doesn't really need this... But it's still cool to see if you can nail the top 500 in the world Still gonna do ranked for fun, but being on that list would be a nice bonus haha!

I am so Xype!

I like the 8 stage monthly rotation for ranked battles. It seems like I just end up with the same stage over and over again with the 2 stage rotation. I'll never get anywhere close to X rank btw.

Turf War is the most fun to me so I‘ll stick with that. Definitely a great addition for those with a more competitive drive.

Although I've moved on from the game it's an excellent feature.

Might return to Splatoon once the expansion comes out

I don't do online so it means meh to me lol

@pullmyfinger
They aren't wrong. You can't ignore the mishaps they made with the game.

Never played or even fancied playing splatoon but looking at some recent footage and reading this article I feel I may have been missing something. Think I'm going to get it and give it a try. Is it a hard game to get in to and be competitive at?

@Kidfunkadelic83 I feel that it's not that hard to get into Splatoon. I would highly recommend doing the campaign in order to learn the mechanics of the game (aiming, inking, traversing, etc.), even if you've played other shooters before, as some of those skills take a bit to get used to, like swimming and balancing shooting and reloading. So in order to be useful to your teammates, you should have some of that working knowledge.

I can imagine trying to get through low level Turf War and low rank battles nowadays being frustrating at times, not everyone is going to be taking the game seriously at the low levels. But if you stick with it to make it to around Level 25-30 and/or Rank B+ to A then you'll notice more folks getting on board and trying to win (and the higher up you go, the better, yet harder, the games will get). And that's about when you'll start having some really great games, even in solo queue. You can also squad up with a buddy, which will allow you to utilize the infamous party chat feature if you want to coordinate on the fly. Then there's League Battles where the highest concentration of competitive people play. However, you must be part of a squad of 2 or 4 to join, no solo queueing. League Battles otherwise follow the Ranked Battle format.

I prefer solo queue Ranked because I get to see a wide array of situations and weapon distributions, and I get to try to piece together wins from non-optimal setups, which feels great, IMO. Also, the various objective-based ranked modes are more interesting to me than the standard Turf War format (which I will ONLY play during Splatfests, because there's no other choice).

But yeah, for a lot of folks I see around here, Splatoon's an addiction

Thanks for the reply. I will deffo be picking this up now and giving it a shot 🖒

I prefer to get weekly weapons, gives me something to look forward to each week.

Well I couldn't resist the temptation so I went and picked it up on my lunch break. Only problem is I've not got to get through the rest of the day when all I want to do is go home and splat stuff.

@NewAdvent I think this is bring more differentiation in the S+ ranks. I've seen a lot of complaints on /r/splatoon along the lines of in S+ everyone is all together in one big pool, so an S+50 could be matched with a much lower S+ rank who just got there, and potentially makes some matches uneven (if I understand correctly, I could be wrong). This seems to base it all in attack power rather than rank, so hopefully matchmaking might be more even.

Personally, S+0 is the highest I've gotten, and it was kind of a nightmare because there is a huge spike in difficulty between S and S+. I know I'll never make it to rank X, but if it helps better distribute the S ranks, I'm all for it.

@Xaessya My only gripe is that the game really shines when in an atmosphere where you can communicate with your teammates. (e.g., local LAN play.) Not so much online, unless playing League Battle, which is a different animal from Ranked.

This is one of those games (along with games like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe) where if you go to a party or convention, you're going to have a blast.

The only thing I dislike about this game is the ridiculous amount of grinding you need to do in order to have decent equipment and level up faster.

@Xaessya lame non reply. Troll.

@Iacobus
lan party is my favorite feature of the system and I hope they continue to work with it.

With online is horrible trying to play together with friends.

I am at rank B or B- in everything so I doubt I will make it to this strange rank

I am the filthy casual, I will stick to Salmon Run and Turf war, which are my favorite modes. I don't really care about ranks. But you guys have fun!

Well I finally got chance to play this last night and it so much fun. Got on alot better once I turned off gyro control. Just did a bit of single player, tutorial of salmon run and about 10 games of turf war. Will be better once I unlock some more gear but I can't believe I writ this one off.

Call me Mr X (yer i wish lol).

Still a little hesitant on that threshold of S+10 for rank X. I'm S+10+ in 3 of the 4 modes (I'm pretty trash at clam blitz) but less than S+20 in all and I'll often find that I go against people that just absolutely wreck me. There's still a significant difference between someone at S+16 and someone at S+50. Still I suppose it does add an additional layer of balance for those around S+0 even if that means that I'm now gonna have a harder time with a tougher crowd.