Topic: Splatoon 2

Trying to get the rest of my sub's special up. you guys got any tips other than splatfest tee grinding?

Also ive been in quite a few 3v4 really annoying. :/

@607jf If you're grinding for a specific ability, be sure to use gear with the right brand, and of course drink tickets if you have them (they can be randomly obtained from Salmon Run). Unless you're using the Splatfest Tee, the third ability slot on a piece of gear takes as much experience to unlock as the first two combined, so it's more efficient to scrub after filling only two slots if you can spare the cash.

@607jf Yeah, Drink Tickets are definitely the way to go! I used to largely ignore Salmon Run when I first started playing the game but, since I've got my 'Pay Grade' up, the rewards roll in pretty quickly - and the Drink Tickets seem to make grinding for Chunks (and targeting specific Abilities) so, so, so much easier! ..and - as @Zyrac said - each clothing brand also has a specific Ability that it's 5x more likely to roll (as well as one that it's far less likely to roll) so, if you're really targeting one Ability in particular, wearing the brand it rolls most commonly with will make grinding much easier

Also, it's worth baring in mind that it takes a total of 60 Ability Chunks to max-out a gear item with one specific Ability (10x for the first slot, 20x for the second, 30x for the third) ..so I often wait until I've had a 'lucky' roll before visiting Murch - eg. I'm currently working towards completely filling my 'Paisley Bandanna' (in the below pic) with the 'Ink Saver (Sub)' Ability - luckily (thanks to a Drink Ticket) I actually managed to roll 2x Ink Saver (Sub) on that piece of gear, so now only need 30 Chunks to overwrite that one Special Power Up sub and complete the set!

...it'll still take time - but only half as much time if you get a couple of lucky rolls like I did!

Thanks for the tips guys, I should reroll and try and get at least 2. I have one right now. Also forgot you can get drink tickets in salmon run.

Whaaaaaaa?! Nobody ever told me Drink Tickets would increase the probability of rolling a specific ability! Always thought they'd increase the effectiveness of an ability during matches, e.g. drink a Swim Speed Up drink and you swim even faster than usually. Good thing I largely ignored them as I viewed them as cheating. Well, then time to use the hopefully plenty Main Ink Saver, Ink Recovery Up and Swim Speed Up drinks over the second half of this year!

Edit: Alrighty then, got 9 Ink Saver Main, 5 Ink Recovery Up and 6 Swim Speed Up drink tickets! I do feel a tad dumb now for just guessing their use instead of seeing for myself.

How many adults that plays Splatoon and here if you do can I add you

I only want adults to add me so who do want to add me

@GoldenGamer88 Yeah, it only took me about 200 hours to figure that one out! ..and I just discovered this on the Wiki as well:

"All drinks increase the number of gear ability points awarded after a match. In addition, each drink slightly increases the probability that, when a gear slot is filled, it is filled with the corresponding ability."

...so they actually help you to roll the gear slots a bit faster too! - who knew?!

@NaviAndMii ... it was actually 450 hours on my part, lol! And considering I‘ve played in almost all Salmon Run periods since launch, I have known about Drink Tickets for a long time. They do kinda hide the Drinks menu in a submenu, though, so why would I feel invited to read up on them?

Btw, they just added the Octobrush Nouveau, coming with Squid Beacon and Tenta Missiles. No idea why they added it today and not Friday/Saturday like they normally do but yay!

Maybe they realized updates are trickling out too slowly and will release two weapons a week now? A man can dream.

Does anyone know if Drinks work the same with Murch re-rolls? (eg. if you have an Ink Recovery Drink, then re-roll your gear with Murch, does it give you a better chance of rolling Ink Recovery? ..or is it just rolls after battles that are affected?)

So one of my last matches for the day was over at Starfish Mainstage (not too big on most of the chances, especially those extra ramps up the stage are meh). We were pretty dominating and somehow one of my teammates managed to get over to the opposition‘s spawn, like he could walk up to their very spawn. Does anyone happen to know how he might have done it. Didn‘t see it for myself as I‘d rather stay back and make sure nobody slips by.

@GoldenGamer88 I think they use that sponge thing in front of the base...if they shrink it to a certain point, they can use it like a step to jump up in to the spawn area by the looks of things. I've never seen someone do it, but I've seen someone attempt to - and it looked like they shrunk the sponge a little too much which made the jump up to the spawn a bit too high - so I assume that that's how they do it.

@NaviAndMii Yeah, I figured as much. This must‘ve been real lucky, though, considering only the team the sponge‘s on can grow it and then shrink it down just right while evading enemy fire. And all that with a roller, too! I‘d say

@GoldenGamer88 Yeah! I don't know how precise you have to be with the sponge size, but it can't be easy to get it 'just right' with a Roller! ..impressive!

I'm sorry to do this, being late to the party and all, but I have a couple questions as a newcomer.

Is it regional matchmaking? Cos I've not been matched with any Asian-style usernames yet, whereas in Wii U they were everywhere, and it seems to take a bit longer to find 8 players on Switch compared to Wii U.

Is there any way to adjust how you view the map? Default is that X toggles the map on and off, but I think I'd prefer it to disappear as soon as I stop holding the button. Plus I'd like to try it as a miniature overlay so I could see it all the time... if that's ever an option.

@gcunit Matchmaking is ping-based and will tend to match you with people closer to you, but contrary to what some people say it is not actually region-locked. I do see Japanese players sometimes. There is no changing anything about the map, I'm afraid.

@Zyrac Thank you for the prompt answers.

I can triple confirm on the matchmaking thing. I think about 1 in every 100 players I'm matched against are Japanese, which is a big change from the original where it was over 1 in 2. Some are definitely just Western players who've dug into the keyboard settings and written (and occasionally misspelt) their names in Japanese script, but it's definitely not Western players exclusively.

So yeah, it's a big change, but there are still no explicit hard borders.

You know, after 'wasting' three and a half Ink Recovery Melon drinks on trying to get chunks, I decided to go and just put on the gear I want the ability on and voila, works great. But tonight I realized - why put on a single piece of gear at a time and not, you know, the entire set? I guess my mom‘s right, I am not much a problem solver. I often think too complicated for my own good, lol. Well, having Murch scrub a piece of gear after two matches was kind of a money waste, even for somebody so close to 3 million.