Topic: Splatoon - OT

@LztheQuack The problem is the abilities.

The Amiibo armour has no multipliers for abilities, so you'll end up with three separate subs, with virtually no chance of getting a three ability set. Or an awful lot of money spent on rerolls...

Plus, some abilities are only really useful on certain equipment. .52Gals and E-Liters being the main thing to take advantage of strength up, whereas most other weapons, the extra damage is negligible.

@TheXReturns: Oh right, the amiibo "brand" has no ability advantages. I guess I got a bit lucky today since I was grinding up the Power Suit (?) and both of its subs became Quick Respawn, which is great for me. It's just a shame that I don't like how it looks...

@TheXReturns: Um no lol. Middle of the road on Kart 8 and I would get destroyed in Smash. When I do find something I'm good at I stick with it.

@DreamyViridi Luck has played a huge part in my Splatoon journey. From getting three perfect equipments with only a few re-rolls. (Colourless Contacts with Main of Special Up and 3x Quick Respawn, School Jumper with Main of Ninja Squid and 3x Quick Super Jump, Cream Hi-Tops with Main of Stealth Jump and 3x Swim Speed Up), to getting a 17 win streak from B to A- rank, to getting a further 8 win streak from A to A+, to picking the winning splatfest team twice, to finding my perfect weapon on my second extended period of playing a weapon exclusively (I'm a Vanilla Roller who dabbles in Krak-On and occasionally .52 deco). It is just trying to make luck swing in your favour. Unfortunately, it seems my luck is running out. I'm at 45 points in Ranked, and I have been for ages. Win, loss, win, loss, the cycle never ends...

Anyone interested in playing with mii and a couple others later?

@Spoony_Tech Closest I've ever been is #2 at a little flash game called Vortex Run on the Doctor Who Monster Invasion website, back when I used to go under the name VictiniForever. (TheXReturns is my fourth pen-name, as I've gradually grown out of the others. I've been using it for a while now, and I think it'll stick. My first was TheX, so I guess my name makes sense, in an odd way.)

@TheXReturns: I know what you mean in terms of luck. I surprised that I'm Rank A despite being just Lv. 28. The new Museum stage is great, I already understand its layout but I'm scared to play Ranked on it lest I lose my A game, literally!

@DreamyViridi Would you be up for private battles, 4pm GMT tomorrow? I'm also a pretty low level for an A+ rank (38, when everything else seems to be level 47-50)

@DreamyViridi: Well I've played about 6 games of each ranked mode on the new map and most weapons fair well, chargers especially 3K are good for zones as it is hard to flank enemy's.

@TheXReturns: Privates? Sure, don't see why not. I'll let you know if I can't make it.
@Jazzer94: Yeah, it seems like a nice neutral stage where most weapons will work. I've only recon'd how RM works on it and I imagine that matches can get a bit crazy considering where the goal is placed...

Museum d'Alfonsino is a great stage. It was really intense yesterday when I played Rainmaker there.

I'm only level 8

Oh, I've been meaning to ask. Since I'm new to this game, does anyone want to add me to their friends list?

@shani: They added climb-able platforms in a bunch of places. You don't even have to touch the two huge platforms to win, and there are two paths to get to the RM platform, which is on the platform closest to your base. There's this cool thing where you can ride one of the huge platforms and shortcut into the base though; it's really neat to pull off.

EDIT: Wait where'd this whole extra page come from...lol!

@LztheQuack: If you were to rank up two more times, I would invite ya to my squad match later, mii and the gang would play for a few hours

@TheXReturns: I been curious about the competitive scene too. I just made my own clan. No members yet but once I get a team of 4 i'll formally make a clan thread on squidboards.

@LztheQuack: I'll add you. I really enjoy squad battles and turf wars!

@MasterWario: Ah okay, that actually makes a lot of sense. When I was playing the Museum in SZ, I was surprised that a big part of the map is inaccessible for the opposition (unless you use the rotating platforms, but even those don't get you everywhere). So I thought without more climbable platforms, RM would be really terrible on that map. Good to know that it isn't.
@LztheQuack: Sure, why not.
@ELI-ASH: Yeah they also have some kind of "mode" on squidboards where you get to own a map by winning on it (don't really remember who it worked exactly). But that didn't sound that interesting to me. I also thought about making a clan eventually, but so far I don't really the necessity. Although we could create a NintendoLife-Forum-Clan (maybe even with more than 4 people). ^^

Send me requests and I'll accept them

@LztheQuack: Will do that after work. Or you can do the same, you find our NNID's in our forum signatures.

@Shani I'd be up for that. We'd strike fear into the hearts of no-one, as we get demolished by perfectly co-ordinated teams of S-rankers. Just a casual grouping of the NL lot would be nice. We could even not change our names and everything. XD

@LztheQuack Sure. I'll add you when I'm next on.

@DreamyViridi You bring the number up to 6: TheXReturns,Blue_Blur,Iggly,CrimsonTadpoles,Jazzer94,DreamyViridi.