Random: Meet The Ten Year Old Splatoon 2 Star Who Is Probably Better Than You

My 11 year old is probably better then me.

Uh... Her play seems pretty standard. She is by no means bad, but she isn't exceptional, bar her age. Then again, I don't use Sloshers.

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Yeah... no.

@Nunya Hence the “Random” classification.

I'm pretty sure all the players in Japan are better than us in Splatoon, lol. When I played Splatoon 1, during the timeframe I would go online there was a ton of players from Japan, and boy, did they whip me into shape lol. Brutal, brutal fights, I'm a better player as a result at least haha.

I've never played Splatoon, and I have absolutely no idea what's going on in that video!

@Spoony_Tech My first thought reading this was that she was probably one of your kids. ☺

Is this just matchmaking? All top video game players look like studs in matchmaking. If she was doing this in a tournament that would be a little different. Anyways this isn’t all that surprising... the best halo 5 player is like 16 and his team just won the tournament this past weekend. These young kids just got more nimble fingers than us old hands.

@NinjaAceTrainer Yeah, that would look like Standard Play if she wasn't playing in an X Rank Match. A 9 Kill 2 Death Shutout in Clam Blitz at X Rank is phenomenal.

@MoonKnight7 For awhile I was only playing Splatoon from 2-3 in the afternoon (2-3AM in Japan) occasionally some of them sleep. It was noticably different, like being the worst player out there to the best player out there.

Not surprised to be honest. Age does not matter as what does is talent ,determination and lots of hours to get better^^

My 8 year old is better then me at smash, a 36 year old who has been playing since the first n64 game. I’d prob be true about spkat but he doesn’t play that yet. Heck, he even got better then me at botw. He can beat Ganon taking 0 damage and parrying pretty much every attack, something I can’t do no matter how much I try.

Rank X and Level 65* to boot. That's a squid-kid not to be taken lightly.

Kids have freakish gaming abilities, but this isn't news.

My 4 year old is pretty good. By the time she's ten we'll be on Splatoon 5 or so. It'll be interesting to see how she progresses, but I can see her as better than this girl.

How often do her parents let her play?!

I’ve reached X rank for all ranked modes, and most matches are pretty much exclusively Japanese players. As good as I think I am, there are times I get absolutely crushed by Japanese teams.

Sometimes I wonder if they see an English name and think “aw great an American, hope he’s not on my team”

@HorridCrow
She uses Slosher Deco in Clam Blitz, which is one of the strongest weapons in the mode. Her Splattershot play in Rainmaker later in the video is sharp as well.
@NinjaAceTrainer
Her aim, ink management, and match awareness is really strong. Maybe it looks like typical play scrubbing teams off the board in the dregs, but at the top level this is a strong showing.

@MoonKnight7 Tell me about it! My location means 90% of my opponents are Japanese, it's tough going! It also means 90% of my teammates are Japanese so it kind of balances out with me being the weak link.

@FatAlbert1 It's a special kind of hell going up against an all Japanese team. Respawn Punisher seems to be the new Japanese meta, and how well they can stagger teams and camp is incredibly frustrating. Tilt City.

I haven't played Splatoon 2 since shortly after its launch, so being better than me isn't difficult.

@rjejr

Haha, I suppose they eventually have to sleep. I usually played in the mornings, like around 8 am or so. That was prime time for them, and I got beaten to a pulp many, many times. I'm better at the game as a result, but man, at what cost!

@OorWullie

I am so sorry! Haha. Well it should hopefully get you really good at it, good luck!

slosher meta = swim, jump, splash > repeat

@MoonKnight7 "but man, at what cost!"

My sanity. My health. Almost my marriage. If I ever buy Spaltoon 2 I'm kicked to the curb.

I should post the little notes I was keeping for all my games in ranked mode. My handwriting gets worse and worse that fateful night I lost 17 in a row, dropping from around A- to B-, never played seriously again, just Spaltfests. Way too stressful.

Is she using motion controls?

@NinjaAceTrainer When she was in the lobby, we could see she had an X Power of 2243.2. It's not enough to put her in the Top 500, but it's a long way from 'standard'. X Ranked players are already in the top 1% of active players, and 2243.2 is a fair way into X Rank itself.

The highest I've got in RM is 2232.2, so she's at least a better RM player than I am.

nyea, 10years is not a suprising age too be good at something. Kids learn fast. I was a full on gamer before the age of 10

I was a great gamer at ten (admittedly, only an Atari 2600), but now I'm a shocker - everything's too fast, there are too many buttons, and half the time I have no clue as to what I'm supposed to be doing...

Now, get off my lawn!

I wouldn't say she's the best player out there, but I think she's good and plays smart from what I've seen in this video. Playing smartly is always a good thing to do.

Seems pretty standard for Japanese players, really. Reminds me of the commercial of two older guys playing Mario Kart on the 3DS and getting roflstomped by two girls in Japan.

I lived in Asia so I play on the Japanese servers most of the time. I accepted long ago it was likely some teenage girl kicking my ass haha. When I go home to Canada, I feel like a GOD on North American servers after playing on the Japanese ones. The players are so ridiculously good.

Damn Japanese.

Level 80 star.
Um, doesn't homework exist or something?

@rjejr I stopped caring that much. My wife still trolls me about Splatoon 2, though. She insists I suck, but then again she's X rank and I'm only S+.

Nice!

@IronMan30 Splatoon is like Mario Party for married folk, does more harm than good to relationships.

Gotta admit, she's good for a kid, but better than all of us? I sincerly doubt that. She's just overly aggressive.

@ThatNyteDaez To quantify things; she has a Rainmaker X-Power of 2243.2 at the time of recording in the video.

No-one in the comments has yet bested this, and so the statement currently goes unchallenged. In other words, she's better than everyone who's commented so far.

Sure why not?

Yes, the servers are separated by region in Splatoon 2. Recently, they had a global Splatfest that mixed players across the world and I thought that was a good step in the right direction. However, normal multiplayer is organized by regions. North America, Europe, Asia etc. When I play, 95% of the names I see are Japanese and then the odd Korean or English name. When I go home in the summers, it's all English names. That pretty much confirmed it for me.

im a 12 year old and is rank x on rainmaker, s+9 on tower control, s+7 on splat zones, and s+5 on clam blitz. i mainly play as a charger ( i use scopes and my highest amount of kills with chargers is 22.) i dont think she's better than me, not tryna brag lol