Team Water Wins The Splatoon X Pokémon Splatfest Event

I made the decision to always choose whatever Big Man is representing. I'm surprised (based on the colors) that Shiver isn't water and Big Man isn't grass though.

I stan Big Man. He's just gotta tell me "Ay!" and I'm on board.

(that being said, all the 420 jokes popping up in the plaza do kind of make me regret not picking grass)

I always go fire. It’s the answer to all life’s problems.

it was tricky for me
Grass was my favorite at first
now Water and Fire are usually mixed
but in the end, i went with Water
because my #1 favorite starter is a Water starter, Popplio

While I've already decided I'm going with Sprigatito for Scarlet/Violet, in the majority of the Pokémon games I've picked fire starters, so I went with Team Fire for the Splatfest.

I'll go back to my selection of my very first Pokemon....Squirtle. I thought Blastoise was the coolest and couldn't wait to level up my Squirtle.

Team Water!

@FoxyDude
Exact same situation as me

I'm Team Water! My favourite starter from more than half of the regions (Gen 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8 specifically) are the water starters and in the older gens (the ones that predate Gen VII), the water starter tends to be the most useful by being an easy candidate to learn Surf, a HM that's not only essential to traverse around the region but also serves as a perfectly viable move.

I like how in the poll, they put the idol next to their respective teams like people are going to choose their team based on the idols (please don’t do this)

Team grass by the way!! 🍃

I saw the leaked evolutions, but avoiding most of the other leaks. Not quite all.

Can't decide for once. That's a first.

Let's see.
Squirtle.
Never played Gold from memory, but it would have probably been Cyndaquil.
Mudkip.
Piplup.
Missed, Missed, Missed
Scorbunny.
Rowlet.

And now I can't decide, it may be chosen randomly.

I would have picked grass personally but my friends picked water so water it is.

I always pick the Water starter in my first playthrough of a generation, so I picked Team Water.

i like the little ducky guy 😍

Team Water in honor of my Pokémon Shield Inteleon... and also to make sure Shiver loses, she's turning arrogant (Well, more than usual) after her two previous victories.

2-0 in splatfest so far.

My friends and I are going water since it was majority.
But my personal reason for picking it is because water starters in general have the best designs and it's my favorite type out of the three.

Water. Shiver's goin' down!

@Fizza I also believe water type is just better to start with. It also helps that the representative it BIG MAN.

I've been saying water for the past month (and the past 20 years). Water starters have always been the most useful, even if they aren't the best in their region.

Team Fire for me!

Big Man Sweep!

Losing

Whater because ai enjoy the starter this gen, and because of big man!

I choose to play Salmon Run instead.

Not a big fan of Pokemon or GameFreak for being absolutely soulless, if I'm gonna be honest.

Plus, killing off Salmonid is more enjoyable.

Quaxly superiority

Ayyy, was a good time!

@Dev9417 I was kinda bummed we (team water) had to defend the tri-color again, but I actually won a few tri-color battles this time around! Even managed to not get splatted at all in one of those games which is… mindblowing because of all of the chaos 😅

Aww just once I wanted to be on the winning team, I thought fire would be the overwhelming majority (plus most of my starter picks were fire)
Boo maybe next time, congrats to water!

lol the thumbnail scared me and i thought fire won for a second
BIG MAN SWEEP

I demand a recount. Team water getting 3 super snails more than me is egregious!

My second ever Splatfest after spending years not playing Splatoon, followed by falling in love with the game.

On the last Splatfest I had no idea what was going on. This time I enjoyed it so much.

I even worked out how to defend on the tricolours. First few matches felt so one-sided, with the attacking team winning unanimously. Then I twigged how easy it was to sneak into the attackers bases and ink them. The middle ground gets so contested and the attackers end up inking over each other’s turf.

Splatfests elevate the enjoyment factor of the game so much.

70 hours in and I still feel there is so much more to do!

Loving Splatoon 3, but I sure do miss the new Splatfest levels. I didn't even get in to a single Tri-colour event this time either after they nerfed it sigh

And so, Shiver's Reign of Terror ends. Long live Big Man... and, uh, Frye too, I guess.

Just kidding. Awesome Splatfest everyone.

Now can the big man fans shut up and stop picking him every splatfest.

Big Man Sweep is REAL! Too bad for me because I went with grass this time, ‘hedging’ my bet that voting against the popularity vote would work. I had a bunch of wins, too, in Tricolor and Pro, so I thought things were going great, but I guess we needed a few more x10/100/333 wins as were only behind by Clout by a little bit. Good games all around (and only one disconnect in the beginning, not bad at all) Well deserved win, Team Water!

Oh crap, I COMPLETELY forgot about the Splatfest, haha.

Never played a Pokemon game before. Went with water. Happy we got the win!

I got Shivers for Big Man...3-0 record so far. finally got to play a bunch of tri-color this time, guess being the defender helps. was surprised at the sweep.

this splatfest was complete bull too many disconnection from teammates ended up 3 vs 4 at times,fire and water players camping in corners with buckets and brushes and of course really bad players who gets their own team splattered.

Good, team water well deserved that win

This Splatfest was nothing but pain and suffering for Team Fire.

Obviously. Team water was the only logical choice.

Hope the next patch happens VERY soon.

Fonda: "No, man.. It's grass!"

Nicholson: "Now, is that what that is?"

it would be water or fire for me