Watch The Pros Splat It Out In The Splatoon 3 Championship 2023 Opening Qualifier

How good people are at this game just flat out makes me sad. I swear everyone is much more vicious in sploon3 as well, since they've all just sweated it and played nothing else for 3 instalments xD

Nintendo should make the game worse so people stop playing it and then no one will git gut at it and that will fix the problem of players who have gitten gud at the game being too gud.

@Maxz
Or they could sort the matchmaking somehow so myself and the rest of us filthy casuals can still have a good time and the pro players can still tear each other to shreds xD

@Nintendancies But I love tearing filthy casuals to shreds.

@BTB20
Imma leave this thread, my kind clearly aren't welcome here

@Nintendancies That's competitive shooter for ya. Gamers love to sweat. : P

These are fun to watch and I try to get some tips from it to improve because I suck. My biggest problem is not being able to make out what’s going on or seeing the other players because everything blends in so well with the ink. Oh well, Salmon Run is always a blast though.

@Nintendancies At this point I'm thinking that the "filthy casuals" are a minority and the majority of people are pretty competitive. It kinda happened on Smash too and it kept me away of playing the last entry more. Not that there's anything wrong with that, it's just that I used to be "really good" at that one and once I saw how a lot of people stepped up their game and how many good games where being released, I just didn't have the time and energy to keep playing to improve.

It´s amazing to see competitive Splatoon. It makes me a little sad that Nintendo does not push more competitions on this game as they did with Smash Ultimate some time ago.

Since it´s not free-to-play as Fortnite or Valorant, I wouldn´t expect it to be as huge as those shooters but it definetely could have a bigger audience.

@roy130390
I have to agree.
My original comment was meant in jest and playful. If people put the time in and are amazing at the game, more power to them, they deserve to wipe the floor with the competition, but it kinda gatekeeps the people who want to just have fun with it (I feel bad for kids lol) but I guess you could say the same for any competitive online game.

Like you said there are just too many good games to justify sinking all your time into it, just to keep up with the competition. I used to be ok at Splatoon 2, cause it was fresh (no pun intended) and I put hundreds of hours into it but now playing 3 when I can't give it the same amount of attention it just feels punishing to pop on here and there when even the turf war players are out for blood. It must feel similar when you hop on smash just for a bit of fun and get roflstomped. It's evolved without me and that's fine, I had my fill, lifes too short to play one game.

@Nintendancies For me personally, being an actually sweaty Splatoon player myself, my way of having fun with the game is always giving my absolute best at any time and not holding back one bit. That is basically just having fun with it for me.

@Nintendancies Casuals for the win! Except you know... everytime we play online. Fortunately they are still fun games regardless of the outcome haha. I still return to them from time to time and have a great time because I do not mind losing too much.

@BTB20
And you are exactly the kind of person the game is made for and keeps it alive! Not people like me who can't commit.

@roy130390 Good for you! as cliche as it is, as long as you're having a good time, that's all that matters! I'm too much of a salty squid to enjoy getting rekt all the time, but I prefer games I can actually beat anyway so is all good

In terms of casual play, seriously, play Splatoon 2. It's awesome. I jump between it and 3 for different reasons. I jump back and play Splatoon 2 for my 8 year old daughter. My kid, wife and I all have copies, and since it's such a chill experience, its really helped my daughter learn the basics. We all have fun playing it together. When my wife and I play Switch after the kid goes to bed, we play Splatoon 3 sometimes. And yeah, we kind of get torn to shreds sometimes. I can have games with 16 splats in Splatoon 2, wiping out the entire other team twice in a row and beating them 92 to 8%, but then get absolutely slaughtered by a single person in Splatoon 3 and experience the same defeat. Needless to say, we play more 2 these days because we typically play with our kid, but we really want to dive back into 3 for the summer content...after my wife finishes TOTK (I've already finished my copy).

@Nintendancies I’m thinking that nowadays, especially since the series is 8 years old and the player base is so huge, there should be an always-on power rank in regular Turf War. Like Splatfest Power, it’ll keep players of similar power ratings matched up. And let the ratings reset every week or so after the weekend. With that, also give the option to manually rank down if things are getting too hot, like how Anarchy/ranked and Salmon Run currently let you demote yourself. Because oddly enough, the “casual” mode is the only mode just keeps forcing you to climb whether you want to or not by taking on experience points, and once you reach a certain experience level all gloves are off as far as the matchmaker is concerned, ready or not. You get matched with stars, win streaks, teams, and everyone in between. It kinda makes me wish we could see everyone’s levels and ranks again to to prove I’m not imagining things and that matchmaker really did stick me with rank A’s playing against S+20’s when going for a rank-up series.