'Team Ninja' Sneaks The Win In Splatoon 3's 'Splatoween' Splatfest

Nice to see we’re still getting original themes rather than just repeats.

And I imagine this year’s Splatoween will be pretty much just as ‘extra’ as last year’s event as presumably they’ll reuse all the music/decorations/effects/assets/etc. It’d take more effort to actually scale it down.

These line up with some of the Amiibo outfits, I wonder if this will have the feature of wearing your complete outfit if you equip the appropriate hat and shoes, like in Splatoon 2's Splatoween.

@JohnnyMind

It'll be Ninja because that's one of the Amiibo outfits available.

Team wizard all the way! I love knights and stuff but I just imagine being a wizard would be so much fun!

Nice to have another Splatfest because I missed the last one. My initial reaction was to choose knight but they're all good choices.

You could probably never guess what I would choose.

This is a very tough choice for me because I’ve been on all sides here, whether it was Team Ninja in Splatoon 1 or Team Knight in Splatoon 2, but I also like wizards, too. Good for Nintendo making this Splatoween new and not just a repeat of last year’s like I was expecting.

I choose Team Wizard this time. It’s Shiver’s team, which is my tiebreaker whenever I like all three choices in this game. There‘s way too many cool wizard and witch characters to name here. Wizards and witches also make great villain characters.

Knights are my second choice because a knight was likely my favorite Halloween costume when I was a kid and I’m sick and tired of Big Man always winning these seasonal Splatfests. I hope we can board the Splatfest float for photos by just reaching Ruler rank instead of having to win a 100x or 333x battle, like in Grand Festival. Patch notes released before that event implied that change could apply to any Splatfest.

How does one access this? Does it require an online subscription?

Team Wizard. Easiest decision ever!

@ThainEshKelch Yes, to play online in non free to play games you need to subscribe to NSO.

Bringing back Splatoon 2’s Splatoween gear is also nice. I wasn’t surprised because it was supposedly datamined, but datamined stuff doesn’t always get used. Still, I’ll wear my Enchanted hat and shoes.

Off the Hook will be in Splatoween this year. I guess Deep Cut’s and the Squid Sisters’ costumes will be the same, but I wonder how Off the Hook will look? Pearl’s spider web dress and Marina’s power suit again, or something new?

And up until now, I (maybe some others too) thought it would be the same theme from last year

Either way, not sure what I am choosing

Big Man is Team Ninja but there's no way he could pull it off, he'd stick out like a sore thumb!

Genuinely glad to see we're still getting new Splatfests!

Didn't renew my NSO so my online glory days seem to be over. Glad they're doing this though! Had plenty of fun with S3 splatfests

Team Ninja all the way! Also cool that they’re still doing Splatfests I kinda thought there were over

@NFrealinkling They did say seasonal Splatfests would keep going even though regular updates are now over

oof, remember last time they did ninja(US or EU) didn't go so well since it was the waaaaaay populated side. should it be different this time...although knight is intriguing too.

@MrCarlos46 true I guess I was expecting like maybe one a year or some meager amount

@Axecon hey, no disrespect to Big Man! He could pull off a devastating karate chop with those fins

WAIT IT ISN'T A REPEAT THEME?!

Team Ninja for me! I love purple, plus my hubby says that I sneak up on him sometimes (not on purpose, I'm just a really quiet person most of the time).

Team Knight for me, it’ll be the least likely to get mirrors.

No dragon or kitsune option. Sad.

Gonna sling spells and take names! Go team wizard!

In my dreams I am a wizard, but there is something about warriors like knights, that I love too. Being stoic, virtuos, faithful and strong like a knight sounds really cool to me.

Thanks for the reminder! Go Team Wizard! Shiver will always be the best.

As someone said above, team knight for the lack of mirror matches. I’m now back to trying to pick the least favourite team, just like in splatoon 2, however this time it isn’t because I’m trying to be on a winning team.

I planned to be Team Knight, but I accidentally hit Team Ninja, so basically I will be happy as long as Wizard doesn't win. 🤷

team ninja 4 EVER (i'm a huge Ninjago fan)

So far for me it looks like Team Wizard cast a spell that made the other teams disappear ...

But I guess when the choices are dude in armor, dude in PJs, or dude with powers over the elemental forces of the universe ... it's going to be pretty one sided.

Hagrid:your a wizard shiver.

Congratulations Team Ninja and thank you all for another fun Splatfest!

I like ninjas, whether it’s Kat & Ana from WarioWare or Ninji from Super Mario, and I remember backing ninjas over pirates in Splatoon 1, but CURSE YOU BIG MAN! Not only did we get the popularity curse but the “last place at halftime” curse that’s actually the worst. It’s a sure sign of failure, so this is disappointing, but not surprising.

Will Big Man’s reign of terror over seasonal Splatfests never end? I refuse to join any more Big Man teams and will just be a Shiver Simp for now on. I don’t care anymore. I’d be glad if even Frye wins one even though she still seems (mostly) haunted by failure a year later.

Because Splatoween kept the same ink colors, FrostyFest should be the same, so I already expect Big Man to win the next one because of having white ink again. I’m over this…

That's okay we all know wizards are the best anyway.

Go Ninja, Go Ninja, Go!

The subhead reminded me of that episode of Digimon Adventure 02 called Run Yolei, Run! And it make's sense that Yolei has Shurimon which resembles a ninja. My mind works in mysterious ways. lol

This article is the first one I've ever had that I can recall on this site that had a pop up come over the screen and cover the article. I had to click the X to continue reading it. Is that a new "feature" or a malicious actor in the ad sector?

honestly i feel like they need to go back to 2 choices instead of 3 cause i feel like the teams are unbalanced always go up against 1 teams instead of other one most of the time.

I'm so glad we're still getting the seasonal events, and can't wait until Octivus.

Or Squidmas! Whatever you happen to celebrate.

I hope everyone had a great time, and like I always say, we're all winners today..

I actually understood that reference...

Ninja,... Ninja -RAP!
Ninja,... Ninja -RAP!

It's so exhausting seeing Big Man constantly win these holiday Fests. We GET it, you like a walking, talking forced meme that isn't even funny and you have the mentality of a child and refuse to grow up. At least the Frye fans don't behave like adult toddlers. It's time to just admit that 3-way battles were a massive mistake. I'm done, Fests in this game post-Grand Fest are just laughable garbage and mean nothing. They're nothing events and I'm exhausted of the lot of you Big Man folks that know nothing but acting like adult toddlers. Wake me up when they return to the two-idol format because Big Man will not be fondly remembered as anything but pure cringe.

Hey, what do you know? My team won for once! But yet again, the winning team carried it on Clout alone. Was Team Ninja just that good? It did seem that I was winning more matches than I was losing, at least initially. Still, I'd love to know exactly how Clout gets calculated to the point where it ends up winning the entire Splatfest alone.

@OctoCallie20 ...I hope you can at least see the irony in your screaming at other participants for behaving like children in a made-up battle between ninjas, knights and wizards.

@OctoCallie20 this comment is pure cringe. Big Man was the only likeable one of the group and the only likeable Splatoon idol since the Squid Sisters, and it's not even because of his meme status.