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Inkling Commander
I thought I'd like this when I saw its description (a fast Roller? YES PLEASE), but now I have it and...
I dunno, it just doesn't click with me.
It feels like the Mario of Rollers, in that it's pretty much stuck in the middle in most things from what I can tell.
In terms of rolling speed, it beats the Dynamo Roller handily, and the Splat Roller too, but the Inkbrush still wins this race, or at least it feels that way.
In terms of attacking speed, it beats the Dynamo and Splat Rollers again, but I feel it loses to the Inkbrush again.
In terms of attack range, I think it might beat the Inkbrush, but it definitely loses to the Splat Roller and especially the Dynamo Roller.
In terms of power, it definitely beats the Inkbrush (but what doesn't?), but it loses to the Splat and Dynamo Rollers again, this time mostly by virtue of the fact that the Carbon Roller cannot 1-shot people by rolling over them.
I'm not entirely sure what this is meant to do better than all of those. It doesn't seem like it'd cover turf better than the Inkbrush (between Sprinkler, Inkstrike, fastswings and running really fast, I think it's got Carbon beat here) or even the Dynamo Roller (its HUGESWINGS let it cover wide areas fairly quickly, it can still roll, albeit slowly, and it has Sprinkler too, so it's close, at least it seems that way to me), and it can't do combat like the Krak-On (Kraken really helps its case here, but also being able to 1-shot people while not at near-point-blank helps too) or the Dynamo Rollers (HUGESWINGS are slow, yeah, but the range and power'll win quite a few fights, and Gold has Splat Bombs as well), and I can't see it being a purely team-support weapon as well as the Krak-On (Squid Beakons can be extremely useful, as is the ability to create an ink path by just running like all Rollers and the Inkbrush, plus you have the Invincisquid) or Inkbrush (it can't do combat outside ambushes, but its turf covering ability is so much better than every other Roller, and you have the super-speed to go places quickly, also it has Inkstrike and a good skillset for charging Inkstrike fairly quickly).
It feels like some kind of jack-of-all-trades sort of thing, or maybe the Ken to the normal Splat Roller's Ryu (in that it's faster, but not as strong, and its projectile attack isn't as good).
It's probably a decent weapon, it's got the always-okay Burst Bombs for a sub-weapon, and the Inkzooka special for range (and with the added speed, the Carbon Roller should be able to charge it fairly quickly, I think), and that speed combined with the roller's width means you can pave ink-roads for your slower allies, and it still has power with the swing so you could ambush people like an Inkbrush does but faster (because you only have to swing once, twice at most).
But it's just not my kind of weapon.
I dunno, it just doesn't click with me.
It feels like the Mario of Rollers, in that it's pretty much stuck in the middle in most things from what I can tell.
In terms of rolling speed, it beats the Dynamo Roller handily, and the Splat Roller too, but the Inkbrush still wins this race, or at least it feels that way.
In terms of attacking speed, it beats the Dynamo and Splat Rollers again, but I feel it loses to the Inkbrush again.
In terms of attack range, I think it might beat the Inkbrush, but it definitely loses to the Splat Roller and especially the Dynamo Roller.
In terms of power, it definitely beats the Inkbrush (but what doesn't?), but it loses to the Splat and Dynamo Rollers again, this time mostly by virtue of the fact that the Carbon Roller cannot 1-shot people by rolling over them.
I'm not entirely sure what this is meant to do better than all of those. It doesn't seem like it'd cover turf better than the Inkbrush (between Sprinkler, Inkstrike, fastswings and running really fast, I think it's got Carbon beat here) or even the Dynamo Roller (its HUGESWINGS let it cover wide areas fairly quickly, it can still roll, albeit slowly, and it has Sprinkler too, so it's close, at least it seems that way to me), and it can't do combat like the Krak-On (Kraken really helps its case here, but also being able to 1-shot people while not at near-point-blank helps too) or the Dynamo Rollers (HUGESWINGS are slow, yeah, but the range and power'll win quite a few fights, and Gold has Splat Bombs as well), and I can't see it being a purely team-support weapon as well as the Krak-On (Squid Beakons can be extremely useful, as is the ability to create an ink path by just running like all Rollers and the Inkbrush, plus you have the Invincisquid) or Inkbrush (it can't do combat outside ambushes, but its turf covering ability is so much better than every other Roller, and you have the super-speed to go places quickly, also it has Inkstrike and a good skillset for charging Inkstrike fairly quickly).
It feels like some kind of jack-of-all-trades sort of thing, or maybe the Ken to the normal Splat Roller's Ryu (in that it's faster, but not as strong, and its projectile attack isn't as good).
It's probably a decent weapon, it's got the always-okay Burst Bombs for a sub-weapon, and the Inkzooka special for range (and with the added speed, the Carbon Roller should be able to charge it fairly quickly, I think), and that speed combined with the roller's width means you can pave ink-roads for your slower allies, and it still has power with the swing so you could ambush people like an Inkbrush does but faster (because you only have to swing once, twice at most).
But it's just not my kind of weapon.