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So when I was playing recycled brella in march, I started wondering what it would get for its second kit.
Before I knew it, I had made predictions for every single remaining kit in the game, and I don't even play recycled brella anymore. Bear with me
I wanted to wait for world champs to post these, in case we got a third kits announcement, but as of now nothing's been confirmed, so with sizzle season approaching next month, I think it's time
I'm assuming nintendo wants a balanced sub and special distribution, that matters for the entire playerbase. I'm also assuming they don't like repeating subs and specials on weapon classes, so I tried avoiding those. And while I was at it (and since I'm desperate), I tried avoiding repeated sub/special combos, though they're not completely off the table.
Here's the current sub distribution:
We're most likely getting one more fizzy bomb, torpedo, burst bomb, toxic mist and angle shooter weapon
And here's the special distribution:
We need one more splattercolor screen, triple splashdown, inkjet, super chump, tenta missiles, crab tank, kraken royale, triple inkstrike and booyah bomb weapon
There's 6 second kits we're missing: Custom Range blaster, Custom Hydra splatling, Bamboozler Mk II, Heavy Edit splatling... Nouveau??, Custom... Douser dualies, and Recycled brella Mk II.
And we're also most likely getting a new splatana and a new stringer for the last season, and this post is already long enough, so just... trust the process I guess.
I think nintendo might release their second kits in september, as a "final update" sort of deal, but this is pure speculation
And just so you know, some of these kits are kind of copium, but I think they're all pretty likely. At least, they could happen ;)
I'll start with the most obvious kit predictions, and go from there:
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Custom Range Blaster: Splat Bomb + Kraken Royale
Come on people, of course it's happening. This kit was insanely iconic in Splatoon 1, there's no way it won't come back. Nintendo brought back almost every single s1 top tier's kit, this is the last one. I'm confident it's happening
Custom Douser Dualies: Burst Bomb + Inkjet
We still don't have a dualie with inkjet, this is the last candidate. Considering how nintendo put inkjet on two dualies in s2 (enperry dualies and vanilla glooga), and on splat brella in this game, which can also protect its recall, I think they know that dualies have a lot of synergy with inkjet, so I'd be very surprised if dousers didn't get it.
And for the sub, no dualie has dart, toxic mist, fizzy bomb or burst bomb yet. Dart would have virtually no synergy, it wouldn't even combo, and nintendo puts it on weapons that do combo with it at least. And fizzy/inkjet and mist/inkjet are already a thing on ballpoint and tri-slosher, so I doubt we'll see those.
My bet's on burst bomb, it'd be fun and the combos wouldn't be broken
Recycled Brella Mk II: Fizzy Bomb + Triple Splashdown
Look, it's a brella, the splatoon 2 weapon class. It's based on Marie's brella, from the splatoon 2 story mode. Nothing screams splatoon 2 as much as getting splashdown canceled by an eliter across the map, it's totally getting triple splashdown.
I think it's likely to get an aggressive special too, since big bubbler is as supportive as it gets. TSD's probably not going on either of the splatlings because of naut 79 (except if they want to remake s2 vhydra, which would in fact be hilarious, I wouldn't even complain), or on dousers because of enperries (the other splatoon 2 weapon class), and it would make no sense on bamboo. So between recycled, the new splatana and the new stringer, I'm betting on recycled. It'd have pretty good synergy with it too, I'd be down for that
And I think it's getting fizzy. I'm pretty sure it's getting a bomb, and only two brellas have any. Autobomb and torpedo are taken, and if splat bomb gets on custom range, it'd be on 10 weapons, so fizzy's the most likely candidate
Custom Hydra Splatling: Ink Mine + Tenta Missiles
The only returning subs left for hydra are splat bomb, sprinkler and ink mine. Splat bomb and sprinkler would be on 10 weapons each already, and ink mine worked well for hydra before, so it's probably a safe bet.
For specials, the only rare ones left that aren't on splatlings are crab tank, which is probably a bit redundant for hydra, triple inkstrike, which kind of overlaps with booyah bomb in the "giant death explosion" category, screen (... why), super chumps, which would barely have any synergy with it, and missiles.
I think missiles is the only special left with decent synergy, so I'd say it's pretty likely
The only problem with this kit is it's a repeat of vflingza, but I still think it'd play differently enough to justify it
Bamboozler Mk II: ... Toxic Mist + Triple Inkstrike (I'm so sorry)
LOOK I CAN EXPLAIN. We have three toxic mist candidates to me: recycled brella, douser dualies, and bamboo. Hydra and edit aren't getting it because of zimi, range isn't getting it because of rapid pro, the new splatana and stringer aren't getting it because of stamper nouveau and tri-stringer. It's between these three. And out of these, bamboo's the only one that has a bomb on its vanilla kit.
Bamboo Mk II's had disruptor and then mist in the previous games. The other returning subs it could get are curling bomb, which I could actually see it getting, burst bomb, sounds broken af, and fizzy bomb, which is already on custom goo tuber and also sounds broken af. I'd be surprised if it didn't get mist
As for tristrike, I've noticed a weird pattern where most tristrike weapons had a bomb rush/launcher in the past. Slosher had both burst launcher and inkstrike, neo splash had suction rush and launcher, rapid had suction rush and splat bomb launcher, brella had splat bomb launcher, and z+f had splat bomb rush and suction launcher. Bamboo's had inkstrike and burst launcher before, so I think it might get tristrike too.
It's already on Z+F, but I don't think that would stop nintendo, and it's very convenient for my list, so I'm sacrificing the bamboo fans, sorry not sorry
Heavy Edit Nouveau: Squid Beakon + Crab Tank
Huge copium, I know. They didn't bring back beakon on ballpoint nouveau, despite it being beloved in s2, so I'm still thinking they have some plan for a splatling with beakon, and edit would be such a good candidate. The only other subs that aren't on splatlings yet are dart, which would have virtually no synergy, torpedo, which could work, sure, but edit already has a bomb, splat bomb, same thing, splash wall, which is on 10 weapons already, and BEAKON.
Needless to say, I'm a beakon believer, the only argument against it is that dread d got beakon, and both main weapons released in the same season, which is kind of a weird retriction to make
I don't have much reasoning behind crab, I just think it'd be cool, and it's not on a splatling yet, so I choose to believe
And now for the new main weapons and their second kits! I don't have much to go off of, so these are very theoretical.
New Splatana: Angle shooter + Splattercolor Screen
ugh stop complaining all your weapons are already good
Dart would already combo with every existing splatana, so maybe it would with the new one! I don't think dart's getting on any of the existing weapons, so it's either the new splatana or stringer.
It might have solid synergy with screen, foil flingza style, where you can poke through it or shark behing it with your hypothetical one shot. And dart's a location sub, so there's obvious synergy there
New Stringer: Torpedo + Booyah Bomb
Look, every stringer is painfully mid, so let's give it a really good kit to make SURE it's solid for once. Torpedo can't be on dousers, recycled, range, the new splatanas, and bamboo mk II because of existing kits, so it's between the new stringer and the splatlings, and I think it'd work better on a stringer.
Booyah bomb would be good on it too, it works on pretty much everything
New Splatana Bis: Fizzy Bomb + Super Chumps
See? I told you
The only rare sub left that isn't on a splatana is fizzy, so I think it could happen. It'd obviously be really good, and I think we're lacking in strong chumps kits, so this might work well, it'd be a very combo heavy kit, and the weapon could probably go in with its own chumps.
New Stringer Bis: Burst bomb + Ink Storm
Look the stringer mains have suffered enough, so let's give it ANOTHER strong kit just to be safe. Burst bomb would let it be aggressive, and ink storm probably combos with it, plus it's most likely going to be running around charging its shots a lot, so the healing effect would be really useful.
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This sure took a while, but here they are!
(Machine stands for fizzy bomb, and Splash for burst bomb)
We'll see just how wrong some of these are in about two weeks, looking forward to it
Before I knew it, I had made predictions for every single remaining kit in the game, and I don't even play recycled brella anymore. Bear with me
I wanted to wait for world champs to post these, in case we got a third kits announcement, but as of now nothing's been confirmed, so with sizzle season approaching next month, I think it's time
I'm assuming nintendo wants a balanced sub and special distribution, that matters for the entire playerbase. I'm also assuming they don't like repeating subs and specials on weapon classes, so I tried avoiding those. And while I was at it (and since I'm desperate), I tried avoiding repeated sub/special combos, though they're not completely off the table.
Here's the current sub distribution:
We're most likely getting one more fizzy bomb, torpedo, burst bomb, toxic mist and angle shooter weapon
And here's the special distribution:
We need one more splattercolor screen, triple splashdown, inkjet, super chump, tenta missiles, crab tank, kraken royale, triple inkstrike and booyah bomb weapon
There's 6 second kits we're missing: Custom Range blaster, Custom Hydra splatling, Bamboozler Mk II, Heavy Edit splatling... Nouveau??, Custom... Douser dualies, and Recycled brella Mk II.
And we're also most likely getting a new splatana and a new stringer for the last season, and this post is already long enough, so just... trust the process I guess.
I think nintendo might release their second kits in september, as a "final update" sort of deal, but this is pure speculation
And just so you know, some of these kits are kind of copium, but I think they're all pretty likely. At least, they could happen ;)
I'll start with the most obvious kit predictions, and go from there:
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Custom Range Blaster: Splat Bomb + Kraken Royale
Come on people, of course it's happening. This kit was insanely iconic in Splatoon 1, there's no way it won't come back. Nintendo brought back almost every single s1 top tier's kit, this is the last one. I'm confident it's happening
Custom Douser Dualies: Burst Bomb + Inkjet
We still don't have a dualie with inkjet, this is the last candidate. Considering how nintendo put inkjet on two dualies in s2 (enperry dualies and vanilla glooga), and on splat brella in this game, which can also protect its recall, I think they know that dualies have a lot of synergy with inkjet, so I'd be very surprised if dousers didn't get it.
And for the sub, no dualie has dart, toxic mist, fizzy bomb or burst bomb yet. Dart would have virtually no synergy, it wouldn't even combo, and nintendo puts it on weapons that do combo with it at least. And fizzy/inkjet and mist/inkjet are already a thing on ballpoint and tri-slosher, so I doubt we'll see those.
My bet's on burst bomb, it'd be fun and the combos wouldn't be broken
Recycled Brella Mk II: Fizzy Bomb + Triple Splashdown
Look, it's a brella, the splatoon 2 weapon class. It's based on Marie's brella, from the splatoon 2 story mode. Nothing screams splatoon 2 as much as getting splashdown canceled by an eliter across the map, it's totally getting triple splashdown.
I think it's likely to get an aggressive special too, since big bubbler is as supportive as it gets. TSD's probably not going on either of the splatlings because of naut 79 (except if they want to remake s2 vhydra, which would in fact be hilarious, I wouldn't even complain), or on dousers because of enperries (the other splatoon 2 weapon class), and it would make no sense on bamboo. So between recycled, the new splatana and the new stringer, I'm betting on recycled. It'd have pretty good synergy with it too, I'd be down for that
And I think it's getting fizzy. I'm pretty sure it's getting a bomb, and only two brellas have any. Autobomb and torpedo are taken, and if splat bomb gets on custom range, it'd be on 10 weapons, so fizzy's the most likely candidate
Custom Hydra Splatling: Ink Mine + Tenta Missiles
The only returning subs left for hydra are splat bomb, sprinkler and ink mine. Splat bomb and sprinkler would be on 10 weapons each already, and ink mine worked well for hydra before, so it's probably a safe bet.
For specials, the only rare ones left that aren't on splatlings are crab tank, which is probably a bit redundant for hydra, triple inkstrike, which kind of overlaps with booyah bomb in the "giant death explosion" category, screen (... why), super chumps, which would barely have any synergy with it, and missiles.
I think missiles is the only special left with decent synergy, so I'd say it's pretty likely
The only problem with this kit is it's a repeat of vflingza, but I still think it'd play differently enough to justify it
Bamboozler Mk II: ... Toxic Mist + Triple Inkstrike (I'm so sorry)
LOOK I CAN EXPLAIN. We have three toxic mist candidates to me: recycled brella, douser dualies, and bamboo. Hydra and edit aren't getting it because of zimi, range isn't getting it because of rapid pro, the new splatana and stringer aren't getting it because of stamper nouveau and tri-stringer. It's between these three. And out of these, bamboo's the only one that has a bomb on its vanilla kit.
Bamboo Mk II's had disruptor and then mist in the previous games. The other returning subs it could get are curling bomb, which I could actually see it getting, burst bomb, sounds broken af, and fizzy bomb, which is already on custom goo tuber and also sounds broken af. I'd be surprised if it didn't get mist
As for tristrike, I've noticed a weird pattern where most tristrike weapons had a bomb rush/launcher in the past. Slosher had both burst launcher and inkstrike, neo splash had suction rush and launcher, rapid had suction rush and splat bomb launcher, brella had splat bomb launcher, and z+f had splat bomb rush and suction launcher. Bamboo's had inkstrike and burst launcher before, so I think it might get tristrike too.
It's already on Z+F, but I don't think that would stop nintendo, and it's very convenient for my list, so I'm sacrificing the bamboo fans, sorry not sorry
Heavy Edit Nouveau: Squid Beakon + Crab Tank
Huge copium, I know. They didn't bring back beakon on ballpoint nouveau, despite it being beloved in s2, so I'm still thinking they have some plan for a splatling with beakon, and edit would be such a good candidate. The only other subs that aren't on splatlings yet are dart, which would have virtually no synergy, torpedo, which could work, sure, but edit already has a bomb, splat bomb, same thing, splash wall, which is on 10 weapons already, and BEAKON.
Needless to say, I'm a beakon believer, the only argument against it is that dread d got beakon, and both main weapons released in the same season, which is kind of a weird retriction to make
I don't have much reasoning behind crab, I just think it'd be cool, and it's not on a splatling yet, so I choose to believe
And now for the new main weapons and their second kits! I don't have much to go off of, so these are very theoretical.
New Splatana: Angle shooter + Splattercolor Screen
ugh stop complaining all your weapons are already good
Dart would already combo with every existing splatana, so maybe it would with the new one! I don't think dart's getting on any of the existing weapons, so it's either the new splatana or stringer.
It might have solid synergy with screen, foil flingza style, where you can poke through it or shark behing it with your hypothetical one shot. And dart's a location sub, so there's obvious synergy there
New Stringer: Torpedo + Booyah Bomb
Look, every stringer is painfully mid, so let's give it a really good kit to make SURE it's solid for once. Torpedo can't be on dousers, recycled, range, the new splatanas, and bamboo mk II because of existing kits, so it's between the new stringer and the splatlings, and I think it'd work better on a stringer.
Booyah bomb would be good on it too, it works on pretty much everything
New Splatana Bis: Fizzy Bomb + Super Chumps
See? I told you
The only rare sub left that isn't on a splatana is fizzy, so I think it could happen. It'd obviously be really good, and I think we're lacking in strong chumps kits, so this might work well, it'd be a very combo heavy kit, and the weapon could probably go in with its own chumps.
New Stringer Bis: Burst bomb + Ink Storm
Look the stringer mains have suffered enough, so let's give it ANOTHER strong kit just to be safe. Burst bomb would let it be aggressive, and ink storm probably combos with it, plus it's most likely going to be running around charging its shots a lot, so the healing effect would be really useful.
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This sure took a while, but here they are!
(Machine stands for fizzy bomb, and Splash for burst bomb)
We'll see just how wrong some of these are in about two weeks, looking forward to it
