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Squid Savior From the Future
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When you get the true new players, yeah, it would be all too easy to just go 20/0. But I invented a new game mode that's actually really fun when playing them called "Defend the noobs!". It's challenging, especially if there's ONE lv20+ on the other team. I just go around inking areas that need inking and trying NOT to shoot anyone. It's sad. You see noobs rolling around and then just kind of stop dead in the middle to look around. Splatting them inst much to brag about...it's kind of pitiful. Shooting the big dummies in the test room takes more skill. And the noobs are [Callie cheer pose] "soo totes adorbs!" I just can't do it (unless they roll into my base....then back to spawn you go.)The new players make turf war a joke... it's all roller players and they just keep on rolling while you're shooting or dropping bombs in their face. Entertaining for me at least, especially when I go at least 15-0 every match. I don't know if I should even "brag" or if I should just feel sorry for them.
So I'll paint and paint and cover ground and evade only (which is actually good evasion practice for hit & run raids. Even noobs can be dangerous when you haplessly wander between 4 of them.) If there's a higher level player on the other team picking on my noobs like jerks, I'll 1v1 and just hunt around the map for them, painting on the way: the core of the "Noob Defense" game mode. It's surprisingly challenging to play TW trying to NOT shoot anyone, to escape fights, still maintain coverage, and I do manage to get splatted that way a few times in some rounds. We even lose a few. If you're not vigilant enough the other noobs might figure out how to hit and then your team is behind. I slacked too long a few rounds when I'd killed a few of them and decided to jump back to spawn to try not interfering. And in the game of evasion I surprised myself by how many times I fell in the water at Mahi and museum trying to make long jumps I normally wouldn't try, in order to evade without firing. (Learned a new jumping spot too!)
On the chance I get a fresh faced level 1, I play "defend the noob at all costs" - go for bare on the other team, and go kamikaze taking hits for the hapless noob :D And that's a fun thing to brag about ;)
It's fun for everyone. The noobs get to try their game with the high level players they shouldn't be playing with not interfering, or neutralized by their own high level. Everyone gets a normal k/d at the end (though I'll top the ink rank , of course.) And I got a surprisingly challenging game of stealth painting only.
Once in a while you get that level 8 that goes 12/2, that splats you several times too, and you realize that's no level 8, it's just an alt for a good player (or a serious shooter veteran either way.) Then you just have to play normal and assume the other team is decent.
The other fun half of it is that it returned the joy of being a Splatoon noob. I missed that feeling of when the game was new and thinking it was the coolest thing ever to come off spawn and start painting everything around, assuming the enemy was doing that too, and not racing to center. And it really IS cool. For kicks, even you S+ ranks, should just go in Turf War, grab a Jr. or Aerospray and just start painting around the spawn for old time's sake. It's fun and zen!
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