What do yall think of the Wellstring V?

[Catloafman]

Personally I think the weapon looks REALLY cool not only design wise but also the fact that its basically a inverse tristringer with a little reeflux mixed in is just so cool
I am also very interested in this weapons damage it seems good but it does have 5 arrows so its hard to tell

 

[Mx_Diva]

I know I'm being biased but as a 5-star stringer player I have mixed feelings myself. To me it's how it will perform in the end so I will definitely use it.

 

[Grushi]

I feel like it's either going to be bad and be a funny gimmick weapon, or be good and be the most oppressive thing in the game lmao.
This thing casually bombards an entire area with its full charge, this is insane, it's like you have perma missiles on hand (oh god imagine the charger matchup). Plus you can have a faster one shot to defend yourself too??

It could be fun though, this weapon sounds like a goddamn miniboss, and I'm here for it. And the kit is (most likely) autobomb stamp so at least it'll have to go in aggressively

 

[ikebro]

i think it looks really cool, i like the weapon animations on it!!
i personally have hope that it'll be good, you stringer players deserve a little treat for waiting this long
(those 5 arrows are going to be so annoying to fight against, good weapon or not.....)

 

[QuagSass]

It has little splatling nozzles on it :)

On another note, I hope it's decent. I like playing tri-stringer a lot, but I have very little reason to do that when splatlings are so much better in almost every way. Would love to have more of a reason to play an AOE backline.

 

[Catloafman]

So it has Auto stamp and the second kit has point sensor and wave breaker
It got the stringer kit luck but at least these kits COULD be good with some buffs if Nintendo continues to support this game

 

[OnePotWonder]

I want it to be good. Quite badly.
I love stringers in concept but all of their kits are bad. It has to work well with what it's been given.

 

[AbsentAria]

I'm looking forward to a stringer with a higher focus on AOE damage. I'm definitely giving both kits a try and custom might become one of my flexes for zones & CB.
I'm mixed on auto + hammer, auto definitely works but idk how I feel about using hammer but sensor + wave I'm down to use, location is so strong with stringers

 

[isaac4]

The design looks very cool and even though I don't play stringers, I was happy for those who do play that class having a another chance for a good kit.
They just revealed both kits for the Wellspring V earlier though with Auto/Stamp and Sensor/Wave so that doesn't seem to have ended up working out.

 

[cipsbsndj]

The vanilla kit’s gonna have Stamp, and that’s gonna be the reason I play this thing to at least three stars freshness (I have a weird obsession with Ultra Stamp)

 

[Grushi]

It's a heavyweight weapon! Welcome to the club! I love heavy weapons

The more I think about it the more I see some potential here, it looks like it paints decently, and the arrows seem like they're a 4-shot, so they're probably the same as tri-stringer's. It also gets those arrows with the first charge, so you can concentrate them on one area to flush someone out from under a ledge or something, and you can always launch them vertically to attack a single player. It probably has insane object damage too. And the charge time and ink consumption look manageable.

My biggest worry is the close range one-shot. I doubt you need to hit all 5 arrows to kill, if it's 4, it's going to be really hard to hit, but you still get the explosions from the other arrows, so it could be fine? If it's 3 arrows though, that's really good imo, it doesn't sound too difficult to hit.

I could see it being really fun, it just needs its specials (preferrably stamp) to get buffed and it could be solid

 

[missingno]

I always said I'd try Tri-Stringer if it had a better kit, but Splatoon 3 be like this. Wellstring lost me as soon as I saw Stamp. But now the Custom kit looks... less bad. I already play Heavy so I don't hate Wave, but it is fairly weak in this meta. At this point in the game, a kit that is merely 'less bad' doesn't cut it.

I was holding out a shred of 10% hope that even after content updates are done, maybe they could still do third kits but no other content beyond that. But I think dropping both kits at once killed that last bit of hope, it's not gonna happen.

 

[Mr Turtle]

As a big fan of the tri stringer, I hope it's good but stamp and wave breaker might prevent it from reaching its full potential if they don't get a buff. I don't think the vanilla tri stringer kit is as bad as some people say it is but having generally weaker kits seems to be a recurring problem for stringers.

 

[Mili]

My favorite looking bow for sure! Even if the weapon is not one I really plan to play, the looks alone are more than enough for me.

 

[Masked_Katz]

I really like the design on them, it's not what I imagined a new stringer would look like but they are still a breath of fresh air. Many people say that its kits are doomed from the start, but I personally don't think that's the case - what if it's just another instance of a main weapon that is powerful even with the subpar sub/special (such as the .52 gals or heavy splatlings)? From the videos so far, it seems like a menace at nearly any range, and I'm excited to see just how powerful (or not) it really is.

 

[missingno]

"Good main weapon with a bad kit" is something that was relevant in early S3 when there weren't a ton of kits to compete with, but over time that archetype has largely fallen out of the meta because there are a lot more good kits to compete with. I'm especially thinking of the fall of Tetra here, and I would argue Heavy isn't particularly relevant anymore. I don't think .52 falls into that category, the Wail may not be amazing but Wall synergizes extremely well for it.

 

[TheBearProphet]

I’m very interested in trying this one out. I mostly play splatlings but I have been trying to learn tristringer. Does anyone have a good read on the range? It looks pretty comparable to the tri to me but I’ve seen some people say (definitively) that it is shorter range or even that it is a midline. It looks longer range than what I would consider midline though (e.g. nautilus or Heavy Edit)

 

[OnePotWonder]

I’m very interested in trying this one out. I mostly play splatlings but I have been trying to learn tristringer. Does anyone have a good read on the range? It looks pretty comparable to the tri to me but I’ve seen some people say (definitively) that it is shorter range or even that it is a midline. It looks longer range than what I would consider midline though (e.g. nautilus or Heavy Edit)

Looks like it will have similar range to Bamboozler or Rapid Pro. The awkward range value between midline and backline.

 

[youre_a_squib_now]

I did not realize bamboo had that much range? I'll have to try it out

 

[TheBearProphet]

Looks like it will have similar range to Bamboozler or Rapid Pro. The awkward range value between midline and backline.

If so, That’s right around Heavy Splatling range, which is kind of the minimum I was hoping for. I’m really looking forward to giving it a shot.