The trends I've seen are mostly far, far more bombs and bomb rushes on the battlefield which is actually extremely annoying. I've seen more losing streaks and horrible matches at least in the A's on my alt. It was bad before but it's becoming almost unplayable now. Win one lose 6 win one, lose 6 mostly due to horrible teams, followed by mistakes made due to being too aggressive after spending so much time trying to compensate for the prior horrible teams. Finally I've seen a rise of ohko splattershots for some reason. Pretty much EVERY splattershot is now an ohko weapon and I don't know why. I assume it's bomb induced lag. Many times they, and blasters aren't even looking in my direction and I get splatted by them. Walked up behind a range blaster yesterday and I explode....he didn't even look at me, he was shooting the opposite direction. All the extra bombs are almost certainly making the lag problems worse. It's hard to defend, especially with close weapons, when EVERY player may or may not be shooting at you and you will never know it. I blame the bombs!
Also a LOT of splash-o-matics in ranked now.
This just in: Most Bamboozler users still can't use the Bamboozler properly.
Frequently on teams with Bamboozlers who get 2/7, 3/9, 1/6, and I even witnessed an appalling 0/8 KD last night. GET A CLUE AND PICK SOMETHING ELSE
I'm fine I'm totally fine
LOL, as someone that's started with bamboozlers as mains recently, I can say that the big thing is variable performance. Some matches I might be that 2/7 or 3/9 and others I might be the 12/8. I took my alt from C-0 to B+ using almost exclusively bamboozlers and acing the field. But the horrible horrible matches I've been getting lately it hasn't gone as well. It's frustrating when you can't tell if you're sucking with the weapon or the match just sucked :) I think I'm sucking at the weapon then revert to prior successful weapons and still keep losing indicating that the weapon was not the issue :) That's always been a frustrating factor in splatoon.
Is it weird that I seem more consistent with H3? :P
But sometimes bambi is amazing....
There's been a rise in Squiffers in both Turf War and Ranked. I've noticed that people are beginning to use the Squiffer quite a lot more often. It's usually the Fresh Squiffer or the Bubble one (can't remember if that's New or Classic). The Permanent Inkbrush has been on the rise but from my experience, it's just people playing around in squads. Most Inkbrushes I see during squads get very low K/D rates and are usually the least helpful people. :p I hardly ever see them in solo Ranked. They're definitely more of a squad thing for S/S+ ranks at least.
The Custom E-Liter has been on a sharp rise too. I've had way more Custom E-Liters on my team than regular E-Liters these days. :)
P Inkbrush is even more confounding than bambi. I made it (before the currennt disastrous losing streak) from A-30 to A72 using P inkbrush. Once I started using that, in the middle of a losing streak, I started DOMINATING. 16/9 one round. Winning every round. Then the next day I tried in in a squad game and went 3/16. Some matches 0/5! It's very hit or miss sometimes. But I guess the high risk reward weapons are like that: If you have a really good opponent on the other team who happens to be running a direct counter weapon to yours - carbon rollers for instance, you're going to be in trouble if they target you or camp near the zone in zones....you HAVE to go past them to contribute. And they'll get you every time.
Precisely... I just expect S Rank team mates to BE S Rank team mates. I don't know a single player of any game that only mains one thing exclusively, and it'd be awfully boring if they did. But all games, Splatoon included, have ways of practicing that don't carry heavy consequences when points are involved, especially for other people. There's simply no excuse.
That's the thing though, Splatoon stupidly doesn't. Yeah you can create an alt, but you shouldn't have to create an alt. Technically (and I say this as someone with two alts) you shouldn't even be ALLOWED to create alts. That's half of what's broken in ranked - S+ skilll people dominating B's and A's. TW isn't adequate weapon practice though I use it as best as I can - I spent 2 months learning eliter in TW before even going into ranked with one. But only ranked tests ranked. And even if you ace your way through the B's with a weapon, it changes so much when you take it to A's & S's. that the only way to really practice and learn how to play a weapon against high rank people is to play them against high rank people....and possible suck rank points from your team.
Not all of us have bubbler's, birdie.... :P
