So after not touching Clam Blitz for a couple weeks, I decided to do some matches to try to learn a new play style. I started last night at B-, and did a couple earlier this morning.
The matches I did last night left a bad taste in my mouth. I got easy wins out of them, but simply because someone "disconnected" immediately after my team scored. Obviously this is due to someone rage quitting. Like....why? Why turn the game on at all if you're not going to play? Are you expecting to get carried through ranked? These people aren't just ruining the matches for others, but the others still get punished for the "fair loss", because it'll sometimes take a while to score. These matches were around 1500 rank power.
The matches I did earlier this morning were matches I never expected in B rank Clam Blitz. I had teams who were coordinated. Yes, you didn't read that wrong. I had coordinated teams in rank B solo Clam Blitz. Take a minute to process that. We had a teammate who would hide by the enemy's goal and act as a beacon. We had one who would go "this way" with several clams and superjump to the hidden teammate. The guy then noticed I nearly had 10 clams, and threw his clams to me to give me a super clam and cause us to score. I had teammates who watched my back and shot down an enemy closing in on me. They would "booyah!" me for splatting someone chasing them down. Admittedly this became more common as I won matches and the rank power of matches increased. I started at 1600 and ended at around 1800.
Also using a Splat Roller in Clam Blitz is a blast. I'm garbage with it, but it's a nice playstyle in the middle of all the chaos.