"Custom" Weapons

[J'Wiz]

I thought about the Custom weapons for a bit. It made me realize that from our perspectives, they're not custom at all! Then I thought about what I would do to these weapons if they were custom.

If you could give a weapon a sub and special, what would it be? I'm not suggesting they actually do this. I'm sure players would come up with some crazy broken combos.

Some I can think of:

Dapple Dualies with Burst Bombs and Ink Armor. I think this would make the Dapple Dualies very deadly. Further increase their close-combat abilities.

E-Liter with Autobombs and Tenta Missiles. The theme of this set is "nothing can hide from me!".

 

[calamaro]

I would like to see ink armor with the slosher.

If I could custom weapons it would be more on the appearance side. A blacked out mini splatling with the ability to add a few brand logo stickers would be pretty slick I think.

 

[Elecmaw]

Normally i'd be against this idea in S1 (good reason why no weapon had disruptor + kraken), but by Splatoon 2 i think this is a lot more reasonable to allow people to customize their own sub + specials in this game. Specials are no longer as predominant as their S1 counterparts, plus there are a few weapons here that get hampered by bad sets (E4K and Tenta Brella) that no patches can fix.

There could be a few restrictions on it to not allow certain combinations or each weapon has a unique limited pool of sub/specials to pick from (example: Tenta Brella can only pick Sprinkers/Beakons/Bursts and Bubble Blower/Stingray/Suction Rush, it can pick them in any combination but it can't pick anything that's not listed here). It'd be a bit more interesting than the two varieties we get with each game.

 

[Jon914]

I'd like a Splattershot with Splat Bombs but a different special besides Inkjet.

 

[Gweebis]

I could use more weapons with the curling bomb splashdown combo - it works so well together. An N-ZAP with that combo would possibly be too much to handle with its most recent buffs. I'd love to give the sloshing machine the custom jet squelcher treatment - burst bombs would really help it out in close combat scenarios. What would probably warrant a nerf would be splattershot pro with burst bombs and one of the bomb rushes (curling would prolly be best) - you'd be smoothing out its downsides of lackluster close combat and turf coverage and give it a low ink sub for an already ink hungry gun.

If you could customize your weapon sets, however, there'd be no reason to release duplicate weapons, so I doubt Nintendo would ever actually do it.

 

[Captain Woomy]

I'd like a mix of the vanilla and custom jet squelcher, with burst bombs and the tenta missiles.

 

[Либра]

Some ideas I was messing around with while waiting for the (mostly disappointing) alt versions:

E-Liter PTSD-edition:
Burst Bombs + Tenta Missiles

E-Liter Custom, how it should've been:
Beakon + Splashdown, or Ink Armor, or... literally anything but Bubble Blower :D

Dynamo, Troll-Edition:
Sprinkler + Tenta Missiles

Bamboozler MK FU:
Autobombs + Suction Bomb Rush

Viability varies, but I'd certainly try these for funsies if I had the chance to do so. Obviously with balancing squissues that'll never happen, but who knows what Sheldon's picks will bring up in 2020.