How much I enjoy every Slosher(feat. CRB & S-Blast '91)

[isaac4]

Just decided to see how I felt about every Slosher in terms of how fun they are to play, for me of course.
The list is ordered too so yeah, Dread D is at the bottom for me which I was surprised about since I thought bottom place would go to cExplo.

 

[Grushi]

Dread D truly is a weapon kit you can pick for the splatoon 3 video game.
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[isaac4]

Dread D truly is a weapon kit you can pick for the splatoon 3 video game.
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I love placing little structures all over the map.

 

[chaotik0]

it took a week to figure out you like playing machine?? lol anyway this is pretty much the same as me except swap machines with the splat buckets or whatever they call it
sloshers are one of the cooler classes and all the kits are mostly coherent... except they gave the only slosher that doesnt splat in 2 sloshes a beakon (WHERE IS MY TORP) and a wavebreaker that doesnt even combo with 1 slosh, and that special basically already doesnt do anything AAAA

 

[isaac4]

it took a week to figure out you like playing machine??

Nah, this isn't the thread I was talking about.
Just something small I wanted to make.

 

[isaac4]

sloshers are one of the cooler classes and all the kits are mostly coherent... except they gave the only slosher that doesnt splat in 2 sloshes a beakon (WHERE IS MY TORP) and a wavebreaker that doesnt even combo with 1 slosh, and that special basically already doesnt do anything AAAA

Yeahh, the kit itself could potentially work but not on Dread. I know they just wanted to give it a support kit but the sub and special do not help the main weapon as much as devs probably think.

 

[Catloafman]

Every other sloshers kit EVEN cexplo makes some sort of sense
I have no idea what they were thinking when they made dreadD nothing works on it

 

[isaac4]

Every other sloshers kit EVEN cexplo makes some sort of sense
I have no idea what they were thinking when they made dreadD nothing works on it

I can see what they were trying to do with cExplo. The weapon has a history of getting kits with a special to protect itself and they needed more TSD weapons so they just gave it to Explo. Even Splash Wall could be great if the main weapon wasn't already so ink hungry.

 

[Bennet]

I like sloshers but I don't know how to use them, I just barely splat anyone with them because once they see me they just run and then hide them splat me from behind

 

[isaac4]

After spending multiple matches trying out all the buckets for the sub/special tier lists and CRB being added to the game, I wanted to come back and update my list.
I included both CRB and S-Blast because they don't really change the point of thread anyway.
They're the only two non-buckets I play so why not?

I could see cExplo going higher but at the moment, I don't find the kit that fun to use. Most of my enjoyment comes from using the main weapon rather than what the sub and special provide. Definitely didn't deserve to be down there with Dread D though.
Slosher Deco has also gone higher since I've started having more fun with Zip on Bucket. Angle Shooter would normally put it lower than nTri but that kit is stuck with a 210p Cooler

 

[electronvolt]

I really like cExplo (I like being able to use splashdown to play a bit more aggressively), but I wish it didn't have splash wall.
I don't think there are many weapons splash wall is good for, because it makes you stay in one place in a game about movement. (also brella shields are just better splash wall)

 

[isaac4]

I really like cExplo (I like being able to use splashdown to play a bit more aggressively), but I wish it didn't have splash wall.
I don't think there are many weapons splash wall is good for, because it makes you stay in one place in a game about movement. (also brella shields are just better splash wall)

I agree, Splash Wall is great but the way the sub works makes it so that a lot of weapons don't work well with it.
I don't think it's horrible on Explo but if they really wanted a slosher with Splash Wall then Blob was right there.

 

[OnePotWonder]

Here's my list. It mostly speaks for itself.

The only Slosher that perfectly balances a fun playstyle with a decent power level, for me, is Slosher Deco. The four sloshers below it come pretty close, but fall a bit short for various reasons; mostly my not liking their specials.
Tri Nouveau and cExplo are both fine weapons, as the tier says. They can be very annoying to fight, but they're genuinely fun to play.

I don't actually hate Dread D, it's just that they could have given it any other kit and it would have been better off. I do hate vBlob, though; the reason I don't like vSlosher as much as Slosher Deco because I feel like it plays too passively. Imagine how I feel about Blob. I slightly prefer its Kraken kit for similar reason.
Lastly, vTri is awkward and vExplo is also very passive.

I generally prefer midline sloshers, especially those with good tools to deal with long range threats. I really hope Bloblobber eventually gets a rework to make it play more aggressively; if not for its issues, it would probably be my favorite slosher.

 

[isaac4]

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Here's my list. It mostly speaks for itself.

The only Slosher that perfectly balances a fun playstyle with a decent power level, for me, is Slosher Deco. The four sloshers below it come pretty close, but fall a bit short for various reasons; mostly my not liking their specials.
Tri Nouveau and cExplo are both fine weapons, as the tier says. They can be very annoying to fight, but they're genuinely fun to play.

I don't actually hate Dread D, it's just that they could have given it any other kit and it would have been better off. I do hate vBlob, though; the reason I don't like vSlosher as much as Slosher Deco because I feel like it plays too passively. Imagine how I feel about Blob. I slightly prefer its Kraken kit for similar reason.
Lastly, vTri is awkward and vExplo is also very passive.

I generally prefer midline sloshers, especially those with good tools to deal with long range threats. I really hope Bloblobber eventually gets a rework to make it play more aggressively; if not for its issues, it would probably be my favorite slosher.

What special besides Zipcaster would you enjoy using the most on Bucket?

 

[OnePotWonder]

What special besides Zipcaster would you enjoy using the most on Bucket?

Is that really a question? Crab Tank, without competition. I say slosher players were robbed of it; it would fit well on so many of them.

 

[isaac4]

It's been almost 5 months since the last bucket tier list I made and my place with Splatoon 3 has changed a lot since then so I just wanted to update my thoughts on all the sloshers again.

Obviously the biggest change here is Machine not being at the top anymore.
I already listed most of my thoughts in my Machine rant thread but the short answer is that the weapon has too many issues for me to ignore.
I still dislike Strikes but playing comp has made them more tolerable since I'm not focused on the specifics of how synergistic and fun the kit is to use but rather what it can provide for my team.
Ntri would also be higher than both Machine kits (especially Machine Neo) if it wasn't a 220p Cooler weapon and also the only good Tri-Slosher kit which limits the weapon into a support role.

There's nothing else I have to add for the rest of the buckets here.
They exist and I have no reason to use them outside of messing around in Open.

 

[Mili]

Putting my 2 cents over here, I think sloshers are the class I enjoy the most overall surprisingly enough for me, even the ones I'm not a fan of could at least be fun to use sometimes.

If machine had the nerf reverted it would be my main I think but that's something I'm sure most people have heard about a lot already so I'll talk about how I really do like Vslosher, I think the main weapon is really great! it's strong and it's fun to manipulate the slosh, so I'm happy trying to get better with it. I think I prefer other specials over tri strike on slosher but is a strong special so it's fine.

For NMachine, I think it's really fun, but I don't like the kit as much as vmachine, so I tend to prefer playing it over neo. Dread is just really fun for me, I love how much paint it has, I really like suction bomb, and using a slider weapon is fun, I like slider enough to want to play a few weapons that has it.
Tri noveau is also good, tri as a main weapon is just good, and the support oriented kit makes it nice to play once in a while.

Slosher Deco would be really fun for me if it didn't have line marker, I just don't like the sub on this weapon. Cexplo is my explosher of choice, since I like triple splashdown and wall is useful, and explo is a weapon I don't use too often but I find it fun.
Bloblobber is also just fun for me, I really like the projectiles it has, even if they're slow and obnoxious, I wouldn't be mad if they reworked them to be different, but at least keep the bubbles!

These speak for themselves, not a fan of mist on tri, or the vexplo kit just being kind of boring for me, I don't actually have many problems with it if I'm being honest.
Also I put Blobber Deco in the middle but it should've been at the bottom, not a fan of Kraken on it and dart is just the nail in the coffin for me lol.

Anyways sorry to only be able to describe stuff as fun or not a fan, I think I only have real thoughts about the weapons on the first two tiers but I would have to try and write on them outside of a forum first I think. Bleh.

Edit: I think you forgot to add S blast so I forgot too but I would put S blast and range on really enjoy using them, they would be pretty high up on my weapons list in general, I like them a lot (both range blasters btw, only the blue S blast)

 

[SAMICOM]

Just decided to see how I felt about every Slosher in terms of how fun they are to play, for me of course.
The list is ordered too so yeah, Dread D is at the bottom for me which I was surprised about since I thought bottom place would go to cExplo.

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Cexplo slander is NOT allowed in this household.