cwjakesteel
Semi-Pro Squid
Uhhh, not at all. In my previous post, I said that the benefit of using ink saver main is more efficient when using it with your sub weapon together, than ink recovery is, even though it helps both directly. I.e. the sum of the benefit of ink recovery helping both your main and sub weapons together is less than the benefit of ink recovery main only affecting your main weapon when also using it together. It doesn't say anything about my playstyle, except that I wish to maximize efficiency of both main and sub.You seem to focus too much on your main tank which says a lot about your playstyle. i don't need to say much at this point.
Indeed the only time I ever run out of ink is when I use my sub weapon in combat, and I nearly always use it in combat. I mainly use the tri-slosher with the disrupter which uses 50% of your ink tank and tried to use a a set full of ink saver subs so that I wouldn't be at such a disadvantage in terms of how much ink I have left to use on my main, but I found out that I only save 25% at most with ink saver sub. So, with ink saver main, the 50% left of your tank is worth more than the 62.5% of your tank (that ink saver sub would give) because it's effectively more ink.This is key to ink recovery. I can't remember the last time I went from full to empty in a ranked game using only primary weapon. The only time I get close to running out of ink is when subs are used in combat, like splash wall/bombs. You shouldn't be spending that much time in kid form if you don't want to get splat by a charger or other long range weapon. The more time you spend in squid form, the bigger benefit of ink recovery, and it can add up to quite a bit over a 5 minute match.
Also you're wrong about ink recovery being more effective the more time you spend in squid form. It's the complete opposite. Ink recovery benefits you most by reducing the amount of time you spend in ink. Consider the fact that you spend a lot of time in squid form, just how much time are you spending in ink when you ink tank is full? If that happens you are wasting the potential of ink recovery up, because it means that with the time you spend in ink with your tank already full, the person without ink recovery would have also recovered his ink to the fullest. He took a longer time, but it didn't make a difference because he wasn't going into kid form any time soon.
Ink Recovery Up exists to reduce squid time for the sake of combat, because the time saved is actually marginal. Yes it's up to 40%, but that's a total of 1.2 seconds, which only makes a difference when you need that small amount of time which is in heated combat. Again, since Ink Saver main gives you 60% more ink, you actually have more ink than with Ink Recovery up even though your tank isn't full with the exception of the use of sub weapons. On every other occasion Ink Saver Main is superior apart from peak-a-boom type sub weapon usage (i.e. use a sub, go in ink, use it again, go back in ink).
This makes me think that Ink Saver Sub might actually be the least useful, unless you are the type to throw a lot of bombs out at once and then go into ink. Ink Saver Sub may need a buff imo.
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