Let's make a balance patch, BUT...

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Alright, here's an idea I've had for a while but not felt like making until now. This is something I've done in Pokemon spaces and thought would be fun to adapt into something that makes a bit more sense for Splatoon. Discussion's been less than frequent in this forum lately so now's the best time to make a thread where discussion won't happen for a while LOL

Idea here is simple. Everyone is going to fill out a one-question (two if you count your name) form where they submit ONE balance change of their choosing. Can be to any main, sub, special, gear ability, or similar. My only real rules are to try and make it reasonably similar to something Nintendo could do, so no new kit or anything, try not to make it too extreme like boosting Undercover Brella to 100 damage per pellet, and to not mess with your main since I feel like a lot of those sorts of submission would defeat the purpose. Seems straightforward enough.

HOWEVER,

Every submission will be private, and if I find out anyone here has told anyone else what they've submitted, I will remove it. Nobody will know what everyone else has put until everything's set in stone. The whole point of this is to make it entirely possible for weapons to get overbuffed or overnerfed if they become too common of targets. Want to nerf .52 Gal? Well, a lot of people hate that weapon, so it may not be worth using your one change on something that you may well find much more tolerable after a change someone else might have made. Want to make Ultra Stamp's rush mode invincible? Well, someone else just made it twice as fast, so that special's going to be obnoxious now. These sort of mindgames might make it entirely possible that neither .52 Gal nor Ultra Stamp gets any changes as people might be scared to mess with those.

Since this concept kind of relies on everything being private, you'll need to fill out this Google form with your one change here. I'll be sharing the results in a few days and will give a 24-hour warning before we're done. Looking forward to seeing what everyone comes up with!
 

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the whole point of this is we're not supposed to be coordinating. the result's likely going to have ridiculous stuff and or feel like something's missing and that's fine. please don't share specific stuff you want to see other people do
 

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what happened in the pokemon balance change?
Wasn't a balance change one but everyone submitted their own Pokemon to be used in its own meta. We ran it twice.

First was fascinating because there were like two good defensive Pokemon and the rest were strong offensive ones that mostly lost to the same big defensive one, but often could wear it down or help work towards breaking past it. This lead to a very unique, straightforward, and somehow very skillful game. Second one had twice as many participants and was extremely unbalanced LOL

Not the same ultimately as what this thread is trying to do but it's as close as you can get.
 

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