Wrexsoul
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- Aug 21, 2015
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- Wrexsoul
Hey you all,
Summer work kept me busy for a long while, but a few weeks ago I started playing Splatoon a bit more seriously, and began climbing the rankings. I'm not a prodigy by far, so it has taken me a while (and lots of experimenting with weapons), but the day before Rainmaker hit, I was up at 96 points in A- and felt I could climb further pretty easily, so I started feeling good about myself.
Then Rainmaker came. The last few sessions I've had have exclusively been the new mode (whether by design or ****ty luck I dunno). In a few days, my ranking has bombed like never before - I'm losing 4/5 games, and went from said A- 96 down to where I'm now desperately trying to keep up a B+ 10-50 rating, and I've a feeling I'm going to drop even further if I don't get another mode soon.
I need help... Rainmaker seems like a really fun mode if I was playing in a coordinated group, but as it is I have no clue what I can do. Even when I sucked in the previous modes, I felt I could stay roughly even winning/losing if I got in a good group, but my first sitting I seriously lost 16 games IN A ROW playing Rainmaker. The first half of them I even topped the list every game, with a K/D ratio of 2:1 or better, and still lost.
I seriously need advice about how to play this mode. The weapons I mostly play are: Nozzlenose with run-speed/special up, Blaster or Ranged Blaster with strength gear, Carbon Roller with strength gear (or occasionally a brush) and rarely also do good with a regular charger. I used to main the cal. 96, but haven't used it in a long time.
Regarding strategy, I've tried the following (as well as mixing it up):
- Focusing on killing the enemy team and leave the Rainmaker to my guys. This usually leads to nobody getting anywhere and leaves me completely reliant on my team (and usually ends with someone from the enemy team solo capping it after 3 gruelling minutes), or having my carrier completely ignore the path I've made and rushing down the middle.
- Trying to ink a path in advance for a quick rush. This usually leads to a 3v4 situation by the Rainmaker which we always lose.
- Focusing on getting the Rainmaker. Apparently I suck balls running the thing, I just get splatted whenever I pick it up, or feel like my teammates don't do anything to get me forward.
- Bodyguarding the carrier. While this works for a bit, they always end up getting splattered.
I seriously haven't got a clue about how to turn this around, but I feel like I'm gonna end up in the C-ranks again soon if I don't do something. Help... :(
-EDIT- I think one main reason I'm not doing good in this mode is that I usually play as more of a skirmisher, moving around on the stage to ambush people and get to the objective from other directions than head-on. Since Rainmaker can be over so freaking fast, this often screws me up...
Summer work kept me busy for a long while, but a few weeks ago I started playing Splatoon a bit more seriously, and began climbing the rankings. I'm not a prodigy by far, so it has taken me a while (and lots of experimenting with weapons), but the day before Rainmaker hit, I was up at 96 points in A- and felt I could climb further pretty easily, so I started feeling good about myself.
Then Rainmaker came. The last few sessions I've had have exclusively been the new mode (whether by design or ****ty luck I dunno). In a few days, my ranking has bombed like never before - I'm losing 4/5 games, and went from said A- 96 down to where I'm now desperately trying to keep up a B+ 10-50 rating, and I've a feeling I'm going to drop even further if I don't get another mode soon.
I need help... Rainmaker seems like a really fun mode if I was playing in a coordinated group, but as it is I have no clue what I can do. Even when I sucked in the previous modes, I felt I could stay roughly even winning/losing if I got in a good group, but my first sitting I seriously lost 16 games IN A ROW playing Rainmaker. The first half of them I even topped the list every game, with a K/D ratio of 2:1 or better, and still lost.
I seriously need advice about how to play this mode. The weapons I mostly play are: Nozzlenose with run-speed/special up, Blaster or Ranged Blaster with strength gear, Carbon Roller with strength gear (or occasionally a brush) and rarely also do good with a regular charger. I used to main the cal. 96, but haven't used it in a long time.
Regarding strategy, I've tried the following (as well as mixing it up):
- Focusing on killing the enemy team and leave the Rainmaker to my guys. This usually leads to nobody getting anywhere and leaves me completely reliant on my team (and usually ends with someone from the enemy team solo capping it after 3 gruelling minutes), or having my carrier completely ignore the path I've made and rushing down the middle.
- Trying to ink a path in advance for a quick rush. This usually leads to a 3v4 situation by the Rainmaker which we always lose.
- Focusing on getting the Rainmaker. Apparently I suck balls running the thing, I just get splatted whenever I pick it up, or feel like my teammates don't do anything to get me forward.
- Bodyguarding the carrier. While this works for a bit, they always end up getting splattered.
I seriously haven't got a clue about how to turn this around, but I feel like I'm gonna end up in the C-ranks again soon if I don't do something. Help... :(
-EDIT- I think one main reason I'm not doing good in this mode is that I usually play as more of a skirmisher, moving around on the stage to ambush people and get to the objective from other directions than head-on. Since Rainmaker can be over so freaking fast, this often screws me up...
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