Splatoon New Year’s Resolutions

[sevenleaf]

so i’ve been seeing some folks on bluesky posting about their splatoon goals for the upcoming new year and i wanted to bring that idea to y’all over here. originally i was going to post this in the competitive discussion board and orient it towards the comp-oriented folks among us (pause for “among us?”), but i decided it’d be better to open it up to all. you don’t need to be a capital C capital P Competitive Player to have goals for this game! splatoon-related goals outside of the actual game (like writing that big fanfiction in your head, starting your splatoon streamer/youtuber career, etc) are also welcome. hashing out plans to meet these goals is encouraged but not required.

i’ll start:

• finally hit S+. i’ve been ranking up to S and then hitting a wall since fresh season ‘23. this is getting ridiculous, man.
  • for a while i’ve had the idea of trying to play one series, or at least part of one series, per day, but i get burnt on a strict daily thing like that quickly. (also, i work one 16-hour day a week.) but i do think the thing holding me back is in part that i lose motivation to keep playing series. maybe if i can set a smaller goal, like “finish two series tickets a week”, that’d be more effective?
• develop a better warm-up routine. i’ve mostly been winging it by like, stretching for a minute and then rolling around shooting at lobby targets and calling that my warm-up.
  • i think part of this is to be structured but flexible about it. like, what can i do if i have all the time i need to warm up? if i only have 10, or 5, or less than that, what’s essential and what can be dropped? i also want to turn back to the community’s knowledge here—splatoon players everywhere, including here on an old thread, have been discussing how they warm up.
• play in more tournaments, with or without my team. i think part of what’s holding me back as a player is that i just… don’t get as much competitive experience as i’d like. loosely i’d like to aim for one a month, whether that’s something low-level like reach, a draft tournament, an open weekly, or even some weird one-off gimmick tournament.
  • part of this is finding the tournaments in the first place, so i’ll keep a closer eye on things like the splatoon competitive discord feed. i also need to be less shy about trying to put together pickups if my team isn’t available or interested in a tournament i want to play.
• stop saying “one day i’ll write my over-ambitious fancomic” and start just doing it. it won’t write itself!!!
  • the comic format is something i need practice with, so this year i’ll actually draw some smaller comics. but my inexperience with the medium shouldn’t be stopping me from at least outlining the story so it doesn’t just exist in my head. i do NOT have infallible memory

i have non-time-sensitive results-based goals like “reach a div 7-ish skill level,” “make a bit of a name for myself as a player,” etc etc, but besides the S+ goal, i wanted to focus on actions i can take this year rather than results i may or may not see. don’t let that stop YOU from making goals like “i wanna hit div X and have 1 squillion subscribers on youtube” though :)

 

[solz]

get rank A-

 

[Vidknight]

Alright I got some I can drop.

1. Get top 500 in all modes. I feel that this is possible since I got top 500 in Clam blitz and rainmaker So I only need it for TC and zones. Zones might be a bit of a problem since I consider it my worse mode. But I still think I can do it.

2. Join a comp team. I been interested in comp for a bit and I want to hopefully join a team next year

3. Create some page about splatoon on my site. Out of all of these this one is the most likely to happen. Maybe it could be about myself as a player and comp experience or it could be about why I like the game and franchise as a whole.

3.5. Join a splatoon webring

4. Learn animation and video editing. I had this idea for some sort of splatoon series where I go over a bunch of weapons and give my thought on them. This one is the least likely to happen since once again this is just an idea. But I would be interested in learning animation and video editing. (This one isn't really splatoon related, but it involves splatoon in a way)

5. Just meet new people in the splatoon community. I'm always open to meeting new people who likes the same thing as me (So does every other person on earth). From what I saw the splatoon community is pretty big so I hope I can at least meet one new person at least

 

[Mx_Diva]

I hear you about getting upto S+. I tried 4 times last season but all fails.
It just feels that nothing is right since the election, for me anyway.

 

[sevenleaf]

I hear you about getting upto S+. I tried 4 times last season but all fails.
It just feels that nothing is right since the election, for me anyway.

i hear you. outside of setting goals in the silly squid game i’ve been struggling to look too far into the future. but we’re gonna make it through. trust. and somewhere in the middle of making it through, we’re both gonna either reach S+ or learn valuable lessons to take forward to the year after next. yeah?

 

[isaac4]

I don't have a lot of specific goals in mind but there's still some that I can list here.
Edit: This was a lie.

• Get Top 500 in X Rank
  • This shouldn't be that hard to do. I've already reached top 500 before but never kept it for the entire season. The XP required to reach top 1000 is also much lower than it used to be so as long as I commit to grinding X Rank then I should be able to accomplish it.
• Get Top 10 in X Rank
  • I don't currently have the skill to pull this off but I think I will be able to in the future as long as I keep practicing to improve my mechanical skills, positioning, and general awareness.
• Finishing all the Squidboards thread ideas that I either haven't started on yet or just haven't finished
  • There's a lot I've been wanting to create but I haven't been too active here recently so I haven't had the chance to share them.
• Achieving 5 stars on all sloshers (except for Dread D)
  • I'm already pretty close to getting 5 stars on Dread and vTri isn't too far behind. Blob is most likely going to take the longest to do considering that I don't play it often and even when I do use it, my sessions with the weapon don't last very long.
• Play in more tournaments (either with a team or a pickup) and improve along the way
  • Pretty self-explanatory so I don't have anything to add here.
• Start working on Splatoon guides
  • I feel as if I'm good enough to finally speak more confidently on this game and how to improve in certain aspects.
• Overthrow @Grushi

 

[Hokuto]

In-game goals:

• Learn Splat Zones and Rainmaker. I suck at every mode that isn't Tower Control, but less so in Clam Blitz than the other two.
• Reach A rank by the end of an upcoming season. Not A- like last time, A rank.
• Achieve at least 4th place out of 5 in Slammin' Cup Season 4. (Go Team Snowfall!)
• Earn 5 stars with one weapon, most likely Tri-Slosher Nouveau.

Creative goals:

• Finalize designs and lore for my central six Splatoon OCs.
• Start and finish one Splatoon fan work. "Calypso Watching the Escalator" does not count, although I want to finish that too.
• Design the Splatsona I've been procrastinating on.

 

[briank913]

I'll go from feasible to very unlikely

5 star Wellstring
I'm at 391,695/1,160,000. It'll happen, it's just a matter of when.
Feasible!

1200 Hammer Win badge
Part of why I've been 4 starring Hammer weapons aand even 5 starring Wellstring is for the Golden Hammer badge. A bit more tedious since losses don't count at all but I'm at about 800/1200 hammer wins so it'll just be a matter of when.
Feasible, just a wee bit more tedious.

10,000 Maws kills
I just throw a bomb and boom. It's so easy.
Easy peasy!

10,000 Flyfish kills
Just idiotically tedious. But they don't call me the Satan hunter for nothing!
Tedious...

Now the unfeasible goal
Golden Grizzco badge
Yikes. 9,999,999 Grizzco points. I'm only at 2,100,000 something. Even starting at EVP 400 every rotation is such tedious work. The good news is that even losses count towards the goal but um...I would probably also have to forsake the Wellstring and Hammer goal if I wanna have like 10% chance to get the said Golden Grizzco badge by next December D:

9,999,999 - 2,152,741 (current Grizz point) = 7,847,258 remaining
730 hours per month / 40 hours per rotations = 18 rotations per month on average
18 rotos/month x 12 months = 216 rotations for the whole year
7,847,258 points remaining / 216 rotations = about 36,330 points per rotation which is INSANE.
And I get like 400 to 500 points per job =_=
So...
36,330 / 400 = 91 jobs per rotation =_=

Assessment: I should just go 5 star the H3 instead

Final goal: to be as cool as DzNutsKong
Assessment: impossible

 

[Mp3]

Actually play the game more often. I’m not having as much fun in it anymore

 

[Azhdarcho]

• Play more weapons - with the intent of becoming a better Hydra player. I can already tell that my work with NZap has noticeably improved my movement skills. I already believed that one-tricking crimped my skill ceiling, and that has proven true.
• Play with other people more often. It really changes my perspective on the game and makes me think about it differently. I’m just shy about it :(
• I’d really like that top 3K badge. I think I could have bagged it the past two seasons, but life got in the way of grinding it out. Life still might get in the way, so I don’t know if that’s realistic.

 

[3rd kit]

Get back to S+ rank and finish my Splatoon fanfiction. It's gonna be illmatic af and about the real world I swear.

 

[QuagSass]

I dont have many goals. My one ultimate goal is just to get enough time to play the game more again. Been busy being a responsible adult and what not, so haven't been Splatooning as much :(
We'll see how that turns out lol.

Related to the above thing, my other goal is to finally get the golden Booyah Bomb badge. I'm roughly a handful of matches away, since I have like 1100 wins on vHydra. And that's like my only Booyah weapon.
Also get an Edit (probably CrEdit) to 5 stars, maybe vHeavy too. The ones that tickle my brain most, not including Hydra and Naut cause I already have them at 5 stars.

 

[OnePotWonder]

Now that you mention it, I do have a few goals I want to reach:

Get a 5-Star badge, just to have it​

Get the gold Killer Wail 5.1 badge for my Splashtag​

Get an EVP 999 badge, just to have it​

Figure out how to deal with the contradiction in my weapon pool​

Reach top 500 in X-Battle​

Those are the most obvious ones.

 

[technobyte]

I don't have that much on my mind currently, but here's mine!

• Play more weapons: Now that I've 5-starred both edits I can get around to messing with other weapons more. Some notable ones are dualie squelchers, glooga dualies, and wellstring V (I never got around to playing the new sizzle 24 weapons much lol.) Related to this is 1 starring the rest of my 0★ weapons since I still have some of those... I do have a unique sort of challenge planned for myself in regards to this, so I might post about it some day
• Eggsecutive VP 999 and Hazard Level Max: I've gotten a lot better at salmon run over the course of this year, so I think I'm ready to go all in and aim for at least one Eggsecutive 999 rank on a map. I also want to get my first hazard level max clear.
• X Rank top 3000: This one has a painful history. I managed to grace the likes of top 3000 once, but had a bad series near the end of the season and couldn't make it back in time. I believe this was back during drizzle season 23, but I think I'm ready to give it another attempt. I'll have to work more on my awareness and strategy, but I'm sure I can pull it off.
• Crab Tank 1200 wins: This one is going to be an interesting one. Crab tank is an awesome special and by far my favorite in the series, so I'd love to get its golden badge. The only downside is that I'm not the fondest of the weapons it's on (except edit nouveau my beloved and maybe splat pro.) I did say I wanted to try more weapons, though, so to start I'll go ahead and 4★ every crab weapon (8★ in the case of splat dualies + order dualies.)
• Obtain my dream banner! I was able to use this site to get my banner seed, so I'll be working toward getting the banner shown right below this bullet point. It's simple but I like the shade of blue, and it makes the text and badges on my splashtag stand out.

On a side note I have some gear builds I want to work on for the weapons I want to try as well as some other weapons I've enjoyed playing (procrastination is the worst...) Anyway, that's all for me, at least for now. I hope next year brings fun experiences both in and out of the splatoon universe for everyone. Thanks for reading, and good luck to everyone else with their goals!

 

[Zonink]

My goals going into 2025

*Get top 10 in X rank at least once just for the badge, I know I can do it, it's just about actually putting the work into it.
*Go to another LAN, I played very well at Riptide 2024 but I'm not satisfied with getting 13th again. I really want to top 8 a major. I'm thinking about going to Seabattle in April.
*Get 10 5 Stars, currently at 5 right now but I'm only 100k away on both Pencil and Vanilla Explosher. I'm about halfway done with Wiper and VSplash. 10 is a very nice number.
*Grind weeklies, I'm not gonna get better if I just sit in open farming weapon freshness. I need to apply myself towards pickups. I want back into + dammit.
*Really push a weapon's agenda. I'm thinking Explo.

probably a few others. I'm also working on 4starring every weapon. which is going slowly. (I haven't even done a single brella yet i'm cooked.)