Splatoon 3 - Curling Hurl
5As far as I know, this is the only new Challenge for April 2024. I should really get around to playing the reruns, considering I can get a Shell-Out Token for them, though I tend to forget because I don’t schedule an alarm for it. I suppose that’s a sign of the Challenges winding down, now that we’re in our last quarter of Splatoon 3 content, with just one more season of new weapons, one more Big Run, one more whole catalog, and two more Eggstra Work sessions.
In this Challenge, you must use a weapon with the Curling Bomb. For the record, those weapons are the Heavy Edit Splatling, L-3 Nozzlenose, Painbrush, REEF-LUX 450, Splat Roller (and thus also the Order Roller Replica), Sploosh-o-matic, .52 Gal Deco, Clash Blaster Neo, and Enperry Splat Dualies. Incidentally, counting the Splat Roller and the Order Roller Replica as the same weapon, each of these weapons has a different special weapon. Not only that, but the Curling Bombs here are much bigger than your standard Curling Bombs. They will use the same amount ink as a regular Curling Bomb, but they will trace a wider path, travel out further, have a bigger explosion (including a larger instant KO radius), and, the most important difference, will instantly splat any opponent they touch as they travel onward. This allows you to effectively snipe a Curling Bomb like you would a Green Shell in Mario Kart. (Incidentally, none of these weapons are Chargers, so you won’t be doing any sniping in the normal sense in this Challenge.)
These are the hours, in Pacific Daylight Time, in which this Challenge was active:
April 12th, 2024: 5 PM to 7 PM, 9 PM to 11 PM
April 13th, 2024: 1 AM to 3 AM, 5 AM to 7 AM, 9 AM to 11 AM, 1 PM to 3 PM
I played in the second session, as while I would be able to drive home from work by 5 PM that day if I made no other stops, there were a few other errands I was going to do that would’ve not given me enough time to get my five wins by 7 o’clock.
The stages are Hammerhead Bridge and Wahoo World, and the mode was Splat Zones.
Since only weapons with the Curling Bomb are allowed, I felt like this was up my alley, as two of my best weapons use the Curling Bomb: the Sploosh-o-matic and the Painbrush. So those are the two I turned to!
00:31 - Match #1
Hammerhead Bridge
Splat Zones (Curling Hurl)
Sploosh-o-matic
Color Scheme: Field of Flowers
Song: “Headhammer” by C-Side
Octolings: 4
I picked the Sploosh-o-matic because of its surprise factor, mobility, and great capacity for both inking and splatting, but because of its extremely low range, it has a harder time on long, narrow stages…like Hammerhead Bridge, and the game would not let me play on Wahoo World while I used this weapon. Still, I tried what I could. I also realized that Hammerhead Bridge was chosen likely BECAUSE of the long, narrow layout, making it hard to dodge the oversized Curling Bombs.
02:38 - Match #2
Hammerhead Bridge
Splat Zones (Curling Hurl)
Sploosh-o-matic
Color Scheme: Fruit Snacks
Song: “Paintscraper” by C-Side
Octolings: 7
Splattercolor Screens can be good at concealing Curling Bombs thrown fro behind it, and that’s precisely what people with the .96 Gal Deco were doing on both sides. Problem is that your own team’s Splattercolor Screens also conceal opposing Curling Bombs too. (And your own.) I had to find myself going around them so as to not let my own view get obscured. It was also getting very hard to tell which Curling Bombs belonged to which team, as it felt like an unusually large number of them bouncing around, even for a Challenge like this.
08:14 - Match #3
Hammerhead Bridge
Splat Zones (Curling Hurl)
Painbrush
Color Scheme: Wario
Song: “Headhammer” by C-Side
Octolings: 4
I like using the Sploosh-o-matic, but I decided that the Painbrush is better suited for what I’ve been seeing based on how my teammates and opponents are behaving. It doesn’t have the Sploosh’s agility, with its long startup and cooldown times making me a sitting duck for inkoming Curling Bombs, but it DOES have greater pressure from the front and the Wave Breaker, which helps me alert my teammates that an opponent is somewhere. They practically hunt them down!
10:16 - Match #4
Wahoo World
Splat Zones (Curling Hurl)
Painbrush
Color Scheme: Candy Pumpkins
Song: “No Quarters” by Chirpy Chips
Octolings: 6
Finally, I get a match in Wahoo World. There was one point that the Splat Roller user on the other side decided to set up as Big Bubbler camp near our spawn point. This was something we could safely ignore because the Splat Zone was on our control at that time.
15:21 - Match #5
Wahoo World
Splat Zones (Curling Hurl)
Painbrush
Color Scheme: Blueberry Lemonade
Song: “Rockagilly Blues” by Yoko & the Gold Bazookas
Octolings: 8
I think for the first time outside of a Splatfest, I’ve put up an all-Octoling match. The highlight of this match, though, was that I inflicted most of a Wipeout onto the other team while waiting to be respawned from getting splatted.
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