Splatoon 3 - Full Stream Ahead
5This Challenge requires you to use a Roller or a Brush, but it’s not the same Challenge as “Art Battle for the Ages.” No, in that Challenge, your weapons are moving at normal speed while pressed to the ground. For this one, they move at hyper speed! Like, WAY more so than if you had every item of clothing with full Run Speed Up. To that extent, that affects both the weapons you’d want to pick out and how you’d approach using these weapons. Me, I wasn’t too sure what to use, which is why I switched between different weapons.
For the record, your ink is consumed at an equally proportional rate as your increased speed. That is, you’ll use up the same amount of ink to travel a certai distance with a Brush’s hairs or a Roller’s drum pressed against the floor as if they were moving at normal speed. This is something you needed to keep in mind playing this, as the last thing you want when everyone’s moving lightning fast is to run out of ink and be unable to fight.
Between the last Challenge I played (“Dualies at Ten Paces”) and this one, Daylight Savings Time had kicked in (for the United States, at least). That meant we jumped ahead one hour—spring forward—and accordingly, the Challenge shifts for Pacific Daylight Time become odd-numbered hours:
March 19th, 2024: 7 PM to 9 PM, 11 PM to 1 AM
March 20th, 2024: 3 AM to 5 AM, 7 AM to 9 AM, 11 AM to 1 PM, 3 PM to 5 PM
Stages are Um’ami Ruins and Robo ROM-en, and the mode is Splat Zones.
By the way, for the purposes of checking for editing errors and to write the description, I review my videos by playing them in fast-forward. With these weapons zipping about, it felt like playing Splatoon 3 in the form of one of those fast-forwarded videos!
00:33 - Match #1
Robo ROM-en
Splat Zones (Full Stream Ahead)
Painbrush
Color Scheme: Blueberry Lemonade
Song: “Ska-BLAM” by YOko & the Gold Bazookas
Octolings: 6
I began with the Painbrush, my go-to weapon for this supercategory of weapons. Though I initially had a good run, like what you see here, even the super-wide ink flings from this weapon couldn't keep up with the Roller users zipping about, and the startup time is just too long, causing me to get caught a lot. The Wave Breaker was super useful though!
04:21 - Match #2
Robo ROM-en
Splat Zones (Full Stream Ahead)
Flingza Roller
Color Scheme: Blueberry Lemonade
Song: “Shifting Stars” by Riot Act
Octolings: 3
...So I shifted over to Rollers for the remainder of this. Granted, I did see some very good Inkbrush and Octobrush users, just not a lot of Painbrush. I chose the Flingza because it's decently fast, can splat in a hit, and has very powerful horizontal flicks--I figured if everyone's going around at maximum speed, I might as well invest in greater force.
06:15 - Match #3
Um’ami Ruins
Splat Zones (Full Stream Ahead)
Gold Dynamo Roller
Color Scheme: Wario
Song: “Headhammer” by C-Side
Octolings: 4
For some reason, which I attribute to Splatoon being Splatoon, I barely got any matches in Um'ami Ruins, with nearly all of them in Robo ROM-en. Maybe it's for the best, since, as a stage with two Splat Zones, some people deem that too hard to handle. This is the only decent match in Um-ami Ruins I could find; I only had one other one, but the recording cut out before the match could finish.
10:59 - Match #4
Robo ROM-en
Splat Zones (Full Stream Ahead)
Gold Dynamo Roller
Color Scheme: Fruit Snacks
Song: “Triple Dip” by C-Side
Octolings: 3
I don't know if it's because the Splatfest crowd was out (this Challenge took place a few days before the Rock & Roll Splatfest (Drums vs. Guitar vs. Keyboard)), but it felt like some of my teammates let their guards down when Overtime began. Just because you have a large lead doesn't mean it's safe--if you let Overtime continue for too long, the losing team WILL overtake the winning one soon enough. Then again, if they're used to playing Turf War, they might not have thought of Overtime as well.
16:58 - Match #5
Robo ROM-en
Splat Zones (Full Stream Ahead)
Flingza Roller
Color Scheme: Fruit Snacks
Song: “Candy-Coated Rocks” by Damp Socks feat. Off the Hook
Octolings: 6
This was my last match I recorded, but I thought this was fitting as the last one because it went back and forth, so there was no telling who would prevail in this one. And that kind of tension is what makes this game so fun!
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