With everyone making blogs about potential weapons, story concepts etc., for Splatoon 3, I wanted to jump onto the train with a special weapon concept: The Splatrocket.
Image used is the logo of Jinx's ult in League Of Legends, as I got inspired by that ult for this idea. I will elaborate on this in a future blog, eventually. Given how chaotic Jinx's character is, having a special based on one of her abilities suits the chaos theme Splatoon 3 is seemingly going for in some way.
Sorry if I made spelling mistakes.
Basic description
The Splatrocket is a horizontally launched projectile (a rocket of course) which will start of slow for a short distance, but will gain a speed boost right afterwards. It will always fly above the ground at a height of an inkling/octoling, so let's say you shoot it from a higher spot: it will float down first to the suited height and fly further afterwards.
It will explode if one of the following things happens:
-An opponent gets hit by it (being submerged in the ink while the rocket es over you won't help, it'll still explode)
-Rocket hits a wall/rainmaker bubble/...
-Press the special button once more to make it explode before any of the previous things happens.
The explosion would be similar to a splashdown one, with the same damage, but with a smaller explosion radius, given how this special would be safer to use as opposed to the Splashdown in which you can still be splatted yourself. However: you can enlarge the radius by building special power up.
Finally for an interesting chimic: The special meter for the Splatrocket will fill while inking turf, like any other weapon, but it happens at a much slower rate. Instead, the meter will fill for about 1/4-1/2 (depending on the amount of special charger up you have on your gear) whenever you splat someone of the enemy team. It's unlikely this specific special will be added by Nintendo, but I do hope to see something of a weapon mechanic which rewards you for splats you make in some way (aside from of course outnumbering the other team to try claim victory within the match). Giving it to this special concept is suited given how Jinx's ive in lol grants her a speed boost when getting an assist or kill, therefore rewarding you when taking down an enemy.
In game
With the basic description out of the way, I wanted to have this section to elaborate on some extra in game aspects: which weapons would have it + uses.
Which weapons would have it? Given of how this weapon will be more effectively charged by making splats + its range + having good aim to effectively use it, giving it to some chargers, splatlings and perhaps a version of the dynamo roller would be a very neat combination. All those weapons require good aim and are more focussed on splatting than inking imo.
Uses: the Splatrocket would be a balanced special imo. It has a lot of strong points, but good use is needed to exploit those. Good aim will make this weapon dangerous when used by someone from long range, but the will have to make sure no walls are in the way and be aware of the fact that you can make the rocket explode without it needing to hit something/someone in case your target dodges. This ability to trigger the explosion yourself would be a practical use in Splatzones: shooting the rocket over one of the zones and make it explode halfway the zone to claim it and potentially splat opponents residing on the sides. You can also attack a Rainmaker bubble with it from a safe distance etc. ... I could say a lot about it honestly, but it would make this blog a bit too long, so I hope the few examples I gave peaked your interest about this concept.
Final thoughts + what do you think?
That's about it for this blog. Of course there is lot of stuff which would need some finetuning for this special to be acceptable in the game, but hey, that's what makes it a concept. I really enjoyed making this concept more than I thought I would and am quite happy with the result.
But what do you think? Are there any suggestions you would have on this concept, some things you might change? Be sure to leave your ideas in the comments. Thanks for reading.
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