Carbon Roller

The Carbon Roller is a main weapon in the SS undefined.

Compared to the basic Splat Roller, the Carbon Roller is the lighter and more mobile roller. It has an incredibly fast flick that still splats opponents in one hit. However, its attack power and range is weaker, and it is unable to crush Inklings in one hit.

Appearance
The main parts of the Carbon Roller are an ink tank and a cylindrical roller frame, both of which change color to match the user's ink. Unlike the other rollers, the frame is attached to both sides of the paint roller. The frame of the roller resembles that of a bicycle, and the ink tank is connected to it by a bike's bottle holder, and the tank itself is designed to look like a sports bottle. The roller frame has red supports on either side connecting it to the ink tank. The supports curve around to make a handle at the end of the tank, looking like a handlebar from a bike, having what resembles a brake lever on the back. The ends of the paint roller are covered with black disks. The roller itself has a series of stripe indents across it, and is coated with the player's ink when their tank isn't empty.

In, the Carbon Roller retains its design from the previous games, but its frame now has a yellow and black color scheme.

In, the ink tank is white with a grey logo, white with a black logo in , and the user's ink color and black with a different black logo in. In Splatoon and Splatoon 2, there is Inkling text on one half of the black disks on the end of the roller, and arrows around the other half's circumference. In Splatoon 3, there is a different design with a white logo encased in a white dashed circle, which is encased in two arrows around the circumference of the disk, one yellow, one light blue.

Splatoon
The Carbon Roller was released on 2015-06-27 at July 27, 2024. It comes with Burst Bombs and Inkzooka.

Each flick consumes 3.5% of the ink tank capacity, allowing players to fling 28 times before needing to refill.

Quotes

 * Notes

Demonstration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZlXEBGgcRo

Splatoon 2
The Carbon Roller comes with Autobombs and Ink Storm.

Each flick consumes 4% of the ink tank capacity, allowing players to fling 25 times before needing to refill.

The Carbon Roller is much faster than almost any other Roller in the game, and is very ink-efficient, allowing players to cover large amounts of turf quickly. This is slightly impaired by the fact that it will cover a little bit less surface area than most Rollers, even though it’s very quick. It is very useful to cover ground quickly, but is lacking in mid-to long range combat.

It appears in two Octo Expansion Stations:
 * Brute Rollup Station
 * Targetbuster Station

Demonstration
https://youtu.be/c1aWXhJs-Ts

Splatoon 3
The Carbon Roller returns in Splatoon 3 with a slightly updated design. It has kept the Autobombs and now has Zipcaster.

It appears in 3 missions in Alterna:
 * They Said We'd Have Flying Cars, and We Do! Kinda!
 * Keep It Rolling
 * That Sinking Feeling

Badges
Reaching certain Freshness levels with the Carbon Roller will reward the player with special badges that they can use on their Splashtag.

Strategy
For competitive tips about the Carbon Roller

Trivia

 * Out of all main and sub weapons, the Carbon Roller has the fastest one-hit-splat time, going through the motion of a single flick in 11 frames (less than a quarter a second).
 * The Carbon Roller is the only non-brush roller weapon that does not crush with a single hit while rolling over the opponent.
 * The Carbon Roller is designed after a bicycle's bottle cage, with the water bottle used as the weapon's reservoir.
 * In Splatoon 3 as of Chill Season 2022, the Carbon Roller is the only roller to have an alternate variant, being the Carbon Roller Deco.

Etymology
Carbon refers to carbon fiber, a very light material from which many bicycle frames are made of, which the Carbon Roller is designed after.