Judd

"Judd the cat will tell you who won at the end of each match. No kitten!"

- Splatoon's official website

Judd (Japanese: ジャッジくん Jajji-kun) is a cat in Splatoon. Unlike other characters, he seems to play a bigger role in Splatoon's story that remains a mystery. In multiplayer, he plays the role of referee in Turf Wars. When he's done judging, he can be found sleeping on a trash bin in the Inkopolis Plaza. The player can talk to Judd and he will give advice as well as a cash bonus depending on the player's online battle vibe that increases and decreases with wins and losses. He will only give one cash bonus per vibe per stage rotation.

Personality and traits
Judd was born with the incredible ability to judge turf area at a glance to separate the winners from the losers. It may look like he’s wearing a snazzy cat tuxedo, but that’s actually just the naturally occurring pattern of his fur. He is also a bit lazy just like most cats but is much more active during the night.

Before Splatoon
According to the Sunken Scrolls, Judd is more than 10,000 years old, as his original human owner is implied to have built a capsule designed to keep Judd cryogenically sealed for 10,000 years. Because of this, Judd was the only land life form that wasn't buried beneath the rising sea levels during the mass extinction at the beginning of the Mollusc Era.

Judd may have been released from cryogenic stasis at around 2,000 years before the events of Splatoon, as there are Sunken Scrolls depicting Judd judging ancient Turf Wars. He was even around during the Great Turf War.

Judd's Advice

 * "A Splat Bomb's timer is only active while it's on the ground! So they'll explode quicker when rolled than when thrown through the air!"
 * "An Inkstrike lets you attack any location on the map! The tornado slowly expands from a central point, so try to be accurate! And don't let foes hit you while you're looking at your map! Stay alert!"
 * "Chargers deal an awful lot of damage with each shot! But even so... If you just try to splat foes in one hit, you're going to have a bad time. Try using your first blast to block off the path ahead of them with ink... Then you can take them out more easily with the second! Painting the ground like this will help your allies too, so get shooting!"

Trivia

 * Judd's name is derived from the word "judge," as he is the referee for all the ink battles in Splatoon '.
 * Judd is in the original cover art for Splatoon, but ended up being covered by the logo. He can now just about be seen between the 'S' and the 'p'.
 * The tip of his tail is designed to look like an arrow.
 * There was a glitch concerning Judd consisting of recovering all your money back from purchasing a slot, reroll, or ordered gear from Spyke by talking with Judd after the purchase. It was fixed with the 1.2.0 patch.
 * Judd is the only non aquatic species in the game, as he is a species of cat.
 * Cats generally have a lifespan of 15 years. Normally he may not have lived after being awakened from cyrostasis and living throughout 2,000 years ago.
 * During Splatfest, Judd can be seen dancing around happily on his pillow in Inkopolis Plaza. Instead of the usual "Zzz," he says "Meow!"
 * Judd's appearance depicted changes in his weight, according to he seems to resemble more of what he currently looks like in the present, however in  and, his appearance differs greatly,  which was documented at the end of the Great Turf War shows that between the time of scrolls #15 and #14, he has recaptured his much "heftier" appearance.