Shooter



Shooters are one of the main weapon classifications in the Splatoon series. Shooters are guns that fire small blobs of ink in quick succession.

Most shooters are fully automatic, continuously firing when the player holds the trigger. Some have semi-automatic (firing one bullet per trigger press) or burst-fire (firing multiple bullets per trigger press) operations, requiring repeated presses for an optimal rate of fire.

Blasters
Blasters are fully-automatic guns that fire globs of ink that explode shortly afterwards with typically lower rate of fire and higher ink consumption than traditional shooters to compensate. Prior to, they are classified as shooters.

List of shooters
Note: The series are arranged by their respective order in the weapon select screen with the Main filter.

Splatoon
Victory:
 * Inkling Girl: Flails her arms around, jumps once with her arms over her head, then thrusts the weapon out.
 * Inkling Boy: Jumps once while swinging the weapon forwards, does a fist pump with both arms, throws the weapon in the air, then catches the spinning weapon, holding the weapon across his chest.

Defeat:
 * Both genders get on their knees with their left hand down while swinging their weapon up and down in disappointment.

In Ammo Knights (Clicking ):
 * Both genders hold the weapon high, then lowers it, poses like they are shooting, then looks behind the weapon, and returns to idle pose.

Splatoon 2
Spawning in before a match starts:
 * Both Inklings and Octolings point their weapon down at a 45-degree angle after shaking off their excess ink.

Victory:
 * Inkling Girl: Jumps up and down twice before spinning around once and strikes a pose while pointing her weapon up.
 * Inkling Boy: Jumps up and thrusts his left fist forward before raising it over his chest while holding his weapon downward.
 * Octoling Girl: Winces before twirling her weapon and ending it pointing upward at an angle while having her left hand on her hip in a pose.
 * Octoling Boy: Similar to the Octoling Girl's but stands up straight.

Defeat:
 * Inkling Girl: Throws a fit.
 * Inkling Boy: Sits down on the ground and holds his head in frustration.
 * Octoling Girl: Falls down to the ground, dropping her weapon in front of her, then turns her head away in anger.
 * Octoling Boy: Similar to the Inkling Boy's but lays his weapon behind him and puts his right arm on his right knee.

In Ammo Knights (Clicking ):
 * Inklings: Raises and lowers their weapon, looking it over, gets into a shooting stance, then looks down the weapon from behind.
 * Octolings: Looks over their weapon from the side and back, bends over slightly, and aims around before sighing.

Splatoon 3
Spawner Drone pose: Victory:
 * All styles: Leaps out of the spawner drone with their weapon pointing upwards, then lands with it held across their torso.
 * Flip Out: Backflips twice, spinning the second time, and lands with the weapon pointed backwards, before pointing to the sky with their left hand.
 * Reppin' Inkopolis: The player jumps for joy three times, then points their weapon into the air with a smile.

Splatoon

 * Shooters are the only main weapon class to have each sub weapon represented at least once.

Splatoon 2

 * The order of weapons by weapon class is now automatic shooters → blasters → burst-fire shooters.

Splatoon 3

 * So far, there are no Shooters that have Zipcaster, Tenta Missiles, or Inkjet as their special weapon, nor do they have Ink Mine as their sub weapon.
 * In the Return of the Mammalians trailer, the Splash-o-matic was shown with Zipcaster as its special weapon, but it was changed to the Crab Tank in the final version.