Slosher

The Slosher is a main weapon in the SS undefined.

The Slosher is a bucket of ink that can be swung to splatter turf and enemies in a straight line. The trajectory of the ink can be adjusted to strike enemies behind walls or on above high surfaces. It's strong enough to splat opponents in only two shots.

The Slosher deals constant damage no matter how far away the ink travels, as opposed to rollers and shooters dealing less damage as ink travel farther due to fall-off damage. However, there is still fall-off damage when targeting opponents below the player, dealing less than maximum damage.

Appearance
The Slosher is a black bucket surrounded by metal supports that double as handles. Two springs are included in this structure, one on each side of the bucket. There is a flat arch shape attached to the back of the bucket, which conforms to its shape.

In, the supports are dark pink-purple with lighter oval spots, and a black arrow design and inkling text on the side; the springs are orange-yellow, with a black plastic mechanism attached to it and the supports, which does not return in the other games, and the arch on the back of the bucket is black. In, the supports are glossy reddish-orange, the springs are black, and the arch is silver. In, the supports are glossy, have reflective sparkles, and appear to be iridescent, changing to the user's ink color at extreme viewing angles, and otherwise have a gradient from the user's current ink color tinted pink on the handle-side, to purplish magenta, to pastel dark blue on the bucket-side. How visible the color on the handle-side of the gradient is depends on the hue, intensity, and lightness of the color, some lighter and less intense colors appear almost white, while some darker colors are very intense. The springs of the slosher in are a metallic silver, the arch on the back is black, and uniquely, the small metal loops on the supports that connect to either end of the springs are a red-orange, rather than being the same color as the rest of the frame.

In all three games, the main handle is silver, but in and, there is some black padding that covers the main part of the handle. There is a reservoir of ink inside the bucket itself that changes color to match that of the user. There is a Deco logo in white on the back of the top of the bucket.

Splatoon
The Slosher was made available with the update on 2015-08-06 at July 27, 2024. It comes in a set with the Burst Bomb and Inkstrike. The Slosher deals constant 70 damage no matter how far away the ink travels, or what part the opponent is hit by.

Quotes

 * Notes

Demonstration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGDEz7IfcK8

Splatoon 2
In Splatoon 2, the Slosher returns with a new design that is primarily orange instead of pink and has a redesigned handle and suspension. It comes with Suction Bombs and Tenta Missiles. As of Version 4.0, the weapon no longer does a consistent 70 damage, but will deal a max of 50 damage if they're hit from above by the trail of ink between the primary glob and the player.

It appears in seven Octo Expansion Stations:
 * Pop Rock Station
 * Bust 'n' Move Station
 * Radical Rails Station
 * Bodacious Rotation Station
 * Girl Power Station (Canned)
 * Ink & Watch Station
 * Outrageous Station

Demonstration
https://youtu.be/jSNOGDvERU0

Splatoon 3
The Slosher returns to Splatoon 3 with a new purple color. Its sub is Splat Bombs and its special is the Triple Inkstrike.

It appears in 3 missions in Alterna:
 * Splitting Crosshairs
 * Conveyor-Belt Tightening
 * Octohoppers Don't Have a Sense of Humor (and They Hate Puns)!

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

Strategy
For competitive tips about the Slosher

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
The Slosher appears as Inkling's down smash attack in, alongside a variety of other weapons that she uses in her attacks.

When attacking, she charges up and swings the Slosher to the left and right to deal damage. This also coats opponents in ink but does not ink the ground. It deals much lower damage if Inkling is out of ink. In a victory scene, Inkling spins the Slosher like in.

Trivia

 * In Splatoon,
 * The Slosher was first discovered in the June 24th datamine.
 * This weapon was later shown in a Japanese trailer detailing future Splatoon updates.
 * The Slosher alongside the Heavy Splatling would be the first entirely new weapon classes to added into the Splatoon franchise. Making their debut on 2015-08-06 at July 27, 2024, with the release of 2.0.0.
 * In Splatoon 2,
 * The weapon was first revealed to be returning in a tweet from the official Splatoon Twitter account on the 24th January 2017.
 * This is one of the weapons available to use in the Splatoon 3 Splatfest World Premiere.

Etymology
Slosher is derived from the verb to slosh.

バケットスロッシャー baketto surosshā is derived from Bucket and the verb to slosh.