Shooter



Shooters are one of the main weapon classes in the SS undefined.

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.

General mechanics
Shooters are ostensibly mechanically basic, only requiring pressing for all forms of operation.

However, some shooters are semi-automatic (firing one bullet per trigger press) or burst-fire (firing multiple bullets per trigger press), and consequently these weapons may benefit from or even require repeated taps of.

Blasters
Blasters are fully-automatic weapons that fire large globs of ink that travel forward and conclude their path with an explosion and typically have a lower fire rate and higher ink consumption than many shooters. Prior to, they were classified as shooters.

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

Special Shooters
The following special shooter(s) are only available outside of battles as part of other modes:

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 pose:
 * All styles: Leaps out of the spawner with their weapon pointing upwards, then lands with it held across their torso.

Victory:
 * 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.

In Ammo Knights (Clicking ):
 * Inklings: Looks over weapon from side and back, bends over slightly and takes aim, holds weapon with their left hand and aims before standing and flipping the weapon over their head, catching it, and returning to idle pose.
 * Octolings: Looks down at weapon, smiles and gets into a crouch pose, holds the weapon with their right hand and points the weapon up, puts both hands on the weapon and gets into a shooting stance angled to the left, looks back at camera with the weapon held across their torso.

Splatoon

 * Shooters are the only main weapon class to include a weapon with each sub weapon at least once.
 * This is no longer true in, as in that game there are no shooters with Ink Mine or the Fizzy Bomb.
 * However, shooters still have the title of being the only class to have at least one weapon with every special weapon.
 * Shooters are the only class to have three weapons with the same set: the L-3 Nozzlenose D, the Custom Jet Squelcher, and the Aerospray PG.

Splatoon 2

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

Splatoon 3

 * There are no Shooters that have Zipcaster or Tenta Missiles as their special weapon.