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 operation, requiring the player to tap the trigger repeatedly instead of holding it and firing one bullet per tap. Some have burst-fire operation, requiring the player to tap the trigger repeatedly and firing multiple bullets per tap.

Blasters
Blasters are a variant of Shooters in and  and their own main weapon class in. Blasters are able to fire large globs of ink with a delayed explosion. The explosion allows users to attack opponents located behind obstacles or around corners.

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 ):
 * Inkling Girl:
 * Inkling Boy:

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.

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, Inkjet, or Ink Storm as their special weapon, nor do they have Autobomb, Ink Mine, Toxic Mist or Squid Beakon 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.