Carbon Roller

The Carbon Roller is a main weapon in Splatoon and Splatoon 2.

Compared to the basic Splat Roller, the Carbon Roller is the lighter and more mobile roller. It has an incredibly fast flick that still splats opponents in one hit. However, its attack power and range is weaker, and it is unable to squish Inklings in one hit.

Splatoon
The Carbon Roller was released on 2015-06-27 at July 27, 2024. It comes in a set with Burst Bombs and the Inkzooka.

Each flick consumes 3.5% of the ink tank capacity, allowing players to fling 28 times before needing to refill.

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

Splatoon 2
The Carbon Roller comes in a set with Autobombs and the Ink Storm.

Each flick consumes 4% of the ink tank capacity, allowing players to fling 25 times before needing to refill.

Gameplay: Splatoon 2
The Carbon Roller is a weapon players will love and loathe in equal measures. The Carbon Roller is much faster than almost any other Roller in the game, and is very ink-efficient, allowing you to cover large amounts of turf quickly. This is slightly impaired by the fact that it will cover a little bit less surface area than most Rollers, even though it’s very quick. A notable flaw is that unlike most Rollers, it cannot crush an opponent in a single hit, needing two. This can be counteracted by using its flick, which only takes a single hit (at short range), and is extremely fast. It is very useful to cover ground quickly, but is lacking in middle-to long range combat.

Demonstration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr6Olc-AJ7Y

Trivia

 * Out of all main and sub weapons, the Carbon Roller has the fastest one-hit-splat time, going through the motion of a single flick in 11 frames (less than a quarter a second).
 * The Carbon Roller is the only non-brush roller weapon that does not crush with a single hit while rolling over the opponent.
 * The Carbon Roller is designed after a bicycle's bottle cage, with the water bottle used as the weapon's reservoir.

Etymology
Carbon refers to Carbon fiber, a very light material from which the Carbon Roller is made. Many bicycle frames are made of carbon fiber, which alludes to the possibility that the Carbon Roller was made from salvaged bicycle parts.

Names in other languages
Rouleau carbone