Rapid Blaster

The Rapid Blaster is a main weapon in the SS undefined.

The Rapid Blaster is a shooter in and  and a blaster in  that is similar to the Blaster but fires much faster and has greater range. However, this comes at the cost of less ink coverage, a smaller blast radius, and weaker shots. At minimum, it takes one direct hit and one indirect hit to splat an opponent with this weapon. Its close relative, the Rapid Blaster Pro, has slightly longer range and a slightly slower fire rate. The fire rate is faster than that of the Luna Blaster, and slower than that of the Clash Blaster.

Appearance
The Rapid Blaster is mainly gray with a black handle. Multiple red panels are located on the top and sides. The tip of the barrel, which is connected to the body with a small black tube, is orange.

Splatoon
The Rapid Blaster comes with Ink Mines and Bubbler. Each shot consumes 8% of the ink tank capacity, and the ink tank recovers 1.67% of its capacity between each shot, allowing the player to fire 15 shots before needing to refill the tank.

Quotes

 * Notes

Demonstration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEz2h3aEoMk

Splatoon 2
The Rapid Blaster returns in Splatoon 2 looking identical to how it was in the first game, but with a slightly tweaked performance. It comes with Ink Mines and Splat-Bomb Launcher. Each shot consumes 7% of the ink tank capacity, allowing the player to fire 14 shots before needing to refill the tank.

It appears in five Octo Expansion Stations:
 * Squee-G Funk Station
 * Duh-Oh Station
 * Jump Station
 * Shooter McStation
 * Ink & Watch Station

Demonstration
https://youtu.be/tdLiCcENZgc

Splatoon 3
The Rapid Blaster returns in Splatoon 3 with an updated design, and has Ink Mines as its sub and Triple Inkstrike as its special.

It appears in only 1 mission in Alterna:
 * One-Way Ride through Target Town

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

Strategy
For competitive tips about the Rapid Blaster

Trivia

 * This weapon resembles a toy dart gun.
 * The Rapid Blaster has more range than the Range Blaster.
 * Despite being called the Rapid Blaster, the fire rate of this blaster is slower than the Clash Blaster's, though the Clash Blaster was introduced later.
 * The orange cap on the tip of the Rapid Blaster's barrel in Splatoon 3 resembles those seen on toy guns in the United States, which requires toy firearms to be painted partially or completely in safety orange to avoid confusion with real guns. This cap is also seen on the Rapid Blaster Pro.
 * Prior to Version 3.0.0 of, the colored parts on the 2D icons for the Rapid Blaster and the Rapid Blaster Pro were colored yellow. This was corrected to the white color upon release of the update.
 * In the Italian localization of Splatoon 2, Sheldon's introduction about the Rapid Blaster says that it comes with Point Sensor instead of Ink Mine.