Stinger

Stingers are Boss Salmonids that appear in Salmon Run in Splatoon 2.

Description
They use a weapon similar to the to splat players at practically infinite range and through walls. Stingers typically appear close to the shorelines, but can move around rather slowly. Stingers always appear on a stack of cooking pots placed on top of a gas burner. To defeat them, players must shoot away the pots until the Stinger lands on the burner. Their attacks are much more accurate than a player-controlled Sting Ray and can take out an Inkling or Octoling within a few seconds if they cannot dodge it, so players should focus on this Salmonid.

Tips

 * Weapons that have fast attack speeds like the and  lower Stingers especially quickly. By contrast, slower weapons such as rollers or the  are left vulnerable for long periods of time while lowering Stingers.
 * Blasters and brellas can take out multiple sections of the Stinger at once.
 * Blasters and the can take out a whole Stinger in one shot when aiming at the section middle of the Stinger.
 * The and certain rollers also can take out multiple sections of the when aiming from a certain spot.
 * Using a roller to take down a Stinger alone can, however, consume large amounts of ink, leaving the player very vulnerable.
 * Although this boss is very easy to eliminate, it can prove to be a deadly boss as it has almost free control of the Sting Ray and often focuses on one player. Try to eliminate Stingers before they stack up.
 * Stingers prefer to attack whichever player is farthest from their current position.
 * Using the will eliminate all of the stacked pots of the Stinger. It is best to use to it if there are multiple Stingers close together.

Trivia

 * Its design is probably based on the real-life Pipefish, a relative to the seahorses and sea dragons.
 * The Stinger sits on top of seven pots. As each one is knocked away, the tone of the sound effect rises according to the intervals of the major scale.