Blaster

The Blaster is a main weapon in the Splatoon series.

The weapon shoots special ink rounds that burst like fireworks after traveling a certain distance. These bursts can deal damage in a wide area, allowing its user to attack opponents hiding behind obstacles and around corners. The explosive round does enough damage to splat opponents with only one direct hit or two indirect hits. The firing rate is faster than the Range Blaster, and slower than the Luna Blaster.

The weapon's appearance is based on the idea of a "hot rod", or custom, car. The rear of the weapon is a spray can, the kind of spray can that would be used to custom-paint a car. The middle of the weapon exposes the internals of the weapon as if to make it easier for the owner to tweak and maintain any custom parts inside. The exposed spring resembles the coil springs in car suspensions. The front of the weapon features a flame design characteristic of custom-painted cars, which is painted on an object that resembles a muffler. The weapon even has the word "custom" in the title of its variant, the Custom Blaster.

Splatoon
The Blaster comes in a set with the Disruptors and Killer Wail. The weapon consumes 8% of the ink tank's capacity with each shot, and the ink tank refills 1.67% of its capacity between each shot, allowing for 15 shots to be fired before needing to refill on ink.

Quotes

 * Notes

Demonstration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFLPdhi56oo

Splatoon 2
The Blaster returns in Splatoon 2 with the same appearance and slightly changed performance. It comes with the Toxic Mist and Splashdown. The weapon consumes 10% of the ink tank's capacity with each shot, allowing for 10 shots to be fired before needing to refill on ink.

Demonstration
https://youtu.be/QdnoWGRPIe8

Splatoon 3
The Blaster returns in Splatoon 3 with a slightly updated design. It is currently unknown if it will keep its attributes from the previous games, or what its set will be.

Strategy
For competitive tips about the Blaster

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
The Blaster appears as Inkling's up smash attack in, alongside a variety of other weapons that Inkling uses in their attacks.

When attacking, Inkling charges up their attack and fires the Blaster upwards to deal damage to opponents above them. This attack has a large radius, much like the blaster in Splatoon games, and can sometimes deal damage to opponents around Inkling if they're close enough. This also coats opponents in ink, as do most of Inkling's attacks, but does not ink the ground. It deals much lower damage if Inkling is out of ink.

Trivia

 * Concept art for the Blaster reveals that the rear of the weapon was originally designed after a gumball machine or gachapon instead of the spray can that was used in the final design.
 * This weapon is used on the following Octo Expansion levels:
 * Bounce with Me Station
 * Pop Rock Station
 * Bodacious 8-Ball Station
 * Girl Power Station (Canned)
 * Popalicious Station
 * Sweet Ride Station