Competitive:Point Sensor

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Splatoon 2
The Point Sensor, a utility sub weapon that can track opponents in real-time, returns from the original with a couple of tweaks: a new lingering area of effect and, since Version, the ability to increase tracking time with Sub Power Up. However, it still suffers from the same disadvantages it had against bombs – the lack of damage and turfing – which reduce its versatility in competitive matches.

Use
While unable to inflict any damage onto opponents, the Point Sensor can aid its user and their teammates if used wisely:
 * It temporarily makes an opponent an easier target to snipe or for more mobile teammates to pursue.
 * It can check around corners for flanking opponents and scan behind obstacles or within suspicious puddles of the opponents' ink for any sharking opponents.
 * If you are about to get splatted or fall into an unfavorable situation, marking an opponent provides your teammates the opportunity to, at best, provide assistance or, at worst, give them a chance for a revenge splat.

Synergy
While a Point Sensor provides its user some utility, it undeniably lacks the damage of turfing of other sub weapons — notably lethal bombs, such as Splat or Suction Bombs. Lethal bombs provide their user's team a couple advantages over another team that has no lethal bombs in its composition:
 * Their one-hit-splat offers its user's team chances of instantly gaining a numbers advantage, from which a game-winning push can arise.
 * Their lethal explosion provides space for its user's team to either push into an area held by the opponent or stall an opponent's push.
 * They can be used for poking at and zoning out opponents during the neutral phase, stalling an opponent's push, providing its user time and space to escape, or denying opponents safe access to important areas of the stage, such as the Tower, that might not be easy to fire at with the main weapon.
 * The turf inked by the resulting explosion contributes to both maintaining map control and building up the special gauge.

Countermeasures

 * Bomb Defense Up DX, already a valuable utility ability against opponents' bombs and special weapons, will also reduce the tracking duration of opponents' Point Sensors and Ink Mines, allowing the user of this ability to evade detection more easily.
 * When tagged with an opponent's Point Sensor, either briefly keep a distance from opponents to avoid getting splatted or lure the opponents away from the objective or an important area of the stage, allowing teammates to reclaim turf, push the objective, or ambush opponents.