Octocopter

"Avast! Octocopters below!"

- Cap'n Cuttlefish

Octocopters are Octarian fighters that possess the ability to fly and shoot slow-moving balls of purple ink.

Description
Octocopters are small Octarian fighters equipped with a large propeller helmet that allows them to hover. They have small legs adorned with what appear to be helicopter landing skids, but they are never seen using them as they are always in the air. Octocopters hover in one area until they see the player, at which point they become visibly agitated and begin to move, with difficulty, towards them. They are capable of firing slow-moving balls of purple ink, like Octotroopers, and can be splatted easily from a close distance. However, firing ink at them from far away will slightly knock them backwards, possibly knocking them out of range.

Octo Valley
Octocopters appear in thirteen Octo Valley missions as well as one boss mission.


 * Rise of the Octocopters (Mission #3)
 * Gusher Gauntlet (Mission #4)
 * Floating Sponge Garden (Mission #5)
 * Propeller-Lift Playground (Mission #6)
 * Spreader Splatfest (Mission #7)
 * Unidentified Flying Object (Mission #9)
 * Inkvisible Avenues (Mission #11)
 * Shifting Splatforms (Mission #13)
 * Undeniable Flying Object (Mission #15)
 * Propeller-Lift Fortress (Mission #16)
 * Spinning Spreaders (Mission #18)
 * Unwelcome Flying Object (Mission #21)
 * Pinwheel Power Plant (Mission #24)
 * Enter the Octobot King! (Boss #5)

Octo Canyon

 * Sunset Octocopter (Mission #3)
 * The Octopark (Mission #5)
 * Back-Alley Cleanup (Mission #7)
 * Spinning Campground (Mission #8)
 * Dancing Floors (Mission #13)
 * Secret Bowling Alley (Mission #16)
 * Towering Heights (Mission #18)
 * The Experimentorium (Mission #19)
 * Propellerland (Mission #20)
 * Sanitizarium (Boss #4)
 * The Octogalaxy (Mission #23)
 * Platform Madhouse (Mission #25)

Octo Expansion

 * Maverick Station
 * Breakdance Station
 * Shrinky Ink Station
 * Abracadabra Station
 * Ink from Above Station
 * Goose Station
 * Da Bomb Station
 * Bodacious Rotation Station
 * Cubular Station
 * Hasta La Vista Station
 * Ink 'n' Slide Station
 * Iceman Station
 * Can't Touch This Station
 * All Eyez Station
 * Ride with Me Station
 * Cool Your Jets Station
 * Outrageous Station
 * Coccyx Phase
 * Belly Phase
 * Diaphragm Phase
 * Peristalsis Phase

Return of the Mammalians

 * Boxes Locked! Keys, Please!
 * After Alterna
 * Doors, Doors, Doors! And More! (Doors)
 * The String's the Thing
 * Propellered to Greatness
 * Splash the Block Party
 * Low Viz, High Risk
 * Octarian Heights
 * Mission: Fly-Fishin'
 * Alterna Space Center: Hangar
 * Rocket Battle
 * Return of the Mammalians

Trivia

 * When Octocopters are in groups and cannot see the player, they will sometimes appear to be dancing.
 * In Octo Canyon, Octocopters and Rocket Octocopters are the only Octarians to appear alongside a boss that is not unique to the boss mission, the Octo Shower.
 * In Splatoon 3, it is seen that Snatchers use Octocopter helms as an aircraft, which is a part of the trade agreement between Octarians and Salmonids.