Carbon Roller

The Carbon Roller is a is a main weapon in Splatoon and Splatoon 2.

Compared to the basic, the Carbon Roller is the lighter and more mobile roller. It has an incredibly fast flick that still splats opponents in one hit. However, its attack power and range is weaker, and it is unable to squish Inklings in one hit.

Splatoon
The Carbon Roller was released on June 27, 2015 at. It comes in a set with s and the.

Each flick consumes 3.5% of the ink tank capacity, allowing players to fling 28 times before needing to refill.


 * gray Amount of damage given when the roller is repeatedly swung balanced.
 * gray Amount of damage given when the roller is repeatedly swung balanced.
 * gray Amount of damage given when the roller is repeatedly swung balanced.

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

Splatoon 2
The Carbon Roller comes in a set with s and the.

Each flick consumes 4.5% of the ink tank capacity, allowing players to fling 22 times before needing to refill.

Base game

 * gray Splash attacks in midair changed to slower vertical swings that are narrow and have increased range.
 * gray Splash damage made higher at further range in midair, but lower overall on the ground.


 * gray Fixed an issue causing the aiming reticule to display outside the center of the screen when moving the camera and using a roller or brella-type weapon.
 * gray Fixed an issue causing the aiming reticule to display outside the center of the screen when moving the camera and using a roller or brella-type weapon.
 * gray Fixed an issue causing the aiming reticule to display outside the center of the screen when moving the camera and using a roller or brella-type weapon.
 * gray Fixed an issue causing the aiming reticule to display outside the center of the screen when moving the camera and using a roller or brella-type weapon.
 * gray Fixed an issue causing the aiming reticule to display outside the center of the screen when moving the camera and using a roller or brella-type weapon.

Demonstration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr6Olc-AJ7Y

Trivia

 * Out of all main and sub weapons, the Carbon Roller has the fastest one-hit-splat time, going through the motion of a single flick in 11 frames (less than a quarter a second).
 * The Carbon roller is the only non-Brush Roller weapon that does not crush / splat with a single hit while rolling over the opponent.
 * The Carbon Roller is designed after a bicycle's bottle cage, with the water bottle used as the weapon's reservoir.

Etymology
Carbon refers to Carbon fiber, a very light material from which the Carbon Roller is apparently made. Many bicycle frames are made of carbon fiber, which alludes to the possibility that the Carbon Roller was made from salvaged bicycle parts.

Names in other languages
Rouleau carbone