Painbrush

The Painbrush is a main weapon in, belonging to the brush weapon class. It is the first new entry in the brush class since the original roster from.

The Painbrush was revealed on 2023-05-16 in the Sizzle Season 2023 trailer and was released on 2023-06-01.

Appearance
The Painbrush resembles a fan brush with a slit in its bristles. Its silver, metallic handle resembles a palette cup. On the handle near the bristles, the Nouveau logo can be seen, colored white.

Splatoon 3
The Painbrush has Curling Bombs and the Wave Breaker. As a brush, when is pressed, it rapidly flicks splashes of ink in front of the user with higher damage and longer range compared with other brushes, but as a tradeoff it possesses a long windup on the first of a series of swings and a narrower spread of ink left on surfaces with each swing. If is held, the user will push the Painbrush along the ground, leaving a trail of ink as the user runs at a fast speed comparable to that of the Octobrush.

Strategy
For competitive tips about the Painbrush

Badges
Reaching certain Freshness levels with the Painbrush will reward the player with special badges that they can use on their Splashtag.

Trivia

 * The Painbrush, along with the Splattershot Nova, Big Swig Roller, Snipewriter 5H, S-BLAST '92, Dread Wringer, and Heavy Edit Splatling, is not included in Return of the Mammalians due to being added post-release.
 * As it first appears in Splatoon 3, the Painbrush is one of seven main weapons (besides reskins) to have no canonical variants so far, the others being the Splatana Stamper, REEF-LUX 450, Snipewriter 5H, S-BLAST '92, Dread Wringer, and Heavy Edit Splatling.

Etymology
Painbrush is a combination of the words pain and brush while also being a pun on paintbrush.