.52 Gal

The .52 Gal is a Shooter in Splatoon. It is a slow but powerful weapon with decent range.

Description
The .52 Gal is in a set with the Splash Wall and Killer Wail. Each shot uses a large amount of ink, so it packs a serious punch. Since it has a low rate of fire, careful aiming is required in order to hit opponents. "A high-powered Weapon that pumps out a lot of ink with each shot. It doesn't take many shots to splat an opponent, which is a good thing given its rather slow rate of fire."

- In-Game Description❌

"A high-powered weapon that pumps out a lot of ink with each shot. Doesn't take many shots to splat an opponent, which is a good thing given the rather slow rate of fire."

- In-Game Description

"This is the .52 Gal shooter. Each shot uses a LOT of ink, so it packs a serious punch. It has a low rate of fire, but if you aim carefully you can splat your foes before they know what hit ‘em."

- Live from the Squid Research Lab

Demonstration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlSUyq3e_X0

The is a slow shooting weapon among the shooting weapons and very low mobility, leaving the user very vulnerable to enemies carrying weapons with high movement speed. Having Run Speed Up will boost mobility and make moving a lot easier.

The consumes a lot of Ink when throwing up a Splash Wall, Having The Ink Saver (Main)  ability allows you to fire more shots after deploying a Splash Wall.

Ink Recovery Up is also quite useful- the faster ink fills in the ink tank when in squid form, the quicker the can shoot and use a Splash Wall.

The is a slow weapon and can be taken down to a 3 shot kill and because of how slow it fires you may not have time for a third shot during combat if the opponent has defense up. Another useful ability damage up has for .52 is that it can make it's fall-off damage a 2 hit kill instead of 3.

The can't maneuver to well with it's low strafing speed so swimming in between shots is the best way to splat an enemy in a face to face battle, swim speed will allow you to do this faster and not get splatted while swimming.

Trivia

 * The .52 Gal's name may be a reference to its base damage per shot of 52. The .96 Gal's damage per shot is not 96, however.
 * The .52 Gal was originally called the "5.2 Gallon" came with the Inkstrike instead of the Killer Wail. This can be seen in an image from before Splatoon's release.

Name Origin
.52 Gal is short for .52 Gallon. "Gal" is also a play on Cal, short form of Caliber, a term commonly used when describing the diameter of bullets for fire-arms.

.52ガロン .52 Garon has the same origin as the English name, but without Gallon shortened to Gal.