Heavy Edit Splatling

The Heavy Edit Splatling is a main weapon first introduced in, produced by Nouveau.

Appearance
The design of the Heavy Edit Splatling takes heavy inspiration from the Soft Pen sold by Platinum Pen in Japan.


 * The firing nozzles resemble the replaceable pen tips of the Soft Pen.
 * Its ink cartridges resemble the replaceable ink cartridges of the Soft Pen, down to having golden markings printed on them.
 * The transparent casing resembles the see-through version of the Soft Pen.
 * The rear part of the Heavy Edit Splatling resembles the cap of an older design of the Soft Pen, with the black plastic clip on the top and the red bit at the end.

The ink cartridges are fed into the Heavy Edit Splatling from a white box on its side via a white belt, which is similar to the belt feeder of some real-world firearms.

Splatoon 3
The Heavy Edit Splatling was released on 2023-09-01 at July 27, 2024. It comes in a set with Curling Bombs and the Tacticooler. It fires at a very high rate when fully charged.

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

Trivia

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

Etymology
A heavy edit is a very drastic change.

The Japanese name "examiner" is a reference to the fact that the Soft Pen, often called 採点ペン ("marking pen"), is popularly used by teachers in Japan as the red pen for grading students' work.