Weapon

"As an Inkling, you can use weapons and ink your turf. Be sure to experiment with different weapon sets!"

- Splatoon official site

Weapons are tools used in Splatoon and Splatoon 2 to spread ink and splatter enemy Inklings. They can be purchased from Ammo Knights with cash earned from online multiplayer matches. Weapons are always in a predefined set of a main weapon, a sub weapon, and a special weapon.

In Splatoon 2 new weapons have been added, and returning weapons have all new designs. Since no special weapons return from the first game, all the special weapons are changed as well. While some weapons retain the same sub weapon others have the sub weapon changed, such as the Splat Roller, which has Curling Bombs instead of Suction Bombs.

Main
Main weapons are the primary tool players use to spread ink and splat opponents. Main weapons generally have two variants: the original, and an alternate with a different appearance, a different sub weapon, and a different special weapon. With the addition of Sheldon's Picks, some weapons gained a third version with yet another set of sub and special weapons. Some weapons have re-skins that are used in singleplayer modes.

Shooters
Shooters are guns that fire small blobs of ink in quick succession. Most shooters continuously fire when the player holds the trigger, but some have semi-automatic operation, requiring users to tap the trigger repeatedly instead of holding it.

Blasters are shooters that fire large globs of ink with a delayed explosion. The explosion allows users to attack opponents located behind obstacles or around corners.



Rollers
Rollers can be pushed along the ground, leaving a trail of ink. Brushes can be pushed especially fast, but leave a narrow trail of ink. Users can attack by flinging ink, and damage is also dealt if enemies come into contact with the weapon while it is being pushed.

Chargers
Chargers can instantly splat opponents at long range, once charged up. Uncharged shots do not have enough range or damage to be used effectively for attacking, but they can be used for covering turf. Precision aim is required, and a laser shows where the shot will land.

Sloshers
Sloshers can hurl ink over obstacles to hit opponents.

Splatlings
Splatlings are guns that generally have a high rate of fire and considerable range. Charging is necessary to achieve the maximum potential range and firing duration.

Dualies
Dualies are guns that give their user the ability to dodge roll. After a dodge roll, the dualies are held together by the Inkling, enhancing their performance in various ways depending on the dualie. This weapon class was introduced in Splatoon 2.

Brellas
Brellas are shotguns with a deployable shield. Depending on the brella model, the shield can be held in front of the user or launched forward. This weapon class was introduced in Splatoon 2.

Sub
Sub weapons are secondary to the main weapon. Each sub weapon has a specialized use and high ink consumption, so they cannot be used for general-purpose splatting and inking like the main weapon. There are bombs, which can be used to influence enemy movement or outright splat them. Some weapons can give special effects to opponents, like location tracking, movement penalties, and ink usage penalties. In addition to weapons that focus on enemy effects, there are sub weapons that focus on benefiting the player's team by painting the ground or adding a Super Jump point to any location on the stage.

Special
Special weapons are powerful weapons that can only be used after filling up the special gauge by covering enough ground with ink. Generally, special weapons can make players invincible, allow players to track the location of opponents, damage opponents that step within a specified area of the battlefield, or grant the player a strong long-range attack. There are special weapons with highly specific effects, like allowing players to use bombs without ink restrictions, or creating explosive floating bubbles.

Classes
Sub classes are a way to distinguish different weapons of one weapon type. For example the Aerospray RG and the Dual Squelcher are both considered shooter weapons but differ in many ways. A more explicit example would be the Splat Roller compared to the Inkbrush. Those are both considered rollers, although the Inkbrush is far from being a roller. These sub classes are not officially recognized in-game, but since they have noticeably different playstyles, they are worth unofficially recognizing. Thus, this section shows all types of sub classes existing in the game so far.

 Shooter Sub Classes

 Roller Sub Classes

 Charger Sub Classes

 Slosher Sub Classes

 Splatling Sub Classes

List of weapon pages

 * List of weapons in Splatoon
 * List of weapons in Splatoon 2

Splatoon

 * There are a total of 91 main weapons, 10 sub weapons and 7 special weapons as of Version 2.12.0.
 * To purchase every weapon set, a total of is needed.

Names in other languages
Armes