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. Sub weapons, or secondary weapons, consume considerably more ink than main weapons and usually serve specialized purposes limited to specific combat situations. Special weapons are powerful weapons that can only be used after filling up the special gauge by covering enough ground with ink.

All main weapons have two versions: the original, and an alternate with a different sub and special weapon setup and a slightly different appearance. 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 reskins that are used in Singleplayer.

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. Blasters and brushes have also been recognized as their own weapon classes.

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