Cold-Blooded

Cold-Blooded is an ability in Splatoon, and a retired ability in Splatoon 2.

Cold-Blooded shortens the duration of any position-tracking effects inflicted on the wearer.

Cold-Blooded is rather versatile, as any weapon or play style can benefit from not being tracked. However, it reaches its full potential when used with a stealthy, mobile weapon, such as the Carbon Roller; it can enhance the sneakiness of a weapon, facilitating ambushes. A loud or otherwise conspicuous weapon may give itself away to surrounding enemies, no tracking needed.

Splatoon

Cold Blooded

Applicable gear

  Clothing

Cold Blooded shortens the duration of position-tracking to 50% of normal tracking time. It is restricted to clothing as a main ability, and cannot be rolled as a sub ability.

Mutual exclusivity

This ability is found as the main ability only on clothing, so other abilities found only on clothing are mutually exclusive with it; in other words players cannot have them together. These abilities are Recon, Haunt, and Ninja Squid. In addition, since wearing the Splatfest Tee was mandatory during a Splatfest, these abilities could not be used for the duration of those events.

Gear

The following gear items have Cold Blooded as their main ability.

Clothing with Cold Blooded in Splatoon

	Name	Brand	Availability	Ability	Star power	Added in
	Anchor Sweat	SquidForce	3000	Cold Blooded		Initial Release (1.0.0)
	CoroCoro Hoodie	Zekko	10800	Cold Blooded		2.8.0
	Cycling Shirt	Zink	2900	Cold Blooded		2.0.0
	Dark Urban Vest	Firefin	10000	Cold Blooded		Initial Release (1.0.0)
	Sage Polo	Splash Mob	400	Cold Blooded		Initial Release (1.0.0)
	Sky-Blue Squideye	Tentatek	500	Cold Blooded		Initial Release (1.0.0)
	Squidstar Waistcoat	Krak-On	650	Cold Blooded		2.3.0

Data

Cold Blooded reduces tracking duration by 50%. This applies to all forms of tracking:

• Point Sensors normally lasts 8 seconds, but this is reduced to 4 seconds.
• Haunt normally lasts 9 seconds, but is reduced to roughly 4.5 seconds.
• The Echolocator's duration can vary if the user has Special Duration Up equipped. Without any, it will have its tracking time reduced from 9 seconds to 4.5 seconds. With the maximum amount of Special Duration Up equipped, it will last 12.6 seconds normally and 6.3 seconds on a target with Cold Blooded.

Weapon	Cold Blooded
	Before 2.2.0		2.2.0 to 2.6.0		2.7.0
	Inactive	Active	Inactive	Active	Inactive	Active
Point Sensor	10	2.5	8	2	8	4
Echolocator	12	3	12	3	9	4.5
Haunt	12	3	12	3	9	4.5

Times are in seconds

Version history

Version	Adjustments
2.7.0	▼ Tracking time reduction decreased by 33%: up to 75% → up to 50%

Splatoon 2

Cold-Blooded

Applicable gear

Any

Favored by

Annaki
Toni Kensa

Unfavored by

Inkline

In Splatoon 2, Cold-Blooded was changed from a mutually exclusive ability to a stackable ability that was available on any gear type. Annaki and Toni Kensa gear had a 5x chance of rolling this ability. Inkline gear had a 1/2x chance of rolling this ability. It could stop the tracking effects of Point Sensors, Ink Mines, Thermal Ink, Haunt, and Sting Ray.

In version 4.3.0, Cold-Blooded was retired. The default ability of all gear with Cold-Blooded (except the Pearlescent Crown) became Main Power Up. Players can still get the effect of Cold-Blooded with Bomb Defense Up DX, an ability that was introduced in the same update.

Stacking

Abilities				Decrease in tracking time
None				0%
Main: 0, Sub: 1				8.7%
Main: 0, Sub: 2				16.9%
Main: 0, Sub: 3				24.8%
Main: 1, Sub: 0				27.3%
Main: 0, Sub: 4				32.1%
Main: 1, Sub: 1				34.5%
Main: 0, Sub: 5				39.1%
Main: 1, Sub: 2				41.3%
Main: 0, Sub: 6				45.6%
Main: 1, Sub: 3				47.7%
Main: 2, Sub: 0				49.7%
Main: 0, Sub: 7				51.7%
Main: 1, Sub: 4				53.6%
Main: 2, Sub: 1				55.5%
Main: 0, Sub: 8				57.3%
Main: 1, Sub: 5				59.1%
Main: 2, Sub: 2				60.8%
Main: 0, Sub: 9				62.5%
Main: 1, Sub: 6				64.1%
Main: 2, Sub: 3				65.7%
Main: 3, Sub: 0				67.2%
Main: 1, Sub: 7				68.7%
Main: 2, Sub: 4				70.2%
Main: 3, Sub: 1				71.5%
Main: 1, Sub: 8				72.9%
Main: 2, Sub: 5				74.2%
Main: 3, Sub: 2				75.4%
Main: 1, Sub: 9				76.6%
Main: 2, Sub: 6				77.8%
Main: 3, Sub: 3				78.9%
Main: 2, Sub: 7				80.9%
Main: 3, Sub: 4				81.9%
Main: 2, Sub: 8				83.6%
Main: 3, Sub: 5				84.4%
Main: 2, Sub: 9				85.9%
Main: 3, Sub: 6				86.6%
Main: 3, Sub: 7				88.3%
Main: 3, Sub: 8				89.5%
Main: 3, Sub: 9				90.3%

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  A graph showing the effect of Cold-Blooded on Point Sensors and Ink Mines.

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  A graph showing the effect of Cold-Blooded on Thermal Ink.

Version history

Version	Adjustments
Base game	▲ Tracking time reduction increased by 50%: up to 50% → up to 75%
1.4.0	▲ Tracking time reduction increased by 20%: up to 75% → up to 90% ▲ Cold-Blooded now also increases the area in which the player is immune to the revealing effects of Thermal Ink, Haunt, and the Sting Ray.
4.3.0	— Removed. Effects integrated with Bomb Defense Up into Bomb Defense Up DX.

Gallery

• In-game description of Cold-Blooded.

  In-game description of Cold-Blooded.

Trivia

• In Splatoon 2, Cold-Blooded was the only stackable ability that was favored by two brands.
• In real life, all squids are ectothermic, or "cold-blooded", which the Cold-Blooded ability is likely a reference to.