Carbon Roller
The Carbon Roller is a is a main weapon in Splatoon and Splatoon 2.
Compared to the basic 
Splat Roller, the Carbon Roller is the lighter and more mobile roller. It has an incredibly fast flick that still splats opponents in one hit. However, its attack power and range is weaker, and it is unable to squish Inklings in one hit.
Splatoon
| Basic information | |
|---|---|
| Category | Main |
| Class | Roller |
| Sub |  Burst Bomb
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| Special |  Inkzooka
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| Special depletion |  60%
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| Range | |
| Ink speed | |
| Handling | |
| Obtainable at | |
| Level | 10 |
| Cost |  6,600
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| Specifications | |
| Base damage | 25–125 (Splash) 70 (Roll) |
The Carbon Roller was released on June 27, 2015 at Template:UTC. It comes in a set with Burst Bombs and the Inkzooka.
Each flick consumes 3.5% of the ink tank capacity, allowing players to fling 28 times before needing to refill.
Version history
2.2.0
- ▼ Players can only splat their opponents in one hit with the center of the roller.
- ▼ Opponents cannot be splatted in one hit when the player is out of ink.
- – Amount of damage given when the roller is repeatedly swung balanced.
2.7.0
- ▼ Special gauge loss: 50% → up to 60%
- ▲ Ink consumption per flick: 5% → 3.5%
Gallery
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Promo image.
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An Inkling displaying his equipped Carbon Roller, in an idle standing position.
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Showing the quick splash attack of the roller.
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Using the Carbon Roller, held down. (behind)
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Using the Carbon Roller, held down. (front)
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Official art of an Inkling holding the Carbon Roller.
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Template:Scroll, with the Carbon Roller at the left.
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Concept art of various weapons, with the Carbon Roller at the upper left.
Demonstration
Similar Weapons
Splatoon 2
| Basic information | |
|---|---|
| Category | Main |
| Class | Roller |
| Sub |  Autobomb
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| Special |  Ink Storm
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| Special points | 160pp |
| Range | |
| Ink speed | |
| Handling | |
| Obtainable at | |
| Level | 7 |
| Cost |  6,200
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| Specifications | |
| Base damage | 25–100 (Ground) 42.5–120 (Midair) 70 (Roll) |
The Carbon Roller comes in a set with Autobombs and the Ink Storm.
Each flick consumes 4.5% of the ink tank capacity, allowing players to fling 22 times before needing to refill.
Version history
Base game
- – Splash damage made higher at further range in midair, but lower overall on the ground.
- ▼ Ink consumption per flick: 3.5% → 6.0%
1.2.0
- ▲ Ink consumption per flick: 6.0% → 4.5%
1.3.0
- ▲ Points to fill special gauge: 180 → 160
1.4.0
- ▲ When inking ground continuously by holding
, player will now reach maximum movement speed one second faster. - ▲ Made it easier to ink the ground in front of you when using a horizontal swing.
- ▲ Increased damage dealt to opposing
Ballers with either a vertical or horizontal swing by roughly 40%. - ▲ Decreased the knock back distance when coming into contact with a roller that has run out of ink or is in mid-air.
- — Fixed an issue causing the aiming reticule to display outside the center of the screen when moving the camera and using a roller or brella-type weapon.
2.3.0
- ▲ Extended the distance at which maximum damage is dealt when landing an attack at the extent of a horizontal swing by roughly 35%.
Gallery
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Promo image.
Demonstration
Quotes
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View the quotation page. |
Trivia
- Out of all main and sub weapons, the Carbon Roller has the fastest one-hit-splat time, going through the motion of a single flick in 11 frames (less than a quarter a second).
- The Carbon roller is the only non-Brush Roller weapon that does not crush / splat with a single hit while rolling over the opponent.
- The Carbon Roller is designed after a bicycle's bottle cage, with the water bottle used as the weapon's reservoir.
Etymology
Carbon refers to Carbon fiber, a very light material from which the Carbon Roller is apparently made. Many bicycle frames are made of carbon fiber, which alludes to the possibility that the Carbon Roller was made from salvaged bicycle parts.
