Carbon Roller

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The Carbon Roller is a is a main weapon in Splatoon and Splatoon 2.

Compared to the basic S Weapon Main Splat Roller.png 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

Carbon Roller

Carbon Roller

Basic information
Category Main
Class Roller
Sub S Weapon Sub Burst Bomb.png Burst Bomb
Special S Weapon Special Inkzooka.png Inkzooka
Special points
Special depletion Special gauge 60%
Range
20 / 100
Damage
Impact
Fire rate
Charge speed
Ink speed
65 / 100
Mobility
Durability
Handling
60 / 100
Obtainable at
Level 10
Cost Cash 6,600
Requirement
Introduced
Specifications
Weight
Base damage 25–125 (Splash)
70 (Roll)
Base duration
Ink consumption 3.5% (Splash)
0.1% per frame (Roll)
Base range
Rate of fire
Muzzle velocity
Base accuracy
MPU effect
SPU effect
SPU effect
Other variant

The Carbon Roller was released on 27 June 2015 at 02:00 UTC. It comes in a set with S Weapon Sub Burst Bomb.png Burst Bombs and the S Weapon Special Inkzooka.png Inkzooka.

Each flick consumes 3.5% of the ink tank capacity, allowing players to fling 28 times before needing to refill.

Version history

Version Adjustments
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

Demonstration

Splatoon 2

Carbon Roller

Carbon Roller

Basic information
Category Main
Class Roller
Sub S2 Weapon Sub Autobomb.png Autobomb
Special S2 Weapon Special Ink Storm.png Ink Storm
Special points 160p
Special depletion
Range
20 / 100
Damage
Impact
Fire rate
Charge speed
Ink speed
63 / 100
Mobility
Durability
Handling
65 / 100
Obtainable at
Level 7
Cost Cash 6,200
Requirement
Introduced
Specifications
Weight
Base damage 25–100 (Ground)
40–120 (Midair)
70 (Roll)
Base duration
Ink consumption 4.5% (Splash)
0.1% per frame (Roll)
Base range
Rate of fire
Muzzle velocity
Base accuracy
MPU effect
SPU effect
SPU effect
Other variant

The Carbon Roller comes in a set with S2 Weapon Sub Autobomb.png Autobombs and the S2 Weapon Special Ink Storm.png Ink Storm.

Each flick consumes 4.5% of the ink tank capacity, allowing players to fling 22 times before needing to refill.

Version history

Version Adjustments
Base game
  • Splash attacks in midair changed to slower vertical swings that are narrow and have increased range.
  • Ground splash range decreased by about 19%.
  • Max ground damage: 125 → 100
  • Ink consumption per flick: 3.5% → 6.0%
  • Movement speed while rolling increased: 1.45 → 1.52
  • When rolling you need to accelerate to max rolling speed : 1.28 → 1.52
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 ZR, 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 S2 Weapon Special Baller.png 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%.
3.2.0
  • Decreased ink consumption when inking the ground with the roller while moving at top speed by roughly 33%.
4.2.0
  • Horizontal swing now inks more area in front of the player.

Gallery

Demonstration

Quotes

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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.

Names in other languages

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