Carbon Roller

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The Carbon Roller is a main weapon in the Splatoon series.

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 crush Inklings in one hit.

Appearance

The main parts of the Carbon Roller are an ink tank and a cylindrical roller frame, both of which change color to match the user's ink. Unlike the other rollers, the frame is attached to both sides of the paint roller. The frame of the roller resembles that of a bicycle, and the ink tank is connected to it by a bike's bottle holder, and the tank itself is designed to look like a sports bottle. The roller frame has red supports on either side connecting it to the ink tank. The supports curve around to make a handle at the end of the tank, looking like a handlebar from a bike, having what resembles a brake lever on the back. The ends of the paint roller are covered with black disks. The roller itself has a series of stripe indents across it, and is coated with the player's ink when their tank isn't empty.

In Splatoon 3, the Carbon Roller retains its design from the previous games, but its frame now has a yellow and black color scheme.

In Splatoon, the ink tank is white with a grey logo, white with a black logo in Splatoon 2, and the user's ink color and black with a different black logo in Splatoon 3. In Splatoon and Splatoon 2, there is Inkling text on one half of the black disks on the end of the roller, and arrows around the other half's circumference. In Splatoon 3, there is a different design with a white logo encased in a white dashed circle, which is encased in two arrows around the circumference of the disk, one yellow, one light blue.

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 Carbon Roller Deco Carbon Roller Deco

The Carbon Roller was released on 27 June 2015 at 02:00 UTC. It comes with Burst Bombs and Inkzooka.

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

Data

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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%

Quotes

S Sheldon Artwork.png
Sheldon's Introduction

The Carbon Roller is a lightweight roller built with low-density parts for increased handling! Soften up the foe with Burst Bombs while you ink the ground and prepare to unleash the Inkzooka! Want to use a roller but don't like feeling weighed down? Now you can have your cake and eat it too!

A strong, lightweight roller made from carbon fiber. Superb mobility means it spreads ink and delivers attacks with unparalleled speed.
— In-Game Description(NA)[a]
A strong, lightweight Roller made from carbon fibre. Superb mobility means it spreads ink and delivers attacks with unparalleled speed.
— In-Game Description(EU/OC)[b]
This lightweight roller excels in the mobility department. Its fling attack doesn’t toss a ton of ink, but it’s coupled with Burst Bombs for ranged splattage. Throw an Inkzooka in the mix and it’s on like Crusty Sean!
Notes
  1. North America
  2. Europe and Oceania

Gallery

Demonstration

Splatoon 2

Carbon Roller
S2 Weapon Main Carbon Roller.png
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% (Splash)
0.1% per frame (Roll)
Base range
Rate of fire
Muzzle velocity
Base accuracy

MPU effect
SPU effect
SPU effect
Other variant Carbon Roller Deco Carbon Roller Deco

The Carbon Roller comes with Autobombs and Ink Storm.

Each flick consumes 4% of the ink tank capacity, allowing players to fling 25 times before needing to refill.

The Carbon Roller is much faster than almost any other Roller in the game, and is very ink-efficient, allowing players to cover large amounts of turf quickly. This is slightly impaired by the fact that it will cover a little bit less surface area than most Rollers, even though it’s very quick. It is very useful to cover ground quickly, but is lacking in mid-to long range combat.

It appears in two Octo Expansion Stations:

Data

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Horizontal swing (from ground)

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Vertical swing (while jumping)

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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
  • Decreased amount of ink consumed by a horizontal or vertical swing by 25%: 6.0% → 4.5%
  • Salmon Run worker's Carbon Roller:
    • Decreased ink consumed by horizontal and vertical swings by approximately 30%.
1.3.0
1.4.0
  • When inking ground continuously by holding ZR, the 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%.
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.
4.5.0
  • Decreased time after making a horizontal swing before you can switch into squid or octo form or use a sub weapon by roughly 2/60 of a second.
  • Increased damage dealt to opponent Splat Brellas increased by 13%.
4.8.0
  • Ink consumption per flick: 4.5% → 4%
4.9.0
5.0.0
  • Increased damage dealt to the Booyah Bomb armor by roughly 2%.
  • Salmon Run worker's Carbon Roller:
    • Increased the maximum damage dealt by a horizontal swing by roughly 33%.
    • Increased the maximum damage dealt by a vertical swing by roughly 14%.

Quotes

S2 Sheldon Artwork.png
Sheldon's Introduction

The Carbon Roller is a lightweight roller built using low-density parts for increased handling! You can't fling a whole lot of ink with this one, so use an Autobomb to check if the area's safe before you ink ahead! A well-placed Ink Storm over an enemy's hiding place will send them running. Little do they know that you're waiting to splat them!

Gallery

Demonstration

Splatoon 3

Carbon Roller

Carbon Roller

Basic information
Category Main
Class S3 Icon Roller.png Roller
Sub S3 Weapon Sub Autobomb Flat.png Autobomb
Special S3 Weapon Special Zipcaster.png Zipcaster
Special points 180p
Special depletion
Range
20 / 100
Damage
Impact
Fire rate
Charge speed
Ink speed
63 / 100
Mobility
Durability
Handling
65 / 100
Obtainable at
Level 6
Cost
Requirement
Introduced
Weight
Base damage
Base duration
Ink consumption
Base range
Rate of fire
Muzzle velocity
Base accuracy

MPU effect
SPU effect
SPU effect
Other variant Carbon Roller Deco Carbon Roller Deco

The Carbon Roller returns in Splatoon 3 with a slightly updated design. It has kept the Autobombs and now has Zipcaster.

It appears in 3 missions in Alterna:

Quotes

S3 Sheldon Artwork.png
Sheldon's Introduction

The Carbon Roller is a lightweight roller built using low-density parts for increased handling! Of course, lightweight leads to light inking capability, but if you can find an opponent with an Autobomb and then sneak behind them, it'll get the job done. Rounding out this zippy little loadout is the Zipcaster, which can also help you surprise and undelight your opponents. Basically, if you want to be a ninja, try out this set!

Badges

Main article: Badge#Weapon freshness

Reaching certain Freshness levels with the Carbon Roller will reward the player with special badges that they can use on their Splashtag.

Carbon Roller Badges
S3 Badge Carbon Roller 4.png 4★ Carbon Roller User
S3 Badge Carbon Roller 5.png 5★ Carbon Roller User

Gallery

Strategy

For competitive tips about the Carbon Roller

Click to view the strategy for Carbon Roller. View the strategy 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 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.
  • In Splatoon 3 as of Chill Season 2022, the Carbon Roller is the only roller to have an alternate variant, being the Carbon Roller Deco.

Etymology

Carbon refers to carbon fiber, a very light material from which many bicycle frames are made of, which the Carbon Roller is designed after.

Names in other languages

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References