Heavy Splatling Deco

The Heavy Splatling Deco is a main weapon in Splatoon and Splatoon 2. It is a Deco-branded version of the Heavy Splatling.

It is capable of firing bursts of ink with long range, low damage, and a fast fire rate. Although relatively slow to charge, each ink bullet does enough damage to splat opponents in four hits.

Appearance

The Heavy Splatling Deco is similar in appearance to the Heavy Splatling. However, the Heavy Splatling Deco has multiple rows of white and pink rhinestones arranged in the pattern of the Deco logo on the water jug and supports.

Splatoon

Heavy Splatling Deco

Basic information
Category	Main
Class	Splatling
Sub	Point Sensor
Special	Kraken
Special points
Special depletion	60%
Range	78 / 100
Damage
Impact
Fire rate
Charge speed	40 / 100
Ink speed
Mobility	50 / 100
Durability
Handling
Obtainable at
Level	9
Cost	9,200
Requirement
Added in
Specifications
Weight
Base damage	28
Base duration
Ink consumption	22.5% (Full charge)
Base range
Rate of fire
Muzzle velocity
Base accuracy

MPU effect
SPU effect
SPU effect
Other variants	Heavy Splatling Heavy Splatling Remix

The Heavy Splatling Deco was released on 7 November 2015 at 02:00 UTC.^[1] It comes with Point Sensors and the Kraken.

Data

The Heavy Splatling Deco is a middleweight weapon.
A full charge consumes 22.5% of the ink tank capacity.
- This allows players to fully charge 4 times before needing to refill the ink tank.
- This stat can be changed with Ink Saver (Main).
The Heavy Splatling Deco cannot store its charge.
The Heavy Splatling Deco is not rechargeable while firing.
When charging the weapon, it will take 50 frames in order to charge its first ring and 75 frames in total for a full charge.
With a single ring charged, it will have a firing duration of 72 frames. With a full charge, it will have a firing duration of 144 frames.
When charging with an empty tank, the charge time is multiplied by 4.
When firing, it shoots a bullet every 4 frames.
When firing, the player's movement speed is set to 0.7 units per frame.
- When charging, the player's movement speed is set to 0.55 units per frame.
After firing, there is a 40 frame cooldown before the ink tank starts refilling.
Each shot has a base damage of 28.

Shots travel straight for 8 frames. After that, they may lose damage.
Shots have a radius of 2 units.
The angle its shots can deviate while on the ground is 3.5 degrees.
The angle its shots can deviate while in the air is 7 degrees.
The outer reticle immediately expands after jumping. The outer reticle will finish shrinking after 45 frames.
The chance to shoot towards the outer reticle instead of the inner reticle increases by 2% per shot, and maximizes at a 30% chance to shoot towards the outer reticle.
- This means that it takes 15 shots to reach minimum accuracy.
When jumping, the chance to shoot towards the outer reticle instead of the inner reticle is immediately set to 30%.
Accuracy starts recovering 4 frames after the player stops shooting.
Within the first charge ring, initial shot velocity scales from 10.5 to 21 units per frame. Within the second charge ring, initial shot velocity is always 21 units per frame. Shots travel straight at the initial velocity for 8 frames. At maximum charge, shots travel straight for 168 distance units.
Ink droplets occur every 200 units.
The frequency at which ink drips from a shot occurs at a rate of 1 droplets per shot.
There are a total of 8 different droplet patterns that can be created while firing this weapon.
Droplets that occur within 11 units of the player have a radius of 19.2 units.
Droplets that occur when they travel past 200 units of the player have a radius of 18 units.
All other ink droplets have a radius of 14 units.

^[2]

Version history

Version	Adjustments
2.7.0	▼ Special gauge decrease: 50% → up to 60%.

Quotes

Sheldon's Introduction

The Heavy Splatling Deco is a Heavy Splatling that's been jazzed up a bit! With the Point Sensor and Kraken, your enemies will fall before your slow but unstoppable advance!^(NA)^[a]

Sheldon's Introduction

The Heavy Splatling Deco is basically just a Heavy Splatling that's been jazzed up a bit! With the Point Sensor and Kraken, your enemies will fall before your slow but inexorable advance!^(EU/OC)^[b]

“

A rhinestone-encrusted Heavy Splatling. Flush out your opponents with the sub weapon, and then smash into them with the Kraken special!

”

— In-Game Description

Notes

↑ North America
↑ Europe and Oceania

Gallery

Promo image.
An Inkling boy holding a Heavy Splatling Deco. (front)
A Heavy Splatling Deco being fired, seen from a distance.
An Inkling boy holding a Heavy Splatling Deco. (back)
A Heavy Splatling Deco being charged up.
An Inkling girl holding a Heavy Splatling Deco.
Official art of an Inkling holding the Heavy Splatling Deco.

Demonstration

Splatoon 2

Heavy Splatling Deco

Basic information
Category	Main
Class	Splatling
Sub	Splash Wall
Special	Bubble Blower
Special points	180p
Special depletion
Range	78 / 100
Damage
Impact
Fire rate
Charge speed	38 / 100
Ink speed
Mobility	50 / 100
Durability
Handling
Obtainable at
Level	12
Cost	9,600
Requirement
Added in
Specifications
Weight
Base damage	30
Base duration
Ink consumption	22.5% (Full charge)
Base range
Rate of fire
Muzzle velocity
Base accuracy

MPU effect
SPU effect
SPU effect
Other variants	Heavy Splatling Heavy Splatling Remix Hero Splatling Replica

The Heavy Splatling Deco returns in Splatoon 2 with a new design.^[3]^[4] It was released on 16 September 2017 at 02:00 UTC. It comes with Splash Walls and the Bubble Blower.

Data

While Main Power Up increases the number of shots fired, it does not increase the ink consumption relative to the amount charged, making the weapon comparatively more ink efficient.

The Heavy Splatling Deco is a middleweight weapon.
The matchmaking range is 210. The game's matchmaking system looks at a team's average matchmaking range value, and matches them against a team with a similar average.
The full charge ink consumption of 22.5% and ink tank capacity of 100% allows players to fully charge 4 times before needing to refill the ink tank.
- This stat can be changed with Ink Saver (Main).
The Heavy Splatling Deco cannot store its charge.
The Heavy Splatling Deco is not rechargeable while firing.
When charging the weapon, it will take 50 frames in order to charge its first ring and 75 frames in total for a full charge.
With a single ring charged, it will have a firing duration of 72 frames. With a full charge, it will have a firing duration of 144 frames.
When charging with an empty tank, the charge time is multiplied by 4.
When firing, it shoots a bullet every 4 frames.
When firing, the player's movement speed is set to 0.7 units per frame.
- When charging, the player's movement speed is set to 0.62 units per frame.
After firing, there is a 40 frame cooldown before the ink tank starts refilling.
Each shot has a base damage of 30.
If a shot is in the air for more than 11 frames after being fired, it loses 1.875 damage per frame until it reaches 15 damage at frame 19.
Shots have a radius of 2 units.
The angle its shots can deviate while on the ground is 3.3 degrees.
The angle its shots can deviate while in the air is 7 degrees.
The outer reticle immediately expands after jumping. After 25 frames, the outer reticle will start shrinking, and will finish shrinking after 70 frames.
The Heavy Splatling Deco has a 30% chance to shoot towards the outer reticle instead of the inner reticle.
When jumping, the chance to shoot towards the outer reticle instead of the inner reticle is immediately set to 30%.
Within the first charge ring, initial shot velocity scales from 10.5 to 21 units per frame. Within the second charge ring, initial shot velocity is always 21 units per frame. Shots travel straight at the initial velocity for 8 frames.
- So at maximum charge, shots travel straight at a rate of 21 units per frame for 8 frames. Shots travel straight for 168 distance units.
After shots stop flying straight, the velocity is set to 15.105 units per frame if it is not already lower than the listed value, and decreases further as it travels.
Ink droplets occur every 200 units.
The frequency at which ink drips from a shot occurs at a rate of 1 droplets per shot.
There are a total of 8 different droplet patterns that can be created while firing this weapon.
Droplets that occur within 11 units of the player have a radius of 18 units, and a width of 0 units.
- These droplets have their radius multiplied by a value ranging from 1.6 if they fell from a height above 100 units to 1.28 if they fell from a height below 30 units.
Droplets that occur when they travel past 200 units of the player have a radius of 17 units.
All other ink droplets have a radius of 12.6 units.
Droplets that are far from the player and all other droplets have their radius multiplied by a value ranging from 1.6 if they fell from a height above 100 units to 1.6 if they fell from a height below 30 units.
If no ink droplets have occurred within 11 units of the player for 0 shots, the next shot the player makes will force a paint droplet to appear at the player's feet.

^[5]

While Main Power Up increases the number of shots fired, it does not increase the ink consumption relative to the amount charged, making the weapon comparatively more ink efficient.