Painbrush

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The Painbrush is a main weapon in Splatoon 3.

Appearance

The Painbrush resembles a fan brush with a slit in its bristles. Its silver, metallic handle resembles a palette cup. On the handle near the bristles, the Nouveau logo can be seen, colored white.

Splatoon 3

Painbrush

Painbrush

Basic information
Category Main
Class S3 Icon Brush.png Brush
Sub S3 Weapon Sub Curling Bomb Flat.png Curling Bomb
Special S3 Weapon Special Wave Breaker.png Wave Breaker
Special points 200p
Special depletion
Range
Damage
Impact
Fire rate
Charge speed
Ink speed
Mobility
Durability
Handling
Level
Cost
Requirement
Introduced
Specifications
Weight
Base damage 20-60 (Splash)
30 (Roll)
Base duration
Ink consumption
Base range
Rate of fire
Muzzle velocity
Base accuracy
MPU effect
SPU effect
SPU effect
Other variant

The Painbrush was revealed on 16 May 2023 in the Sizzle Season 2023 trailer.[1] On 18 May 2023, Nintendo revealed the weapon in a dedicated post on their Twitter. The post shows that the Painbrush will have Curling Bomb and Wave Breaker.[2]

It rolls with a speed comparable to the Octobrush and also has more range. Though, unlike other brushes, which typically fling ink in a wide area, the Painbrush spreads ink in a much more narrow field, straight ahead of the user, similar to the Splatana's horizontal slash. It takes at least 3 ranged hits to splat an opponent.

Quotes

SRL Ballistics back again! The S-BLAST was and IS cool, but we can only watch the video so many times. Now we're on to the Painbrush, the biggest, heaviest, and NEWEST brush in the game! Please hold while we watch and analyze our new Painbrush video 2,479 times.

And here it is in action! Note how the first swing is slow, but subsequent swings fling ink fast and wide. Plus, you can hold down the Button to advance quickly as needed. If battling is an art, this brush could be... an art tool? IDK. We're scientists, not artists.

— @SplatoonNA on Twitter[3][2]

Badges

Main article: Badge#Weapon freshness

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

Painbrush Badges
S3 Badge Painbrush 4.png 4★ Painbrush User
S3 Badge Painbrush 5.png 5★ Painbrush User

Gallery

Etymology

Painbrush is a pun on "paintbrush" and a portmanteau of the words "pain" and "brush."

Names in other languages

Language Name Meaning
Japan Japanese フィンセント
Finsento
From fin and Vincent [a]
Netherlands Dutch Kwistkwast From either kwist ("annihilation, torture") or kwisten ("to squander") and kwast ("brush")
CanadaFrance French Épinceau écaïe Shell brush
Germany German Fächerfärber Fan painter
Italy Italian Tonnoretto From tonno ("tuna") and Italian painter Tintoretto
Russia Russian Веерокисть «Плюхассо»
Veerokist' "Plyukhasso"
Fan brush «Splatasso» [b]
Mexico Spanish (NOA) Pincel abanico Fan brush
Spain Spanish (NOE) Brocha abanico Fan brush
China Chinese 文森
Wén sēn (Mandarin)
man4 sam1
(Cantonese)
Vincent [a]
South Korea Korean 빈센트
Binsenteu
Vincent [a]
Translate logo.svg Internal Brush_Heavy_00[4] Brush is the respective class, Heavy means that it's heavyweight, and 00 means it's the first variant.

Translation notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 A reference to Vincent van Gogh, a Dutch painter
  2. From плюх plyukh ("splat") and Пикассо Pikasso ("Picasso," a Spanish painter)

References