Painbrush Nouveau

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The Painbrush Nouveau is a main weapon in Splatoon 3. It is the Nouveau-branded version of the Painbrush, with identical stats.

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Painbrush Nouveau

Basic information
Category	Main
Class	Brush
Sub	Point Sensor
Special	Tenta Missiles
Special points
Special depletion
Range	33 / 100
Damage
Impact
Fire rate
Charge speed
Ink speed	85 / 100
Mobility
Durability
Handling	60 / 100
Level
Cost
Requirement
Added in	Chill Season 2023
Specifications
Weight
Base damage	30-60 (Splash) 30 (Roll) 75-150
Base duration
Ink consumption
Base range
Rate of fire
Muzzle velocity
Base accuracy
MPU effect
SPU effect
SPU effect
Other variant	Painbrush

The Painbrush Nouveau will be added as part of Chill Season 2023. It comes with the Point Sensor sub and Tenta Missiles special weapon.

Data

• The Painbrush Nouveau is a middleweight weapon.
• The matchmaking range is 13.1. The game's matchmaking system looks at a team's average matchmaking range value, and matches them against a team with a similar average.
• Ink consumption per second while sliding is 10.8%.
  • This stat can be changed with Ink Saver (Main).
• While sliding, the player's movement speed is set to 0.18 units per frame.
• After rolling, there is a 0.33 second cooldown before the ink tank starts refilling.
• Hitting an opponent while sliding deals 30 damage.
• While sliding, the Painbrush Nouveau leaves an ink trail that is 2.6 units wide.

Flinging ink

• The ink consumption of 4.8% allows players to attack 20 times before needing to refill the ink supply.
  • This stat can be changed with Ink Saver (Main).
• When attacking, it takes 23 frames to start swinging the brush.

• The weapon can be swung every 15 frames (4 times per second).
• When attacking while moving, the player's movement speed is set to 0.024 units per frame.
• After swinging, there is a 0.83 second cooldown before the ink tank starts refilling.
• Attacks have a base damage of 60.
• For normal attacks, ink loses damage based on distance traveled. Ink starts losing damage at 5.0 units and stops losing damage at 13.0 units. The minimum damage is 31.
• If a glob of ink is in the air for more than 24 frames after being flung, it loses damage each frame until frame 45, at which point it will deal 50% of its original damage.
• Damage does not change based on the angle of the ink.

Gallery

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  Promo render

• Model of the Painbrush Nouveau rotating (link to file)

Trivia

• The Painbrush Nouveau is the first Brush in the series to have the Point Sensor.
• The Painbrush Nouveau shares the same kit as the Dualie Squelchers and H-3 Nozzlenose in Splatoon 2.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	フィンセント・ヒュー Finsento Hyū
French	Épinceau écaïe nuancé