Splat-Switch

A Splat-Switch in Splatoon 2.

“	A Splat Switch! Haven't seen one of those in a while.	”
— Agent 1

Splat-Switches, also formatted as Splat Switches and as splat switches in Splatoon 3, are square switches found on platforms in Octo Valley, Octo Canyon, Shifty Station, the Octo Expansion, and Return of the Mammalians. When 70% of a Splat-Switch is covered in the player's ink, it will change entirely to the player's ink color and cause a platform to shift or rotate.

Description

Splat-Switches are square-shaped panels with small triangles on all sides that faintly glow red when not activated. When covered with 70% of Agent 3, Agent 4, or Agent 8's ink, the Splat-Switch will activate and change to the player's ink color. When activated, the switch causes a platform to shift or rotate, allowing the player to progress in a mission. In Shifty Station, one of two things can happen when a Splat-Switch is activated depending on which team activated it.

In Splatoon 2, new types of Splat-Switches were introduced:

• A temporary switch that is only on for a limited time, denoted by having three arrows on each side of the switch as opposed to one
• An A/B switch that can be turned off by enemy ink, denoted by two pairs of lights on either side of the switch
• Smaller versions of basic and temporary switches

The former two are exclusive to the Octo Expansion, but A/B switches also appear in some Shifty Stations.

Appearances

Level	Normal	Timed	A/B	Tiny	Timed tiny
Octo Valley
Splat-Switch Revolution (Mission #22)	✓
Octo Canyon
Octo-Resort Spring (Mission #12)	✓
Parking Garage (Mission #14)				✓
The Experimentorium (Mission #19)	✓			✓
Cephalon HQ (Sector 5)	✓
Transfer Junction (Mission #24)	✓
Platform Madhouse (Mission #25)	✓			✓
Octo Expansion
B06 Notorious Station				✓
C08 Bodacious 8-Ball Station				✓
C09B05 Wack 8-Ball Station		✓
C12F07 Matchmaker Station				✓
D04 Mad Props Station	✓
E05 Hypercolor Station			✓
E09 Squee-G Funk Station				✓
E11 Bodacious Rotation Station					✓
F02 Slow Ride Station					✓
F08 Jump Station	✓
F10 Cubular Station		✓
G08 Freakazoid Station	✓
I02 Dinky Ink Station	✓
Escape 02 Villi Phase	✓			✓
Escape 03 Belly Phase				✓
Escape 04 Intestinal Phase				✓
Escape 05 Diaphragm Phase	✓	✓
Escape 06 Peristalsis Phase				✓
Shifty Station
Layout 13: The Switches			✓
Layout 20: The Ink is Spreading			✓
Return of the Mammalians
No. 1 Octarians in the Crater? YIKES!	✓
No. 3 Boxes Locked! Keys, Please!	✓
0102 Octopods at Rest Tend to FLIP OUT!	✓
0104 Doors, Doors, Doors! And More! (Doors)	✓
0109 The String's the Thing				✓
0205 Tread Heavily	✓
0207 The Ink-Conservation Project	✓
0208 Switching Things Up				✓
0409 Flying Worst Class	✓
0412 The Path to Perfect Penmanship				✓
0510 Shooter on Rails				✓
0512 You'll Go Far If You Shoot Far	✓
0513 Learn to Reflect, and This One Is in the Bank				✓
0612 Enter the Stamp Gauntlet	✓
Rocket 03 Alterna Space Center Lift	✓

Trivia

• A glitch exists where a player can partially ink the switch and then pause the game. When the player resumes, the switch will automatically activate. If the player had the game open for too long, this glitch will not work, however.^{[Citation needed]}

Gallery

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  A small Splat-Switch.

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  The variant of Splat-Switch in the Octo Expansion.

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  An inactive Splat-Switch.

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  A Splat-Switch being activated with ink.

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  An active Splat-Switch.

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  A Splat-Switch in The Switches.

Names in other languages

Splat switch

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	スイッチ suicchi	Switch
Dutch	Schakelaar	Switch
French	Interrupteur
German	Schalter
Italian	Interruttore
Russian	Переключатель Pereklyuchatel'	Switch
Spanish	Interruptor
Chinese (Simplified)	开关
Chinese (Traditional)	開關
Korean	스위치
Internal	Msn_CourseObj_04