Thermal Ink

Thermal Ink

Applicable gear

  Clothing

Thermal Ink is an ability in Splatoon 2. The ability is exclusive to clothing, and cannot be rolled as a sub ability.

Thermal Ink shows the location of opponents to the player for 16 seconds after directly damaging them with their primary weapon, but only while the opponent and the player are not closer to each other than a certain distance. The location of these enemies is only shown to the player who damaged them. Enemies are located with a white silhouette, similar to how the Sting Ray shows opponents. Tagged enemies are not visible while swimming, but are visible in squid form outside their ink. The further away the enemy is, the brighter the silhouette will be.

Mutual exclusivity

This ability is found as the main ability only on clothing, so other abilities found only on clothing are mutually exclusive with it; in other words players cannot have them together. These abilities are Ability Doubler, Haunt, Ninja Squid, and Respawn Punisher. In addition, since wearing the Splatfest Tee is mandatory during a Splatfest, these abilities cannot be used for the duration of those events.

Use

Damage must be dealt directly, so indirect Blaster blasts or indirect hits with the Sloshing Machine or Explosher will not trigger the ability. A direct hit from a Rapid Blaster will trigger it, however, as will damage reduced by falloff.

The minimum range at which a Thermal Ink-marked enemy is highlighted is roughly the same range as the Dapple Dualies painting range. Damaging an enemy at close range and then moving further away will cause the enemy to be highlighted as long as the 16-second duration of Thermal Ink has not already expired.

Gear

Clothing with Thermal Ink in Splatoon 2

	Name	Brand	Availability	Ability	Star power	Added in
	Annaki Drive Tee	Annaki	5500	Thermal Ink		Initial Release (1.0.0)
	Black V-Neck Tee	SquidForce	3800	Thermal Ink		Initial Release (1.0.0)
	Dakro Golden Tee	Zink	1010	Thermal Ink		3.0.0
	Enchanted Robe	amiibo	Octoling Girl	Thermal Ink		4.2.0
	Friend Tee	SquidForce	1200	Thermal Ink		3.0.0
	Hightide Era Band Tee	Rockenberg	900	Thermal Ink		Initial Release (1.0.0)
	N-Pacer Sweat	Enperry	7800	Thermal Ink		2.0.0
	Old-Timey Clothes	Cuttlegear	Octo Expansion	Thermal Ink		3.1.0
	Pullover Coat	Toni Kensa	13200	Thermal Ink		Initial Release (1.0.0)
	Silver Tentatek Vest	Tentatek	6200	Thermal Ink		3.0.0
	Slash King Tank	Enperry	450	Thermal Ink		Initial Release (1.0.0)
	Takoroka Galactic Tie Dye	Takoroka	850	Thermal Ink		2.0.0
	Takoroka Nylon Vintage	Takoroka	9500	Thermal Ink		2.0.0
	Tumeric Zekko Coat	Zekko	4600	Thermal Ink		2.0.0

Gallery

• Thermal Ink in Shooting range. (link to file)

Version history

Version	Adjustments
1.4.0	▲ Opponents behind stage objects will be revealed when the Thermal Ink’s effective range is roughly 23% further away from them than it was previously.
3.0.0	▲ Duration extended from 6 to 12 seconds.
4.3.0	▲ Duration extended from 12 to 16 seconds.

Trivia

• Thermal Ink is the only ability with no pieces of gear that were also in "Splatoon".
  • However, prior to 2.0.0, there were no Drop Roller shoes that were also in Splatoon, but the Bubble Rain Boots fixed this.
• There are no Skalop or Inkline gear that has Thermal Ink as its main ability.

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