Thermal Ink

Thermal Ink

Applicable gear

  Clothing

Thermal Ink is an ability in Splatoon 2.

Thermal Ink reveals the location of players that the user deals damage to with the user's main weapon as a 'direct hit' (meaning that indirect Blaster blasts or indirect hits from a Sloshing Machine or Explosher do not count in this case), for about 16 seconds. Tagged players are revealed via a white silhouette, only to the user and only while at least 150 DU away from the tagged player (Bomb Defense Up DX increases this minimum distance) and only while the tagged player is not submerged in ink.

Tactics

Thermal Ink tends to be useful with main weapons (especially long range) that tend to hit opponents but not quite splat them, such as the Jet Squelcher. Thermal Ink tends to not be useful with main weapons that splat opponents quickly, such as the Sploosh-o-matic.

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

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

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.

See also

• Haunt