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 six 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 in squid form will not be visible.

Mutual exclusivity

This ability is found as the main ability only on clothing, so other abilities found only on shoes 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 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 slightly greater than the range of the Splattershot Pro and slightly less than the range of the Jet Squelcher. Damaging an enemy at close range and then moving further away will cause the enemy to be highlighted as long as the 6-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

Version history

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.

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