.96 Gal
The .96 Gal is a main weapon in the Splatoon series.
As a member of the shooter class, this weapon distinguishes itself by sacrificing fire rate, ink efficiency, and mobility for powerful shots and long range. The .96 Gal outputs enough ink in each shot to splat opponents in two hits. Consequently, the weapon has a high ink consumption rate of 2.5% per shot, making it the ink-thirstiest of all weapons in the shooter class (excluding blasters) and only allowing for 40 shots to be fired per ink tank. The weapon's fire rate is slower than all other shooter-class weapons (also excluding blasters), measuring at slightly slower than the Octobrush's flick rate. A major drawback of the .96 Gal is its poor accuracy for a long-ranged weapon; many shots can deviate far enough to the left or right that they may miss the target. The .96 Gal and its close relative the .52 Gal share their visual design and high-damage, low-accuracy performance.
Appearance
The .96 is designed with a water cooler bottle as a base. A grip, sight, and high-caliber gun barrel are clamped to the bottle. The parts surrounding the bottle are black plastic with pink accents, while the bottle matches the player's ink color.
Splatoon
| Category | Main |
| Class | Shooter |
| Sub |  Sprinkler
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| Special |  Echolocator
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| Level | 12 |
| Cost |  7,600
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| Base damage | 52 |
| Ink consumption | 2.5% |
| Special depletion |  40%
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| Range | |
| Damage | |
| Fire rate | |
| Other variant |  .96 Gal Deco
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The .96 Gal comes in a set with Sprinklers and the Echolocator.
Data
- The .96 Gal is a middleweight weapon.
- Each shot consumes 2.5% of the ink tank capacity.
- This allows players to fire 40 shots before needing to refill the ink supply.
- This stat can be changed with Ink Saver (Main).
- When firing continuously, it has a fire rate of 12 frames between shots (5 shots per second).
- When firing while moving, the player's movement speed is set to 0.4 units per frame.
- After firing, there is a 20 frame cooldown before the ink tank starts refilling.
- Each shot has a base damage of 52.
- Shots travel straight for 6 frames. After that, they may lose damage. A shot will lose damage until it reaches 26 damage at frame 18.
- Shots have a radius of 2 units.
- The angle its shots can deviate while on the ground is 4 degrees.
- The angle its shots can deviate while in the air is 12 degrees.
- The outer reticle immediately expands after jumping. The outer reticle will finish shrinking after 60 frames.
- The chance to shoot towards the outer reticle instead of the inner reticle increases by 20% per shot, and maximizes at a 25% chance to shoot towards the outer reticle.
- This means that it takes 2 shots to reach minimum accuracy.
- When jumping, the chance to shoot towards the outer reticle instead of the inner reticle is immediately set to 40%.
- Accuracy starts recovering 12 frames after the player stops shooting.
- Shots initially travel straight at a rate of 22 units per frame for 6 frames. Shots travel straight for 132 distance units.
- Ink droplets occur every 50 units.
- The frequency at which ink drips from a shot occurs at a rate of 4 droplets per shot.
- There are a total of 5 different droplet patterns that can be created while firing this weapon.
- Droplets that occur within 11 units of the player have a radius of 21 units.
- Droplets that occur when they travel past 200 units of the player have a radius of 18.5 units.
- All other ink droplets have a radius of 14.5 units.
Version history
| Version | Adjustments |
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| 2.7.0 |
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Quotes
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Sheldon's Introduction
The .96 Gal's main weapon has an extra-large ink tank, allowing for powerful shots with a lot of range!
And the Sprinkler and Echolocator can be used to keep foes riiiiiiight where you want them.
So it's an excellent weapon for fighters who want to control the pace of battle!(NA)[a] |
| “ | Similar to the .52 Gal, but with an improved mechanism and a more stable shot. Range and power have been increased...at the cost of being even more ink hungry. | ” | — In-Game Description(NA)[a]
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| “ | Similar to the .52 Gal, but with an improved mechanism and a more stable shot. Range and power have been increased - at the cost of being even more ink hungry. | ” | — In-Game Description(EU/OC)[b]
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- Notes
Gallery
Promo image.
Artwork of an Inkling holding the .96 Gal.
Demonstration
Splatoon 2
| Category | Main |
| Class | Shooter |
| Sub |  Sprinkler
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| Special |  Ink Armor
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| Level | 21 |
| Cost |  12,600
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| Base damage | 62 |
| Ink consumption | 2.5% |
| Special points | 190p |
| Range | |
| Damage | |
| Fire rate | |
| Other variant |  .96 Gal Deco
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The .96 Gal returns in Splatoon 2 looking identical to how it did in the first game. It comes with Sprinkler and Ink Armor.
It appears in one Octo Expansion Station:
Data
- The .96 Gal is a middleweight weapon.
- The matchmaking range is 180. Splatoon 2 matchmaking looks at a team's average matchmaking range value, and matches them against a team with a similar average.
- The ink consumption of 2.5% and ink tank capacity of 100% allows players to fire 40 shots before needing to refill the ink supply.
- This stat can be changed with Ink Saver (Main).
- When initially firing the weapon in humanoid form, the first shot takes 3 frames to come out.
- When firing from squid or octopus form, the first shot takes 11 frames to come out.
- The interval between firing and when the player is able to become a squid or use a sub weapon is 4 frames.
- When firing continuously, it has a fire rate of 12 frames between shots (5 shots per second).
- When firing while moving, the player's movement speed is set to 0.4 units per frame.
- After firing, there is a 20 frame cooldown before the ink tank starts refilling.
- Each shot has a base damage of 62.
- If a shot is in the air for more than 9 frames after being fired, it loses 1.6875 damage per frame until it reaches 35 damage at frame 25.
- The bullet hitbox has a radius of 2 units.
- The angle its shots can deviate while on the ground is 4 degrees.
- The angle its shots can deviate while in the air is 11.3511 degrees.
- The outer reticle immediately expands after jumping. After 25 frames, the outer reticle will start shrinking, and will finish shrinking after 70 frames.
- The .96 Gal starts off having a 4% chance to shoot towards the outer reticle instead of the inner reticle.
- This chance increases by 3% per shot, and maximizes at a 30% chance to shoot towards the outer reticle, meaning that it takes 9 shots to reach minimum accuracy.
- When jumping, the chance to shoot towards the outer reticle instead of the inner reticle is immediately set to 40%.
- Accuracy starts recovering 12 frames after the player stops shooting. The chance to shoot towards the outer reticle decreases by 2% per frame, if the chance is not already at the minimum, meaning that it takes 25 frames to reach maximum accuracy. (30 after shooting while jumping.)
- Shots initially travel straight at a rate of 24.5 units per frame for 5 frames. Shots travel straight for 122.5 distance units.
- After that, the shot's velocity is set to 23.77 units per frame if it is not already lower than the listed value, and decreases further as it travels.
- Ink droplets occur every 60 units.
- The frequency at which ink drips from a shot occurs at a rate of 3.4 droplets per shot.
- There are a total of 5 different droplet patterns that can be created while firing this weapon.
- Droplets that occur within 11 units of the player have a radius of 24 units, and a width of 13 units.
- These droplets have their radius multiplied by a value ranging from 1.2 if they fell from a height above 100 units to 1.4 if they fell from a height below 30 units.
- Droplets that occur when they travel past 200 units of the player have a radius of 21 units.
- All other ink droplets have a radius of 13.5 units.
- Droplets that are far from the player and all other droplets have their radius multiplied by a value ranging from 1 if they fell from a height above 100 units to 1.2 if they fell from a height below 30 units.
Version history
| Version | Adjustments |
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| Base game |
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| 1.1.2 |
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| 1.3.0 |
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| 1.4.0 |
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| 2.3.0 |
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| 3.0.0 |
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| 4.0.0 |
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| 4.1.0 |
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| 4.2.0 |
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| 4.4.0 |
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| 4.5.0 |
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| 4.6.0 |
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| 4.9.0 |
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Quotes
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Sheldon's Introduction
The .96 Gal is a shooter that hits hard and has long range, courtesy of its large chamber and extended barrel! Of course, with that, you can't expect much from the fire rate, so make each shot count as you use the Sprinkler to spread ink! Also be sure to support your teammates with the Ink Armor! I recommend this for tactical players who want to squash their opponents in an all-out war! |
Gallery
Promo image.
Demonstration
Splatoon 3
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The .96 Gal returns in Splatoon 3 with a new design. It is currently unknown if it will keep its attributes from the previous games, or what its set will be.
Gallery
The newly-designed .96 Gal
Another view of the new design of the .96 Gal.
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Strategy
For competitive tips about the .96 Gal
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View the strategy page. |
Etymology
.96 Gal is short for .96 Gallon. "Gal" is also a play on Cal, the short form of Caliber, a term commonly used when describing the diameter of bullets for firearms.
.96ガロン .96 Garon has the same origin as the English name, but without Gallon shortened to Gal.
Names in other languages
| Language | Name | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
 Japanese |
.96ガロン .96 garon |
.96 Gallon |
 Dutch |
.96 Kaliter | From kaliber (caliber), liter and .96 |
 French |
Calibre 3000 | Caliber 3000 |
 German |
.96 Gallon | .96 Gallon |
 Italian |
Calibro 3000 | Caliber 3000 |
 Russian |
Струевик .96 Struyevik .96 |
Jet Stream .96 From строевой stroyevoy (drill), струя struya (jet, stream), -ик -ik (suffix usually denoting a profession, object, tool or a feature), and .96 |
 Spanish |
Salpicadora 3000 | Splasher 3000 |
References
- ↑ Splatoon - NormalShotHeavy.params
- ↑ Splatoon 2 - Parameter Database
- ↑ Splatoon 2 - Weapon and Gear Database
