Big Swig Roller Express

The Big Swig Roller Express is a main weapon in Splatoon 3.

Splatoon 3

Splatoon 3

Big Swig Roller Express

Basic information
Category	Main
Class	Roller
Sub	Angle Shooter
Special	Ink Storm
Special points	200p
Special depletion
Range	56 / 100
Damage
Impact
Fire rate
Charge speed
Ink speed	54 / 100
Mobility
Durability
Handling	60 / 100
Obtainable at
Level	18
Cost
Requirement
Weight
Base damage
Base duration
Ink consumption
Base range
Rate of fire
Muzzle velocity
Base accuracy
MPU effect
SPU effect
SPU effect
Other variant	Big Swig Roller

The Big Swig Roller Express was revealed on 16 May 2023 in the Sizzle Season 2023 trailer. Its physical attributes are the same as the regular Big Swig Roller, but it has a yellow frame in contrast to the lavender used with the standard Big Swig Roller. It is branded after the vending machine brand Express^{[Citation needed]} that makes Tenta Missiles and Inkjet, the first main weapon to do so in the series. In promotional trailers posted on 17 May 2023 and 18 May 2023, the weapon was shown using the Angle Shooter and Ink Storm.

Data

• The Big Swig Roller Express is a middleweight weapon.
• The matchmaking range is 12.5. The game's matchmaking system looks at a team's average matchmaking range value, and matches them against a team with a similar average.
• Ink consumption per second while rolling scales from 0.6% to 3% depending on the rolling speed.
  • This stat can be changed with Ink Saver (Main).
• While rolling, the player's movement speed is set to 0.118 units per frame.
• After rolling for 0.5 seconds, the player begins to dash.
• When dashing, the player's movement speed is set to 0.142 units per frame.
• After rolling, there is a 0.33 second cooldown before the ink tank starts refilling.
• Hitting an opponent while rolling deals 70 damage.
• While rolling, the Big Swig Roller Express leaves an ink trail that is 6.8 units wide.

Horizontal swing (from ground)

• The ink consumption of 10% allows players to attack 10 times before needing to refill the ink supply.
  • This stat can be changed with Ink Saver (Main).
• When attacking with a nearly depleted ink tank, the ink consumption of that attack is reduced to 5%. The damage of that attack is reduced to 25% of the normal amount, and and the speed in which the globs of ink move is reduced to 50% of the normal amount, effectively reducing its range.
• When attacking, it takes 18 frames to lift the roller (0.3 seconds).
• When attacking while moving, the player's movement speed is set to 0.072 units per frame.
• After swinging, there is a 0.75 second cooldown before the ink tank starts refilling.
• Attacks have a base damage of 70.
• For normal attacks, ink loses damage based on distance traveled. Ink starts losing damage at 4.2 units and stops losing damage at 8.2 units. The minimum damage is 35.
• If a glob of ink is in the air for more than 30 frames after being flung, it loses damage each frame until frame 55, at which point it will deal 50% of its original damage.
• Ink flung from the center of the roller does the greatest damage. Ink that is flung at an angle greater than 12.0 degrees to the left or right will have lower damage. This low-damage ink starts losing damage after traveling a distance of 2.0 units and stops losing damage at 7.7 units. The maximum damage is 70 and the minimum damage is 35.

Vertical swing (from air)

• The ink consumption of 10% allows players to attack 10 times before needing to refill the ink supply.
  • This stat can be changed with Ink Saver (Main).
• When attacking with a nearly depleted ink tank, the ink consumption of that attack is reduced to 5%. The damage of that attack is reduced to 50% of the normal amount, and and the speed in which the globs of ink move is reduced to 70% of the normal amount, effectively reducing its range.
• When attacking, it takes 20 frames to lift the roller (0.33 seconds).
• When attacking while moving, the player's movement speed is set to 0.072 units per frame.
• After swinging, there is a 0.83 second cooldown before the ink tank starts refilling.
• Attacks have a base damage of 120.
• For normal attacks, ink loses damage based on distance traveled. Ink starts losing damage at 5.2 units and stops losing damage at 16.0 units. The minimum damage is 40.
• The lethal range is 7.7 units, as this is the farthest distance where ink deals 100 damage.
• If a glob of ink is in the air for more than 40 frames after being flung, it loses damage each frame until frame 65, at which point it will deal 50% of its original damage.
• Damage does not change based on the angle of the ink.

Quotes

Sheldon's Introduction The Big Swig Roller Express is an exciting collaboration between the makers of the Big Swig Roller and a vending-machine maker! In addition to the new design, it now comes with the Angle Shooter sub, making it easy to tag enemies and take a sip of their health bar while you're at it. Plus, you can fire up the Ink Storm special to drive the other team into the open, and then finish them off with the roller. Talk about convenient! I guess that's the vending-machine influence paying off.

“

Last one today - meet the Big Swig Roller Express! Despite the name, it's not any faster than the Big Swig Roller, but it comes with the Angle Shooter sub to help you set up a wide-ranging attack. And when the forecast calls for an Ink Storm, you've got the special to dial one up!

”

— @SplatoonNA on Twitter

Badges

Main article: Badge#Weapon freshness

Reaching certain Freshness levels with the Big Swig Roller Express will reward the player with special badges that they can use on their Splashtag.

Big Swig Roller Express Badges
	4★ Big Swig Roller Express User
	5★ Big Swig Roller Express User

Gallery

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  Promo render

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  The bottom right card is for the Big Swig Roller Express

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  2D icon.

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  The Tableturf card icon of the Big Swig Roller Express.

• Model of the Big Swig Roller Express rotating (link to file)

Strategy

For competitive tips about the Big Swig Roller Express

View the strategy page.

Trivia

• Alongside the Annaki Splattershot Nova, the Big Swig Roller Express is the only weapon made by the Splat brand that has the actual name of the brand it was created with in almost every translation of the game instead of suffixes meaning "logo" or "branded" like the other Splat weapons. Coincidentally, the base forms of both of these weapons not only both come from the Chill Season 2022, but are also currently the only new weapons introduced in updates to Splatoon 3 that have variations.

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	ワイドローラーコラボ Waidorōrākorabo	Wide Roller Collab
Dutch	Breedroller Impuls	Broad Roller Express
French	Rouleau large Xpress	Wide Roller Express
German	Breitroller Express	Wide Roller Express
Italian	Ampiorullo Express	Wide roller Express
Russian	Макси-валик «Экспресс» Maksi-valik «Ekspress»	Maxi roller «Express»
Spanish (NOA)	Rodillo mágnum exprés	Magnum roller Express
Spanish (NOE)	Rodillo mágnum B	Magnum roller Express
Chinese (Simplified)	宽滚筒 联名
Chinese (Traditional)	寬滾筒 聯名
Korean	와이드 롤러 컬래버	Wide Roller Collab
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