Carbon Roller

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The Carbon Roller is a is a main weapon in Splatoon and Splatoon 2.

Compared to the basic S Weapon Main Splat Roller.png Splat Roller, the Carbon Roller is the lighter and more mobile roller. It has an incredibly fast flick that still splats opponents in one hit. However, its attack power and range is weaker, and it is unable to squish Inklings in one hit.

Splatoon

Carbon Roller

Carbon Roller

Category Main
Class Roller
Sub S Weapon Sub Burst Bomb.png Burst Bomb
Special S Weapon Special Inkzooka.png Inkzooka
Level 10
Cost Cash 6,600
Availability
Base Damage 25–125 (Splash)
70 (Roll)
Base Duration
Ink Consumption
Special Points
Sp. Depletion Specdep icon.png 60%
Range
20 / 100
Damage
Impact
Fire Rate
Charge Speed
Ink Speed
65 / 100
Mobility
Durability
Handling
60 / 100

The Carbon Roller was released on June 27, 2015 at 02:00 UTC. It comes in a set with S Weapon Sub Burst Bomb.png Burst Bombs and the S Weapon Special Inkzooka.png Inkzooka.

Each flick consumes 3.5% of the ink tank capacity, allowing players to fling 28 times before needing to refill.

Version history

2.2.0

  • ▼ Players can only splat their opponents in one hit with the center of the roller.
  • ▼ Opponents cannot be splatted in one hit when the player is out of ink.
  • – Amount of damage given when the roller is repeatedly swung balanced.

2.7.0

  • ▼ Special gauge loss: 50% → up to 60%
  • ▲ Ink consumption per flick: 5% → 3.5%

Gallery

  • Promo image.

  • An Inkling displaying his equipped Carbon Roller, in an idle standing position.

  • Showing the quick splash attack of the roller.

  • Using the Carbon Roller, held down. (behind)

  • Using the Carbon Roller, held down. (front)

  • Official art of an Inkling holding the Carbon Roller.

  • Sunken Scroll 18, with the Carbon Roller at the left.

  • Concept art of various weapons, with the Carbon Roller at the upper left.

Demonstration

Similar Weapons

Splatoon 2

Carbon Roller

Carbon Roller

Category Main
Class Roller
Sub S2 Weapon Sub Autobomb.png Autobomb
Special S2 Weapon Special Ink Storm.png Ink Storm
Level 7
Cost Cash 6,200
Availability
Base Damage 25–100 (Ground)
42.5–120 (Midair)
70 (Roll)
Base Duration
Ink Consumption
Special Points 160p
Sp. Depletion
Range
20 / 100
Damage
Impact
Fire Rate
Charge Speed
Ink Speed
63 / 100
Mobility
Durability
Handling
65 / 100

The Carbon Roller comes in a set with S2 Weapon Sub Autobomb.png Autobombs and the S2 Weapon Special Ink Storm.png Ink Storm.

Each flick consumes 4.5% of the ink tank capacity, allowing players to fling 22 times before needing to refill.

Version history

Base game

  • – Splash damage made higher at further range in midair, but lower overall on the ground.
  • ▼ Ink consumption per flick: 3.5% → 6.0%

1.2.0

  • ▲ Ink consumption per flick: 6.0% → 4.5%

1.3.0

  • ▲ Points to fill special gauge: 180 → 160

1.4.0

  • ▲ When inking ground continuously by holding Button1 ZR.png, player will now reach maximum movement speed one second faster.
  • ▲ Made it easier to ink the ground in front of you when using a horizontal swing.
  • ▲ Increased damage dealt to opposing S2 Weapon Special Baller.png Ballers with either a vertical or horizontal swing by roughly 40%.
  • ▲ Decreased the knock back distance when coming into contact with a roller that has run out of ink or is in mid-air.
  • — Fixed an issue causing the aiming reticule to display outside the center of the screen when moving the camera and using a roller or brella-type weapon.

2.3.0

  • ▲ Extended the distance at which maximum damage is dealt when landing an attack at the extent of a horizontal swing by roughly 35%.

Gallery

  • Promo image.

Demonstration

Quotes

Click to view the quotes for Carbon Roller. View the quotation page.

Trivia

  • Out of all main and sub weapons, the Carbon Roller has the fastest one-hit-splat time, going through the motion of a single flick in 11 frames (less than a quarter a second).
  • The Carbon roller is the only non-Brush Roller weapon that does not crush / splat with a single hit while rolling over the opponent.
  • The Carbon Roller is designed after a bicycle's bottle cage, with the water bottle used as the weapon's reservoir.

Etymology

Carbon refers to Carbon fiber, a very light material from which the Carbon Roller is apparently made. Many bicycle frames are made of carbon fiber, which alludes to the possibility that the Carbon Roller was made from salvaged bicycle parts.

Names in other languages

Language Name Meaning
FlagJapan.svg Japanese カーボンローラー
kābon rōrā		 Carbon Roller
FlagNetherlands.svg Dutch Carbonroller Carbon roller
FlagFrance.svg French Rouleau carbone Carbon Roller
FlagGermany.svg German Karbonroller Carbon Roller
FlagItaly.svg Italian Rullo di carbonio Carbon Roller
FlagRussia.svg Russian Валик ЛАЙТ
Valik LAYT		 Light roller
FlagSpain.svg Spanish Rodillo de carbono Carbon Roller


Weapons in Splatoon
Main Chargers • • • • •
Rollers • • • •
Shooters • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Sloshers • •
Splatlings • •
Sub • • • • • • • • •
Special • • • • • •
Weapons in Splatoon 2
Main Brellas • •
Chargers • • • • • •
Dualies • • • •
Rollers • • • • •
Shooters • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Sloshers • •
Splatlings • •
Sub • • • • • • • • • •
Special • • • • • • • •
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