Inkbrush

The Inkbrush is a main weapon in the Splatoon series.

As a roller-class weapon (brush-class in Splatoon 3), the Inkbrush can be pushed along the ground while leaving a trail of ink. Much like the Splat Roller, the Inkbrush can be used as a melee weapon that splatters ink in front of the player. Of all weapons in its class, the Inkbrush travels at the highest speed and leaves the narrowest trail. The high rolling speed can be used to quickly escape or approach an enemy. It has the lowest damage output in its class; four flicks (or five bumps while rolling) are needed to splat an opponent. The Inkbrush consumes 2% of the ink tank capacity per flick, allowing the player to fling 50 times before needing to refill the tank.

The Inkbrush is most comparable to the Octobrush, another paintbrush-like weapon. The Inkbrush is faster and more ink efficient while having less range and dealing less damage per glob of ink.

Appearance

The Inkbrush is designed with a paint tube in the middle, connected to paintbrush bristles and a blue handle with a textured black grip. The paint tube shows the player's ink color on the label, and a glob of the player's ink coats the bristles.

Splatoon

Splatoon

Inkbrush

Basic information
Category	Main
Class	Roller
Sub	Sprinkler
Special	Inkstrike
Special points
Special depletion	40%
Range	10 / 100
Damage
Impact
Fire rate
Charge speed
Ink speed	100 / 100
Mobility
Durability
Handling	100 / 100
Obtainable at
Level	8
Cost	4,800
Requirement
Specifications
Weight
Base damage	28 (Splash) 20 (Roll)
Base duration
Ink consumption	2% (Splash) 0.135% per frame (Roll)
Base range
Rate of fire
Muzzle velocity
Base accuracy
MPU effect
SPU effect
SPU effect
Other variants	Inkbrush Nouveau Permanent Inkbrush

The Inkbrush was released on 5 June 2015. It comes with Sprinklers and the Inkstrike.

When using the Inkbrush, the player's Inkling holds the weapon on the right-hand side of its body. Usually, this does not affect the gameplay, but if a player makes a sharp left turn while in enemy ink, they get stuck in the ink.

When flicking the Inkbrush, there is a random chance that more than one glob of ink hits the opponent.

Data

• The Inkbrush is a middleweight weapon.
• Ink consumption while rolling is 8.1% per second.
  • This stat can be changed with Ink Saver (Main).
• Ink consumption per attack is 2%.
  • This allows players to attack 50 times before needing to refill the ink supply.
  • This stat can be changed with Ink Saver (Main).

• When attacking with a depleted ink tank, ink will not be flung until enough ink has recovered.
• Rolling with a depleted ink tank will not leave a trail or damage opponents.

• The Inkbrush can be swung every 6 frames (10 swings per second).
• When rolling, the player's movement speed is set to 1.92 units per frame.
• When rolling on an uninkable surface or with a depleted ink tank, the player's movement speed is set to 0.96 units per frame.
• After rolling, there is a 0.33 second cooldown before the ink tank starts refilling.
• After swinging, there is a 0.5 second cooldown before the ink tank starts refilling.
• Hitting an opponent while rolling deals 20 damage.
• Attacks have a base damage of 28.
  • This weapon has a critical damage mechanic, so the damage dealt with one swing may be higher than this value.
• For normal attacks, ink loses damage based on distance traveled. Ink starts losing damage at 50 units and stops losing damage at 100 units. The minimum damage is 14.
• Ink globs travel straight for 5 frames.
• Damage does not change based on the angle of the ink.
• When rolling, the Inkbrush leaves an ink trail that is 12 units wide.

Version history

Version	Adjustments
2.2.0	▲ Ink usage while running decreased by 10%.
2.7.0	▲ Special gauge loss: 50% → as low as 40%.
2.8.0	▲ When repeatedly using swinging attacks, ink will also be painted where the player is standing.

Quotes

Sheldon's Introduction The Inkbrush is similar to roller weapons, but it inks the ground as fast as you can dash! It's weak and a bit narrow, but you can make up for that with Sprinklers and Inkstrikes! I would recommend this weapon to anyone who wishes to try out a new type of fighting style!(NA)

Sheldon's Introduction This is the Inkbrush! It's similar to Roller weapons, but it paints the ground as fast as a squid can dash! It's weak and a bit narrow, but you can make up for that with Sprinklers and Inkstrikes! I would recommend this weapon to anyone who wishes to try out a new type of fighting style!(EU/OC)

“

A newly developed weapon with high mobility and a sturdy brush design. Its ink trail is narrow, but it paints the ground at incredible speed and delivers swift close-range attacks.

”

— In-Game Description

“

Holy Smokes, Splatfans! The Squid Research Lab just received an anonymous tip that a new weapon called the Inkbrush has been discovered. It's apparently similar to a paint roller, but a bit quicker to use. It's not the strongest offensive weapon but it comes with Sprinklers and Inkstrikes to maximize inking.

”

— Live from the Squid Research Lab

Notes

Gallery

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  Promo image

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  Official art of an Inkling Girl with the Inkbrush

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  Official art of a team of Inklings - the third one is holding the Inkbrush

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  Art of three female Inklings, with the one on the right holding an Inkbrush

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  Official art of another female Inkling swinging the Inkbrush in a Japanese promo image for SplatNet

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  A render of the Inkbrush on its own

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  The Inkbrush being shown in a Nintendo Direct

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  An Inkling Girl splatting another Inkling with just the Inkbrush's roll

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  A male Inkling running with the Inkbrush at Blackbelly Skatepark

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  A female Inkling running with the Inkbrush

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  An Inkling swiping an Inkbrush at an opponent

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  An Inkling flinging ink with the Inkbrush

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  Promo for Museum d'Alfonsino - the third Inkling is holding the Inkbrush

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  Official art of an Inkling holding the Inkbrush

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  Promo art with a female Inkling (right) holding the Inkbrush

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  A poster seen in Inkopolis, showing off the Inkbrush

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  Concept art of various weapons, with the Inkbrush at the upper right

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  An Inkling Boy and Inkling Girl fighting. The Inkling Boy is wielding the Inkbrush

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  Icon found in Super Mario Maker

Demonstration

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Splatoon 2

Splatoon 2

Inkbrush

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Basic information
Category	Main
Class	Roller
Sub	Splat Bomb
Special	Splashdown
Special points	150p
Special depletion
Range	5 / 100
Damage
Impact
Fire rate
Charge speed
Ink speed	100 / 100
Mobility
Durability
Handling	100 / 100
Obtainable at
Level	5
Cost	2,600
Requirement
Specifications
Weight
Base damage	30 (Splash) 20 (Roll)
Base duration
Ink consumption	2% (Splash) 0.135% per frame (Roll)
Base range
Rate of fire
Muzzle velocity
Base accuracy
MPU effect
SPU effect
SPU effect
Other variants	Inkbrush Nouveau Permanent Inkbrush

The Inkbrush was released on 23 July 2017 at 02:00 UTC. It comes with Splat Bombs and Splashdown.

It appears in five Octo Expansion stations:

• B13 Phat Splatz Station
• D07 Targetbuster Station
• E10 Cratebuster Station
• G09B05 Wack 8-Ball Station
• J04 Footloose Station

Data

• The Inkbrush is a lightweight weapon.
• The matchmaking range is 70. Splatoon 2 matchmaking 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 is 8.1%.
  • This stat can be changed with Ink Saver (Main).
• The Inkbrush can be swung every 6 frames (10 swings per second).
• When rolling, the player's movement speed is set to 1.92 units per frame. Main Power Up increases rolling speed up to 2.016 units per frame.
• The Inkbrush does not have a dash feature.
• After rolling, there is a 0.33 second cooldown before the ink tank starts refilling.
• Hitting an opponent while rolling deals 20 damage.
• When rolling, the Inkbrush leaves an ink trail that is 12 units wide. Main Power Up increases ink trail width up to 17.76.

Flinging ink

• The ink consumption of 2% allows players to attack 50 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 1%. The damage of that attack is reduced to 50% of the normal amount.
• When attacking while moving, the player's movement speed is set to 0.24 units per frame.
• After swinging, there is a 0.5 second cooldown before the ink tank starts refilling.
• Attacks have a base damage of 30.
• For normal attacks, ink loses damage based on distance traveled. Ink starts losing damage at 40 units and stops losing damage at 100 units. The minimum damage is 15.
• In situations where ink falls down, the ink will lose damage as it falls. The minimum damage for falling ink is 7.5.
• Damage does not change based on the angle of the ink.

Version history

Version	Adjustments
Base game	▲ Base damage: 28 → 30.
1.3.0	▲ Points to fill special gauge: 170 → 160.
1.4.0	▲ Enemy ink will no longer have a negative effect when moving through it while holding to ink the ground continuously. ▲ Increased damage dealt to opposing Ballers when flinging ink by roughly 40%.
2.2.0	▲ Increased movement speed while swinging by roughly 67%.
3.0.0	▲ Increased overall spread of ink generated by swinging the brush, with the spread of ink closest to the player seeing the biggest increase, making it easier to ink continuous areas of turf.
4.1.0	▲ Points to fill special gauge: 160 → 150.
4.2.0	▲ Reduced the interval between swinging the brush and holding to ink by 4/60 of a second.
4.3.1	▲ Increased the effect of the Main Power Up gear ability. ▲ The increase to movement speed while inking with the maximum number of Main Power Up gear abilities equipped has been raised from roughly 4% to roughly 5%. ▲ The effect provided by Main Power Up is now more easily triggered, even with fewer instances of the gear ability equipped.
4.6.0	▲ Rate of which damage falls off decreased. ▲ Main Power Up will also improve painting while rolling.

Quotes

Sheldon's Introduction The Inkbrush is a super-light brush weapon that lets you ink your way forward with blistering speed! It's not terribly strong, but you can make up for that by pairing that lightning speed with a Splat Bomb to confound your opponents! Splashdown will further stir up the front lines, so I'd put this set in the hands of those who like to disrupt the battlefield.

Gallery

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  Promo image

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  An Inkling Boy swinging the Inkbrush

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  An Inkling Boy rolling the Inkbrush

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  An Inkbrush found behind the Inkling Girl on the right

Demonstration

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Splatoon 3

Splatoon 3

Inkbrush

Basic information
Category	Main
Class	Brush
Sub	Splat Bomb
Special	Killer Wail 5.1
Special points	180p
Special depletion
Range	5 / 100
Damage
Impact
Fire rate
Charge speed
Ink speed	100 / 100
Mobility
Durability
Handling	100 / 100
Obtainable at
Level	7
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	Inkbrush Nouveau

The Inkbrush returns in Splatoon 3. It comes with Splat Bombs and the Killer Wail 5.1. It was originally shown in a New Year 2022 teaser on Twitter, looking similar to how it does in the previous games, with the difference being that its bristles are darker, resembling the Permanent Inkbrush's bristles, but more saturated.

It appears in 3 missions in Alterna:

• 0305 Conveyor-Belt Tightening
• 0412 The Path to Perfect Penmanship
• 0505 A Compulsive Collector's Paradise

Quotes

Sheldon's Introduction The Inkbrush is a super-light brush weapon that lets you ink your way forward with blistering speed! There's not much room for power when you're moving that fast, but you can keep counterattacks at bay with plenty of Splat Bombs. Add the Killer Wail 5.1 to the mix, and you've got a combo that will confuse and annoy your opponents into submission! I can see it now... You blaze across battle lines... toss a Splat Bomb, and trigger the Killer Wail just in time to headbang along as the clock runs out. Whew! That's inking outside the box!

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The Inkbrush isn't the most powerful weapon, but it makes up for it with style and panache, like our new tie-dye lab coats "someone" "ordered by mistake." It can be used to advance quickly while inking turf with dizzying flourishes, which can really mess with opponents' heads.

”

— @SplatoonNA on Twitter

Badges

Main article: Badge#Weapon freshness

Reaching certain Freshness levels with the Inkbrush will reward the player with special badges that they can use on their Splashtag.

Inkbrush Badges
	4★ Inkbrush User
	5★ Inkbrush User

Gallery

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  Promo image

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  An Inkling wielding the Inkbrush

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  Inkbrush render from Nintendo Magazine 2022 Summer

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  2D icon

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  The Tableturf card icon of the Inkbrush

• Model of the Inkbrush rotating (link to file)

• The reveal of the Inkbrush (link to file)

• An Octoling with an Inkbrush rolling around and flicking ink (link to file)

Strategy

For competitive tips about the Inkbrush

View the strategy page.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

The Inkbrush appears as Inkling's forward smash attack in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, alongside a variety of other weapons that she uses in her attacks.

When attacking, she charges up and swings the Inkbrush forwards to deal damage. This also coats opponents in ink but does not ink the ground. It deals much lower damage if Inkling is out of ink.

Trivia

• The ink reservoir below the brush's head seems to made from an oil paint tube, fitting in with the art theme.
• In Splatoon, this weapon and its variants are tied with the Luna Blaster and its variant for the shortest range stat in the game. It also has the shortest range stat in Splatoon 2.
• According to The Art of Splatoon, around every ten matches, the Inkbrush's tube needs to be replaced.
• In Splatoon 2, the Inkbrush was the first post-release weapon to added.
• As of Version 4.1.0, the Inkbrush has the lowest possible damage output of all main, sub and special weapons in Splatoon 2 at 7.5 damage per swing.
• As of Version 4.1.0, the Inkbrush is tied for the lowest base special cost in Splatoon 2, at 150p.
• Despite appearing in numerous trailers and promotional art before the release of Splatoon, the Inkbrush was not available to use until it was added in a post-launch update.
• In the trailer for Splatoon 3, multiple Inkbrushes are displayed hanging in the Ammo Knights building interior, visible through the glass window to the right of the door.
• This is one of the weapons available to use in the Splatoon 3 Splatfest World Premiere.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	パブロ Paburo	Pablo, a reference to Pablo Picasso, a Spanish painter.
Dutch	Inktkwast	Inkbrush
French	Épinceau	Sword Brush, from épée ("sword") + pinceau ("brush").
German	Quasto	From Quaste ("tassel") + -o.
Italian	Calamaravaggio	From calamaro ("squid") + Caravaggio, an Italian painter.
Russian	Кисть Kist'	Brush
Spanish	Pincel	Brush
Chinese (Simplified)	巴勃罗 bābóluó (Mandarin)	Pablo
Chinese (Traditional)	巴勃羅 bābóluó (Mandarin)	Pablo
Korean	파블로 pabeullo	Same as Japanese name