Octocopter

Octocopter​

Octocopter

An Octocopter

Species	Octarian
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Hair color
Eye color	Green
Age
Gender	Unknown
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Location	Octo Valley, Octo Canyon, Deepsea Metro, Alterna
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“	Avast! Octocopters below!	”
— Cap'n Cuttlefish

Octocopters are Octarian fighters that possess the ability to fly and shoot slow-moving balls of purple ink.

Description

Octocopters are small Octarian fighters equipped with a large propeller helmet that allows them to hover. They have small legs adorned with what appear to be helicopter landing skids, but they are never seen using them as they are always in the air. Octocopters hover in one area until they see the player, at which point they become visibly agitated and begin to move, with difficulty, towards them. They are capable of firing slow-moving balls of purple ink, like Octotroopers, and can be splatted easily from a close distance. However, firing ink at them from far away will slightly knock them backwards, possibly knocking them out of range.

Appearances

Octo Valley

Octocopters appear in thirteen Octo Valley missions as well as one boss mission.

• Rise of the Octocopters (Mission #3)
• Gusher Gauntlet (Mission #4)
• Floating Sponge Garden (Mission #5)
• Propeller-Lift Playground (Mission #6)
• Spreader Splatfest (Mission #7)
• Unidentified Flying Object (Mission #9)
• Inkvisible Avenues (Mission #11)
• Shifting Splatforms (Mission #13)
• Undeniable Flying Object (Mission #15)
• Propeller-Lift Fortress (Mission #16)
• Spinning Spreaders (Mission #18)
• Unwelcome Flying Object (Mission #21)
• Pinwheel Power Plant (Mission #24)
• Enter the Octobot King! (Boss #5)

Octo Canyon

• Sunset Octocopter (Mission #3)
• The Octopark (Mission #5)
• Back-Alley Cleanup (Mission #7)
• Spinning Campground (Mission #8)
• Dancing Floors (Mission #13)
• Secret Bowling Alley (Mission #16)
• Towering Heights (Mission #18)
• The Experimentorium (Mission #19)
• Propellerland (Mission #20)
• The Octo Shower (Boss #4)
• The Octogalaxy (Mission #23)
• Platform Madhouse (Mission #25)

Octo Expansion

• A07 Maverick Station
• B14 Breakdance Station
• C02 Shrinky Ink Station
• C11 Abracadabra Station
• D01B15 Ink from Above Station
• D09 Goose Station
• E08 Da Bomb Station
• E11 Bodacious Rotation Station
• F10 Cubular Station
• G02 Hasta La Vista Station
• G04B10 Ink 'n' Slide Station
• G10E07 Iceman Station
• I04 Can't Touch This Station
• I06 All Eyez Station
• I07C07 Ride with Me Station
• J01H07 Cool Your Jets Station
• J07 Outrageous Station
• Escape 01 Coccyx Phase
• Escape 03 Belly Phase
• Escape 05 Diaphragm Phase
• Escape 06 Peristalsis Phase

Trivia

• When Octocopters are in groups and cannot see the player, they will sometimes appear to be dancing.
• In Octo Canyon, Octocopters are the only Octarians to appear alongside a boss that is not unique to the boss mission, the Octo Shower.

Gallery

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  Agent 3 battling an Octocopter

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  An Octocopter approaching an Inkling

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  Size comparison with an Inkling

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  Concept art of Octocopters, as well as Octobombers and what may be an Octoball seen from the back

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  Splatoon 2 render

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  Agent 8 fighting a horde of Sanitized Octocopters using the Heavy Splatling in the Octo Expansion

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  A Sanitized Octocopter

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  Model of a Deluxe Octocopter from Splatoon 2

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  Rise of the Octocopters icon

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  Unwelcome Flying Object icon

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  Octocopter mem cake

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Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	タコプター Takoputā	Octopus-copter
Dutch	Octokopter	From octo and helikopter (helicopter)
French (NOE)	Tentevole	From tentacle and voler (to fly)
German	Oktokopter	From okto (octo) and Helikopter (helicopter)
Italian	Polpottero	From polpo (octopus) and elicottero (helicopter)
Russian	Осьмолёт Os'molet	From осьмо os'ma (octo) and самолёт samolyot (airplane)
Spanish	Octocóptero	From octo and helicóptero (helicopter)