Shifty Station

Splatoon 2​

Shifty Station

Added in	4 August 2017
Total area
Features	Variable layout
Hazards

	“ We made a special stage for this Splatfest! ” -Marina
	“ You helped make the stage? That's amazing, Marina! ” -Pearl

Shifty Station is the title given to a series of multiplayer stages in Splatoon 2. The stages were originally only available during Splatfests, but were made available in Private Battles starting with version 5.0.0. Only one Shifty Station appeared per Splatfest, except for Chaos vs. Order and Super Mushroom vs. Super Star, which had multiple, and the Splatoon 2 Splatfest World Premiere, which had none.

Shifty Stations typically either have parts of the stage moving around and/or Octo Canyon stage gimmicks, such as Ink Cannons and Grapplinks. The only stages that are exceptions to this rule are Sweet Valley Tentacles, The Splat in our Zones, and MC.Princess Diaries. Sweet Valley Tentacles uses a unique gimmick, The Splat in our Zones uses free Splat Zones, and MC.Princess Diaries uses hyperbombs from the Octo Expansion as well as Pearl's Princess Cannon.

List of layouts

Name				Description	Splatfests	Release date
Standard	File # (Deli_Octa##)	Codename	Origin
Wayslide Cool	01 01_2	SlideLift	Wayside School	The first variation of Shifty Station features large platforms on the sides of the stage which slide to and from the center.	Mayo vs. Ketchup (2017); Chaos vs. Order; Mayo vs. Ketchup (2020)	4 August 2017
The Secret of S.P.L.A.T.	02 02_2	Push	The Secret of NIMH	This stage features platforms in the middle which move up and down.	Flight vs. Invisibility; With Lemon vs. Without Lemon; Raph vs. Leo; Chaos vs. Order	1 September 2017
Goosponge	03 03_2	Sponge	Goosebumps	This variant features sponges and Inkrails that help the player reach central points on the stage.	Fries vs. McNuggets, Front Roll vs. Back Roll, and Sci-Fi vs. Fantasy; Mikey vs. Donnie and Hello Kitty vs. Cinnamoroll; Chaos vs. Order	9 September 2017
Windmill House on the Pearlie	00 00_02	Windmill	Little House on the Prairie	This variant features four large, rotating platforms.	Vampire vs. Werewolf, Dexterity vs. Tenacity, and Warm Breakfast vs. Cold Breakfast; My Melody vs. Pompompurin; Chaos vs. Order	13 October 2017
Fancy Spew	07	NuriNuriBar	Nancy Drew	This variant heavily features Spreaders, most notably rotating Spreaders in the center.	Warm Innerwear vs. Warm Outerwear, Film vs. Book, and Sweater vs. Socks; Chaos vs. Order	9 December 2017
Zone of Glass	06	Transparent	Throne of Glass	This variant primarily features invisible platforms, as well as long Squee-Gs that move uninterrupted.	Action vs. Comedy; Chaos vs. Order	13 January 2018
Cannon Fire Pearl	05	Canon[sic]	Camp Fire Girls	This variant features Ink Cannons which can be used to fire at distant opponents, and walls that allow players to hide from the cannons.	The Champion vs. The Challenger, Gherk-OUT vs. Gherk-IN, and Money vs. Love; Chaos vs. Order; Super Mushroom vs. Super Star	3 February 2018
The Bunker Games	10	Kakutei	The Hunger Games	This variant features large containment chambers which close off parts of the stage over time. Once an area is closed off, a launchpad appears in it, allowing players inside the domes to escape.	Flowers vs. Dumplings and Chicken vs. Egg (2018); Chaos vs. Order; Chicken vs. Egg (2020); Super Mushroom vs. Super Star	3 March 2018
Grapplink Girl	08	Hikiyose	Gossip Girl	This variant has an element of verticality with Grapplinks being used to quickly reach high points.	Newest Model vs. Most Popular Model, Baseball vs. Soccer, and Salty vs. Sweet; Chaos vs. Order	24 March 2018
Zappy Longshocking	09	Denden	Pippi Longstocking	This variant features lateral symmetry, as well as Ink Switches that move platforms and walls.	New Life-Forms vs. Advanced Technology; Pulp vs. No Pulp; Chaos vs. Order	21 April 2018
A Swiftly Tilting Balance	11	Scale	A Swiftly Tilting Planet	This stage is built like a double-beam balance scale, with the weight of players and sub weapons tilting the two large platforms on either side of the stage.	Raph vs. Donnie; Hello Kitty vs. My Melody; Chaos vs. Order	18 May 2018
Sweet Valley Tentacles	13	Takoashi	Sweet Valley High	This variant features large, tentacle-shaped dummies that, when splatted, open up gates around the stage.	Squid vs. Octopus; Chaos vs. Order	21 July 2018
The Switches	12	Nuri Switch	The Witches	This variant features Splat-Switches that move gates around the stage when inked.	Chocorooms vs. Chococones, Adventure vs. Relax, and Fork vs. Spoon; Chaos vs. Order	18 August 2018
The Bouncey Twins	14	Trampoline	Bobbsey Twins	This variant features Bounce Pads that allow players to reach high points on the stage, but are placed above the abyss.	Retro vs. Modern and Tsubuan vs. Koshian; Chaos vs. Order; Super Mushroom vs. Super Star	22 September 2018
Railway Chillin'	15	RideRail	The Railway Children	This variant features ride rails which are the only means of traversing to the raised platform in the center that leads to the opponents' turf.	Trick vs. Treat (2018); Chaos vs. Order; Trick vs. Treat (2020)	19 October 2018
Gusher Towns	16	Kanketu	Paper Towns	This variant features Gushers which allow players to reach high points, or block off routes for opponents.	Pocky Chocolate vs. Pocky Gokuboso, Salsa vs. Guacamole, and Eat It First vs. Save It for Last; Chaos vs. Order	10 November 2018
The Maze Dasher	17	Dash	The Maze Runner	This variant primarily features dash tracks, which allow players to quickly hop from one side of the stage to the other.	Hero vs. Villain; Chaos vs. Order	15 December 2018
Flooders in the Attic	18	Dozer	Flowers in the Attic	This variant features Flooders that survey small areas of the stage, as well as Bounce Pads that let players jump on top of the Flooders.	Family vs. Friends; Chaos vs. Order	4 January 2019
The Splat in our Zones	19	Quick	The Fault in Our Stars	This variant features six "free Splat Zones" which fill up with a team's ink once enough of the zone has been inked a particular color.	Airhead vs. Wisecracker and Pancakes vs. Waffles; Chaos vs. Order	2 February 2019
The Ink is Spreading	20	DeliNuri	The Dark Is Rising	This variant features Splat-Switches which control the ink color of ten Spreaders placed around the stage.	Knight vs. Wizard; Chaos vs. Order	16 March 2019
Bridge to Tentaswitchia	21	Painting	Bridge to Terabithia	This variant features an Ink Switch in the center that moves a long strip of turf. The strip of turf moves behind a glass wall, where it becomes no longer accessible.	Hare vs. Tortoise; Chaos vs. Order	19 April 2019
The Chronicles of Rolonium	22	Gabon	The Chronicles of Narnia	This variant features bundles of Rolonium that roll over hills in the stage and can splat opponents in two hits.	Ce League vs. Pa League and Time Travel vs. Teleportation; Chaos vs. Order; Super Mushroom vs. Super Star	11 May 2019
Furler in the Ashes	23	Blowouts	An Ember in the Ashes	This variant features Inkfurlers which, when unraveled, allow players to move across the stage. After ninety seconds, the water level drops, similar to Mahi-Mahi Resort.	Unicorn vs. Narwhal, No Pineapple vs. Pineapple, and Kid vs. Grown-Up; Chaos vs. Order	15 June 2019
MC.Princess Diaries	24	Pipe	The Princess Diaries	The final variant features the Princess Cannon and hyperbombs, and Off the Hook can be seen performing live.	Chaos vs. Order	20 July 2019

Version history

Version	Adjustments
2.2.0	Fixed an issue on terrain that moves in Shifty Station which would occasionally move in a halting fashion.
2.3.0	Fixed an issue on terrain that moves in Shifty Station which would occasionally move in a halting fashion.
5.0.0	Fixed an issue in the Shifty Station stage, The Maze Dasher, where a portion of stage terrain differed from the version of the stage originally released previously as part of a Splatfest.

Trivia

• Marina claims to have helped make the stage herself, which is shown by her symbol appearing on the stage image.
  • As Marina mentions often in the news segments, she was raised around Octarian machinery, which would explain why many of the Shifty Station variants contain at least one of the Octo Valley and Octo Canyon mechanics.
  • This is elaborated on further in the Octo Expansion. In Marina's chat room, Pearl mentions how Marina creates these stages all by herself, while Cap'n Cuttlefish notes the Octarian technology used, such as floating rocks, from Marina's time as a combat engineer for DJ Octavio.
• On Wayslide Cool, there is an Inkjet glitch that allows the player to clip through the wall.
• Between the debut of Shifty Station in Mayo vs. Ketchup (2017) and the final Shifty Station in Chaos vs. Order, November 2017 and June 2018 were the only months not to introduce a new variation.
  • Pulp vs. No Pulp used Zappy Longshocking, which first appeared in Japan for the New Life-Forms vs. Advanced Technology Splatfest in April.
  • Hello Kitty vs. My Melody used A Swiftly Tilting Balance, which first appeared in North America, Oceania, and Europe for the Raph vs. Donnie Splatfest.
• The Shifty Stations (except for MC.Princess Diaries) appear to be built in Octarian domes, and share many similarities with them, such as having floating objects and octopus-shaped rocks. However, this has not been confirmed before Octo Expansion.
• In Private Battles, the four variants that were featured during seasonal Splatfests (Railway Chillin', Flooders in the Attic, Bridge to Tentaswitchia, and MC.Princess Diaries) still have the stickers and graffiti that decorated them during Chaos vs. Order. These stickers are displayed regardless of team ink color.
• There is an unused variant of Shifty Station has the file name "Deli_Octa04", with the code name "Box".

Etymology

Shifty Station is a reference to the fact that it is different every Splatfest.

Every Shifty Station's name is a reference to a work in some form of media. The English version references titles of young adult Western novels, while the Japanese version references titles of shōjo manga.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	ミステリーゾーン misuterī zōn	Mystery Zone
Dutch	Wisselwereld	Change world
French (NOA)	Plate-forme polymorphe	Polymorphing platform
French (NOE)	Plateforme polymorphe	Polymorphing platform
German	Wandelzone	Changer zone
Italian	Zona mista	Mixed zone
Russian	Транстанция Transtantsiya	Trance-station
Spanish	Área mutante	Mutating area
Internal	Deli_Octa	Deli most likely stands for "Delivery", as these stages were delivered alongside the Splatfest data they appeared on, and were not included in the base game nor were added with game update files (until version 5.0.0).

Shifty Station
Wayslide Cool	The Secret of S.P.L.A.T.	Goosponge	Windmill House on the Pearlie
Fancy Spew	Zone of Glass	Cannon Fire Pearl	The Bunker Games
Grapplink Girl	Zappy Longshocking	A Swiftly Tilting Balance	Sweet Valley Tentacles
The Switches	The Bouncey Twins	Railway Chillin'	Gusher Towns
The Maze Dasher	Flooders in the Attic	The Splat in our Zones	The Ink is Spreading
Bridge to Tentaswitchia	The Chronicles of Rolonium	Furler in the Ashes	MC.Princess Diaries