Various user icons, also referred to as profile icons or simply icons, featuring characters and other elements from the Splatoon series are available for use on Nintendo Switch user profiles. A set of Splatoon and Splatoon 2 themed icons are available by default, while further sets of Splatoon 2 and Splatoon 3 icons with rotating availability have been made available for Nintendo Switch Online users to purchase through Platinum Points.
All of the base Splatoon series icons, as of the Nintendo Switch version 8.0.0 update.
Twenty-four default profile icons featuring promotional artwork of Splatoon and Splatoon 2 characters are available to use as a user profile icon on the Nintendo Switch. These icons must be paired with one of the seventy-two available plain color swatch backgrounds.
Various icon elements featuring Splatoon 2 and Splatoon 3 theming have been released via the Missions & Rewards tab in the Nintendo Switch Online application on the Nintendo Switch exclusively to users subscribed to the service. Each icon element costs ten Platinum Points. It is not possible to mix and match Splatoon 2 icon elements with Splatoon 3 icon elements, nor with any other icon elements belonging to other games' sets; a Splatoon 2 background may only be used with Splatoon 2 characters and frames.
Icons are created and saved in the Icon Collection tab. Icons can be created by specifying a game element set then selecting a character element and background element for the icon. Users may optionally add a frame element to their icon. Randomly generated icons featuring randomized elements from a single game element set are also available to choose from.
Default, plain color swatches in eighty-four colors similar to the non-Nintendo Switch Online icons' backgrounds are available as frame and background element options.
Most of the icon elements do not have official titles or descriptions, as they are instead labelled simply "Character", "Background" or "Frame" when redeemed in the application.
Splatoon 2
Set 1
From 5 April 2022 to 2 May 2022, eighty icon elements pertaining to Splatoon 2 were available on the service, with the icons being changed per week.
From 8 September 2022 to 6 October 2022, eighty icon elements pertaining to Splatoon 3 were available on the service, with the icons being changed per week. Each week's set of icons was now titled as one of four waves.
Promotion for all four waves
Promotion for wave one
Promotion for wave four
Wave 1 (8 - 15 September 2022)
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Wave 2 (15 - 22 September 2022)
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Wave 3 (22 - 29 September 2022)
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Wave 4 (29 September 2022 - 6 October 2022)
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Set 2
From 30 November 2022 to 9 January 2023, five additional waves of icon elements were available on the service, each focusing on a different specific area or mode for a total of a further one hundred icons, with the icons again being changed per week.
From 23 March 2023 to 6 April 2023, two additional waves of icon elements were available on the service for a total of a further forty icons, with the icons again being changed per week. Most of the new icon parts were related to the first wave of Splatoon 3: Expansion Pass.
Wave 1 promotion
Wave 2 promotion
Wave 1 (23 - 30 March 2023)
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Wave 2 (30 March 2023 - 6 April 2023)
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Set 4
From 29 June 2023 to 27 July 2023, four additional waves of new icon elements were available on the service for a total of a further one hundred icons, with the icons again being changed per week. The icon parts were related to Tableturf Battle.
From 9 August 2023 to 23 August 2023, two waves of icon elements from previous waves were available on the service as an "in case you missed it" deal. There were a total of 44 returning icons, with the icons again being changed per week.
From 31 August 2023 to 28 September 2023, four additional waves of icon elements were available on the service, with the icons again being changed per week. There was a total of 99 icons, both new and returning. Each wave had a different theme, the first being Salmonids, the second being Return of the Mammalians, the third being special weapons, and the fourth being shop vendors. The last three waves all feature artwork from Tableturf Battle cards.
Promotion for all four waves
Wave 1 (31 August 2023 - 7 September 2023)
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Wave 2 (7 - 14 September 2023)
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Wave 3 (14 - 21 September 2023)
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Wave 4 (21 - 28 September 2023)
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N/A
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Set 7
From 1 December 2023 to 8 December 2023, one additional wave of icon elements was available on the service, featuring additional artwork from Tableturf Battle cards. There was a total of 26 icons, both new and returning.
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