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alright I'm a Fun Ruler and the map swap ended an 11-game win-streak this feels like I good spot to stop for the day (plus i gotta get up early)

ya go fun

getting matches has taken me way longer than usual, are there that few Grub players that it can't find me a team to join lol

wait tf i was promised Fun wouldn't be talking the halfway leadership this time

dammit not this shit again

wait just did my first tricolor and that was an easy stomp

I've been trying to do a tricolor all night and haven't gotten one.

I think the proportion of team Fun is really low (or matchmaking is totally busted) - in my last 50 matches on team grub in the Pro queue, only 2 were against team Fun.

I also think that actively using your weapon in the lobby might hurt matchmaking success? I've stopped doing anything between matches and I feel like that upped my match success rate, though it might have just been from playing in a more off-peak time.

I heard you can only get tricolor in Open so that's what I'm in for Fun

3 tricolors

all stomps

I think that's correct - I've been busy since the midway point so my data was all from the first half. It could just be that I'm just particularly unlucky, or everyone was playing in the Open queue.

bruh now I keep getting tricolor defender teams who just... don't ink their starting zone

wtf

like the half i spawn at all covered but match ends and i see our other spawn point is entirely grey how

I'm irredeemably garbage at this game. Like I can't even aim my gun properly - any time i get into an engagement with another person they're able to aim their gun at me and kill me and I simply can't. all I can do is ink territory and win that way (though fortunately that IS a way to win, just playing area denial and not dying)

allllllllright I'm done for the night, had a really close-call 100x win (44v45%) woooo

also ended off with a couple 10x and a tricolor win woooo doin' good work for Team Funnnnn

now looking back and uh... I've played tricolor more than I've faced actually Grub, wut?

Of the games I have a record of: Gear 54, Grub 6, Tricolor 8......... ????

anyhow replay'd my fav tricolor dominance: RU1Q-5734-AG6H-Y1FU

Really just me going into their bases and alternating pushes against Grub & Gear... til I realize how easily I can bully Gear specifically lol. But if you can keep a pair at bay then the rest of your team is pretty well free to dominate the pair, meanwhile Gear really couldn't be assed to even re-cover over my ink. God I love these Battle Replays, the overhead view's a joy.

also fun making a lot of work for one team to have to re-paint over so you can go check out how the other side's doing lmao, i'm loving this tricolor defence after just being tortured playing defence for Scissors last month

lmao just had a tricolor where Grub actually got two Ultra Signals so even the middle of the map had those sprinklers spraying orange for them but they still came 3rd because they did an absolute shit job inking their base which was either green or un-inked altogether yeesh. Gear was a non-issue at least from my perspective.

Results up...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/3/0/AAeYFbAADts-.jpg

Votes, Gear dominated. 52.28% > 21.02% Fun > 20.70% Grub
Conch Shells for Fun. 36.11% > 33.45% Gear > 30.44% Grub

Gear takes Open: 35.29% > 33.33% Fun > 31.38% Grub
Fun takes Pro: 36.37% > 33.47% Gear > 30.16% Grub

points 25 v 20 v 0 for Gear>Fun>Grub, Fun at gettin' some great performance at least I'm proud of.... lmao Grub just floundering on every metric yikes I was not expecting that

Surprised by Fun taking Pro but losing Open... since I was always playing Open for the Tricolors which were easily the best matches. I know I've heard others complain but I don't get it, unless I got a really bad team we typically dominated our matches easily *shrug*

It's weird that Team Gear wins just because it's more popular

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/3/2/AAeYFbAADttA.jpg

alright Grub might be losers but Frye's amazing at it at least. I really wanna be with Frye some time but so far I've been with the Big Man twice

Soon... Mr. Grizz loans out the big guns:
https://i.imgur.com/xMnM2jD.jpg

Speaking of Salmon Run, Ive found that its way more enjoyable if I demote myself once I reach Profreshional +2. The pay increase is not proportional to the difficulty increase and you get more points from actually completing a run on a lower level than you do from failing at any point in the higher ranks. Once people understand how to play better in a few weeks or months then Profreshional +2 and +3 might actually be worth staying at.

This is maybe my dumbest salmon run moment, I have no clue why we were given the win with all 4 players dead:
https://twitter.com/newershadow/status/1575312729539239936

Today's rotation is the one I've done the best with in probably a week, the last 3 before it I was dropping or treading water at best.

And in an actual game, this is definitely the best thing I've done with the Zipcaster:
https://twitter.com/newershadow/status/1575312868492427264

I believe it wont call the game over by wipeout if anyones bombs or triple inkstrikes are still active, in case it revives someone. That said, I couldnt see or hear any evidence of that in your video.

I don't think I've ever played salmon run. What exactly is it?

Halo ODST Firefight

3 waves (unless a extra bonus round boss Chohozuna pops up), team of 4 players

grunts and a buncha different types of boss salmons come in, boss salmons drop Golden Eggs which you deposit into your base to meet a quota # of eggs before the wave's end

*edit* also set of 4 weapons assigned, each player starts with one and they're swapped around randomly between waves

first time you visit is tutorial

It's also one of the best sources of basically every currency in the game - drink tickets, gold, and ability chunks all drop in decent quantities from the milestone bonuses, which are reset with every 40-hour shift. I think I might call it my favorite game mode, and being always-on in Splatoon 3 is a great QoL change.