I agree with sprinkler. I have no idea how to skillfully use it.

@@Sonconobi I use it a lot with heavy. Ultimately you mostly want to use it to build special most of the time, otherwise hit up some maps in practice and find places where its difficult to shoot it from and will give your team paint to work with. The other option is to paint an area you really want but need to focus on another area first, letting you start on that area while you take another area back. It's passive so as long you can avoid dying you can paint a lot and regain map control quicker. There are two ways to use it aggressively, Against crab and against super jumpers. Sprinklers are harmless unless your standing right on top of one, in which case the dps is kind of absurd (put one on a dummy in the practice range and watch how fast it goes away). If someone is going full speed ahead of you, you can place a sprinkler in their path and in a lot of cases get a free splat. It can destroy crabs with support if your close enough to reach them and can aim it underneath them and if you place one on a super jump spot, it's either a free splat or their at 80 damage by the time they escape. It takes awareness and its use cases are very niche that you'll forget about these because the opportunities are so rare but it can be done.

If you take the time to aim and cook it, it kills more often than you'd think. Nobody expects the curling bomb.

I wanna scream every time I see a WB approaching my freshly placed Beakon

I like to call it beacon blindness, lol. Most people online seem to just be completely blind to beacons, friend and foe alike. Sometimes it works out in your favor though, when enemy players completely ignore them too

Honestly it feels like half the time people dont even know you can jump to players beakons that arent your own. Should probably be communicated better

I've long felt this, in 3 and especially a lot in 2 I liked using the Dapple Dualies frequently and how often I'd place great beakons down just for my whole team to completely ignore them for the whole game was maddening, in fact I'd say that on average only 1 in 10 games would actually have someone in them that would jump to my beakons more then maybe once if that.

I think what the devs should do is add a little notification when players use your beacons. Something like the little "refreshing!" text you get when people drink from your tacticooler. Dunno if it'd actually help teammates pay attention to beacons, but it would at least feel nice for the beacon user and maybe that nice feeling would help other people remember to use them.

Another thing that really hurt them was that only two weapons had beakons at launch, both of which don't mesh well with the casual environment. It feels like a lot of people wrote them off because of that. It wasn't until this season that we got weapons that'd draw in those who normally don't like the sub.

if it got beakon twice in a row it feels very likely to return again

Who’s gonna tell him

@@Me_Myself_Maly Tell me what? THAT IT GOT BEAKON? BC I SURE KNOW IT DID BABY! ALREADY 4 STARRED IT!

@@Twig_the_Blue_Pikmin hehe love to hear you’re having fun. Bet there’s no better feeling than getting your dream kit :)

Actually smart cuz if they do end up making beakon cheaper then it could def become something to help paint your feet

Its painfully bad in terms of how much paint they put out though. Maybe the paint could receive a buff to it similarly to sprinklers in splat 1->splat2

there's no whiting frames on beakon so by the time you launched a beakon and squid rolled away you'll have about 45% or so of your ink tank which is enough for most things you need to do with the weapon

I think curling bomb is classified as a bomb? not sure

@@blockediting3404 Correct! But it is still an odd sub in terms of a "meta" perspective, and receives similar disdain to what the utility subs do! That much makes it worth discussing imo c:

I was sort of hinting at that with using them as bait right at the end, but you're right! It's something I want to talk about a lot more once I get around to sprinkler

it's the most expensive sub in the game. i think you'd get more value pushing the enemy further back with your main, putting beakons in safe locations as a safety net, etc. i've usually seen people use sprinkler as a shield for slower fire rate weapons in the middle of the action, rather than preemptively, so i assume the same would go for beakon. it makes more sense that way because you force the enemy to break it mid engagement when they weren't accounting for it when deciding to take the fight. you still have to decide if it's worth 75% of your ink though.

@@itssoclover Same logic, but Beakons as distractions for sharking is also sometimes effective

That can be a solid play in the right situation! The main concern is being sure you have enough ink to get away with it and not be immediately left without it. This is also somewhat of what I was referring to with the final point about using them as bait generally, but I didn't want to go too deep into it with how long the guide was already getting. It's also something I'll talk a lot more about with sprinkler!

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