I love the Full Metal Alchemist reference lol

I once came across a Nautilus user with *ALL* run speed up and while I was waiting to respawn they’re casually zooming all over the map

Swim speed, Ink saver main, and special recharge are ones you can't go wrong with for general use. You're always swimming, always shooting with the main, and having the special ready to push.

Thank you so much for doing what Nintendo didn’t do, and that’s explain these abilities thoroughly. I’ve been playing splatoon since the first game and haven’t considered making builds until I decided that I wanted to get better in Splatoon 3. I also appreciate you explain how QR works, because I never understood why is it that sometimes when I die the QR icon would pop up and why other times it didn’t. You are greatly appreciated.

Another big thing with LDE is that in competitive modes it's ALWAYS active as soon as the enemy team dips below that amount, which makes it a really good permanent buff at that point, no matter how the game goes - and in turf war, the end of the game matters so so much anyway

I remember back in Splatoon 2 I somehow found a negative sweater that had ability double and even luckier got pure MPU without even using chunks ☠️

Very good video as a resource for people asking for "what's the best build?" Instead of just telling them a build, teach them how to build and they can do it themselves. Teach a man to fish and all that. 10/10 One bit of constructive criticism, I noticed some times when you were listing things and showing them on the screen at the same time (like the utility abilities), but the two didn't match up. I expected the words to match what was shown going from left to right. Then again, even if they're out of order, it would be helpful to have them fade into the scene as you say them. Just something to help newbies more quickly make the connection between what you're saying and what you're showing so they don't get stuck trying to figure it out while missing your next talking points. Still a great video!

I'm super distracted and the ability that tracks enemies you recently inked is a life saver 99% of the time for me, because it reminds me were people were and not get ambushed stupidly xD

I had no idea that 1 sub could do so much for an ability! Great video.

I recommend making one or even two more builds on separate gear after making your first one if you're indecisive about what to put on your gear. I'm one of those people who can't fit all the abilities I want on just one build and I can confidently say having alternate gear to mix and match between battles works wonders Maybe your least favorite map is in rotation, and you want to play it safer and take less risks; you can make an extra build that's separate from your main build, an alternate gearset that's made for that situation. It's a lot more helpful and less costly than trying to cram as many abilities as you want onto one build

So 2 things: 1. I agree with everything except looking weird over having better stats. Drip>good abilities all. the. way. 2. To save chunks, you can spread the abilities on each piece of clothes. For example If i want 2 main ink savers on a shirt, the first ability will cost 10 chunks while the second cost 20. Alternatively if i add 1 main ink saver on my shirt, and then add the second on my shoes, it will cost 10 each because theyre on different pieces of gear. So exclusively using chunks to add 3 of the same abilities on a gear will cost 60 chunks in total. Youll save ALOT of chunks by spreading your abilities on your whole gear set since itll yield the same result. Theres also finding your gear's seed if you like to put 3 of the same abilities in one gear (im looking at you blaster mains), im not gonna explain it so look it up but it is possible to fill youre whole gear slots with one ability type while saving chunks. (Sendou also created the website to find gear seeds. This dude is the GOAT)

Finally a video about these abilities, terminology, and the statistics with visuals in one 😭💕 I struggled trying to figure out what kind of builds I want for certain weapons, but a lot of videos about them I’ve seen tend to feel “loose” or they just lost me because of how too wordy with little visuals and graphs they may be (I’m a visual learner). I wanted to learn what could or may not work depending on the weapons I choose and why.

I want to point out that while it's not 100% consistent, (since it depends on whether the opponent dies just before you do or just after you do) QR can activate on a trade.

As a rookie, this was extremely useful. I've seen other videos that lean into min-max, and it's extremely intimidating. However, this philosophy of build diversity seems more logical to me (diminishing returns), and it's also far less stressful.

i think this is the best gear explanation i’ve ever seen for any splatoon game , u really know what to prioritize for a build and u explain it super well with great examples #awsome

For me is gear building a fun puzzle game. Trying stuff out for my play style. Something what I see in Splatoon 3 is, that more player with a Splatling have 1 main ink resistence up, but a lot have still a pure run speed up build. What I prefer on my Heavy Splatling is 2 main ink resistence up and 1 main run speed up. I found that after experimenting in Splatoon 2 with the ink resistence up in truf war. Smoth walking while shooting in enemy ink did helped me a lot or even standing in enemy ink while charging, which happen fast if someone flank you. You don't need to be panicking, because finding yourself in ink and get damage, just relax, charge and kill. 😁

How did this man rack up 240 of each ability chunk, like my mind is actually blown

thank you for telling us how to build a gear setup that's actually tailored around our playstyle instead of just telling us about a preset setup that isn't one-size-fits-all. this genuinely helped a lot (especially since i've never actually seen how effective different abilities are in comparison with the base) and now all i gotta do is figure out how the heck one farms ability chunks. also!!! since you can change main abilities on gear now, you really can wear whatever you want!!!!

You are so good at explaining things when you said come back.Ability is only good for when you die a lot in the game, so it doesn't really help you when you dont die a lot.But if that's the case you're probably Winning. That made me want to use it more.

As a low-level comp player who is trying to get better at Splatoon 3, this video is greatly appreciated. This video helped open my eyes to how I should address my gear builds for weapons, and overall explained how gear building should work very well. Keep up your awesome work, dude!

This is actually the most useful video I’ve seen about gear building. It got me to think about them in a more practical way!

Nice and straight to the point about what every ability can do for your weapon.

9:47 PLEASE YOU HAVE A ONE SHOT

i am so jealous of the person at 0:05 with almost 200 of every ability chunk

wasnt expecting the tunic music, but its great! fantastic video by the way, i found it quite helpful!

Other come from behind abilities include special saver, tenacity, and arguably quick jump

ASDAHJGDASJHGD I KNEW THE MOMENT I SAW THAT THUMBNAIL I WOULD GET THE FMAB INTRO AT THE START. THANK YOU. But you should have ended with "For what could equal the value of an inklings stats?"

There's something important you didn't mention here: LDE doesn't just kick in all at once, it builds the closer you are to the last 30 seconds or the opposing team's score hitting 50, reaching full power at that point. IIRC it starts building at around the 50 second/70 score mark, giving a tiny bonus to your ink efficiency that grows the lower the timer or score counter gets. It makes the ability just a little more valuable than you give it credit for in some cases.

thank you for this video and explaining abilities builds and quirks! im a new player, and felt pressured to create a "perfect gear" that has all 4 slots of 1 ability (which is super expensive)... now I'll try to see which abilities i really need and how much they affect my gameplay in which quantities to make something unique for my playstyle! definitely feeling less pressure now, thank you again!

Love the way you explain everything, super helpful and easy to understand

Really good video. I immediately subscribed. I've been playing for a while and already knew most of these, but I hadn't thought about the idea of abilities like quick respawn only not benefitting you when you're winning, so I'll take that into consideration in the future.

I send this video to pretty much every single new splatoon friend i make. thank you so much for putting it out there

i like this video highlighting it’s more important to know why ur running gear and to take advantage of it then just saying “here are the good builds for each weapon”

Once again, another great tutorial video!

Thanks so much for this, I'm really glad this came up in my feed! I was pulling out teeth trying to find what was good for someone who mains shooters with Wave Breaker, Crab Tank and Tacticooler, values mobility and recovery, and focuses mainly on moving around from teammate to teammate to help them if they need it rather than doing my own thing, as that often gets me cornered solo. I only play Turf War (and Salmon Run but that doesn't count) because the other modes intimidate me, so I want all gear to be PERFECT before I even *touch* the X Battles. I'm definitely going to try to use your strategies for decisions and that website. You better believe I liked and subscribed, my mediocre-at-best self needs it.

The music is so 🥴😵‍💫😵‍💫💫🌠🌠🌌🌌🌌

great video and music choices, very informative :D

I had to watch this just from the references alone, thank you for this helpful guide.

Loved this video, thank you for posting!! 🙏🏾

this guide has helped me so much, thank you.

this was a really helpful and comprehensive guide, thank you!

I've been doing very well with the vanilla splatling (now I'm using the order replica) and I run: runspeed, ink recovery, main ink saver. my shoes w main ink saver rolled a nat 3 of special charge up. This basically means I can shoot, keep shooting, and then shoot some more. I get a decent amount of kills and am almost always the top inker. I use my special whenever I get it to refill ink tank (if needed) or keep ppl off me

I personally (dark tetra dualies) run comeback, haunt, stealth jump and full subs of quick respawn it fits the reckless "throw myself at the enemy and see who splats" playstyle I like

Great vid and tunic ost 👍

Illuminating! Thank you!!

This video is excellent! Thanks for sharing your wisdom!

Oh I thought Last Ditch Effort ONLY applied in the last part of the match, no clue it also helped when the other team has a huge lead in ranked! I just assumed it was basically mostly useless in ranked. Thank you for all the great information.

great video clearing up that extremely complex subject.

I love the Tunic music being used

THX, it helped me a lot building my gear!

Good video man Earned a sub

Great video!

I love the editing and the background music ! And otherwise great video !

this was very helpful man i really appreciate the info. def earned my sub

love the reasoning. might actually build out some gearsets in s3

I usually run some ink recovery up, main ink saver, swim and run speed up, quick revive, ink resistance and some others just because I had no clue how to properly build my abilities

Nice video. If anyone's wondering what build a nobody like me is using: I run dualie squelchers with LDE, 2 subs of bomb defense, and one sub of ink resistance for my headgear. A main of sub power up (you'd be surprised what kind of cheeky spots you can throw splat bombs with that) 2 sub saver subs, and one intensify action sub for my shirt. Lastly, object shredder, 2 subs of sub saver, and one sub of intensify action for my shoes. (alternating all the subs because I'm fancy... also it looks like a splash wall on my gear) LDE because it's a very ink hungry weapon, but the 4 subs of sub saver let me throw 2 splat bombs when it's at full effect (if I need to) while I get nearly 10% off the sub before it activates at all, making my splat bombs useful without draining too much ink. The sub defense and ink resist subs are for keeping me alive slightly more often. My screen has been covered in enemy ink after a barrage of bombs several times, but I lived where I know I didn't before I got them. I still need to get better with jumping and squid rolling, but I got the intensify action to help with both (also squid surge is now sometimes worth it). Sub power up lets me throw splat bombs out of my range and into sniper spots much more easily. If you don't know what kind of difference it makes, you can throw to the middle of scorch gorge from spawn areas, or from the top of middle to the sniper perch without much issue or serious commitment. On undertow, you can throw over the opaque wall from the floor with 1 main of the stuff. Very mean if you time it right. Object shredder is good on squelchers because you can use the range to hit sprinklers and beacons with relative ease, while not getting too close and saving about 4 shots each one. It also does good against bubbler with sub power up. It allows an easier hit against the weak point at the top, dealing nearly an e-liter's amount of damage with a bomb. Not bad. Probably not even close to meta, but it's a weird build with a niche use that I like to use.

You gave me the inspo to draw you like an alchemist for gears.

this was really helpful

great video!!

Beyond helpful, thank you

my takeaway from this video is to make an outfit and use chunks to try fitting 1 of every ability in the game on it (jk but also i might try this fr) but really this is making me reconsider some things i currently use, like the pure sub power up hat i use with dapple dualies, very cool!

good advice! i think this is a useful resource

Another point towards Quick Respawn are that the maps are super terrible when it comes for approaching the enemy (Mincemeat, Mahi) with no flanks. Your more or less gonna take a splat so QR synergizes with the current state of themaps

Full Metal Squid: Octohood

Me building my gear: *RANDOM BS GO!*

Great vid

Fantastic thumbnail

Fantastic video, one of the only ones that talk about utility and diminishing returns, but I immediately lost respect when I got flash banged from you using LIGHT MODE on Sendou.

Thank you sensei

This was verry intresting and helpfull.

excellent video, your voice is soothing af

The real law is just to look cool I don’t care that I’m using opening gambit these shades are really fresh

very helpful, thank you :)

Thumbnail goes unfathomably hard

Alright time to mess around with quick respawn + haunt

5:05 DEFINLY NOT because old QR was unhealthy for Splatoon 1 just as ink armor and special spam was for 2 and weapons that can get crab easily for 3.

This is like a dimly lit college lecture

really good video, very informative. i still think ill be sticking to my main saver pure hat, sub saver pure shirt and 1 main 2 subs ink recovery and 1 sub ink resistance lmao until i reach s+ and have the chunks for it i dont think ill be able to build tons of gear anyway

Just wanted to say I respect the tunic soundtrack.

great video, hope you make more in the same style

My gear design philosophy has always been to set up 3 tiers with 3 abilities in each: The Main Slots, the 2 Sub slots, and the Utility slots. Then for a weapon and kit, I can choose which abilities to go in each of those tiers. Example: with a Slosher, I might put the highest priority on Main Saver, Special Charge, and a Unique Main like LDE. The 2 slot tier might include mobility like SSU and RSU, as well as Ink Resistance. Lastly there are three slots for some utility like Sub Defense, QSJ, and Ink Recovery This also helps with the customization cost because I will never need a perfect 3 slot set

Your tip to find what works best for me through experimentation helped me out a ton! I've been running LDE with my stringer build for months bcs of a youtuber (check out Nbound, best tri stringer I've seen on youtube), and it works well but tbh I only really find myself running out of ink if I'm positioning poorly, and so after watching this video I decided to swap it for tenacity since it's an anchor that often is the last one on the team alive while taking fights that keep it safe, and my special output has increased massively, in addition to my anchoring power. I do wish I had a different special for tower control tbh bcs wail just doesn't pressure tower basically at all, but tower is stringer's best mode so it doesn't really matter too much.

Thank you for this video! I'm currently looking to build a suitable kit for my mains for a long while now, the brushes. There's little advice for brush mains out there besides the typical "quick respawn and ninja squid" (which I do have) but this video definitely helps. I recently built a Splatana Wiper kit based off information cobbled together from various videos and while I'm happy with it, I noticed some didn't get me to where I wanted (e.g: I have one main and three subs of ink saver (sub) in my wiper set, to offset my *personal* bad sub efficiency. I got greedy and wanted to get to double torpedo range. I didn't get to the double torpedo range and it barely changed anything at all). The bit about law of diminishing returns especially helped me understand what happened, allowing me to fine tune that set even better. I'm going to look even more carefully with how I play my brushes (and maybe consider replacing that respawn punisher on my favourite hoodie to ninja squid so I can wear it in battle more often?) so I can finally have something I really like. Thank you so much!

For whatever reason what has usually helped me the most with my main, the Nautilus, is Ink Recovery, since when you are holding a charge you don't refill your tank so it helps mitigate that, and thermal ink, because it makes it easy to hit them with point sensor and then take them out. Gets me to S rank atleast

i jus like running as much swim speed as possible because going fast makes me feel alive.

I remember in Splatoon 1 being super upset Run Speed Up doesn’t speed up roller or brush speed.

great video 🎉

I wish I saw this before getting an 3 Special gain shirt 😭

I'm a kingdom hearts fan and hearing AP for Ability points just activated my nerdy brain

Some notes: Splatoon's ability formula makes it so your returns actually *increase* at low quantities, basically only from your first sub to your second. If you're running one sub of an ability, consider doubling down. Special Saver is an interesting case. Its *flat* returns diminish just fine, but because you eventually reach 0% Special lost at 56 AP, its *proportional* returns actually slowly accelerates upwards, and as you see, it already starts plenty powerful. If you're not running Tacticooler on your comp (for whatever reason), and your weapon can or wants to Special freely (not you if your Special is Triple Inkstrike, Reefslider, Inkjet, Ink Vac, Tenta Missiles, Ultra Stamp, or Trizooka), definitely consider it as an option for filling empty slots.

"Be flexible with your gear. Try not to over-focus single strategies with your build." Meanwhile, me, running 37 AP swim speed up on sploosh: But seriously, the Sploosh-o-matic profits from being able to move FAST. It can ink the ground under and around itself so quickly that good sploosh players have a unique playstyle: it doesn't matter if they're on enemy ink, their mobility is untouched. No other weapon can play quite like it. It's hard to describe. (That being said, Sploosh doesn't get to shine very much because the weapon is still pretty bad. I wish Nintendo would buff it :P)

greatvid

Im running swim up, ninja + QSJ, and stealth + respawns for the splat roller. I think it synergies well with my flanky amd often agressive style

I don’t think ability chunks work anymore beyond four or three of the same one, maxing out at 19 ap. I’m not gonna watch the full video if I’m being honest and im not sure if he mentions this, but i know for a fact that judd mentions it as a tip. Don’t fill all of your gear with a monochrome swim up cause believe me you can get max value from that and more

great great tutorial

I love making my cool outfits have good gear abilities too but it costs me an arm and a leg

I have 3 clothes (Marina gear, Wizard clothing, and School outfit) that only has pure special (blue 🔵) and honestly, it kinda makes my Flingza fun to play. The only downside is I use too much swing ink. So I play safe as a backline.

I'm new to comp, just joined my first team roughly a month ago and I learn more and more every day about the workings of gear. In this video you said Intensify Action makes you shoot straighter? Is there a source you can point to that highlights more secrets about gear like this?

Thank you.