Excited to hear what the meta was when I was 11 years old painting the walls

to think we went from "If the flick touches you, you are dead" to "actually theres a huge ass dead zone on the horizontal flick so you can stand in front of a fucking dynamo and come out unharmed"

The section when you talked about the .96 Gal Deco shows that history doesn't repeat itself, it just rhymes very frequently.

There's a little prehistoric bit of meta for you- back in the first Testfire, Roller blocked shots while rolling, like a proto-Brella. You could still splat them from the front if you aimed high, but back when nobody could aim straight it was a big problem, so people started complaining that rollers just rolling at you were impossible to beat.

one of the main reasons i want to get splatoon 3 as early as possible is to watch the meta evolve just like this

So let's see: S1 96d: -wall -2 shot kill -survivability special K52: -wall -2 shot kill -survivability special Mhm, checks out.

“Discord didn’t exist yet.” I feel so old. I can’t believe I’ve been playing this game that long. Honestly everything being so broken and OP made Splatoon fun.

I find it so ironic how Splatoon 2 has had a long reputation for being much more balanced than Splatoon 1 and having a broader meta, only for the current Splatoon 2 meta to end up being so similar to early Splatoon 1, especially with K-52 basically being Splatoon 1 96 2.0. Like, obviously Splatoon 2 doesn't have crazy stuff like 1-shot indirects, roller flicks always being 1-shot, and stuff, but it does have many striking parallels now, especially with the Gals.

This really takes me back. I was there for the very early days of the first game. I got it within the first week of release, and even though my internet wasn’t very good at the time and I could barely play because of it, I knew of all this stuff. Rollers being able to damage without any ink, being able to throw 4 burst Bombs in a single tank, the E-Liter. Those were certainly wilder times.

Don’t forget, on release splatoon 1 didn’t even ranked at launch till a few days after because Nintendo wanted people to be level 10 to play ranked and they had this weird experiment where they wanted a specific amount to reach level ten before they released the patch that unlocked ranked which they reached day one

Splatoon has an interesting meta history: Splatoon 1: 2-shot Gal with wall and panic special that can also protect you Splatoon 2: 2-shot Gal with wall and panic special that can also protect you Splatoon 3: 2-shot Gal with wall and panic special that can also protect.

Just wanted to post to laugh that the 96 gal is back with the EXACT same kit in Splatoon 3 as of yesterday.

Splatoon's release day was one of the most broken and ridiculous times of any game I've played. No one knew how to play, and this game felt like it was balanced over a lunchtime with too much alcohol. And it was glorious.

It was really weird how much Aerospray was used. Ink Mine + Strike is an awful kit on an awful weapon, I have no idea why me and so many others ran it lmao

The early days of Splatoon were truly wild. But everything was so op back then and none of us knew what the hell we were doing so it was all fun and games.

The good old times back in the cats vs dogs splatfest where almost every match was a lockout on walleye and the old underpass. Literally one roller could gatekeep spawn on walleye and mid entrance on underpass.

Bruh. My favorite things were that you could put so much damage on a blaster that indirects killed and charger fired max range with partial charges with damage up so ppl were killing with like a half charge across the map

Dude Splatoon had such a great soundtrack. I miss that game. Great video brother.

Ah, those were the days. I remember my team was losing to the opposing team on Walleye Warehouse and I decided to go down the right corridor to try and get to the middle. Before I reached the corridor, there was one Kraken active. Our team was losing and we had less than 20 - 30 seconds left. For what reason I cannot remember, I decided to go back out of the corridor instead of going to the middle. When I came back,.... there were three Krakens active and wiping out team. Needless to say, that match did not go well. The memories.

“Time is a flat circle” Me: Looks at a clock Yep.

war flashbacks. i almost quit because of the 125 blaster indirects lol. The old .96 was so insane, I miss it

only zones - what heaven what a perfect game and then they unleashed rainmaker

Guess what is splatoon 3 it’s back with the SAME kit!! The custom deco .96

Y'know it's these videos that remind me that I'm not imagining things, I really either had it better back then or had full right to rage

and here we are, a good year later with in march 2023 for the comeback of the .96 Gal Deco 💀

This game is the reason why I still love to use the Krak-On roller. While a huge shadow of it’s former self, I still love beakons. Hugely underrated sub. I guess cause not many weapons that’s it’s distributed on can optimally run it. But I digress.

It’s very funny to me that after all these years, I had no idea my favorite weapons and clothing abilities were meta at some point in time. The .96 Gal and the Gold Dynamo Roller were my absolute favorite guns that helped me get into S rank, and my favorite hat had Quick Respawn on it.

Even as a teenager who didn't really play competitive games or know what metas were back when Splatoon first came out, seeing the Kraken and Bubble specials made me say "Wow! Why would you want any other special when you can just be invincible?" Seriously, who thought brief invincibility was a good idea? Especially with an ability like Kraken on launch!

Ah, Krak-On Roller, my beloved. Used to love playing with that absolute monster before they (understandably) nerfed it hard. I also don't really remember why Aerospray caught on but I think the in-game description said it's got the fastest paint output or something like that so perhaps everyone just assumed it was the best non-roller painting weapon and it just kinda caught on from there?

Splatoon 1 has always fascinated me with what stuff that got passed testing in the first release. It kinda reminds me of Gen 1 Pokemon. I remember getting this game on my birthday, and just having a great time with the game, even if I was just using the Aerospray RG, lol. It's slightly embarrassing to say that I pretty much used the RG through the entirety of Splatoon's lifetime, until around the time Splatoon 2 was first shown. The struggle of getting to S+ was real... It was the only weapon I reached with max turf on, so I guess I'm proud of that. But that's the time where I finally found my second main, in the CoroCoro Splat Roller. And now I'm juggling between those two, E-Liter, and a few other weapons as well, because I still play the game occasionally. (Incidentally, the CoroCoro is the reason why the Flingza Roller is my main in 2) Whenever I feel like I don't want to deal with the mess that is K52, Ink Armor and Missile spam, I'm glad I can just go back to a chaotic time where Stealth Jump was absurd, specials were a good kind of chaos, and where damage up... still kinda took over the meta. It feels like there's a certain... Energy in Splatoon 1 that you don't get in Splatoon 2, and it's why I keep coming back to it sometimes.

I've revisisted the original Splatoon and was surprised how different tower control works. Basically Splatoon 1 has no checkpoints but the tower goes faster to the point you've pushed to before I think that's a little better than the checkpoint system as everything in Splatoon 2 seems to revolve around the checkpoints and the one in 1 feels more natural and fluent to play Maybe addressing changes in modes and how the should be improved could be a topic for a video (if you haven't done that already)

as someone who actually never played splatoon 1 this is really interesting and also terrifying. the parallel with og 96g deco and k52 is astonishing. like someone else said in the comments I'm hoping I get splatoon 3 right around when it comes out because I'd love to watch the meta evolve from the beginning

I've been really looking forward to the next meta history video for Splat2 but this was a welcome suprise! I hope you keep making more meta history videos for the OG splat also!! As someone who only started the original this year it's a nice insight into the past.

This is not necessarily related to the topic, but as I was watching it, this came to my mind. As someone who hasn't played Splatoon 1, it's amazing to watch the visual differences between the two games - the less saturated color scheme, the animations, heck, even how much more fluid the gameplay feels now on Splatoon 2. They kind of feel like different games to play (even not considering the weapon, specials, etc differences) and I bet this feeling is right. I am so excited to play Splatoon 3 on launch and nerd over those really small details. Compare it to Splatoon 2 and notice how different it was. Look back at Splatoon 2 after a few months and "holy shit I played that? I was used to those graphics?" It just sounds so fun.

as i said yesterday, roller hitboxes were always broken the only difference is that now they're just broken in a very sad way

The 96 Gal Deco meta was my fault all my enemies eventually caught on and consolidated my build into their entire teams build and the took it to ranked, sorry guys.

i love these meta rewinds. i didnt pay alot of attention in splatoon 1 so i barely remember any of this

Damn, what a blast from the past. I remember being on SND and Tentacle Difficulties and experiencing this meta... pre-patch 96. gal deco was something to behold LOL.

Oh yeah I remember this shit. I was on +5/+5 E-liter in B rank missing shots and throwing burst bombs. I used to think inkstrike aerospray was busted because I didn't know you could paint over inkstrike. I distinctly remember loosing against quad aerospray on kelp dome zones because of that. Fun times lol

You might think I am crazy but I actually loved it. There's some charm to the lack of balance. Back then I never payed any attention to the internet or the "meta" or the stats/gear. I just played what I wanted and quickly rose to S rank as a kid. I was actually upset a little later when I found out what everyone hated with things like the arrow spray, I always thought that kind of weapon was mid but fun and wide for spreading paint

I got the game after the final splatfest so I missed all the broken craziness, but just hearing about the madness of the first game brings a smile to my face

Man, I never got to see TC in that map (8:00). Also let's go Krak-on used to be broken, I've always liked meme weapons, and annoying weapons and having kraken on a roller always felt like the perfect combination of both

I didn't get Splatoon 1 until Christmas of 2015. It was my first shooter and I was so overwhelmed with the learning curve, but the game was so fun. I wish there was a way to set metas back to certain patches just for how bonkers some of them were.

2:52 Welp it seems Nintendo forgot their lesson and we're back with panic Zooka.

someday chara's gonna cover splatoon 3 metas and talk about the sloshing machine and i'm glad to have been in this period of time xDD

from what i remember in the early stages of the game it was a rush to get the krak on splat roller and just destroy people with kraken

Just now realizing how I never adapted to sploon 2 meta and still make all my decisions based on sploon1 experience.

I love these meta videos, keep them coming!!! :)

damn i'm so happy that having a 2 shot gal weapon with a panic button is behind us but we still get a 2 shot gal weapon that plays around splash wall. Hey let's check the new ki- time is a flat circle

8:06 Ah yes, when wall could just pass through the tower.

I remember just cruising with the Bedazzled Heavy Splatling and the standard Heavy Splatling. I miss the inkstrike kit lol, I would spend days just dominating Moray Towers with it.

TIME IS A FLAT CIRCLE

The pure agony in your voice when you say “Time is a flat circle…” 😢

hearing “time is a flat circle” as 96 deco becomes meta in Splatoon 3

YES, we need more videos like this! Great job

History repeats itself Now we have a broken crab aswell...

Was surprised to watch this and not see Sloshers brought up upon their addition. I remember using Tri-Slosher at launch and finding out just how absurd that weapon was all on my own. To this day from in Splat 2 & 3 I still see Tri just as relevant in the playerbase

I have come from the future to tell you that time truly is a flat circle. 96 gal deco comes back in the 3rd game with wall and kraken.

How did I missed this video? This is good one.

Never in my life have I been so… awestruck by something.

Man, these were nostalgic (and rage inducing) times^^

I remember the first day when It released my aunt bought me it and I was hella happy and went straight to my WII U and get on the game it was so exciting despites those major bugs it was so fun.

Seeing all my old buddies in the footage made me happy

i was like 7-8 when this first came out, so cool to hear about half of these

I guess I really didn't play much of 2 comp because this meta is what I remember from Splatoon in general

Man, the meta is crazy and all but all that footage made me miss saltspray rig super badly wwww one of my favourite charger maps back then

Please continue this series!

This is so nostalgic! I was playing whwn I was 11, but trust that whwn I discovered chargers, E-Liters specifically, I could not get enough of the Kraken special. I was a kid rage quitting at falling through grates on Bluefin Depot, but I never thought the weapons themselves were too crazy ^^' looking back ir was WILD, I remember whwn Splatoon came out and finding myself disappointed with a lotta the special. But I came to appreciate the "balance" of it. Having played the Splatoon 3 global testfire, I cannot wait to see how people will use certain weapons/specials, I'm so pumped !

Great video but forgot the monstrosities that were ninja squid and stealth jump at the very beginning of the game

I played krak-on in the beginning of Splatoon, it was so broken, but really fun back then

Brought back so many memories I forgot about so many nightmares

Man I'm old, I can still picture what these weapons look like in my head, haha

I got splatoon right at launch, but that coincided with me getting horrendously sick. Thanks for clarifying that my experiences playing version 1 wasn’t a fever dream 😂

I remember to this day splatoon 1 had this VERY distinct "progression" to its weapons on launch where most of what you unlocked later was considered better than what you got early and you were seen as a hotshot. Aerospray beat splattershot pro beat splattershot beat jr, Dynamo beat carbon beat splat, e-liter beat charger beat squiffer. In splatfest particularly you were considered really cool if you had one of the gold weapons or a hero weapon that wasnt shot and EVERYONE ran those to look cool, right up to the last splatfest.

I never played splatoon 1, I started on splatoon 2 towards the launch of splatoon 3, it's interesting to see what was and what was lost over time.

this video was incredibly nostalgic to watch

8:30 aged horribly

The main thing I remember from the first testfire and early game days was how OP rollers and krakons were, and how EVERYONE hated them. This video unlocked a lot of good nostalgia around that, those were good times.

I just love the exasperation: "Time is a flat circlllllllleeeeee......."

Splatoon 1 was introduced to me by a friend, and it was the first video game I played. This thing is bound to my childhood.

Splat 1 music is a nice touch

Oh my god I remember everything from this video it's so nostalgic now... I remember hating krak-on roller and luna, stacking damage ups with e-liter and exploiting echolocator for burst bombs, everyone playing aerospray and 96 :")

Well thank you for reminding me of my Blaster main sins

I played Splatoon 1 a long while ago. I never played Splatoon 2, but am currently loving Splatoon 3. And oh boy, what a wild west i never knew the splatoon 1 meta was

Watch this back made me realise how weird it is seeing kraken after kraken royale was released in 3. Royale is so much bigger.

Back in the days when I was on that charger grindset trying to kill those darn rollers.

Why did you have to give me flashbacks

It's like having war flashbacks

They really overstepped when they nerfed the Carbon.

people that joined in later games have no idea of the DEMONS we were fighting back then

This video is very well constructed and I had a blast watching. Keep it up!

Time is indeed a flat circle especially that they added the 96 gal deco in splatoon 3 And now I’m gonna guess that they’ll add the kensa 52 gal in splatoon four with wall and “booyah nuke”

I remember watching nintendome a lot back then, I hope they're doing well

Yeah and then there's 8 years old me dancing when I put the rainmaker on the pedestal thinking nobody is better.

I don't remember everything have been that broken, oh how the time flies

Great to know what happened prior to me playing splatoon 1 in 2019! Also hmmmm: 96 deco rules meta in early splatoon 1, K52 rules meta in late splatoon 2, Hmmmmmmmm, will a gal rule the meta in mid splatoon 3? Perhaps! Reply to this message in 1-2 years time and tell me what gals are like in splatoon 3! Edit: Now that Splatoon 3 is almost 2 years old I can say. Gals are finally balanced

I was never really into Splatoon 1 competitive but it’s funny to think I was using launch meta weapons (.96 deco and ink res gear)

I was laughing so hard the entire video OML 😂❤

“Time is a flat circle” is so true

Chara: 0.96 gal sucked in splatoon 1 Nintendo: how about we bring back that same kit?