the thumbnail... lmfao

As previously mentioned, the biggest predictor of victory in PVP Splatoon is the ability to make it unsafe for your opponents to approach the objective.

@kimL93

10 ай бұрын

Booyah bomb is the answer haha

I will say, as a backliner, it has been a struggle recently to ACTUALLY backline bc my team will push up and Im like ok sure, I have to back you up And then they all immediately die. And I have to back up. And then we keep getting pushed back

@UmbraVivens94

10 ай бұрын

i feel this (i play Charger), i feel a bit powerless and guilty when i see the rest of the team dying and me being the last to die while retaliating / backing up / hiding for jumps, then seeing the WIPEOUT on screen

Oftentimes I'll watch your videos despite knowing the concepts in it just because they're entertaining, but this video revealed a concept that's gonna change the way I play the game forever, so thank you so much

I'm being out painted because the matchmaking decided to give me two E-liters and a heavy Splatling for teammates

@analyticalj8687

10 ай бұрын

hey now, blame the eliters, not the splatling.

@amirhaayers2736

10 ай бұрын

You can't blame all E-Liters equally. I'm a Scope E-Liter main and with how much experience and training and playing the weapon I've done I kill good and paint well. Blame the lack of experience, not the weapon. An inexperienced Aerospray can paint badly. It's truly about skill level.

@economist_ted

10 ай бұрын

An experienced nautilus user can also play as a frontliner.

@GDCytosine

2 ай бұрын

I had to tap shot someone with Hydra once. We ended up trading, but it was funny as hell

Got it: Blame the shooter players, everytime. Darn shooter players.

@Fenyx_Birb

10 ай бұрын

I mean U've seen a lot of players just charge into the enemy without realizing "Oh my teamates are dead, I should charge my special and wait for them"

that line about being aggressive when your team is dead is so real. i remember splatting 2 people, running to their spawn and ending up fighting 4 people because their entire team respawned after trading with my whole team and me thinking i had numbers advantage when in fact we were even or worse.

@vividBloodsucker

10 ай бұрын

This is why it's good practice to press up on the D-Pad when you die, so people know you're dead, and where you died. Lots of people die and then don't announce it, making it hard to keep track of how the team is doing especially in the heat of the moment

When you take fights with a serious mismatch in painting capability, the fight gets harder for the side with less paint output the longer it's allowed to go on. How do you deal with this? Simple, remove the source of enemy paint. If painting by itself was a winning formula, everyone would be running full spray comps.

@analyticalj8687

10 ай бұрын

But painting *is* a part of the winning formula. It's part of why weapons like vshot, zap, and bp are useful in a comp. Some weapons even depend on paint advantage with support from teammates, like carbon deco. Similar to the example given, if a team wanted kills and went something like 2x charger 2x blaster and ignored paint advantage, they may be able to get kills initially, but the disadvantage state with the lack of paint efficiency would result in their strengths to worsen, especially the blasters.

This is one of the things that I realized I am being so weak. I kinda of brute forced my way into S+ rank just by playing really aggressively with tetras and that rewarded me a lot on the other ranks. But even on my rank up battles I noticed something wasn't feeling quite right. The awareness gap between an S and an S+ player is huge. Also, almost anyone on S+ rank has the concept of map control figured out so I am feeling a lot more difficult to just go in and be "the hero" to open up an opportunity for the team. I usually just end up feeding and getting frustrated. But by never really having to pay attention to that I am finding it really difficult to switch from going into and just chill out, get map control, reposition etc. Also I find it really difficult to just gather information about enemy positioning in this rank and keeping myself away from danger (doesn't help that even at the slightest opportunity I try to splat someone - and it usually goes wrong because they have so much more room to move and hide than me). Even though this is really basic concept I noticed I wasn't doing this instinctvely and now I have to work on it.

Before watching this video, I thought it was going to be why I'm always out of ammo at the worst time, but this is also helpful.

As a Aerobaby, I don’t worry about getting out-painted.

@crazfamily6931

10 ай бұрын

Well depends on which you use

@malcovich_games

10 ай бұрын

Well as long as you're alive...

@apersonwhomayormaynotexist9868

10 ай бұрын

I mean you kinda do, if you die you aren't painting and woomy knows you aren't winning many fights

@giganticmoon

10 ай бұрын

@@crazfamily6931 RG.

@giganticmoon

10 ай бұрын

@@malcovich_games Positioning is key.

A small nitpick about these videos is that a lot of the discussion assumes a front/aggressive midliner position. That being said, as a flex player who regularly plays front through backline, this video was great for that purpose!!

A little bit ago i just won a 100x for team love!!

@Lakithunder

10 ай бұрын

Congratulations!! -a Team Love user

@SquidSchool

10 ай бұрын

Good work, soldier

@apersonwhomayormaynotexist9868

10 ай бұрын

I was messing around with tent, got an 100x battle, and lost :( thank you for making up for my failure

wow, this video really changed how I think about the strategy of the game, thanks gem

"I'm not seeing enough ink" -Ninja Squid Blevins

@LongDeadArtist

10 ай бұрын

I love this comment

This is something that I tend to take advantage of as an enemy base camping Undercover Brella player, paint as much of the enemy's base as possible, and if they respawn or come back then I immediately hide out and place mines. Then I go for them, splat them, and then clean up the mess they've made and repeat the cycle for infinity or as long as I can do so while hoping that my team can send those opponents my way in a timely and orderly fashion. That's my predominant strategy (which I only rely on if it can be executed), and it's an incredibly effective strategy that should be looked into more for competitive matches. Basically, my philosophy with the Undercover Brella is "Paint what you can, give none of it back."

This was super helpful, thanks!

@boppertron4929

10 ай бұрын

Yeah I didn't expect a video about paint to be so widely applicable to my skill issues, who knew a misunderstanding of the central mechanic of the game would be broad in nature lol

Players are stones, turf is territory, and the threat of players, is aji. The state of the board is determined by the turf, the players, and the threat of players, and victory is determined by the state of the board.

Yeah. I've noticed in my own Zones games that while having paint advantage can get you the Zone from time to time, the much more consistent method is killing someone on the enemy team. Not only does that reduce their paint output, it can also be used to pivot into a major advantage to force everyone out of the Zone, basically guaranteeing a free cap.

This is how low paint comps can work too, you just gotta be really good at finishing fights safely

Im waiting every day for gem to make a tableturf video

How would location sub like auto point sensors, auto bomb, etc. Would factor into this?

The number of times ive been paired with 2 eliter and a blaster or something as a roller main... Playing ink support kraken roller is not a fun way to play roller

Yooooo Abirnova cameo, dynamo roller beeg

Blame the roller

@mid-boss6461

10 ай бұрын

Duh

No paint?

9:51 laggiest suction ever

8:19 Vwoûp

900 feels too high for vblaster lol

Only good vid in my recommended this time around

first

@deeyorn6798

10 ай бұрын

What are you expecting a award for being first?

@mellowhateseverybodyandals1289

10 ай бұрын

@@deeyorn6798yes. give the man an award

@apersonwhomayormaynotexist9868

10 ай бұрын

woah thats crazy

@8_bit_idiot212

10 ай бұрын

I was expecting a mild dose of seratonin, which was received.