I had *no* idea how far the skill ceiling and the competitive scene went - this is awesome! If anything, it just makes me want to watch matches between these LUTI tiers instead of just Big Tournaments more often.
Hello, I’m a Div 2 player who only recently discovered your channel and I’m very impressed with your content. While it is reasonable for someone to question the source of advice when that person isn’t at the top, teaching and playing are related, but totally different skill sets. The information that you convey is quite thorough and accurate. I really wish I had a resource like you when I was starting out!
You sounded a lot more frustrated in this video, were you getting hate for not being a top level player and still teaching people how to improve in splatoon? I really hope that wasn’t the case because I’ve always found your videos really helpful and great quality! You’ve helped me rank up and keep gaining in splatoon 2 and make some of the best content for splatoon there is out there! If you’re reading this I hope you’re having a good day and you know you’ve got someone here who loves your content
Agreed! A high school teacher doesn't have to have a PhD in their subject (and often that could make them become out of touch with what level their students are at and what they need), they just need to know the content they teach and teach it well, which Gem absolutely does! Or actually Gem might be more like a college TA 🤔 Still learning/improving at the subject but knows the subject really well and is good at it such that they can take the complicated stuff the professor is doing and make it make sense to a student just beginning to learn it
Yep, some of the best coaches aren't top level at all, its not a requirement, being able to study and understand it can be done without being it, its just harder.
You don't need skill to know a lot about the game all you need is high strategy planning capabilities and learning from the enviroment and most importantly the smartness to proces that information
Most of the video was just written with the idea of teaching people about the ranked progression and sharing my frustration with Anarchy Battles not representing my skill level, but later sections were written after some inaccuracies in the Inking Base video were brought to my attention and that's definitely been weighing on me, especially as popular as that one has gotten. I appreciate the kind words
@@ProChara Yeah, in a fast paced game like Splatoon, making the mistake doesn't mean you don't see the mistake. People cant tell the difference sometimes
My only prior experience was Splat2 Story Mode, and finally in 3 I am ready to start learning the game at a deeper level and actually improve myself. Your channel has been *invaluable* to me! You’re a phenomenal speaker, clear and concise, motivating, and so much more. Please keep up the great work 😊
This man is doing god’s work. I love this game to death but can’t find a single living, breathing human being to play with and grow with, so squid school and ProChara are basically my life line at this point.
In my experience A rank matches were both my hardest and easiest matches, in some games we would get completely stomped and in other matches we would be stomping what I would assume assume be new players. It was a pretty wierd matching making experience tbh.
The section on turf-war only players reminded me why I'm in that group. I really wish there was an unranked version of the competitive modes so I could actually try them without ruining my rank or being dead weight for my teams.
One thing I have noticed that is different from Splatoon 2's ranking system is that different tiers are being grouped in the same lobbies. At A+ rank, while playing Anarchy Series, I noticed players with the S and S+ badges on their banners. This means that A rank lobbies are often combined with S and S+ players right now. When I say often, I mean literally 9 out of 10 matches. Sometimes, (although rare) I was actually the only A rank player in the entire lobby. While this did explain why I was having such difficulty ranking up, I found it kind of annoying that I needed to beat S+ players to rank up from A+.
Yeah, I mention that in the video though maybe not the most clearly. It doesn't make a lot of sense because at this point the letter you have just measures how many anarchy battles you've played, not the caliber of player you can beat.
Well this was enlightening. I've had Splatoon 3 since launch and recently reached S+. I got S+ in all ranks in Splatoon 2 after getting the game a year ago (S+5 in Splat Zones is my best rank if you're wondering) and I've poured hundreds of hours in Splatoon 1. I think I'll try to enter the competitive scene now that I've gotten the newest game and it's relevant. Granted, I'm in college rn, so it could be tricky.
College can be busy but it also usually gives you more freedom to schedule things for yourself (at least for most majors, some get really intense). While I had more work in my core classes, I also ended up playing more competitive Melee because of how I was in control of my day to day life.
The beginning of this video makes me feel a little better. I am brand new to Splatoon, and jumped into ranked battles as soon as I could because they seemed the most fun, but I have been getting absolutely demolished, and I am stunned by the level of difficulty in this game. I am somehow in B+ tier, and yet almost every game I play I am far and away the worst player, and I constantly beg the game to put me in a tier with people my level. But after seeing this, B tier feels like it's probably where I belong atm, it's just been insanely competitive because everyone else is still climbing out of it.
Yeah, don’t feel bad if you’re not performing as well as you’d like. Hopefully the lobbies are a lot better in a couple weeks to a month. Hope you’re enjoying the game so far!
It's really tough getting into the new game as a new player! My advice is maybe find some buddies who will private battle with you for some light training exercises (Like learning how to side strafe, squid surge, etc) In a way, you have one benefit because a lot of old players will not use some outcome-changing changes like squidsurge, but you can still implement it into your muscle memory! You got this, have fun
Wow I really needed this video. My self esteem has been shattering since getting splatoon 3; I had started dipping my toes into the competitive scene in splatoon 2 a few years back and was doing pretty well, got to S+ for a bit But now being dominated in B-? Can’t get a rank up battle done? *ouch.* Thanks for this video explaining some stuff, it really helped.
Glad you made this video, as I was that one casual player in Splatoon 2 who hit triple XRank as a one trick charger and even dabbled in joining a team albeit very briefly and then stopped upon realizing the time commitment on learning team coordination and team play would conflict my daily life. On the flip side I hope people who got into this game and truly love it realize that XRanked is merely the tip of the iceberg and there is so much more to enjoy.
I think the common outlook about the viability of information based on who’s mouth it comes from is definitely problematic. Knowledge and performance are definitely different and understanding the difference and being able to glean value from studying either is basic maturity. I’m pretty sure this guy is definitely far beyond being affected by this given his experience and confidence in his craft ( not to mention his support to the community). I understand and have benefitted from his influence and I hope he continues for a long long time. 🖤✨
As a fan of Splatoon 2 playing a lot of Splatoon 3 and wanting to get more competitive. Thank you. For not only making this video with information on competitive play but time stamping the hell out of this video and linking to the channels that you mentioned.
First of all, I enjoyed this video a lot. Thank you for making it as it gave me a lot of perspective about the game and how it works. I only started playing Splatoon July 27 of this year. I got the first game for cheap, got addicted and got the second game 6 days later and put 200+ hour into it before the 3rd came out. I managed to get into A- in splat zones and promptly dropped back to B+. Ive been too scared to play anarchy especially because i couldnt seem to win many turf war matches within the first week. Anyway, I found a lot of x rank players on youtube near the beginning because for some reason i chose this game as the game i want to get good at. I know i still have a lot to learn and 300 hours across the three games is nothing but just knowing there is a place for me somewhere and top players want to see newbie interested in improving and maybe competeing is comforting. But ill stop rambling now. I really like your channel. Its the only one that ive really found that tries to teach newer players how to get better and move through the ranks. Ive learned so much already and look forward to learning more. One last thing, im majoring in Japanese with the goal of becoming a translator. If i can help with anything, let me know.
You're much better off than me! 800+ hours in 2 only staying in my comfort zone and doing turf wars. I regret it, but there's no time like the present to start deciding you want to improve! Right now, I'm only in A+, and I definitely don't belong there, but I am trying and that's what counts :)
A good place to start for at least getting some names as search terms would be area cup, zonecup_jp on Twitch. It's a regular Splat Zones only tournament attended by top JP players that a lot of Western audiences watch to see what weapon comps those teams are playing. That would get you familiarized with the players and then if they put out educational content you'd have found their TH-cam channels and whatnot and be able to see what the videos are about and decide which ones to share
As a div 2/3 player I think you explain things really well, it helped me improve a lot when i was still low level right before i ended up winning low ink, and I remember watching your guides in 2020 when i was grinding for X rank, so I will always respect what you have done for lower level player
As someone who is really getting into Splatoon 3 (despite being completely stuck in A+ rank), it's cool to see how deep this community goes! I'm eagerly looking forward to any advice and knowledge necessary to improve my play!
I am A rank in 2 and 3 but I've been able to keep my rank relatively stable in 3 despite all the s and higher ranks being lumped in with us. I have noticed that some matches are very one sided at the moment but at the very least it lets me compare my gameplay with better players and sometimes the good player is on my team so its still fun, its not like I'm just getting dunked on every match.
I'm A+ and my rank is "stable" if by "stable" you mean I am at negative 700p right now and win 1 out of 5 matches. I actually kinda wish this game would rank me back down to A or A-. This game is brutal
since splatoon 3 has been out for like 2 weeks, my ranked matches are such a hit or miss. i got a 22 kill / 1 death game as eliter in rainmaker and after that round i ranked up into a. first a round i was put in a japanese s+ lobby and we were wiped...
The beginning was the biggest ego boost, knowing I might’ve just been matched with someone way more experienced than me at B rank. And even then I still clawed my way to A.
They've popped up in stream chat before! They knew I was a competitive gamer, it's something I talked about in the obligatory day 1 about me slide. I don't think any of them ended up becoming Splatoon players from it though so idk if they've stuck around for more than a few minutes to check it out.
I Hope that X Rank is a seperate rank ladder entirely like a C B A Prestige. Like name it X Mode or True competitive Mode. Or different names for ranks, but just give people a far more difficulty rank system to climb, where you need to hit S+ To Enter.
I am so glad you uploaded this. You’ve cleared up a lot in just the first few minutes. I thought the game felt harder for me and I had no idea why. I thought I was extremely out of practice.
Hi Gem, I've been a fan since before the rebrand and I can't express how helpful and eye-opening your coaching videos were to me! I think teaching and strategy are completely different skill sets to actually playing completely, and that's totally ok! Your analysis is almost unmatched and you constantly pull from other sources and pro players to back up your information. I've heard you mention ProChara, DUDE, WADSM, FLC, etc, and you take their advice into account when giving out your own advice. That's good! It means you are willing to listen to other top players while also having your own strategies and opinions. I think it makes the community more diverse and interesting. Keep up the great work!
This video is ABSOLUTELY INKCREDIBLE!! More than qualified to teach me! I was S+ in Splatoon 2, but now that I’m off to college I’ve dropped down to a MUCH more casual level. Nonetheless techniques and information you give are SUPER interesting and honestly motivating. I pull up this channel when I lose a lot of matches to remind me of all I’ve yet to learn. Keep it up!
I'm very glad the channel is getting more attention and you can bring up things like these so people have a better understanding, completely agree with what you said at 19:32, you helped me understand the game very well, hope you can keep going with the channel for as long as you can!
Thanks for the videos. I started getting back into Splatoon again with the release of the new game and had been looking for ways to improve. Your videos are easy to follow and have been very helpful. Also, I didn't know there was such a need to Splatoon information to be translated. I live in Japan and play Splatoon in Japanese. I occasionally do translations on my channel, so depending on the content, I might be able to translate some Japanese resources.
Basically anything you translate from a top-level Japanese player, I'd be happy to retweet and share however I can! Feel free to DM me on Discord with anything of that nature you'd like me to promote
😱 I was shocked to see *myself* in a TH-cam video! I'm one of the players in this video's b-roll. At least you posted a great match of mine. 😅 I'm glad to have handed your team a swift knockout in splat zones with no deaths in a video about how "good" Splatoon players are. Thanks for the confidence boost. You're a good teacher even if you're not +1 or 2600 level at the game. The way you speak is very structured and easy to follow. I really enjoyed this video and learned a few things too.
This is one of the best videos I've seen about splatoon as a whole. Not only is it entertaining, its information on being a teacher is invaluable. You have clearly put in so much effort and I appreciate that so much.
I love the implication that this channel is like splatoon high school as opposed to a splatoon college education. Made me laugh as it feels accurate to where I’m at with the game compared to what I see from creators like chara
Amazing video! I am fairly new to Splatoon but as you said it's a deep rabbit hole, and if we can learn anything from Japan, to improve it's that it's always going to be better together, so keep up the great content whatever people might say! It's incredible how much Splatoon is still in it's baby shoes in the west and I expect it only to blow up even more so than Splatoon 3 did.
I spent the last half of 2021 and the first half of 2022 playing Splatoon 1. It wasn’t until early 2022 I bought a Switch and at that point Splatfests were long gone from Splatoon 2 so I skipped it. While I played the game when it came out in 2015, I was pretty bad. When I bought my WiiU from my brother I played a lot of Splatoon and after a few days I was constantly at the top of the board. I picked up 3 and am doing great in Turf War, and okay in ranked but I’m sure this channel will help me get even better. Thanks man. :)
I've gotten into a game with you before and I remember one time you were in a fight that I think you thought you were going to lose but then I swooped and killed him before he could kill you and I remember you booyahed after that and I felt like the best team player I could be at that moment so here I am months later saying thank you
Right now in anarchy battles, I'm stuck in a wierd spot where I'm at B+, and dominate in a regular series (easy wins, tons of gold medals), but once I get to the level up series to go to A- suddenly I'm getting murdered out there. As far as I can tell I'm not doing anything different, same weapons, gear, mode, stages. Does something different happen with the matchmaking for those? Has anyone else experienced the same thing?
Yes. I ran into the same at A- and A (and am currently A+). The level-up series pits you against people of a higher rank than you are, so they're just better. They've gotten uswd to the strats that dominate at your level and are going to read you. I found thay somewhere arpund the A- level, people will start anticipating your sneaky moves, and you may have to fake them out and do stuff that might get you killed in lower ranks (A lower level player might expect you to peek the same corner and keep shootong that corner, while a higher level is looking at the other corner you might think to peek). Also, somewhere in there, people start getting really accurate and dangerous with bomb throws.
I only just discovered your channel about a week ago, but what you said about teaching is 100% true. We need people who can teach those who are at lower levels, but getting to higher levels is something you can really only do by pushing yourself. Anyone who's been to college has probably experienced a class with that one teacher who is clearly a true expert in their field, but sadly just cannot teach for beans. Honestly, those teachers really shouldn't be teaching if you ask me, because those who are truly experts in their field are (usually, but not always) not the ones teaching, but are instead out there doing the research and hard work to push their field forward. Even those experts, however, had to start somewhere. Einstein, Newton, heck, even Plato all had someone who taught them the basics before they could ever push their fields of knowledge to the limit. The same applies to the field of Splatoon. We need people like you to teach those who are at a lower level and want to get better. However, once those new people reach a higher level, they won't be able to rely on this channel or others like it to guide them anymore. And that's a GOOD thing. At that point, they've reached the level where they can only learn by pushing the field forward themselves and with other fellow experts. And I appreciate that you and other Splatoon content creators are humble enough to realize that fact. At some point, the student will surpass the teacher, but that doesn't stop the teacher from being a teacher. But what do I know? I'm just some idiot who takes the tips you give and only puts them to use in the one mode I play: Salmon Run. Where do I fit in that experience ranking in the video? Answer: I don't.
Hey jen. I'm gonna be honest you are probably one of the best teachers I have found in splatoon. Even if i go to your channel and i know some stuff like man advange map control ecc. I still find that there's a lot here that i can take to improve. I have been here before the re brand and if you are getting hate from ppl that say: "you are not a top level why are you teaching this." Don't listen to them cuz most of the times are usually below your skill sealing. With your tips i was able to go against really good players even tho it was only a viewer private battle with 2600 XP players in it. Keep the work up.
This channel is great, I wish I discovered it during Splat2! I was low X rank / around D7-D6; I felt it was very hard improving further without putting in significant time and deliberate practice (had ~4 hours a week to play)
i do NOT need you to be the best player in the world to know you’re doing something different & better than my B rank self, lol. super interesting video! :D
YO I'm literally that guy who got good but never played Ranked But that's not really the case anymore because that was just Splatoon 2 By the time I got Splatoon 3 I was confident enough in my skill to play ranked modes, and I ended up doing very well I've climbed my way to A- rank in less than a month and I'm aiming for X rank so I can get an actual measure on where my skill level is compared to other players in the world edit: Also I've been primarily using your channel to learn the ropes of competitive Splatoon play while I was waiting for the opportunity to acquire a copy of Splat 3, and I think combining my skill with the knowledge you've made available to the world wide web is what made me as capable as I am at flying through the ranks so efficiently
It’s nice to hear I was technically in the top 1% of Splat players when I was playing low-rank competitive. We played some discord server cups & Low Ink & although we did well in the server cups, we got absolutely stomped in Low Ink. It was so bad our top 2 players left our team lol. I lost some confidence in my ability after that. Dropped from X as I started playing ranked pretty rarely & ended Splat2 in S rank. I’m not at the skill level I used to be & will probably never be a top player, but these videos help show me what I was doing wrong & how to level back up & correct my mistakes.
Long comment incoming What's crazy is that I've been a low X rank player since pretty much it dropped in Spla2n, but even then I've noticed a much better experience after watching your vids and applying the advice in them. I noticed that I would fluctuate alot within X, but I'm more consistent with my rank now! Your Vids are great to watch, because I usually learn something, they are entertaining and it's just nice to see someone out there who is giving great advice on how to improve at the game, therefore making it more fun and enjoyable to others. By making these vids, I feel like you are doing your part to be welcoming and expanding the community! Keep up the great work! ^_^
Unless I am right below or at top level, I don't necessarily need someone at the top level to teach me. This pretty much applies in all aspects of life, at least for me.
i wouldnt exactly say i have ties with the competitive community, but i follow your videos super closely. i’ve learned a lot of stuff from you, and i try to apply it in my gameplay, and i just wanna see how far i can get by myself, playing casually. i really love this game, so maybe one day i’d consider competitive, but for now, your videos have just been keeping me company. i appreciate it a lot!!! i don’t feel so alone and confused when something i don’t understand happens. what i’m trying to say is, even though your videos seem to be aimed at an audience who wants to get better and maybe even some who want to go into competitive, i’m not really either of those, but i love em anyway. these videos just teach me how to have more fun! also you’re a WONDERFUL teacher. i dont understand why people take this stuff seriously enough to be picky with what they allow themselves to learn from. people can learn from anything. you’d be surprised what you can learn from something you deem “below you”. all i need to know, is that you’ve helped me and a lot of other people improve-i honestly dont care how skilled you are, your advice is working!! (i hope this is comprehensible, i am tired)
Hi! Long time growing up Splatoon player and learning artist here! As much as I've not had a massive commitment to this series at high levels (mainly due to my own time limiting skill and other factors like my mindset not being great and my kinda poor sociability), I've gradually grown more interested in the competitive side of this game through your channel and many others! So even if I can’t speak for everyone on how good your tips are long term, I wanna thank you for the informative videos you put out, and just know that even if you don't hear it enough, your work goes extremely appreciated!
I have anxiety and I've always been terrified of playing any ranked/comp gamemodes in any online games. I've sunk about 150 hours just into turf war and with your videos as well I'm feeling confident enough to finally get into it!! Thank you :D
I'm a "Sticking to turf war bc my experience with ranked in Splat2n was so many losses to the point the bar kept getting cracked and just gave up trying to rank up" ;w;
Sheldon cooper in the sitcom Big Bang Theory is a remarkably brilliant person, having graduated university in his teen years with a PhD in theoretical physics, he considers himself to be above most anyone else, even his own roommate who also has a PhD in physics but probably “only” got it in his 20s or 30s. However Sheldon is not perfect. He lacks even the most basic skills in social interaction, probably neurodivergent in some way, and has no filter. Throughout the series, he learns how to socially interact with his friends, some of which have phds, one with “only” a masters, and one with Hollywood dreams who works at the Cheesecake Factory to get by. Despite their “lower” level of intellect, Sheldon learns a great deal from them, especially the “dumb blonde who wants to be an actor but can’t act to save her life” character on how to be social and talk to people. I suppose in this analogy Sheldon represents the top of the top players. His PhD friends represent other pretty high rank players. His masters friend somewhere below that. And miss wannabe Hollywood like s rank. Being an arrogant prick who thinks they’re better than everyone else therefore your input is not important will put everyone else off and they may not value you’re input because you’re an arrogant prick. People who are at a lower level can still have a lot of valuable things to say and dismissing them simply because they are worse at the video game is stupid. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk
this video made me realize how unnecessarily rough i've been on myself lol. i only picked up splatoon a few years ago, getting to participate in one or two splatoon 2 splatfests before they stopped completely. it was during this time that i found my way into the online splatoon community, but wasn't really learning anything applicable. I was in B rank and struggled to find a staple in A. once splatoon 3 launched, and the absolute matchmaking hell of ranked settled down a bit, i somehow found myself very comfortably in A, climbing into A+, and now I'm constantly teetering on rank-up battles. i rationalized this sudden jump into assuming that the game's new rank system was too forgiving and that I didn't deserve the rank that i was in. your classification of player skill levels -- based not only on rank and mechanical skill, but by a study in players' experience with the game's competitive sphere, finally explained why i jumped into A so abruptly. over the summer, I became SUPER invested in splatoon. i watched youtubers, used reddit, experimented in weapons in my own time. i still really struggled to see progress, but i was building up that larger perspective and experience on how the game works that would benefit me once i allowed it to. the turning point was booting up splatoon 3, being shown new mechanics and weapons, and yes -- being slapped silly by japanese pros in B-. the invigoration of the splatoon community following the announcement of splatoon 3 is the direct cause of my jump in skill 4 months later. suddenly, i don't feel so bad about my skill level anymore. :)
thank you for this! ive peaked 2300 soloq and have played for six years and i've never heard of any of these scrims or discord servers. I'll be sure to check them out while i wait for the servers to go back online...
Most of the time. It’s players who are very knowledgeable and skilled but aren’t at the competitive edge who are coaches. I think you justified your expertise in this video even if you might not be ‘the best.’ Thanks for all your videos.
I don’t know if I will ever have the commitment to make it to X rank but if I do I’m confident that the game sense and general advice you’ve given us will help me climb up given enough practice. I will say though, it’s really tough playing in handheld mode, it restricts your motion controls because of motion blur and it isn’t accurate compared to a controller.
I actually haven't played splatoon in like a year before splatoon3 released, I used to be in X rank, but my joycons broke around that time so I didn't even bother. Kinda glad I won't be forced into S rank, since I am so rusty.
Very very very rarely are the most highly skilled individuals at a task the best teachers. In most industries, the best teacher you find on TH-cam is someone who is definitely far above average in skill but even further below the top people in skill. They just are able to bring knowledge from their experience and knowledge from those who are more skilled down to a level to those who are learning. The reality is that, in most cases, NOBODY is surpassing the skill level of the above average TH-cam teacher WITHOUT finding a community of some sort to help bring them up. Anybody watching your channel can either learn something from you or is already in the competitive community (in which case, they may still be able to but will already have a deeper knowledge of the things you typically teach on). All of what I’m saying, while it may sound like it’s splatoon specific, is not. If you’re gonna go learn something from someone on TH-cam, chances are very low that they’re the best in the world at what they’re teaching. But also, if it’s a prominent and well known teacher in that industry, chances are pretty high that they’re connected and involved with a community of people that has helped them learn and grow their skill to a point where they can teach it. Don’t ever worry or question your authority to teach this stuff man. As someone who is not involved in the splatoon competitive community, there’s a lot for me to learn from you. That’s true for almost everyone watching your stuff.
Thanks for the info... for the longest time I've been stuck and B rank. I kept saying I sucked and my friends who played splatoon didn't say I'm a good player or bad player, they just kepr giving me meh tips.
I'd say not to worry too much about the whole experience thing when teaching. Im around Div2 getting suggested to +3, and looking at your videos, i can easily see that there's so much information that i wish i had when i first started, and even when i entered midlevel. The best players aren't always the best teachers and vice versa, like i know i am not good at explaining what i do, but The community is lucky to have someone like you : )
I'm around that same skill level that you are in (2200 rank x average so about division 5 tho I don't do a competitive team,) and I think you are plenty qualified. I have about 1500 hours from all 3 games combined and you basically took most of these words out of my mouth here... wish you were around making vids like these back when I started! Thanks for the information man!
I was just commenting on this situation on one of dudes videos. I too was X rank in Splatoon 2 and when I started playing Splatoon 3 I could have sworn I had lost all my playing abilities because I couldn’t make any headway out of B- lol As far as teaching things about Splatoon, I don’t think you have to be top level to teach it. Everyone plays the game differently and makes their own particular mistakes so I think each person is partly their own best teacher for Splatoon. You can definitely teach the basics of movement, how to use weapons and how to support your teammates, but then it’s up to the player to analyze their own matches and find where they tend to make mistakes. I’ve watched tons of Splatoon content about how to play better but if I’m not careful I still make dumb mistakes when I’m not critical of my own actions. In addition to basic teachings I think it’s good to also educate others on how to analyze their games and make the proper moves to improve themselves
I recently got the game and have 60 hours in splatoon 3, I played the other splatoon games as well and I’ve only played turf war. I get a little involved with the competitive scene to learn and figure out what abilities are good and bad.
If nothing else, I'm now going to be looking into low ink. I don't think I'll be shooting to get in (I've only solo queued after all) but it seems like a great idea that more communities need to do.
I've hit a wall that I can't get past since I've purely gotten to A rank in Splatoon 2 and 3 just through playing the game enough. I've never looked at specific strategies or the inner techniques. I want to get better at the game but have no idea how and I'm feeling kind of lost. I thought my best way would be to watch guides and incorporate tips and strategies into gameplay, but have no idea what I'm doing. What is a good place to start improving? Is simply learning more about the game the way to begin getting better?
If you’ve played Splatoon 2 I’m assuming you’ve played for a while. If guides aren’t helping, maybe just try out new weapons in turf war to see how you perform with them and practice the new squid roll and surge techniques. If you’re in A rank right now in Splatoon 3 then just give it a few weeks. Lots of S+ and X players moving through the ranks. I was an S+4 in Splatoon 2 before I stopped playing and I’m currently still in A rank in Splatoon 3.
I've summed up most of my best advice for solo queue in my how to get out of __ rank series. People especially seem to find the S+ video helpful. I do also coach viewers onstream if you're having trouble figuring out what you individually need to work on
Thank you so much! I actually didn't know there was a way to donate in a TH-cam comment lol I only ever learned the Twitch monetization features before I started getting on TH-cam myself
I do not consider myself X rank material but breaking into S rank in all 4 ranked modes in Splatoon 2 was one of my best achievements. Battling at that was level was pretty cool too. I would have tried to push myself further but I lost my entire save after having to send my Switch in for liquid damage repairs. I plan to push on in 3 and see how far I can get.
in 2017 the +0 server was made in response to the +1 server. i’m not sure when +2 came but i’m pretty sure +0 cane first and maybe it wasn’t that popular. however, that server was the most fun i had with splatoon
I was X rank in splatoon 2 but I haven’t played splatoon in years. Now I’ve been getting back into a groove tho the game just feels different to me. I’m currently A- rank in 3. Def more of a casual player but I still have fun with it
I legitimately have like 600 hours of Turf War and like 5 hours of Ranked across the 3 Splatoon games. I'm sure I'm not alone. I just think Turf War is the most interesting mode. All of Splatoon's modes have their roots in modes from other Arena Shooters. Turf War is Team Deathmatch, Splat Zones is King of the Hill / Domination, Rainmaker is Capture the Flag, Tower Control is Payload, and Clam Blitz is Bombing Run from UT2004. It always amazes me that the Splatoon community thinks that Turf War is not a legitimate mode, and something like Rainmaker is. If you suggested that CTF was more skill-based than TDM in most games you'd be laughed at. The primary complaint seems to focus around Turf War's volatility, but realistically that's a problem that's easily solved by just running more games in a set, which isn't a big deal because Turf War games are fast. You could run a Turf War BO7 in the time it would take to do a single competitive Overwatch match. Ultimately even though you can steal games sometimes the best team usually wins and in a longer set the potential for big upsets is small. Realistically though, people's opinion of the mode is almost certainly just based on the fact that Ranked Turf War isn't available. Gem's point about how there's far more information out there from the competitive community about the other modes, especially outside of Japan is a valid one. However, there's also no shortage of top level Japanese players playing Turf War and they are certainly not worse than C-Rank players. Hopefully for Splatoon 4 Nintendo will finally add ranked mode for Turf War (and unranked mode for all of the other modes, for people who want that). I was actually kind of surprised we didn't get it this time around.
My family and I really appreciate this content. Am I going to be on a competitive team? No. Am I playing better, and not getting frustrated? Yes. I really appreciate and enjoy these videos.
Previous to Splatoon 3 I never played any game that was even remotely hectic except for Mario Kart. So staying with the story mode is my preference atm. Maybe it's fun for me because I am so bad at the game. But I guess as long as I emjoy the game, there's not really a "wrong way" to play a game I paid for.
I jumped in ranked battles for the first like 2 days, it was chaos, I was seeing top level players, and I was shitting and farting. I was absolutely done with trying to mess with that, and was constantly losing. I never made it passed A and S rank in splatoon 2, and I swear that was sheer luck, and just constantly playing, I am not actually good at the game. I decided, I'll return to ranked once all the maniac high level players were sorted out of the main pool. And I tried to jump in today and felt a lot a better just being 3 weeks out, still players who were way to good to be playing in B ranked battles but like not everyone buys the game at launch, so it made sense they hadn't gotten filtered out yet if they just got the game a few days ago. But I think things well get more settled with time. Nintendo really fucked us over though and demotivated me to play ranked the first few weeks.
I had a splat 2 safe file on c- and then that switch broke. In my new one i didnt even reach level 10. And in 3 for some reason it unlocked the anarchy battles instantly. It was painful.
Hey gem I’ve been loving ur videos since this channel was bravous esports. I was just wondering if you have any tips on getting into comp while in high school, since I wouldn’t be able to play in scrims or tourneys during the weekday. I wa stinking it might be worth it to just wait till summer, but I wanted an opinion from someone who’s actually in comp and understands how much of a time commitment it is. Btw I was wondering what you would deem my hypothetical LUTI div as a splatoon 2 x2350 player and now s+4 in 3 but rising rapidly. I have no prior comp experience so if that is a factor please tell me. Anyways I love your content, you’ve done so much to get competition casuals actually into comp, so I wanted to thank you for that.
Getting matched against dude and prochara was the scariest thing to ever happen to me
Chara honestly ain't that good of a player as you guys make him out to be
@@slurples149 damn I guess opposite day came early huh
@@slurples149 I’d still be terrified, he’d destroy me I think
@@mps64 Compared to the most other competitive players I mean
Seriously, first day of playing splatoon 3 and being excited for the new game, suddenly wadsm rounds the corner 💀
Thank you for meowing back at the cat
That is him, it's the cat I was meowing at
I had *no* idea how far the skill ceiling and the competitive scene went - this is awesome! If anything, it just makes me want to watch matches between these LUTI tiers instead of just Big Tournaments more often.
Hello, I’m a Div 2 player who only recently discovered your channel and I’m very impressed with your content. While it is reasonable for someone to question the source of advice when that person isn’t at the top, teaching and playing are related, but totally different skill sets. The information that you convey is quite thorough and accurate. I really wish I had a resource like you when I was starting out!
This is such a nice comment :)
You sounded a lot more frustrated in this video, were you getting hate for not being a top level player and still teaching people how to improve in splatoon? I really hope that wasn’t the case because I’ve always found your videos really helpful and great quality! You’ve helped me rank up and keep gaining in splatoon 2 and make some of the best content for splatoon there is out there! If you’re reading this I hope you’re having a good day and you know you’ve got someone here who loves your content
Agreed! A high school teacher doesn't have to have a PhD in their subject (and often that could make them become out of touch with what level their students are at and what they need), they just need to know the content they teach and teach it well, which Gem absolutely does!
Or actually Gem might be more like a college TA 🤔 Still learning/improving at the subject but knows the subject really well and is good at it such that they can take the complicated stuff the professor is doing and make it make sense to a student just beginning to learn it
Yep, some of the best coaches aren't top level at all, its not a requirement, being able to study and understand it can be done without being it, its just harder.
You don't need skill to know a lot about the game all you need is high strategy planning capabilities and learning from the enviroment and most importantly the smartness to proces that information
Most of the video was just written with the idea of teaching people about the ranked progression and sharing my frustration with Anarchy Battles not representing my skill level, but later sections were written after some inaccuracies in the Inking Base video were brought to my attention and that's definitely been weighing on me, especially as popular as that one has gotten. I appreciate the kind words
@@ProChara Yeah, in a fast paced game like Splatoon, making the mistake doesn't mean you don't see the mistake. People cant tell the difference sometimes
My only prior experience was Splat2 Story Mode, and finally in 3 I am ready to start learning the game at a deeper level and actually improve myself. Your channel has been *invaluable* to me! You’re a phenomenal speaker, clear and concise, motivating, and so much more. Please keep up the great work 😊
Thank you, I'm happy to have been helpful!
This man is doing god’s work. I love this game to death but can’t find a single living, breathing human being to play with and grow with, so squid school and ProChara are basically my life line at this point.
LITERALLY. And the one person I can play with used to be an S+ player 😭😭
In my experience A rank matches were both my hardest and easiest matches, in some games we would get completely stomped and in other matches we would be stomping what I would assume assume be new players.
It was a pretty wierd matching making experience tbh.
EXACTLY
A-rank is definitely a weird place to be and is very hard to get out of
@@Spectacular66 as an A-, yes
Also as an A-, yes
I ranked up to A- a few days and am getting my shit rocked like 80% time in series
The section on turf-war only players reminded me why I'm in that group. I really wish there was an unranked version of the competitive modes so I could actually try them without ruining my rank or being dead weight for my teams.
Anarchy Open loses you practically nothing; definitely an easy place to just give them a try.
One thing I have noticed that is different from Splatoon 2's ranking system is that different tiers are being grouped in the same lobbies. At A+ rank, while playing Anarchy Series, I noticed players with the S and S+ badges on their banners. This means that A rank lobbies are often combined with S and S+ players right now. When I say often, I mean literally 9 out of 10 matches. Sometimes, (although rare) I was actually the only A rank player in the entire lobby. While this did explain why I was having such difficulty ranking up, I found it kind of annoying that I needed to beat S+ players to rank up from A+.
True. I ran into Kyo back when I was in A+.
Yeah, I mention that in the video though maybe not the most clearly. It doesn't make a lot of sense because at this point the letter you have just measures how many anarchy battles you've played, not the caliber of player you can beat.
Oh I just thought it was players that got de-ranked, I found two S+ players in a S rank lobby
@@whooshylushy743 players cannot derank
@@SquidSchool oh never knew that
Well this was enlightening. I've had Splatoon 3 since launch and recently reached S+. I got S+ in all ranks in Splatoon 2 after getting the game a year ago (S+5 in Splat Zones is my best rank if you're wondering) and I've poured hundreds of hours in Splatoon 1. I think I'll try to enter the competitive scene now that I've gotten the newest game and it's relevant. Granted, I'm in college rn, so it could be tricky.
College can be busy but it also usually gives you more freedom to schedule things for yourself (at least for most majors, some get really intense). While I had more work in my core classes, I also ended up playing more competitive Melee because of how I was in control of my day to day life.
@@SquidSchool squid school irl world building is why i read comment sections.
The beginning of this video makes me feel a little better. I am brand new to Splatoon, and jumped into ranked battles as soon as I could because they seemed the most fun, but I have been getting absolutely demolished, and I am stunned by the level of difficulty in this game. I am somehow in B+ tier, and yet almost every game I play I am far and away the worst player, and I constantly beg the game to put me in a tier with people my level. But after seeing this, B tier feels like it's probably where I belong atm, it's just been insanely competitive because everyone else is still climbing out of it.
Yeah, don’t feel bad if you’re not performing as well as you’d like. Hopefully the lobbies are a lot better in a couple weeks to a month. Hope you’re enjoying the game so far!
I'm on a maybe 60%-70% winrate on turf war. I'm new to splatoon games.
Usually in games I get a 90% winrate at the start.
It's really tough getting into the new game as a new player! My advice is maybe find some buddies who will private battle with you for some light training exercises (Like learning how to side strafe, squid surge, etc)
In a way, you have one benefit because a lot of old players will not use some outcome-changing changes like squidsurge, but you can still implement it into your muscle memory!
You got this, have fun
same, but one of the best in the B+ tier, every time loose promotion and next series can win like 5 in a row lol xD
I was in the same boat as you. Stuck in B for months FINALLY crawled out… Got S rank in 3 days after getting A. Now i’m in major rank debt..
Wow I really needed this video. My self esteem has been shattering since getting splatoon 3; I had started dipping my toes into the competitive scene in splatoon 2 a few years back and was doing pretty well, got to S+ for a bit
But now being dominated in B-? Can’t get a rank up battle done? *ouch.*
Thanks for this video explaining some stuff, it really helped.
Glad you made this video, as I was that one casual player in Splatoon 2 who hit triple XRank as a one trick charger and even dabbled in joining a team albeit very briefly and then stopped upon realizing the time commitment on learning team coordination and team play would conflict my daily life. On the flip side I hope people who got into this game and truly love it realize that XRanked is merely the tip of the iceberg and there is so much more to enjoy.
I think the common outlook about the viability of information based on who’s mouth it comes from is definitely problematic. Knowledge and performance are definitely different and understanding the difference and being able to glean value from studying either is basic maturity. I’m pretty sure this guy is definitely far beyond being affected by this given his experience and confidence in his craft ( not to mention his support to the community). I understand and have benefitted from his influence and I hope he continues for a long long time. 🖤✨
As a fan of Splatoon 2 playing a lot of Splatoon 3 and wanting to get more competitive. Thank you. For not only making this video with information on competitive play but time stamping the hell out of this video and linking to the channels that you mentioned.
First of all, I enjoyed this video a lot. Thank you for making it as it gave me a lot of perspective about the game and how it works. I only started playing Splatoon July 27 of this year. I got the first game for cheap, got addicted and got the second game 6 days later and put 200+ hour into it before the 3rd came out. I managed to get into A- in splat zones and promptly dropped back to B+. Ive been too scared to play anarchy especially because i couldnt seem to win many turf war matches within the first week. Anyway, I found a lot of x rank players on youtube near the beginning because for some reason i chose this game as the game i want to get good at. I know i still have a lot to learn and 300 hours across the three games is nothing but just knowing there is a place for me somewhere and top players want to see newbie interested in improving and maybe competeing is comforting. But ill stop rambling now. I really like your channel. Its the only one that ive really found that tries to teach newer players how to get better and move through the ranks. Ive learned so much already and look forward to learning more. One last thing, im majoring in Japanese with the goal of becoming a translator. If i can help with anything, let me know.
You're much better off than me! 800+ hours in 2 only staying in my comfort zone and doing turf wars. I regret it, but there's no time like the present to start deciding you want to improve!
Right now, I'm only in A+, and I definitely don't belong there, but I am trying and that's what counts :)
A good place to start for at least getting some names as search terms would be area cup, zonecup_jp on Twitch. It's a regular Splat Zones only tournament attended by top JP players that a lot of Western audiences watch to see what weapon comps those teams are playing. That would get you familiarized with the players and then if they put out educational content you'd have found their TH-cam channels and whatnot and be able to see what the videos are about and decide which ones to share
As a div 2/3 player I think you explain things really well, it helped me improve a lot when i was still low level right before i ended up winning low ink, and I remember watching your guides in 2020 when i was grinding for X rank, so I will always respect what you have done for lower level player
As someone who is really getting into Splatoon 3 (despite being completely stuck in A+ rank), it's cool to see how deep this community goes! I'm eagerly looking forward to any advice and knowledge necessary to improve my play!
I can rly relate to the stuck in a+ thing lol
I am A rank in 2 and 3 but I've been able to keep my rank relatively stable in 3 despite all the s and higher ranks being lumped in with us. I have noticed that some matches are very one sided at the moment but at the very least it lets me compare my gameplay with better players and sometimes the good player is on my team so its still fun, its not like I'm just getting dunked on every match.
I'm A+ and my rank is "stable" if by "stable" you mean I am at negative 700p right now and win 1 out of 5 matches.
I actually kinda wish this game would rank me back down to A or A-. This game is brutal
since splatoon 3 has been out for like 2 weeks, my ranked matches are such a hit or miss. i got a 22 kill / 1 death game as eliter in rainmaker and after that round i ranked up into a. first a round i was put in a japanese s+ lobby and we were wiped...
The beginning was the biggest ego boost, knowing I might’ve just been matched with someone way more experienced than me at B rank. And even then I still clawed my way to A.
Do any of your past students watch your videos? I'm just incredibly interested in how that would feel or how they would feel if you talk to them
They've popped up in stream chat before! They knew I was a competitive gamer, it's something I talked about in the obligatory day 1 about me slide. I don't think any of them ended up becoming Splatoon players from it though so idk if they've stuck around for more than a few minutes to check it out.
I Hope that X Rank is a seperate rank ladder entirely like a C B A Prestige.
Like name it X Mode or True competitive Mode.
Or different names for ranks, but just give people a far more difficulty rank system to climb, where you need to hit S+ To Enter.
That's looking like how it'll be since it is a separate mode. I wouldn't hate it if they just made it identical to the Splatoon 2 X rank system
I am so glad you uploaded this. You’ve cleared up a lot in just the first few minutes. I thought the game felt harder for me and I had no idea why. I thought I was extremely out of practice.
Hi Gem, I've been a fan since before the rebrand and I can't express how helpful and eye-opening your coaching videos were to me! I think teaching and strategy are completely different skill sets to actually playing completely, and that's totally ok! Your analysis is almost unmatched and you constantly pull from other sources and pro players to back up your information. I've heard you mention ProChara, DUDE, WADSM, FLC, etc, and you take their advice into account when giving out your own advice. That's good! It means you are willing to listen to other top players while also having your own strategies and opinions. I think it makes the community more diverse and interesting. Keep up the great work!
This video is ABSOLUTELY INKCREDIBLE!! More than qualified to teach me! I was S+ in Splatoon 2, but now that I’m off to college I’ve dropped down to a MUCH more casual level. Nonetheless techniques and information you give are SUPER interesting and honestly motivating. I pull up this channel when I lose a lot of matches to remind me of all I’ve yet to learn. Keep it up!
I'm very glad the channel is getting more attention and you can bring up things like these so people have a better understanding, completely agree with what you said at 19:32, you helped me understand the game very well, hope you can keep going with the channel for as long as you can!
This video has given me the confidence to think about what can I make videos of in splatoon
Thanks for the videos.
I started getting back into Splatoon again with the release of the new game and had been looking for ways to improve.
Your videos are easy to follow and have been very helpful.
Also, I didn't know there was such a need to Splatoon information to be translated.
I live in Japan and play Splatoon in Japanese.
I occasionally do translations on my channel, so depending on the content, I might be able to translate some Japanese resources.
Basically anything you translate from a top-level Japanese player, I'd be happy to retweet and share however I can! Feel free to DM me on Discord with anything of that nature you'd like me to promote
😱 I was shocked to see *myself* in a TH-cam video! I'm one of the players in this video's b-roll. At least you posted a great match of mine. 😅 I'm glad to have handed your team a swift knockout in splat zones with no deaths in a video about how "good" Splatoon players are. Thanks for the confidence boost. You're a good teacher even if you're not +1 or 2600 level at the game. The way you speak is very structured and easy to follow. I really enjoyed this video and learned a few things too.
This is one of the best videos I've seen about splatoon as a whole. Not only is it entertaining, its information on being a teacher is invaluable. You have clearly put in so much effort and I appreciate that so much.
I love the implication that this channel is like splatoon high school as opposed to a splatoon college education. Made me laugh as it feels accurate to where I’m at with the game compared to what I see from creators like chara
Amazing video! I am fairly new to Splatoon but as you said it's a deep rabbit hole, and if we can learn anything from Japan, to improve it's that it's always going to be better together, so keep up the great content whatever people might say!
It's incredible how much Splatoon is still in it's baby shoes in the west and I expect it only to blow up even more so than Splatoon 3 did.
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HEY THAT'S ME AND WOW THE BLASTER WAS YOU NO WONDER I WAS GETTING OUT SKILLED AKAJS
I spent the last half of 2021 and the first half of 2022 playing Splatoon 1. It wasn’t until early 2022 I bought a Switch and at that point Splatfests were long gone from Splatoon 2 so I skipped it. While I played the game when it came out in 2015, I was pretty bad. When I bought my WiiU from my brother I played a lot of Splatoon and after a few days I was constantly at the top of the board. I picked up 3 and am doing great in Turf War, and okay in ranked but I’m sure this channel will help me get even better. Thanks man. :)
I've gotten into a game with you before and I remember one time you were in a fight that I think you thought you were going to lose but then I swooped and killed him before he could kill you and I remember you booyahed after that and I felt like the best team player I could be at that moment so here I am months later saying thank you
Right now in anarchy battles, I'm stuck in a wierd spot where I'm at B+, and dominate in a regular series (easy wins, tons of gold medals), but once I get to the level up series to go to A- suddenly I'm getting murdered out there. As far as I can tell I'm not doing anything different, same weapons, gear, mode, stages. Does something different happen with the matchmaking for those? Has anyone else experienced the same thing?
Yes. I ran into the same at A- and A (and am currently A+).
The level-up series pits you against people of a higher rank than you are, so they're just better. They've gotten uswd to the strats that dominate at your level and are going to read you.
I found thay somewhere arpund the A- level, people will start anticipating your sneaky moves, and you may have to fake them out and do stuff that might get you killed in lower ranks (A lower level player might expect you to peek the same corner and keep shootong that corner, while a higher level is looking at the other corner you might think to peek).
Also, somewhere in there, people start getting really accurate and dangerous with bomb throws.
I only just discovered your channel about a week ago, but what you said about teaching is 100% true. We need people who can teach those who are at lower levels, but getting to higher levels is something you can really only do by pushing yourself.
Anyone who's been to college has probably experienced a class with that one teacher who is clearly a true expert in their field, but sadly just cannot teach for beans. Honestly, those teachers really shouldn't be teaching if you ask me, because those who are truly experts in their field are (usually, but not always) not the ones teaching, but are instead out there doing the research and hard work to push their field forward. Even those experts, however, had to start somewhere. Einstein, Newton, heck, even Plato all had someone who taught them the basics before they could ever push their fields of knowledge to the limit.
The same applies to the field of Splatoon. We need people like you to teach those who are at a lower level and want to get better. However, once those new people reach a higher level, they won't be able to rely on this channel or others like it to guide them anymore. And that's a GOOD thing. At that point, they've reached the level where they can only learn by pushing the field forward themselves and with other fellow experts. And I appreciate that you and other Splatoon content creators are humble enough to realize that fact. At some point, the student will surpass the teacher, but that doesn't stop the teacher from being a teacher.
But what do I know? I'm just some idiot who takes the tips you give and only puts them to use in the one mode I play: Salmon Run. Where do I fit in that experience ranking in the video? Answer: I don't.
Hey jen.
I'm gonna be honest you are probably one of the best teachers I have found in splatoon.
Even if i go to your channel and i know some stuff like man advange map control ecc.
I still find that there's a lot here that i can take to improve.
I have been here before the re brand and if you are getting hate from ppl that say: "you are not a top level why are you teaching this."
Don't listen to them cuz most of the times are usually below your skill sealing.
With your tips i was able to go against really good players even tho it was only a viewer private battle with 2600 XP players in it.
Keep the work up.
This channel is great, I wish I discovered it during Splat2!
I was low X rank / around D7-D6; I felt it was very hard improving further without putting in significant time and deliberate practice (had ~4 hours a week to play)
They're not professionals, they're proFRESHionals
i do NOT need you to be the best player in the world to know you’re doing something different & better than my B rank self, lol. super interesting video! :D
YO
I'm literally that guy who got good but never played Ranked
But that's not really the case anymore because that was just Splatoon 2
By the time I got Splatoon 3 I was confident enough in my skill to play ranked modes, and I ended up doing very well
I've climbed my way to A- rank in less than a month and I'm aiming for X rank so I can get an actual measure on where my skill level is compared to other players in the world
edit: Also I've been primarily using your channel to learn the ropes of competitive Splatoon play while I was waiting for the opportunity to acquire a copy of Splat 3, and I think combining my skill with the knowledge you've made available to the world wide web is what made me as capable as I am at flying through the ranks so efficiently
It’s nice to hear I was technically in the top 1% of Splat players when I was playing low-rank competitive. We played some discord server cups & Low Ink & although we did well in the server cups, we got absolutely stomped in Low Ink. It was so bad our top 2 players left our team lol. I lost some confidence in my ability after that. Dropped from X as I started playing ranked pretty rarely & ended Splat2 in S rank. I’m not at the skill level I used to be & will probably never be a top player, but these videos help show me what I was doing wrong & how to level back up & correct my mistakes.
also this really explains why B- was such a grind lol
Long comment incoming
What's crazy is that I've been a low X rank player since pretty much it dropped in Spla2n, but even then I've noticed a much better experience after watching your vids and applying the advice in them. I noticed that I would fluctuate alot within X, but I'm more consistent with my rank now!
Your Vids are great to watch, because I usually learn something, they are entertaining and it's just nice to see someone out there who is giving great advice on how to improve at the game, therefore making it more fun and enjoyable to others. By making these vids, I feel like you are doing your part to be welcoming and expanding the community! Keep up the great work! ^_^
Thank you, I'm always happy to hear that my content is helpful to people!
This guy mews back at his cat, that’s how we know we can trust him
In all seriousness that was cute
"I have yet to come across a player of that description."
Hi, how are ya
Unless I am right below or at top level, I don't necessarily need someone at the top level to teach me. This pretty much applies in all aspects of life, at least for me.
i wouldnt exactly say i have ties with the competitive community, but i follow your videos super closely. i’ve learned a lot of stuff from you, and i try to apply it in my gameplay, and i just wanna see how far i can get by myself, playing casually. i really love this game, so maybe one day i’d consider competitive, but for now, your videos have just been keeping me company. i appreciate it a lot!!! i don’t feel so alone and confused when something i don’t understand happens.
what i’m trying to say is, even though your videos seem to be aimed at an audience who wants to get better and maybe even some who want to go into competitive, i’m not really either of those, but i love em anyway. these videos just teach me how to have more fun!
also you’re a WONDERFUL teacher. i dont understand why people take this stuff seriously enough to be picky with what they allow themselves to learn from. people can learn from anything. you’d be surprised what you can learn from something you deem “below you”. all i need to know, is that you’ve helped me and a lot of other people improve-i honestly dont care how skilled you are, your advice is working!!
(i hope this is comprehensible, i am tired)
I'm really glad I found your Channel. It's refreshing to see somebody talk about the competitive nuances of a video game outside of a vacuum.
Hi! Long time growing up Splatoon player and learning artist here! As much as I've not had a massive commitment to this series at high levels (mainly due to my own time limiting skill and other factors like my mindset not being great and my kinda poor sociability), I've gradually grown more interested in the competitive side of this game through your channel and many others! So even if I can’t speak for everyone on how good your tips are long term, I wanna thank you for the informative videos you put out, and just know that even if you don't hear it enough, your work goes extremely appreciated!
I have anxiety and I've always been terrified of playing any ranked/comp gamemodes in any online games. I've sunk about 150 hours just into turf war and with your videos as well I'm feeling confident enough to finally get into it!! Thank you :D
I'm a "Sticking to turf war bc my experience with ranked in Splat2n was so many losses to the point the bar kept getting cracked and just gave up trying to rank up" ;w;
Sheldon cooper in the sitcom Big Bang Theory is a remarkably brilliant person, having graduated university in his teen years with a PhD in theoretical physics, he considers himself to be above most anyone else, even his own roommate who also has a PhD in physics but probably “only” got it in his 20s or 30s. However Sheldon is not perfect. He lacks even the most basic skills in social interaction, probably neurodivergent in some way, and has no filter. Throughout the series, he learns how to socially interact with his friends, some of which have phds, one with “only” a masters, and one with Hollywood dreams who works at the Cheesecake Factory to get by. Despite their “lower” level of intellect, Sheldon learns a great deal from them, especially the “dumb blonde who wants to be an actor but can’t act to save her life” character on how to be social and talk to people.
I suppose in this analogy Sheldon represents the top of the top players. His PhD friends represent other pretty high rank players. His masters friend somewhere below that. And miss wannabe Hollywood like s rank. Being an arrogant prick who thinks they’re better than everyone else therefore your input is not important will put everyone else off and they may not value you’re input because you’re an arrogant prick. People who are at a lower level can still have a lot of valuable things to say and dismissing them simply because they are worse at the video game is stupid.
Thanks for coming to my Ted talk
This was a great video. It's definitely going to teach people a lot
this video made me realize how unnecessarily rough i've been on myself lol. i only picked up splatoon a few years ago, getting to participate in one or two splatoon 2 splatfests before they stopped completely. it was during this time that i found my way into the online splatoon community, but wasn't really learning anything applicable. I was in B rank and struggled to find a staple in A.
once splatoon 3 launched, and the absolute matchmaking hell of ranked settled down a bit, i somehow found myself very comfortably in A, climbing into A+, and now I'm constantly teetering on rank-up battles. i rationalized this sudden jump into assuming that the game's new rank system was too forgiving and that I didn't deserve the rank that i was in.
your classification of player skill levels -- based not only on rank and mechanical skill, but by a study in players' experience with the game's competitive sphere, finally explained why i jumped into A so abruptly. over the summer, I became SUPER invested in splatoon. i watched youtubers, used reddit, experimented in weapons in my own time. i still really struggled to see progress, but i was building up that larger perspective and experience on how the game works that would benefit me once i allowed it to. the turning point was booting up splatoon 3, being shown new mechanics and weapons, and yes -- being slapped silly by japanese pros in B-. the invigoration of the splatoon community following the announcement of splatoon 3 is the direct cause of my jump in skill 4 months later. suddenly, i don't feel so bad about my skill level anymore. :)
thank you for this! ive peaked 2300 soloq and have played for six years and i've never heard of any of these scrims or discord servers. I'll be sure to check them out while i wait for the servers to go back online...
3:01 Did you notice the enemy player threw a clam to him
For those interested Die splatoon legue just mean "the splatoon league" in German
Most of the time. It’s players who are very knowledgeable and skilled but aren’t at the competitive edge who are coaches.
I think you justified your expertise in this video even if you might not be ‘the best.’
Thanks for all your videos.
I don’t know if I will ever have the commitment to make it to X rank but if I do I’m confident that the game sense and general advice you’ve given us will help me climb up given enough practice.
I will say though, it’s really tough playing in handheld mode, it restricts your motion controls because of motion blur and it isn’t accurate compared to a controller.
I actually haven't played splatoon in like a year before splatoon3 released, I used to be in X rank, but my joycons broke around that time so I didn't even bother. Kinda glad I won't be forced into S rank, since I am so rusty.
That's what I love about the passive deranking system Splatoon 3 has: less bloated ranks.
Very very very rarely are the most highly skilled individuals at a task the best teachers.
In most industries, the best teacher you find on TH-cam is someone who is definitely far above average in skill but even further below the top people in skill. They just are able to bring knowledge from their experience and knowledge from those who are more skilled down to a level to those who are learning.
The reality is that, in most cases, NOBODY is surpassing the skill level of the above average TH-cam teacher WITHOUT finding a community of some sort to help bring them up.
Anybody watching your channel can either learn something from you or is already in the competitive community (in which case, they may still be able to but will already have a deeper knowledge of the things you typically teach on).
All of what I’m saying, while it may sound like it’s splatoon specific, is not.
If you’re gonna go learn something from someone on TH-cam, chances are very low that they’re the best in the world at what they’re teaching.
But also, if it’s a prominent and well known teacher in that industry, chances are pretty high that they’re connected and involved with a community of people that has helped them learn and grow their skill to a point where they can teach it.
Don’t ever worry or question your authority to teach this stuff man. As someone who is not involved in the splatoon competitive community, there’s a lot for me to learn from you. That’s true for almost everyone watching your stuff.
Thanks for the info... for the longest time I've been stuck and B rank. I kept saying I sucked and my friends who played splatoon didn't say I'm a good player or bad player, they just kepr giving me meh tips.
I never played ranked before splatoon 3 but am working on it now, and your videos are so helpful for unlearning the habits I learned for Turf Wars
I'd say not to worry too much about the whole experience thing when teaching. Im around Div2 getting suggested to +3, and looking at your videos, i can easily see that there's so much information that i wish i had when i first started, and even when i entered midlevel. The best players aren't always the best teachers and vice versa, like i know i am not good at explaining what i do, but The community is lucky to have someone like you : )
This was a fascinating watch, thanks! Really well presented and it does go much deeper than I expected
I'm around that same skill level that you are in (2200 rank x average so about division 5 tho I don't do a competitive team,) and I think you are plenty qualified. I have about 1500 hours from all 3 games combined and you basically took most of these words out of my mouth here... wish you were around making vids like these back when I started! Thanks for the information man!
I was just commenting on this situation on one of dudes videos. I too was X rank in Splatoon 2 and when I started playing Splatoon 3 I could have sworn I had lost all my playing abilities because I couldn’t make any headway out of B- lol
As far as teaching things about Splatoon, I don’t think you have to be top level to teach it. Everyone plays the game differently and makes their own particular mistakes so I think each person is partly their own best teacher for Splatoon. You can definitely teach the basics of movement, how to use weapons and how to support your teammates, but then it’s up to the player to analyze their own matches and find where they tend to make mistakes. I’ve watched tons of Splatoon content about how to play better but if I’m not careful I still make dumb mistakes when I’m not critical of my own actions. In addition to basic teachings I think it’s good to also educate others on how to analyze their games and make the proper moves to improve themselves
5:40 lmao I got called out
Gem: "How good am i in Splatoon?"
Also Gem 3 months later: Literally gets world record for eggs in a salmon shift
Ngl B rank and A rank was literally how I went for my first few months after returning to splatoon and finally getting the second game
Cat: meow (Gem, feed me)
Gem: maw (peanut bottom pen)
Cat: meow (I… that… huh?)
I recently got the game and have 60 hours in splatoon 3, I played the other splatoon games as well and I’ve only played turf war. I get a little involved with the competitive scene to learn and figure out what abilities are good and bad.
If nothing else, I'm now going to be looking into low ink. I don't think I'll be shooting to get in (I've only solo queued after all) but it seems like a great idea that more communities need to do.
waiting for the salmon run teaching video
How come I feel like I am at a unfair disadvantage
I've hit a wall that I can't get past since I've purely gotten to A rank in Splatoon 2 and 3 just through playing the game enough. I've never looked at specific strategies or the inner techniques. I want to get better at the game but have no idea how and I'm feeling kind of lost. I thought my best way would be to watch guides and incorporate tips and strategies into gameplay, but have no idea what I'm doing. What is a good place to start improving? Is simply learning more about the game the way to begin getting better?
If you’ve played Splatoon 2 I’m assuming you’ve played for a while. If guides aren’t helping, maybe just try out new weapons in turf war to see how you perform with them and practice the new squid roll and surge techniques. If you’re in A rank right now in Splatoon 3 then just give it a few weeks. Lots of S+ and X players moving through the ranks. I was an S+4 in Splatoon 2 before I stopped playing and I’m currently still in A rank in Splatoon 3.
I've summed up most of my best advice for solo queue in my how to get out of __ rank series. People especially seem to find the S+ video helpful. I do also coach viewers onstream if you're having trouble figuring out what you individually need to work on
I kinda wish thumbnail said "kracki'n" or some other kraken pun ngl
Judd took over for a second there
Keep up the great work! Thank you!
Thank you so much! I actually didn't know there was a way to donate in a TH-cam comment lol I only ever learned the Twitch monetization features before I started getting on TH-cam myself
I do not consider myself X rank material but breaking into S rank in all 4 ranked modes in Splatoon 2 was one of my best achievements. Battling at that was level was pretty cool too. I would have tried to push myself further but I lost my entire save after having to send my Switch in for liquid damage repairs. I plan to push on in 3 and see how far I can get.
Thank you for making all the content that you do. It’s really helpful and even if I’m still in A rank I want to improve and try competitive
in 2017 the +0 server was made in response to the +1 server. i’m not sure when +2 came but i’m pretty sure +0 cane first and maybe it wasn’t that popular. however, that server was the most fun i had with splatoon
I'm rooting for ya after this :)
Him: "You wouldn't hand Hamelet to a third grader."
Me: I should not, but I would.
I was X rank in splatoon 2 but I haven’t played splatoon in years. Now I’ve been getting back into a groove tho the game just feels different to me. I’m currently A- rank in 3. Def more of a casual player but I still have fun with it
I legitimately have like 600 hours of Turf War and like 5 hours of Ranked across the 3 Splatoon games. I'm sure I'm not alone. I just think Turf War is the most interesting mode.
All of Splatoon's modes have their roots in modes from other Arena Shooters. Turf War is Team Deathmatch, Splat Zones is King of the Hill / Domination, Rainmaker is Capture the Flag, Tower Control is Payload, and Clam Blitz is Bombing Run from UT2004. It always amazes me that the Splatoon community thinks that Turf War is not a legitimate mode, and something like Rainmaker is. If you suggested that CTF was more skill-based than TDM in most games you'd be laughed at. The primary complaint seems to focus around Turf War's volatility, but realistically that's a problem that's easily solved by just running more games in a set, which isn't a big deal because Turf War games are fast. You could run a Turf War BO7 in the time it would take to do a single competitive Overwatch match. Ultimately even though you can steal games sometimes the best team usually wins and in a longer set the potential for big upsets is small. Realistically though, people's opinion of the mode is almost certainly just based on the fact that Ranked Turf War isn't available. Gem's point about how there's far more information out there from the competitive community about the other modes, especially outside of Japan is a valid one. However, there's also no shortage of top level Japanese players playing Turf War and they are certainly not worse than C-Rank players.
Hopefully for Splatoon 4 Nintendo will finally add ranked mode for Turf War (and unranked mode for all of the other modes, for people who want that). I was actually kind of surprised we didn't get it this time around.
My family and I really appreciate this content. Am I going to be on a competitive team? No. Am I playing better, and not getting frustrated? Yes. I really appreciate and enjoy these videos.
19:22 You might have just convinced me to get TikTok
I always felt that my skill mechanically is lacking and started strategizing against my opponents since I lack elsewhere
Not me thinking I now have an excuse for getting annihilated lately as a B+ rank player before realizing this video is from 9 months ago 💀
Previous to Splatoon 3 I never played any game that was even remotely hectic except for Mario Kart. So staying with the story mode is my preference atm. Maybe it's fun for me because I am so bad at the game. But I guess as long as I emjoy the game, there's not really a "wrong way" to play a game I paid for.
Oh wow, I was apparently on the opposite team from you in that second clam blitz match.
I jumped in ranked battles for the first like 2 days, it was chaos, I was seeing top level players, and I was shitting and farting. I was absolutely done with trying to mess with that, and was constantly losing. I never made it passed A and S rank in splatoon 2, and I swear that was sheer luck, and just constantly playing, I am not actually good at the game. I decided, I'll return to ranked once all the maniac high level players were sorted out of the main pool. And I tried to jump in today and felt a lot a better just being 3 weeks out, still players who were way to good to be playing in B ranked battles but like not everyone buys the game at launch, so it made sense they hadn't gotten filtered out yet if they just got the game a few days ago. But I think things well get more settled with time. Nintendo really fucked us over though and demotivated me to play ranked the first few weeks.
I had a splat 2 safe file on c- and then that switch broke. In my new one i didnt even reach level 10. And in 3 for some reason it unlocked the anarchy battles instantly. It was painful.
Thanks!
I once got matched against kyo on the first day, and after 45 seconds of hard fought battle I got dabbed on
Hey gem I’ve been loving ur videos since this channel was bravous esports. I was just wondering if you have any tips on getting into comp while in high school, since I wouldn’t be able to play in scrims or tourneys during the weekday. I wa stinking it might be worth it to just wait till summer, but I wanted an opinion from someone who’s actually in comp and understands how much of a time commitment it is.
Btw I was wondering what you would deem my hypothetical LUTI div as a splatoon 2 x2350 player and now s+4 in 3 but rising rapidly. I have no prior comp experience so if that is a factor please tell me. Anyways I love your content, you’ve done so much to get competition casuals actually into comp, so I wanted to thank you for that.
very first x rank match i did i got matched up with starburst lmao