“All of these players are massive nerds with well organized brains and fast fingers who play this game more than the average person would consider healthy” my new favorite quote

If I had to say one thing. A "flex" is good at most weapons. But being good at one weapon in every class to me is what I call a "joker" and it absolutely while not the most optimal is definitely rewarding to feel like you make progress and all you needed to do was switch it up for the day. Some days I do stamper, some I do Nova and some I do flingza, etc. It depends on what feels good that day

Weapon pool.
shows a literal pool with weapons

This made my day. Other than that joke, a weapon pool helped me cover situations and matchups I normally couldn't play well on. Thanks for sharing this, Gem.

as a low level player who plays everything from the dapples to the e-liter, choosing a main is really hard! they're all fun and i'd rather change up my play style than play something that got boring 100 hours ago. i do agree with everything in this video, in theory at least, but having fun with the game is definitely more important to me than getting wins.

I always get a bit burned out right before splatfests and then use splatfest to just play a lot of different fun weapons because my main isn't great on turf, but I'm starting to get back into the swing of things and the biggest thing I had to learn was not to just play other weapons when it wasn't my perfect rotation. I just play every rotation with my main and it's helped me improve a LOT.

If I trust my skills in the map mode for series, I just play series, but if I'm unsure about it, instead of just switching weapons, I just play open for that rotation, and it helps me improve with my weapon without having to risk points or worry about wins/losses

Hey Gem, have you covered the S curve of learning? I think it might be a good visual aid for squids that want to progress and understand where they might land on the graph and how hard it is to make improvements near the top. It’s a quick progression to the sweet spot, but that last 10% or so is hard, but rewarding. Anyways, cheers (I am nowhere near the top btw).

I like playing a variety weapons . Part of the reason is I get bored with the weapon after a while .

Of course that is probably far from optimal as Gem stated . But right now I focus on 4 weapon classes
Chargers- Splatterscope/Eliter
Splatana - Wiper/Stamper
Shooters-Splash/Ttek
Dualies- Tetra

Bit of overlap in the roles of Dualies and tetra. Shooter for consistency and chargers because it’s my favorite class and is a backliner.

0:57 Robots who desire only victory - that's us.

Every weapon has at least a good niche at some skill level. Aerospray's paint support is great and its inaccuracy with high fire rate great when everyone sucks at aiming, but falls off later. Then there's the tri-stringer that really needs a lot of mechanical skill to be effective in pvp.

Also a bit after chill season started, I can really see the letter ranks tell more about what skill level you are at. B was hard before but definitely worth a B rank now, and A gets tougher but still not as difficult as B before chill season (it's not just me getting better I had splat 2)

I’m an Octobrush main. I easily worked my way through A & S up to S+ in the first season, getting top kills in 90% of matches, but things got pretty rough in season 2. I couldn’t Ninja swim to the enemies and get an instant team wipe so easily anymore. They got better. And after 10 tries to get S+ I got annoyed and picked up Splash. I wasn’t proud, but it worked. Still an Octobrush main in my heart, but I might variate to some weapons with a little bit more range.

For me I switch weapons often because if I didn’t I would not be able to play the game as long. This is one of the reasons I like this game because if I get into a rut I can just switch weapons. This probably doesn’t help in the long run but in the short term it feels good.

You see, I'm bizarre. I mained E-Liter for about a year in the second game. Then I mained tetras for a while. Now I play Tri stringer, Pencil, Tetras, Liter, Wiper, to some extent Stamper, Octobrush, to some extent bucket, and I will sometimes play other stuff too. Yeah I both play the most stationary, least aggressive stuff in the game and both good qr weapons. I am a bizarre, very ADHD creature.

I have been playing brush since I picked up the game, I still brached out a LOT, though. I have experience in nearly every weapon class. but recently, I have been trying to narrow my weapon pool. I think I'll go for rollers and dualies (in addition to brushes). gives me enough variety to be flexible but still similar enough in playstyle. ty gem!

I agree with this video but I will continue being a flex, because while some people play to get better, I play to get holo stickers for every weapon so I can make them fight each other in an epic mural inside my locker

Just play a couple of weapons you have the most fun playing. If you have fun playing them then that's the weapon you should play.

Perfect breakdown

you have a really formidable skill of putting out a video that answers the questions my baby comp team was just asking ourselves the day before 😂 i think it's happened like 5 times now?? anyway great timing and I think I'm gonna try to properly stick to a couple of weapons now, despite so many being fun to play and try for extended periods of time it's absolutely ruining my skill with my main

im not a competitive player, nor do i have any urge to be, but despite that i still love watching your videos and often get very useful information out of them thats able to help me improve at the game. with this in mind there are some videos like this one that make me glad im sticking to casual, i have a small variety of mains but the main reason i use them is BECAUSE they all have a different play style, i enjoy changing up my strategy based on how i want to play, and if i find myself getting too aggressive/too passive for my weapon then just switching to a different one is a quick and enjoyable fix. knowing that this is going against having a weapon pool youre good with in two different ways, yeah, no wonder im stuck in s rank.

I have 3 main weapons, but i have found that getting to know different kinds of weapons can sometimes give you a new perspective on how to use your own. I have learned a lot of things from playing chargers as a dualie main, for example.

As a charger main I find Splatlings an easy jump. I main mostly e-liter and splat charger. I’ve been messing around with the heavy splatling and while there are some differences, like I can behave in a more aggressive fashion if I need to, I find that a lot of the evasive skills I’ve learned as a charger player are still applicable and the aim I’ve developed as a charger main has made the splatling super deadly in my hands. I like the heavy splatling though because it has a wave breaker like the e-liter and I know how to use that pretty well