Also: Salmon Run! Your momentum already gets canceled when you drop an egg in the basket when you're in inkling form, which is nice, but if you add sub strafing when you grab an egg, it makes the process of running them so much faster. And when it gets hectic, or when there are a lot of eggs to run, those split seconds really start to add up.
I love how you mentioned Salmon Run is a good place to practice painting feet to move on unpainted ground! This technique is so useful especially when all three teammates died and I am the only one alive with all the bosses chasing me after :) Btw Salmon Run is also useful to practice sub-strafing when you want to run eggs as fast as possible or dodge missiles from the Flyfish
thank you for making this!! just made s+ rank for the first time but i do notice i still walk and shoot quite a bit. this thorough explanation is great to keep in my head and practice!!
Super informative video, I really appreciate how you went throught the cons and pros of each weapon class as well as other strafing strategies, it really was missing from all the other guides so there was a lot of guessing and practicing from there. Good job!
The nautilus can save its charge. If you press ZR before pressing ZL, you'll keep whatever charge you had saved up. I'd say this weapon can technically main strafe effectively.
Yes, that is one part of this video that I present inaccurately; I put it in the description and pinned it in a comment. I wouldn't say it can main strafe as well as, say, an N-Zap, it's a lot slower and less maneuverable than that, but it's still more effective than it is as I present it.
"This sort of violates the laws of thermodynamics, and may bring about the heat death of the Inkling universe more rapidly - but, squid go zoom." - Gem
02:56 - Confirmed. I just tested all 50 non-Rainmaker/Salmon-Run (brings total up to 55) weapons in the game, not counting variants. Although, main strafing and sub-strafing is not useful with chargers and the Nautilus (ms is slow with this one) with the exception of the Goo Tuber (you can abuse main strafing with how fast is it, it's insane).
@@SquidSchool Well, I knew I heard somewhere that all weapons cannot main strafe, but I could not remember if all of them could substrafe. As soon as I heard 02:56, I stopped what I was doing and had to test this. Now, would that technique that you mentioned for Clam Blitz work with Power Clams as well?
when using naut you can cancel firing into charge. since you can also store partial charges with naut, you can pop out of the ink, shoot, hold ZR again, go back into the ink instantly and store the remaining charge, then move and pop out again (probably with a jump since naut doesn't get extra air rng and it lets it hold momentum), then fire. main downside is that for every charge storing weapon with the exception of goo tuber, popping out of ink with a charge puts you into a bit of lag.
That salmon run tip I completely agree on it’s really helpful unless the weapon rotation has a roller. Really helpful video has usual I seen a lot of shooter players use this method. Rainmaker my least favorite mod cause I don’t know how to use the the dang thing.
Yeah, Salmon Run will force you to learn the different movement options used by weapons you may not care to play. I seem to recall you get to choose if you play it in LAN mode though? Don't quote me on that but that might be an option
@@SquidSchool I had a super-long comment describing in extreme detail how much your "How to get out of _ rank" series has helped me, but I lost it and can't remember it! D:
@@SquidSchool Hey bravo it’s only been a week but just know i reached my final x in rm!! tysm for the videos u make they helped me out alot in this journey!
When I was smurfing through the lower ranks for the Ranked series, I would get lazy sometimes and stop strafing during fights, and I got splatted for it constantly. It's so important to do habitually
@@SquidSchool yeah. Ngl, I used to not do it, cause 1. I didn't know it was a thing, and 2. I didn't think it was needed. I got X rank in tower and didn't strafed once, which is impressive, but thinking back on it, I was like, I probably would be killed so much if I did that more, so I just learned it lol
Nautilus charge you don’t have to have a full charge to hold it, it can be any amount. You are even able to shoot half your charge, press Zr to hold it then swim with the remainder still stored. Edit: I see someone else already noticed and commented
3:05 This exact point also applies to the Beakon, in case it wasn't obvious - I've actually used sub-strafing in a match before while having beakons (but ofc it wasn't in an engagement I just wanted to turn around fast lol)
i dont think they would ever patch sub or main strafing because that stuff is like. kind of expected for the game to do even if you dont know how to explicitly exploit it. im a low level player and i still like to be able to retreat quickly in the other direction after swimming up to someone and pulling the trigger. it would feel bad if they added a delay to compensate. wavedashing is significantly less fundamental and more realistic to patch without ruining the feel of the game
If you do want to improve, consistent, thoughtful practice is how you get there. Don't just play the game, actively think after every game about how you're going to approach the next game better. Don't look at your skill in the game as a measure of your worth as a person or something, it's fine for your friend to be better at the game than you. If you're interested in some coaching to maybe give you some goals to work toward, DM me on the Bravous Community Discord and we can do an episode of Squid School with you!
To bad L-3 and H-3 have a much longer shot strafe making it weaker in comparison to a Kshot’s shot-strafe or any other non burst fire shot-strafe. This is compensated by mpu damage up and the ability to 1 burst a guy. Killing them before they can aim Edit:fixed a grammatical error
Moving at a right angle from the direction they're aiming is good for throwing their aim off, and jumping can mess their aim up, but if it's too obvious a pattern, strong players will catch on and it'll probably stop working. If by "around them" you mean you're crossing them up, that's really strong, provided your weapon wants to be at short range against theirs.
@@SquidSchool I just went and played a few rounds and I move in a curve around them? My thumb is doing two things at once, clicking the b button and the bottom of the thumb moves the stick. I play handheld and I realized I look really strange playing lol
@@tangerine7068 I generally recommend using motion for engagements and only using sticks when you need to look around or when you need to add extra speed to your motion aiming, but if you aren't using motion or your sensitivity is low, that might be the only way you can adjust your aim while moving. Like I say in the video, you should also consider staying grounded and strafing depending on your weapon, because jumping is a big commitment and makes you an easier target in some ways.
@@SquidSchool yeah my usage of motion and the sticks are a bit messed up since I use too much of one rather then utilizing them both. And I need to work on my strafing more :)! Thank you so much!
You have a good point. As with many competitive players before me, the standard I hold myself to is pretty high. It can sound silly sometimes to hear a strong player talk about how they're "bad" but focusing on what they can improve on is the way they get better, and it can occupy so much of their headspace that they blow their errors out of proportion. If you compare me to a Japanese 2900 XP N-Zap player, yes this is bad aim. That's not exactly a favorable comparison for anyone to make, but it's what I'm working toward. But it's definitely not bad aim by most people's reckoning.
This gave me an idea. If that is bad aim for you and I perceive that as good aim I really need to train my aim to get good at this game. So now I'm just gonna head to the training room and only practise my aim until I never miss a shot.
@@zeldadude2040 splash, squeezer(though you need to also learn to mash) h-3, ballpoint, all chargers. I recommend no mpu h-3, as that's the most punishing
@@zeldadude2040 The bamboozler is pretty good because it has long range and good accuracy. Splash has perfect accuracy but it's shorter range, which may or may not be a good thing to get used to depending on your weapon. Splattershot pro and jet squelcher are also pretty decent. If you play a charger or roller or bucket or something else unique just practice with the weapon you play.
as a dynamo main, thanks for this important info, I'll start intergrating main strafing into my gameplay. edit: frick you went over it in the video my joke is ruined
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13:25 The nautilus can hold any charge, not just full.
Thanks, that wording is definitely misleading.
@@SquidSchool np :)
When I started playing naut, it took me forever to realize this because the weapon description is not great
@@Tempest193 Yeah, Sheldon makes the charge sound like that of a normal charger, but in reality it is more similar to the Goo Tubers Charge
Laws of physics: No! You can’t just make all of your moves go fast!
Every splatoon 2 player: haha squid go zoom
Also: Salmon Run! Your momentum already gets canceled when you drop an egg in the basket when you're in inkling form, which is nice, but if you add sub strafing when you grab an egg, it makes the process of running them so much faster. And when it gets hectic, or when there are a lot of eggs to run, those split seconds really start to add up.
Main strafing: When squidbagging becomes a legitimate movement technique.
Great stuff, I can already tell I'm gonna use some of this.
Yeah this is definitely the number one way to accidentally make a new player think you're being mean
I love how you mentioned Salmon Run is a good place to practice painting feet to move on unpainted ground! This technique is so useful especially when all three teammates died and I am the only one alive with all the bosses chasing me after :)
Btw Salmon Run is also useful to practice sub-strafing when you want to run eggs as fast as possible or dodge missiles from the Flyfish
Putting eggs in the basket is another strafing technique haha
This series taught me some some stuff that I didn't know strafing I learned a while ago but being a level 13 Star I still use this advice
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thank you for making this!! just made s+ rank for the first time but i do notice i still walk and shoot quite a bit. this thorough explanation is great to keep in my head and practice!!
It's a habit I still haven't rooted out perfectly myself
They pached something in that allowed mine weapons to sub strafe. It's here to stay, unless the new introduced tech replaces it
Imagine if there were dummies that jumped, it would look so funny
It'd be like in New Super Mario Bros. where at a certain point in the song all the enemies jump in time with the music
The disadvantages of jumping and shooting was something I never really knew, thanks! Gonna start practicing with the other strafing strategies ^___^
It can be good in some situations, but remember that we are squids, not bunnies.
Super informative video, I really appreciate how you went throught the cons and pros of each weapon class as well as other strafing strategies, it really was missing from all the other guides so there was a lot of guessing and practicing from there. Good job!
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The nautilus can save its charge. If you press ZR before pressing ZL, you'll keep whatever charge you had saved up. I'd say this weapon can technically main strafe effectively.
Yes, that is one part of this video that I present inaccurately; I put it in the description and pinned it in a comment. I wouldn't say it can main strafe as well as, say, an N-Zap, it's a lot slower and less maneuverable than that, but it's still more effective than it is as I present it.
"This sort of violates the laws of thermodynamics, and may bring about the heat death of the Inkling universe more rapidly - but, squid go zoom."
- Gem
02:56 - Confirmed. I just tested all 50 non-Rainmaker/Salmon-Run (brings total up to 55) weapons in the game, not counting variants. Although, main strafing and sub-strafing is not useful with chargers and the Nautilus (ms is slow with this one) with the exception of the Goo Tuber (you can abuse main strafing with how fast is it, it's insane).
We've got ourselves a lab monster haha, you're not taking anyone's word for anything
@@SquidSchool Well, I knew I heard somewhere that all weapons cannot main strafe, but I could not remember if all of them could substrafe. As soon as I heard 02:56, I stopped what I was doing and had to test this.
Now, would that technique that you mentioned for Clam Blitz work with Power Clams as well?
@@CobiaCrossink yep! Power clams need to stop your momentum for the same reason as regular clams
when using naut you can cancel firing into charge. since you can also store partial charges with naut, you can pop out of the ink, shoot, hold ZR again, go back into the ink instantly and store the remaining charge, then move and pop out again (probably with a jump since naut doesn't get extra air rng and it lets it hold momentum), then fire. main downside is that for every charge storing weapon with the exception of goo tuber, popping out of ink with a charge puts you into a bit of lag.
That salmon run tip I completely agree on it’s really helpful unless the weapon rotation has a roller. Really helpful video has usual I seen a lot of shooter players use this method. Rainmaker my least favorite mod cause I don’t know how to use the the dang thing.
Yeah, Salmon Run will force you to learn the different movement options used by weapons you may not care to play. I seem to recall you get to choose if you play it in LAN mode though? Don't quote me on that but that might be an option
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@@SquidSchool I had a super-long comment describing in extreme detail how much your "How to get out of _ rank" series has helped me, but I lost it and can't remember it! D:
@@SquidSchool Hey bravo it’s only been a week but just know i reached my final x in rm!! tysm for the videos u make they helped me out alot in this journey!
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"I may have broke the universe but squid go zoom"
It’s funny looking back at the strafing section now that we have squid rolls in Splat 3.
Just as I was trying to look into this tech, great timing and great video😤👍🏾
Thanks Hecka! Glad we could help you out!
This is something that has saved my butt so many times lol
When I was smurfing through the lower ranks for the Ranked series, I would get lazy sometimes and stop strafing during fights, and I got splatted for it constantly. It's so important to do habitually
@@SquidSchool yeah. Ngl, I used to not do it, cause 1. I didn't know it was a thing, and 2. I didn't think it was needed. I got X rank in tower and didn't strafed once, which is impressive, but thinking back on it, I was like, I probably would be killed so much if I did that more, so I just learned it lol
Thanks! I was tired to get splatted each time I went a certain direction and there was a bomb, and just as I start changing directions I die.
That is one of the best times to sub-strafe! Hopefully you'll start surviving more of those
Nautilus charge you don’t have to have a full charge to hold it, it can be any amount. You are even able to shoot half your charge, press Zr to hold it then swim with the remainder still stored.
Edit: I see someone else already noticed and commented
Your correction is correct; the naut is a pretty powerful weapon for it
3:05 This exact point also applies to the Beakon, in case it wasn't obvious - I've actually used sub-strafing in a match before while having beakons (but ofc it wasn't in an engagement I just wanted to turn around fast lol)
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Squid go zoom yaaass
Great video!
Appreciate your help with it!
Finally! Thank you!
Haha, have you been looking for a video on this?
"start strafing as soon as you miss a single shot" but then that doesn't solve the problem of never attacking my target?
You still can't sub strafe with ink mine and seekers in Splat 1 lol
Maybe it’s just me but the video is kinda low but great tips I’ll be sure to utilize these!
Yeah I noticed that too once it went live, might just boost everything a few decibels next time. Thanks
bro you went "so we can be best friends forever and ever" and then played DDLC music. ITS A TRAP
i dont think they would ever patch sub or main strafing because that stuff is like. kind of expected for the game to do even if you dont know how to explicitly exploit it. im a low level player and i still like to be able to retreat quickly in the other direction after swimming up to someone and pulling the trigger. it would feel bad if they added a delay to compensate. wavedashing is significantly less fundamental and more realistic to patch without ruining the feel of the game
I feel bad, i'm a lvl 54 A- splat zones and my friend is lvl 34 s+9 splat zones. What do I do???
If you do want to improve, consistent, thoughtful practice is how you get there. Don't just play the game, actively think after every game about how you're going to approach the next game better. Don't look at your skill in the game as a measure of your worth as a person or something, it's fine for your friend to be better at the game than you.
If you're interested in some coaching to maybe give you some goals to work toward, DM me on the Bravous Community Discord and we can do an episode of Squid School with you!
when would I rather sub-strafe instead of main-strafe?
With weapons with low fire rates like chargers or splatlings, you won't be able to fire quick enough for it to be viable
Think you can remake this for Splatoon 3 with its new tech?
Nintendo hire this man for Splatoon 3
I'm no game dev but if they wanted to consult on esports community management... :eyes:
To bad L-3 and H-3 have a much longer shot strafe making it weaker in comparison to a Kshot’s shot-strafe or any other non burst fire shot-strafe.
This is compensated by mpu damage up and the ability to 1 burst a guy. Killing them before they can aim
Edit:fixed a grammatical error
Yeah...if you could just stop firing those weapons whenever you wanted it would not be balanced
I tend to jump in a circle around the enemy while I shoot them. I have no idea why but it's just a habit
Moving at a right angle from the direction they're aiming is good for throwing their aim off, and jumping can mess their aim up, but if it's too obvious a pattern, strong players will catch on and it'll probably stop working. If by "around them" you mean you're crossing them up, that's really strong, provided your weapon wants to be at short range against theirs.
@@SquidSchool I just went and played a few rounds and I move in a curve around them? My thumb is doing two things at once, clicking the b button and the bottom of the thumb moves the stick. I play handheld and I realized I look really strange playing lol
@@tangerine7068 I generally recommend using motion for engagements and only using sticks when you need to look around or when you need to add extra speed to your motion aiming, but if you aren't using motion or your sensitivity is low, that might be the only way you can adjust your aim while moving. Like I say in the video, you should also consider staying grounded and strafing depending on your weapon, because jumping is a big commitment and makes you an easier target in some ways.
@@SquidSchool yeah my usage of motion and the sticks are a bit messed up since I use too much of one rather then utilizing them both. And I need to work on my strafing more :)! Thank you so much!
@@tangerine7068 No problem! Always happy to answer questions here or on our stream, Squid School.
I still can't figure out how to do it
Which one are you trying to do, sub-strafing or main-strafing?
That wasn't bad aim. Or it's just me...
You have a good point. As with many competitive players before me, the standard I hold myself to is pretty high. It can sound silly sometimes to hear a strong player talk about how they're "bad" but focusing on what they can improve on is the way they get better, and it can occupy so much of their headspace that they blow their errors out of proportion.
If you compare me to a Japanese 2900 XP N-Zap player, yes this is bad aim. That's not exactly a favorable comparison for anyone to make, but it's what I'm working toward. But it's definitely not bad aim by most people's reckoning.
This gave me an idea. If that is bad aim for you and I perceive that as good aim I really need to train my aim to get good at this game. So now I'm just gonna head to the training room and only practise my aim until I never miss a shot.
Is there any good weapon to practise aiming?
@@zeldadude2040 splash, squeezer(though you need to also learn to mash) h-3, ballpoint, all chargers. I recommend no mpu h-3, as that's the most punishing
@@zeldadude2040 The bamboozler is pretty good because it has long range and good accuracy. Splash has perfect accuracy but it's shorter range, which may or may not be a good thing to get used to depending on your weapon. Splattershot pro and jet squelcher are also pretty decent. If you play a charger or roller or bucket or something else unique just practice with the weapon you play.
as a dynamo main, thanks for this important info, I'll start intergrating main strafing into my gameplay.
edit: frick you went over it in the video my joke is ruined
I am nothing if not thorough
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okay real talk thank you a lot for these videos they're actively helping me improve
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He was a stray that somehow got up onto our 2nd floor window at 4am and woke us up meowing for the food he smelled inside. We named him Romeo because he came calling at our balcony.
@@SquidSchool that’s so cute! Romeo✨🤣
Man I wanna be this good but I keep getting bullied
It takes time to develop these habits; I'm still not always great about them myself. But the more you can apply them, the better you'll get.
The first one is outdated because of Splatoon 3