to think we went from "If the flick touches you, you are dead" to "actually theres a huge ass dead zone on the horizontal flick so you can stand in front of a fucking dynamo and come out unharmed"
They seemed to have fixed this in Splat3 if my experience in the testfire is any indication. The roller part during flicks actually has a hitbox now. It also paints muuuuuch better.
There's a little prehistoric bit of meta for you- back in the first Testfire, Roller blocked shots while rolling, like a proto-Brella. You could still splat them from the front if you aimed high, but back when nobody could aim straight it was a big problem, so people started complaining that rollers just rolling at you were impossible to beat.
“Discord didn’t exist yet.” I feel so old. I can’t believe I’ve been playing this game that long. Honestly everything being so broken and OP made Splatoon fun.
I find it so ironic how Splatoon 2 has had a long reputation for being much more balanced than Splatoon 1 and having a broader meta, only for the current Splatoon 2 meta to end up being so similar to early Splatoon 1, especially with K-52 basically being Splatoon 1 96 2.0. Like, obviously Splatoon 2 doesn't have crazy stuff like 1-shot indirects, roller flicks always being 1-shot, and stuff, but it does have many striking parallels now, especially with the Gals.
@@bubbaderp21cringeinitiatio6 96 got the best change it could've got in 2- instead of a literal "every fifth shot misses regardless" it had in 1, it now has almost perfect accuracy if you shoot in short bursts, becoming less of a suppressing fire weapon and more of a precision weapon. And it got Sploosh impacts so it can embrace mobility. All at cost of no invincibility special and things around it catching up with their inking.
if 52 got less painting (why did it even get more it’s supposed to be for damage) and wall could be dealt with without shooters or bombs then it would be fine
@@koveltskiis8391 i thought .52 was perfectly balanced before that fateful patch, painted alright and had terrible accuracy that would force you to get sploosh-range to hit your shots, but DESTROYED at that range
This really takes me back. I was there for the very early days of the first game. I got it within the first week of release, and even though my internet wasn’t very good at the time and I could barely play because of it, I knew of all this stuff. Rollers being able to damage without any ink, being able to throw 4 burst Bombs in a single tank, the E-Liter. Those were certainly wilder times.
Don’t forget, on release splatoon 1 didn’t even ranked at launch till a few days after because Nintendo wanted people to be level 10 to play ranked and they had this weird experiment where they wanted a specific amount to reach level ten before they released the patch that unlocked ranked which they reached day one
ah yea the tumblr ranked tank thingy where they’d count how many people reached lvl 10 and once the goal was reached it was added. don’t forget there was only 1 map in rotation too.
@@hola-gy8te this is late but I KNEW I wasnt crazy!! I was talking about this with my teammate telling him that not alot of people knew ranked wasnt even available day 1 and there was smthn on tumblr and I couldn’t ever find the post again, really happy im not the only person who remembers that. I remember getting level 10 day 1 and seeing the measage abt ranked. I dont quite remember what it said, but i swore it had something to do w tumblr
Also that originally level 20 was the max, they only increased it to 50 in August if I remember correctly, then never anymore, so it was very common to see level 20 before the patch and 50 afterwards.
Splatoon's release day was one of the most broken and ridiculous times of any game I've played. No one knew how to play, and this game felt like it was balanced over a lunchtime with too much alcohol. And it was glorious.
It was really weird how much Aerospray was used. Ink Mine + Strike is an awful kit on an awful weapon, I have no idea why me and so many others ran it lmao
It's actually a pretty decent kit, RG in 2 would kill to have something half as coherent. It was hilariously effective on TC, even amidst all the invincibility spam and QRSJ. S1 Aero was way more accurate too, especially after they made jump RNG the exact same as grounded RNG. The maps were smaller and most things not called Dynamo painted worse in 1 than in 2, so its inking was even more valuable back then. Aero actually paints a bit worse in 2, most weapons got more usable fill painting in 2 (Jr and Splash especially, they drench everything now, but even things like Pro got better) but Aero was always an impact inker so it's bothered more by loss of inking range that came with universal range reduction in S2.
Well, as someone that was there for early Sploon 1 where Turf War was the only mode, it had the uncontested best painting power in the game at the time (Sploosh wouldn't come till later), and very few people were using chargers or other dedicated slaying weapons (besides Krak-On and Forge Pro, but nobody had Forge Pro until a few days after launch), plus while Ink Mine is garbage doodoo butter, it had Inkstrike, which was the best special for painting, and could also be launched at the very end of the match for absolutely free points which often decided close games.
Ink Mine in S1 wasn't that bad, to be honest. In fact, I think it was great. I played RG again last year, and I kept getting random-ass kills because I decided to place them in mid at Ancho-V several times. Meanwhile, I was out there doing other things like getting turf for my team to push forward and (strangely enough) slaying.
Splatoon has an interesting meta history: Splatoon 1: 2-shot Gal with wall and panic special that can also protect you Splatoon 2: 2-shot Gal with wall and panic special that can also protect you Splatoon 3: 2-shot Gal with wall and panic special that can also protect.
The good old times back in the cats vs dogs splatfest where almost every match was a lockout on walleye and the old underpass. Literally one roller could gatekeep spawn on walleye and mid entrance on underpass.
Bruh. My favorite things were that you could put so much damage on a blaster that indirects killed and charger fired max range with partial charges with damage up so ppl were killing with like a half charge across the map
Oh and I remember there was a time after S and S+ were added that you could get lobbies ranging from A to S+ which meant there could be four S+ against two As and two S!
The early days of Splatoon were truly wild. But everything was so op back then and none of us knew what the hell we were doing so it was all fun and games.
Ah, those were the days. I remember my team was losing to the opposing team on Walleye Warehouse and I decided to go down the right corridor to try and get to the middle. Before I reached the corridor, there was one Kraken active. Our team was losing and we had less than 20 - 30 seconds left. For what reason I cannot remember, I decided to go back out of the corridor instead of going to the middle. When I came back,.... there were three Krakens active and wiping out team. Needless to say, that match did not go well. The memories.
This game is the reason why I still love to use the Krak-On roller. While a huge shadow of it’s former self, I still love beakons. Hugely underrated sub. I guess cause not many weapons that’s it’s distributed on can optimally run it. But I digress.
I barely even touched the sub-weapons; I pretty much picked the Krak-On roller bc A) rollers were the only weapon that didn't kill my wrists via motion control (once I turned it off things went SO MUCH smoother), and B) I thought the Kraken special was cool (I still want it back ;___;)
I've been really looking forward to the next meta history video for Splat2 but this was a welcome suprise! I hope you keep making more meta history videos for the OG splat also!! As someone who only started the original this year it's a nice insight into the past.
This is not necessarily related to the topic, but as I was watching it, this came to my mind. As someone who hasn't played Splatoon 1, it's amazing to watch the visual differences between the two games - the less saturated color scheme, the animations, heck, even how much more fluid the gameplay feels now on Splatoon 2. They kind of feel like different games to play (even not considering the weapon, specials, etc differences) and I bet this feeling is right. I am so excited to play Splatoon 3 on launch and nerd over those really small details. Compare it to Splatoon 2 and notice how different it was. Look back at Splatoon 2 after a few months and "holy shit I played that? I was used to those graphics?" It just sounds so fun.
Ah, Krak-On Roller, my beloved. Used to love playing with that absolute monster before they (understandably) nerfed it hard. I also don't really remember why Aerospray caught on but I think the in-game description said it's got the fastest paint output or something like that so perhaps everyone just assumed it was the best non-roller painting weapon and it just kinda caught on from there?
Splatoon 1 has always fascinated me with what stuff that got passed testing in the first release. It kinda reminds me of Gen 1 Pokemon. I remember getting this game on my birthday, and just having a great time with the game, even if I was just using the Aerospray RG, lol. It's slightly embarrassing to say that I pretty much used the RG through the entirety of Splatoon's lifetime, until around the time Splatoon 2 was first shown. The struggle of getting to S+ was real... It was the only weapon I reached with max turf on, so I guess I'm proud of that. But that's the time where I finally found my second main, in the CoroCoro Splat Roller. And now I'm juggling between those two, E-Liter, and a few other weapons as well, because I still play the game occasionally. (Incidentally, the CoroCoro is the reason why the Flingza Roller is my main in 2) Whenever I feel like I don't want to deal with the mess that is K52, Ink Armor and Missile spam, I'm glad I can just go back to a chaotic time where Stealth Jump was absurd, specials were a good kind of chaos, and where damage up... still kinda took over the meta. It feels like there's a certain... Energy in Splatoon 1 that you don't get in Splatoon 2, and it's why I keep coming back to it sometimes.
Man, I never got to see TC in that map (8:00). Also let's go Krak-on used to be broken, I've always liked meme weapons, and annoying weapons and having kraken on a roller always felt like the perfect combination of both
I've revisisted the original Splatoon and was surprised how different tower control works. Basically Splatoon 1 has no checkpoints but the tower goes faster to the point you've pushed to before I think that's a little better than the checkpoint system as everything in Splatoon 2 seems to revolve around the checkpoints and the one in 1 feels more natural and fluent to play Maybe addressing changes in modes and how the should be improved could be a topic for a video (if you haven't done that already)
as someone who actually never played splatoon 1 this is really interesting and also terrifying. the parallel with og 96g deco and k52 is astonishing. like someone else said in the comments I'm hoping I get splatoon 3 right around when it comes out because I'd love to watch the meta evolve from the beginning
It’s very funny to me that after all these years, I had no idea my favorite weapons and clothing abilities were meta at some point in time. The .96 Gal and the Gold Dynamo Roller were my absolute favorite guns that helped me get into S rank, and my favorite hat had Quick Respawn on it.
Damn, what a blast from the past. I remember being on SND and Tentacle Difficulties and experiencing this meta... pre-patch 96. gal deco was something to behold LOL.
The 96 Gal Deco meta was my fault all my enemies eventually caught on and consolidated my build into their entire teams build and the took it to ranked, sorry guys.
I didn't get Splatoon 1 until Christmas of 2015. It was my first shooter and I was so overwhelmed with the learning curve, but the game was so fun. I wish there was a way to set metas back to certain patches just for how bonkers some of them were.
Even as a teenager who didn't really play competitive games or know what metas were back when Splatoon first came out, seeing the Kraken and Bubble specials made me say "Wow! Why would you want any other special when you can just be invincible?" Seriously, who thought brief invincibility was a good idea? Especially with an ability like Kraken on launch!
man, i really was just the weird kid when i got the game huh? i never cared too much for them, and the specials i did like most were inkstrike and killer wail
Killer Wails, particularly on specific maps, were fantastic. If you coordinated them, you could easily lock down an objective or get a team wipe that was far more effective than 2 Krakens or 2 Bubblers.
I got the game after the final splatfest so I missed all the broken craziness, but just hearing about the madness of the first game brings a smile to my face
Was surprised to watch this and not see Sloshers brought up upon their addition. I remember using Tri-Slosher at launch and finding out just how absurd that weapon was all on my own. To this day from in Splat 2 & 3 I still see Tri just as relevant in the playerbase
Oh yeah I remember this shit. I was on +5/+5 E-liter in B rank missing shots and throwing burst bombs. I used to think inkstrike aerospray was busted because I didn't know you could paint over inkstrike. I distinctly remember loosing against quad aerospray on kelp dome zones because of that. Fun times lol
You might think I am crazy but I actually loved it. There's some charm to the lack of balance. Back then I never payed any attention to the internet or the "meta" or the stats/gear. I just played what I wanted and quickly rose to S rank as a kid. I was actually upset a little later when I found out what everyone hated with things like the arrow spray, I always thought that kind of weapon was mid but fun and wide for spreading paint
You're not crazy. I'm sad that I'll probably never think any of the sequels are as fun as the first game. And I feel exactly the same way about the aerospray.
@@stevenseufert2520 Well Splatoon 3 has been insanely fun and the best of both worlds so far, I don't know if you have played it. But it lives up to the original even if they all have little things to love about them. I still play Splatoon 1 occasionally since it's just insanely fun but I have been having the time of my life with 3 so far. I loved 2 too but there were some things I didn't like about it versus 1, but it also had Octo Expansion which is just 200/10.
@@willwunsche6940 I probably put in about 20 hours already over this release weekend. I play Splatoon 3 because at its core I just really love Splatoon. One of my biggest gripes is the problems I have aiming with the motion controls on the Switch games. The Wii U gamepad had superior motion controls compared to the Switch pro controller. The gamepad had 9 axes of motion sensing (3 axes from the gyroscope, 3 axes from the accelerometer, and 3 axes from a magnetometer) whereas the pro controller has 6 axes of sensing (gyroscope and accelerometer). I didn't have issues with the gamepad (and I recently tested it again this weekend just to make sure I wasn't misremembering). The gamepad had perfect syncing motion controls. In contrast, I have issues turning left/right properly on the pro controller (I've messed with the sensitivity controls plenty). I would usually win duels in the first game, but in the Switch games I'm dying all the time because of this problem. :(
@@stevenseufert2520 I totally agree with the input lag and motion controls being better on Wii U. Hopefully you are able to adapt and do better on Switch though. Remember just have fun We are living in a timeline where we get more Splatoon games and can play Splatoon on the go. I walked over to my friend's house every single day to play Splatoon pre and post launch and used money I had been saving up for +3 years to buy a Wii U despite knowing it was a dying console for Splatoon. The idea of playing Splatoon mobile and playing more Splatoon games is a dream come true to me. Even if it isn't perfect they significantly improved the motion controls on 3 versus 2 at least with what they can and the game is still incredible
I remember just cruising with the Bedazzled Heavy Splatling and the standard Heavy Splatling. I miss the inkstrike kit lol, I would spend days just dominating Moray Towers with it.
I played Splatoon 1 a long while ago. I never played Splatoon 2, but am currently loving Splatoon 3. And oh boy, what a wild west i never knew the splatoon 1 meta was
I remember the first day when It released my aunt bought me it and I was hella happy and went straight to my WII U and get on the game it was so exciting despites those major bugs it was so fun.
damn i'm so happy that having a 2 shot gal weapon with a panic button is behind us but we still get a 2 shot gal weapon that plays around splash wall. Hey let's check the new ki- time is a flat circle
This is so nostalgic! I was playing whwn I was 11, but trust that whwn I discovered chargers, E-Liters specifically, I could not get enough of the Kraken special. I was a kid rage quitting at falling through grates on Bluefin Depot, but I never thought the weapons themselves were too crazy ^^' looking back ir was WILD, I remember whwn Splatoon came out and finding myself disappointed with a lotta the special. But I came to appreciate the "balance" of it. Having played the Splatoon 3 global testfire, I cannot wait to see how people will use certain weapons/specials, I'm so pumped !
The main thing I remember from the first testfire and early game days was how OP rollers and krakons were, and how EVERYONE hated them. This video unlocked a lot of good nostalgia around that, those were good times.
Oh my god I remember everything from this video it's so nostalgic now... I remember hating krak-on roller and luna, stacking damage ups with e-liter and exploiting echolocator for burst bombs, everyone playing aerospray and 96 :")
I got splatoon right at launch, but that coincided with me getting horrendously sick. Thanks for clarifying that my experiences playing version 1 wasn’t a fever dream 😂
Time is indeed a flat circle especially that they added the 96 gal deco in splatoon 3 And now I’m gonna guess that they’ll add the kensa 52 gal in splatoon four with wall and “booyah nuke”
I remember to this day splatoon 1 had this VERY distinct "progression" to its weapons on launch where most of what you unlocked later was considered better than what you got early and you were seen as a hotshot. Aerospray beat splattershot pro beat splattershot beat jr, Dynamo beat carbon beat splat, e-liter beat charger beat squiffer. In splatfest particularly you were considered really cool if you had one of the gold weapons or a hero weapon that wasnt shot and EVERYONE ran those to look cool, right up to the last splatfest.
Excited to hear what the meta was when I was 11 years old painting the walls
lmaooo
Back when I thought the different kinds of weapons were "upgrades"...
You sound like a painter for attack on titan
I feel personally attacked
Same, I was in like 6th grade and cared more about looking cool than having good abilities, let alone know about the game's balance
to think we went from "If the flick touches you, you are dead" to "actually theres a huge ass dead zone on the horizontal flick so you can stand in front of a fucking dynamo and come out unharmed"
Mpu reverts this change, as a dynamo main I approve
@@averagefailboatenjoyer9940 nah it doesnt, it increases damage but it does not change ink spread
They seemed to have fixed this in Splat3 if my experience in the testfire is any indication. The roller part during flicks actually has a hitbox now. It also paints muuuuuch better.
@@Inhaledcorn This didnt age very well. 💀
There's a little prehistoric bit of meta for you- back in the first Testfire, Roller blocked shots while rolling, like a proto-Brella. You could still splat them from the front if you aimed high, but back when nobody could aim straight it was a big problem, so people started complaining that rollers just rolling at you were impossible to beat.
I swear a direct also told us the Dynamo can deflect shots when flinging
That's legitimately hilarious
@@PK-qh7uwYeah, I think it was the first one
So let's see:
S1 96d:
-wall
-2 shot kill
-survivability special
K52:
-wall
-2 shot kill
-survivability special
Mhm, checks out.
One more important feature they both share: A crap ton of painting power.
welp let's hope that this doesn't happen in splatoon 3
@@savageenderman202 I want the custom 52 to get a wall, 2 shot kill and survivability special in Splatoon 3
@@averagefailboatenjoyer9940 well it has a good chane
@@averagefailboatenjoyer9940 the classic already has a wall
one of the main reasons i want to get splatoon 3 as early as possible is to watch the meta evolve just like this
I just wanna be there for the splatfests lol
Oh boy Tri Slosher Meta the Third let‘s fucking GO
Me too
@@Zakal2 what do you mean the third?
@@hiotos8373 because every time Splatoon first introduced the Tri Slosher, it became a meta weapon until it got hit with some sort of nerf lmao
“Discord didn’t exist yet.” I feel so old. I can’t believe I’ve been playing this game that long. Honestly everything being so broken and OP made Splatoon fun.
The section when you talked about the .96 Gal Deco shows that history doesn't repeat itself, it just rhymes very frequently.
K A Y F I F T Y T W O
I find it so ironic how Splatoon 2 has had a long reputation for being much more balanced than Splatoon 1 and having a broader meta, only for the current Splatoon 2 meta to end up being so similar to early Splatoon 1, especially with K-52 basically being Splatoon 1 96 2.0. Like, obviously Splatoon 2 doesn't have crazy stuff like 1-shot indirects, roller flicks always being 1-shot, and stuff, but it does have many striking parallels now, especially with the Gals.
.96's aren't op anymore though atleast, well they are if the gun decides it wants to hit the guy you're aiming for
@@bubbaderp21cringeinitiatio6 96 got the best change it could've got in 2- instead of a literal "every fifth shot misses regardless" it had in 1, it now has almost perfect accuracy if you shoot in short bursts, becoming less of a suppressing fire weapon and more of a precision weapon. And it got Sploosh impacts so it can embrace mobility. All at cost of no invincibility special and things around it catching up with their inking.
if 52 got less painting (why did it even get more it’s supposed to be for damage) and wall could be dealt with without shooters or bombs then it would be fine
@@koveltskiis8391 i thought .52 was perfectly balanced before that fateful patch, painted alright and had terrible accuracy that would force you to get sploosh-range to hit your shots, but DESTROYED at that range
This really takes me back. I was there for the very early days of the first game. I got it within the first week of release, and even though my internet wasn’t very good at the time and I could barely play because of it, I knew of all this stuff. Rollers being able to damage without any ink, being able to throw 4 burst Bombs in a single tank, the E-Liter. Those were certainly wilder times.
Don’t forget, on release splatoon 1 didn’t even ranked at launch till a few days after because Nintendo wanted people to be level 10 to play ranked and they had this weird experiment where they wanted a specific amount to reach level ten before they released the patch that unlocked ranked which they reached day one
ah yea the tumblr ranked tank thingy where they’d count how many people reached lvl 10 and once the goal was reached it was added. don’t forget there was only 1 map in rotation too.
@@hola-gy8te this is late but I KNEW I wasnt crazy!! I was talking about this with my teammate telling him that not alot of people knew ranked wasnt even available day 1 and there was smthn on tumblr and I couldn’t ever find the post again, really happy im not the only person who remembers that. I remember getting level 10 day 1 and seeing the measage abt ranked. I dont quite remember what it said, but i swore it had something to do w tumblr
Also that originally level 20 was the max, they only increased it to 50 in August if I remember correctly, then never anymore, so it was very common to see level 20 before the patch and 50 afterwards.
@@TheFrantastic I actually got up to level 20 just a few hours before they released the patch and beefed the maximum to 50. Wild times.
Splatoon's release day was one of the most broken and ridiculous times of any game I've played. No one knew how to play, and this game felt like it was balanced over a lunchtime with too much alcohol. And it was glorious.
It was really weird how much Aerospray was used. Ink Mine + Strike is an awful kit on an awful weapon, I have no idea why me and so many others ran it lmao
It's actually a pretty decent kit, RG in 2 would kill to have something half as coherent. It was hilariously effective on TC, even amidst all the invincibility spam and QRSJ.
S1 Aero was way more accurate too, especially after they made jump RNG the exact same as grounded RNG. The maps were smaller and most things not called Dynamo painted worse in 1 than in 2, so its inking was even more valuable back then. Aero actually paints a bit worse in 2, most weapons got more usable fill painting in 2 (Jr and Splash especially, they drench everything now, but even things like Pro got better) but Aero was always an impact inker so it's bothered more by loss of inking range that came with universal range reduction in S2.
@@TheLaXandro well, even if the main weapon wasn’t the bad, the kit sure was.
Well, as someone that was there for early Sploon 1 where Turf War was the only mode, it had the uncontested best painting power in the game at the time (Sploosh wouldn't come till later), and very few people were using chargers or other dedicated slaying weapons (besides Krak-On and Forge Pro, but nobody had Forge Pro until a few days after launch), plus while Ink Mine is garbage doodoo butter, it had Inkstrike, which was the best special for painting, and could also be launched at the very end of the match for absolutely free points which often decided close games.
Ink Mine in S1 wasn't that bad, to be honest. In fact, I think it was great. I played RG again last year, and I kept getting random-ass kills because I decided to place them in mid at Ancho-V several times. Meanwhile, I was out there doing other things like getting turf for my team to push forward and (strangely enough) slaying.
@@lazdahuman Are you sure? S1 Ink Mine is literally the worst sub this game series has ever seen
Just wanted to post to laugh that the 96 gal is back with the EXACT same kit in Splatoon 3 as of yesterday.
Splatoon has an interesting meta history:
Splatoon 1: 2-shot Gal with wall and panic special that can also protect you
Splatoon 2: 2-shot Gal with wall and panic special that can also protect you
Splatoon 3: 2-shot Gal with wall and panic special that can also protect.
2:52 Welp it seems Nintendo forgot their lesson and we're back with panic Zooka.
The good old times back in the cats vs dogs splatfest where almost every match was a lockout on walleye and the old underpass. Literally one roller could gatekeep spawn on walleye and mid entrance on underpass.
Dude Splatoon had such a great soundtrack. I miss that game. Great video brother.
Bruh. My favorite things were that you could put so much damage on a blaster that indirects killed and charger fired max range with partial charges with damage up so ppl were killing with like a half charge across the map
Oh and I remember there was a time after S and S+ were added that you could get lobbies ranging from A to S+ which meant there could be four S+ against two As and two S!
The early days of Splatoon were truly wild. But everything was so op back then and none of us knew what the hell we were doing so it was all fun and games.
Ah, those were the days. I remember my team was losing to the opposing team on Walleye Warehouse and I decided to go down the right corridor to try and get to the middle. Before I reached the corridor, there was one Kraken active. Our team was losing and we had less than 20 - 30 seconds left. For what reason I cannot remember, I decided to go back out of the corridor instead of going to the middle. When I came back,.... there were three Krakens active and wiping out team. Needless to say, that match did not go well. The memories.
8:30 aged horribly
This game is the reason why I still love to use the Krak-On roller. While a huge shadow of it’s former self, I still love beakons. Hugely underrated sub. I guess cause not many weapons that’s it’s distributed on can optimally run it. But I digress.
I barely even touched the sub-weapons; I pretty much picked the Krak-On roller bc A) rollers were the only weapon that didn't kill my wrists via motion control (once I turned it off things went SO MUCH smoother), and B) I thought the Kraken special was cool (I still want it back ;___;)
Y'know it's these videos that remind me that I'm not imagining things, I really either had it better back then or had full right to rage
someday chara's gonna cover splatoon 3 metas and talk about the sloshing machine and i'm glad to have been in this period of time xDD
I've been really looking forward to the next meta history video for Splat2 but this was a welcome suprise! I hope you keep making more meta history videos for the OG splat also!! As someone who only started the original this year it's a nice insight into the past.
yea I want to cover the rest from 1 and 2 before 3 comes out. 1-2 episodes for S1 and 2-3 for S2 are planned rn.
@@ProChara 2-3 for S2? I thought you were going to talk about 4.0s and then 5.0 up to now.
@@halloweenpeachy 4.0 goes to 4.9 so I might need 2 episodes for it thats 10 patches
This is not necessarily related to the topic, but as I was watching it, this came to my mind. As someone who hasn't played Splatoon 1, it's amazing to watch the visual differences between the two games - the less saturated color scheme, the animations, heck, even how much more fluid the gameplay feels now on Splatoon 2. They kind of feel like different games to play (even not considering the weapon, specials, etc differences) and I bet this feeling is right. I am so excited to play Splatoon 3 on launch and nerd over those really small details. Compare it to Splatoon 2 and notice how different it was. Look back at Splatoon 2 after a few months and "holy shit I played that? I was used to those graphics?"
It just sounds so fun.
so how did it go? lol
@@dooplon5083 amazing!! The new animation, the amazing UI updates, and how different everything feels.. I could nerd about it for hours
@@Zenala Yeah, I love how this feels! My current mains are the aerospray and reef-lux (the new stringer class is so fun lol), what are you running?
only zones - what heaven what a perfect game
and then they unleashed rainmaker
“Time is a flat circle”
Me: Looks at a clock
Yep.
Me: *Looks at a digital clock.*
"Nope"
Ah, Krak-On Roller, my beloved. Used to love playing with that absolute monster before they (understandably) nerfed it hard.
I also don't really remember why Aerospray caught on but I think the in-game description said it's got the fastest paint output or something like that so perhaps everyone just assumed it was the best non-roller painting weapon and it just kinda caught on from there?
war flashbacks. i almost quit because of the 125 blaster indirects lol. The old .96 was so insane, I miss it
Splatoon 1 has always fascinated me with what stuff that got passed testing in the first release. It kinda reminds me of Gen 1 Pokemon. I remember getting this game on my birthday, and just having a great time with the game, even if I was just using the Aerospray RG, lol. It's slightly embarrassing to say that I pretty much used the RG through the entirety of Splatoon's lifetime, until around the time Splatoon 2 was first shown. The struggle of getting to S+ was real... It was the only weapon I reached with max turf on, so I guess I'm proud of that. But that's the time where I finally found my second main, in the CoroCoro Splat Roller. And now I'm juggling between those two, E-Liter, and a few other weapons as well, because I still play the game occasionally. (Incidentally, the CoroCoro is the reason why the Flingza Roller is my main in 2)
Whenever I feel like I don't want to deal with the mess that is K52, Ink Armor and Missile spam, I'm glad I can just go back to a chaotic time where Stealth Jump was absurd, specials were a good kind of chaos, and where damage up... still kinda took over the meta. It feels like there's a certain... Energy in Splatoon 1 that you don't get in Splatoon 2, and it's why I keep coming back to it sometimes.
Man, I never got to see TC in that map (8:00). Also let's go Krak-on used to be broken, I've always liked meme weapons, and annoying weapons and having kraken on a roller always felt like the perfect combination of both
I've revisisted the original Splatoon and was surprised how different tower control works. Basically Splatoon 1 has no checkpoints but the tower goes faster to the point you've pushed to before
I think that's a little better than the checkpoint system as everything in Splatoon 2 seems to revolve around the checkpoints and the one in 1 feels more natural and fluent to play
Maybe addressing changes in modes and how the should be improved could be a topic for a video (if you haven't done that already)
as someone who actually never played splatoon 1 this is really interesting and also terrifying. the parallel with og 96g deco and k52 is astonishing. like someone else said in the comments I'm hoping I get splatoon 3 right around when it comes out because I'd love to watch the meta evolve from the beginning
But now it's even worse because every weapon is just a downgraded version of the ones in splatoon 1.
It’s very funny to me that after all these years, I had no idea my favorite weapons and clothing abilities were meta at some point in time. The .96 Gal and the Gold Dynamo Roller were my absolute favorite guns that helped me get into S rank, and my favorite hat had Quick Respawn on it.
I always ran an aerospray and would hard carry my team. Apparently it was hated on the internet? I didn't know, since I've never used Reddit.
8:06 Ah yes, when wall could just pass through the tower.
i love these meta rewinds. i didnt pay alot of attention in splatoon 1 so i barely remember any of this
Damn, what a blast from the past. I remember being on SND and Tentacle Difficulties and experiencing this meta... pre-patch 96. gal deco was something to behold LOL.
I remember watchin ur team a back, hope u enjoyed the nostalgia trip
The 96 Gal Deco meta was my fault all my enemies eventually caught on and consolidated my build into their entire teams build and the took it to ranked, sorry guys.
I didn't get Splatoon 1 until Christmas of 2015. It was my first shooter and I was so overwhelmed with the learning curve, but the game was so fun. I wish there was a way to set metas back to certain patches just for how bonkers some of them were.
Just now realizing how I never adapted to sploon 2 meta and still make all my decisions based on sploon1 experience.
TIME IS A FLAT CIRCLE
I love these meta videos, keep them coming!!! :)
7:50 well This aged well
Guess what is splatoon 3 it’s back with the SAME kit!!
The custom deco .96
Even as a teenager who didn't really play competitive games or know what metas were back when Splatoon first came out, seeing the Kraken and Bubble specials made me say "Wow! Why would you want any other special when you can just be invincible?" Seriously, who thought brief invincibility was a good idea? Especially with an ability like Kraken on launch!
man, i really was just the weird kid when i got the game huh? i never cared too much for them, and the specials i did like most were inkstrike and killer wail
Killer Wails, particularly on specific maps, were fantastic. If you coordinated them, you could easily lock down an objective or get a team wipe that was far more effective than 2 Krakens or 2 Bubblers.
I got the game after the final splatfest so I missed all the broken craziness, but just hearing about the madness of the first game brings a smile to my face
hearing “time is a flat circle” as 96 deco becomes meta in Splatoon 3
Was surprised to watch this and not see Sloshers brought up upon their addition. I remember using Tri-Slosher at launch and finding out just how absurd that weapon was all on my own. To this day from in Splat 2 & 3 I still see Tri just as relevant in the playerbase
Oh yeah I remember this shit. I was on +5/+5 E-liter in B rank missing shots and throwing burst bombs. I used to think inkstrike aerospray was busted because I didn't know you could paint over inkstrike. I distinctly remember loosing against quad aerospray on kelp dome zones because of that.
Fun times lol
History repeats itself
Now we have a broken crab aswell...
and here we are, a good year later with in march 2023 for the comeback of the .96 Gal Deco 💀
as i said yesterday, roller hitboxes were always broken
the only difference is that now they're just broken in a very sad way
people that joined in later games have no idea of the DEMONS we were fighting back then
I have come from the future to tell you that time truly is a flat circle. 96 gal deco comes back in the 3rd game with wall and kraken.
You might think I am crazy but I actually loved it. There's some charm to the lack of balance. Back then I never payed any attention to the internet or the "meta" or the stats/gear. I just played what I wanted and quickly rose to S rank as a kid. I was actually upset a little later when I found out what everyone hated with things like the arrow spray, I always thought that kind of weapon was mid but fun and wide for spreading paint
I just liked how it looked in silver too
You're not crazy. I'm sad that I'll probably never think any of the sequels are as fun as the first game. And I feel exactly the same way about the aerospray.
@@stevenseufert2520 Well Splatoon 3 has been insanely fun and the best of both worlds so far, I don't know if you have played it. But it lives up to the original even if they all have little things to love about them. I still play Splatoon 1 occasionally since it's just insanely fun but I have been having the time of my life with 3 so far. I loved 2 too but there were some things I didn't like about it versus 1, but it also had Octo Expansion which is just 200/10.
@@willwunsche6940 I probably put in about 20 hours already over this release weekend. I play Splatoon 3 because at its core I just really love Splatoon.
One of my biggest gripes is the problems I have aiming with the motion controls on the Switch games. The Wii U gamepad had superior motion controls compared to the Switch pro controller. The gamepad had 9 axes of motion sensing (3 axes from the gyroscope, 3 axes from the accelerometer, and 3 axes from a magnetometer) whereas the pro controller has 6 axes of sensing (gyroscope and accelerometer). I didn't have issues with the gamepad (and I recently tested it again this weekend just to make sure I wasn't misremembering). The gamepad had perfect syncing motion controls. In contrast, I have issues turning left/right properly on the pro controller (I've messed with the sensitivity controls plenty). I would usually win duels in the first game, but in the Switch games I'm dying all the time because of this problem. :(
@@stevenseufert2520 I totally agree with the input lag and motion controls being better on Wii U. Hopefully you are able to adapt and do better on Switch though. Remember just have fun
We are living in a timeline where we get more Splatoon games and can play Splatoon on the go. I walked over to my friend's house every single day to play Splatoon pre and post launch and used money I had been saving up for +3 years to buy a Wii U despite knowing it was a dying console for Splatoon. The idea of playing Splatoon mobile and playing more Splatoon games is a dream come true to me. Even if it isn't perfect they significantly improved the motion controls on 3 versus 2 at least with what they can and the game is still incredible
6:38 WHEN CHARA WHEN
2:56 they seems familiar
Ah Splatoon 1, the uncut cocaine of the series.
The pure agony in your voice when you say “Time is a flat circle…” 😢
I remember just cruising with the Bedazzled Heavy Splatling and the standard Heavy Splatling. I miss the inkstrike kit lol, I would spend days just dominating Moray Towers with it.
I guess I really didn't play much of 2 comp because this meta is what I remember from Splatoon in general
Man, these were nostalgic (and rage inducing) times^^
I played Splatoon 1 a long while ago. I never played Splatoon 2, but am currently loving Splatoon 3. And oh boy, what a wild west i never knew the splatoon 1 meta was
from what i remember in the early stages of the game it was a rush to get the krak on splat roller and just destroy people with kraken
Never in my life have I been so… awestruck by something.
YES, we need more videos like this! Great job
It's like having war flashbacks
I remember the first day when It released my aunt bought me it and I was hella happy and went straight to my WII U and get on the game it was so exciting despites those major bugs it was so fun.
damn i'm so happy that having a 2 shot gal weapon with a panic button is behind us but we still get a 2 shot gal weapon that plays around splash wall.
Hey let's check the new ki-
time is a flat circle
6:18
Saddest day of my Roller main life. I pray one day rollers get their consistent and buff hitboxes, but tone down the damage a bit for balance.
Watch this back made me realise how weird it is seeing kraken after kraken royale was released in 3. Royale is so much bigger.
This is so nostalgic! I was playing whwn I was 11, but trust that whwn I discovered chargers, E-Liters specifically, I could not get enough of the Kraken special. I was a kid rage quitting at falling through grates on Bluefin Depot, but I never thought the weapons themselves were too crazy ^^' looking back ir was WILD, I remember whwn Splatoon came out and finding myself disappointed with a lotta the special. But I came to appreciate the "balance" of it. Having played the Splatoon 3 global testfire, I cannot wait to see how people will use certain weapons/specials, I'm so pumped !
This video is very well constructed and I had a blast watching. Keep it up!
Looked at some other vids, now I’m definitely subbing
Ngl I do kinda miss splatoon being broken and chaotic when it first came out.
Bro I was 6 when this came out and remember using the worst weapons
i was like 7-8 when this first came out, so cool to hear about half of these
4:19 IM LITERALLY JUST COMMENTING TO SAY I GUESSED THIS PERFECTLY
The main thing I remember from the first testfire and early game days was how OP rollers and krakons were, and how EVERYONE hated them. This video unlocked a lot of good nostalgia around that, those were good times.
How did I missed this video? This is good one.
Man, the meta is crazy and all but all that footage made me miss saltspray rig super badly wwww one of my favourite charger maps back then
Great video but forgot the monstrosities that were ninja squid and stealth jump at the very beginning of the game
Oh my god I remember everything from this video it's so nostalgic now... I remember hating krak-on roller and luna, stacking damage ups with e-liter and exploiting echolocator for burst bombs, everyone playing aerospray and 96 :")
I got splatoon right at launch, but that coincided with me getting horrendously sick. Thanks for clarifying that my experiences playing version 1 wasn’t a fever dream 😂
Time is indeed a flat circle especially that they added the 96 gal deco in splatoon 3
And now I’m gonna guess that they’ll add the kensa 52 gal in splatoon four with wall and “booyah nuke”
Seeing all my old buddies in the footage made me happy
u need to upload again
I never played splatoon 1, I started on splatoon 2 towards the launch of splatoon 3, it's interesting to see what was and what was lost over time.
I played krak-on in the beginning of Splatoon, it was so broken, but really fun back then
Splat 1 music is a nice touch
Splatoon 1 was introduced to me by a friend, and it was the first video game I played. This thing is bound to my childhood.
8:45 LOOK! IT'S A SUCTION BOMB THAT DOESN'T HAVE INDIRECT DAMAGE THAT KILLS YOU FROM 3000 METERS AWAY.
Man I'm old, I can still picture what these weapons look like in my head, haha
Brought back so many memories I forgot about so many nightmares
I remember to this day splatoon 1 had this VERY distinct "progression" to its weapons on launch where most of what you unlocked later was considered better than what you got early and you were seen as a hotshot. Aerospray beat splattershot pro beat splattershot beat jr, Dynamo beat carbon beat splat, e-liter beat charger beat squiffer. In splatfest particularly you were considered really cool if you had one of the gold weapons or a hero weapon that wasnt shot and EVERYONE ran those to look cool, right up to the last splatfest.
I just love the exasperation: "Time is a flat circlllllllleeeeee......."
All I remember is ZackScott used Krak-On Splat Roller when the game launched ahahhaah
I have no clue about meta stuff in 2 but 1 even less since I never ever played that game
8:27
changed your mind yet?
I was never really into Splatoon 1 competitive but it’s funny to think I was using launch meta weapons (.96 deco and ink res gear)
Back in the days when I was on that charger grindset trying to kill those darn rollers.