Thinking about it, they’re ages would range from 14-16 because 14 is I THINK the cannon age that an inkling or octoling can start playing turf. (Don’t quote me on that, im pretty sure it’s said in the art of Splatoon book) and knowing they’ve probably been playing for a while, im gonna guess most of them on that team are around 15-16, but the name is still pretty goofy 🤭
Gem when a manga for kids has tropes and doesn't have characters that have the most skilled comps and strategies and doesn't have tournament level matches and isn't extremely realistic to the actual game 😨
I wonder if we can spare a thought for that one strategy in the manga that was, like, the exact opposite of the kind of healthy self talk a Splatoon player needs to learn to keep playing...like, it was basically catastrophizing as both a gag and legitimate technique...
“Team X-Blood” is definitely a name that a kid I knew in middle-school would’ve come up with. Bro played Shadow the Hedgehog once and was changed forever
Wait until Gem sees the X-Blood vs Team New-peror(??) clam blitz match where one of the other team’s ideas is to run straight into enemy fire with clams
what stage was that on again? because if it’s not on a stage that got ported to s3 he wont really be able to analyze it- edit: just realized you were talking about prince laceless etc not blue-peror lol, it was on arowana and yeah prince ily (/p) but the eminence arrow is going to get you absolutely nowhere
@@trickygamer555it’s best to wait until your team has more members alive and in play than the other team and then go for a push. Your goal in battles in splatoon 3 is to create the most advantageous situation for yourself rather than just rushing the objective immediately
I'm guessing X-Blood gets schooled by the Power of Friendship at some later point, so hopefully they aren't exactly promoting the edginess and bad mindset?
not super rare in that situation, the only way vbrella 1 shots is by landing a direct and then doing contact damage so its the most common way for them to camp super jumps
Watching Gem slowly become more and more upset with the manga as this series continues is kinda hilarious. Also makes me wonder what an actual splatoon fan-made manga following a new player's journey to being in a high-level tournament would look like.
@@itssoclover yeah! From what I’ve seen most fan comics/mangas have been centered around the hero modes (Ex. Memory No. --) but something about the actual main parts of the game, especially the competitive side, would be amazing!
Honestly your idea could be an excellent idea for the first half of the manga The second half would be the main character becoming a new agent and that part would focus on the game’s lore and the characters backstories
seeing a splatoon story explore a self vs self storyline would be really cool one of these days. cause i feel if we’re exploring a competitive game we don’t need a villain or antagonist, because the people who are going to be antagonistic to you aren’t going to improve to be better than you (since they drive others away and just be banned from tournaments anyway)
They could of used the pokemon approach to antagonists: what makes champions the antagonists is that they are the final challenge between the trainer and the rank of champion, they will wipe the floor with your team without a single after thought, then they're gonna give pointers and wish the trainer luck for next time. It would make a lot of sense in a splatoon story to have the antagonists be a strong team, have them beat up the main guys, give them tips and root for them until they get a rematch. However that self vs self would be a really cool idea and I think it should be explored more. Too bad when a media is targeted at younger audiences you rarely get to see these as a well written, in depth self vs self can be really rough on the reader
There's something so ridiculous about team name *X-BLOOD* that made me audibly laugh every time it appeared or anyone from it spoke. It may also be the fact that Gem just couldn't with any of it, as well Edit 10 days later: I just found out something even funnier about it: this is a sport to them. This is like if some mid to high level college school basketball team went against a mid to low one and said something like *"Never take the Tennessee lightly."*
Annaki clothing is just so emo that anyone wearing only one piece of it is instantly edgy looking. With that said I like the emo aesthetic, team X-Blood is pure edge and I lowkey love it lmao.
Ha! I'm so glad you covered X-Blood! They're easily my favorite characters from the manga with how over-the-top they are. Red-Soled and Vintage would have to be my favorite...although Vintage has been a little scarred for me ever since...the fire incident...
@@redi.c.e.6046 Back when Splatoon 3 was just announced in early 2021 (gosh that was two years ago oh my gosh), there was a budding Splatuber called Fireroka who was gaining in popularity. One of his quirks was that he was obsessed with Vintage and it spread throughout his community. Unfortunately, after about a year or so, information came out that he...had done some questionable things. He tried to defend himself but the cancel culture was too strong and he ended up leaving the internet. The whole ordeal kind of left a bad taste in everyone's mouth.
The worst thing about the "X-fall" is that you'd be likely to hit your teammates. While there's no friendly fire in the game for gameplay reasons, theres nothing on the subject in the lore. For similar reasons, soldiers and cops dont position directly across from friendly units when setting lines of fire in ambushes etc.
I just love ,how vintage is so invested in the game ,while all of his teammates pick of meta weapons and proceed to downright throw the game and goof off.
Captain 3 made up a special on the fly, so maybe that's what X-Blood is doing with X-Fall and X-Zone? In which case, they're literally cheating as I'm pretty sure only officially regulated specials are allowed in battles.
X-Fall and X-Zone seem to be more like special, personal techniques that X-Blood made (sorta like goggles squid lightning jet) rather then Special Weapons. (That’s what it looks like to me at least)
@@GreatFernicus Goggles has a special move that's functionally similar to the X-Zone; the difference being that Goggles' move has a 25% chance of removing your clothes as well
Noticing the manga I am wondering if from the 12 principles of animation have anything to do with how the story is written 2 of the principles in question are called timing and staging Meaning that when building a scene, you can not have overlapping important actions happening at the same time
I think when I read the Manga for the first time, I understood the x fall and x zone as vintage just having temeportation abilities. I thought the x team was meant to not have any strategy, just the hugest amount of pure mechanical skill.
The one thing that could make this better would be to use every player's real name. "And then Double Egg drops from bunker and splats Clip-Ons" has such a ring to it don't you think
As someone who has just joined a competetive team I'm tempted to suggest X-Blood as a name now for no other reason than to give us motivation. If we get good enough Gem may at some point have to say our name out loud and just know.
@@Batterykitten8 unfortunately we named ourselves trident not long after posting that, but just because I didn't go for it doesn't mean the dream is dead.
11:05 I mean if you really think about it, X Fall technically works in Manta if done at street instead of Mid. Blob can sit on mast spamming blobs in an uncontestable position while BP/Tetra could set up on bunker (assumes they sharked during the push and the enemy team doesn't paint bunker in a desperate attempt to capitalize off a stagger) to shoot at awkward angles and capitalize on blob's reflection mechanic to further slow the enemy down. The remaining 2 people would sit on sides poking/killing any stragglers after rm dies.
i once met a guy in a discord server whose whole personality was pretending he was vintage and acting exactly like him even when he wasnt playing. he was unbearable to be around and pretty toxic lol.
These videos have been an absolute treat to watch. I try not to be too hard on the manga in public because I get that it's made for 10 year olds but there's a sense of comfort knowing that it's extremely underwhelming for comp players and lore fans alike.
“Goggles is gonna pull that guy’s pants down.” And then after Team Glue bullshits their way to victory because power of friendship and having fun they are all gonna be best friends like nothing happens I actually really like the manga but yeah X-Blood is edgy and Team Blue has enough plot armor to rival John Wick
Watching Gem break down the Splatoon manga makes me feel frustrated on two fronts because on one hand I want to defend storytelling over realism/reasonable comps because imagine if this came out with Splat 3 and you had an artist/writer trying to stick to all but the most recent Splat3/Crab meta meta. You'd have to draw/write so many Splash/Ballpoint/Machine scenes and get virtually no variety in weapons or tactics to make it interesting for the viewers. On the other hand, as a writer, HOW. How did they get this so wrong? I would AT THE VERY LEAST make sure I knew how the basic fundamentals of the game played and made sure to pick at least 1-2 frontlines, 1-2 supports, and 1 anchor weapon for each team. Even if they didn't synergize well, that would at least be better than what was done here. And before people say "oh, it's just a manga for kids, it's not super serious and obviously it's not going to be accurate to the series" there are definitely manga based off of games and marketed to kids in Japan that are just straight-up way better handled than this, taken way more seriously than this, capture the feeling of the original game way more than this does, and just are better handled overall. This just makes me so frustrated because of what we could've had. You know how you write a good villain team in a Splatoon manga? Make them GOOD. Make them the best of the best. Make them coordinated and a genuine threat, who utilize all their tools effectively. But then make them awful people. Squidbaggers. Cocky jerks. The kind of people who use their skill in the game to lord over other people and make themselves feel better. Have them be a team you think can't be beat, and then show them fighting the "good guys" and being unable to take a loss. Have their members throw tantrums each time they get splatted. Getting more mad and tunnel visioning in over the course of the game. Have that be the reason they lose to Team Blue. That would be so much better than just making them edgy and not understanding "the power of friendship and working together" and having "I should be X-rank" be their sleeper agent activation phrase.
From a storytelling standpoint, I agree the bad guys need to be an actual threat, however I don't think splatoon needs villains outside of the campaings. They could totally write the antagonists as just really good players, even have them root for the main characters, but making them a much stronger team the good guys want to beat. It's like with pokemon and Cynthia, she is not a villain, she actively roots for you during the story, but when that piano starts playing as you challenge her, you know you're in for a rough fight.
For me, this could be fixed by just ONE little thing, because I do actually believe having a proper recurring villain could work in the manga. There was just one thing they needed to do: ACTUALLY COMMIT TO IT. what I mean by this: after it’s over, vintage is just ‘there’. Just still there, like the author expects it to automatically feel like he’s ‘just another one o da bois’ now, when that should absolutely not be the case, given how immovable and immovably tunnel-visioned he was already established to be. That. Doesn’t. Work. That was how it felt right for it to be, with Rider, with the S4, and with Emperor, given what their stories were actually about. You can’t just expect that to happen with anyone characterised like Vintage ‘just because’. Popping up in the hero arc doesn’t do crap, because there was no reason for him to be there, it shoulda been just Skull, or even Emperor. Yet because it DID happen, we’re supposed to just be like ‘all’s good now’ People immediately frown at any character that’s just a 2 dimensional cardboard cutout villain, but I believe, in a kids comic at least, that can work, IF you actually make them properly villainous. The s+’ers and so on can talk trash, but obviously they’re still basically the team’s mates at the end of the day, and the problem is the story just treats Vintage and Xblood like they’re supposed to just be more of the same. After team blue just befriending so many opponents, xblood, imo, should’ve lost and become the first proper-actual antagonistic force recurring in the manga, that everyone in the story can hate, and gets stronger but comes to fall every time, and eventually have some climactic showdown with an ‘avengers endgame portal moment’ where even Skull decides to side with Goggles over his once-friend and… getting a bit too far over my head there. But yah, if I was making some ‘The One Writing Change That COULDVE Saved X Blood’ essay, that would be the gist of it. I believe it would’ve been fine having an overturned jerk bad guy in this manga, IF they hadn’t just made a complete cop-out of it. (Btw, if anyones saying ‘well isn’t there also a third route of doing it like Emperor, just give him some actual time to make him a better character later on, my response is… I mean sure, that works, obviously, but that’s missing the point, that’s still just going along with the status quo and doing the same thing again and it was just more interesting to……..(rambles and rants about the situation for a further 40 minutes)) Edit: I’ve just learned (tho not yet confirmed for myself) that apparently they imply a lot more about him in the source material, so I understand if any Vintage fans read this and… may be a little upset with me 😅… I’ll look further into it soon-ish.
@@smexydeer1820I never said there needs to be a villain team in a Splatoon manga, I'm just saying if you're going to write one, there are better ways to handle it. Also keep in mind that Cynthia is an entirely separate situation. In the Pokemon games, you as the player has to take down Cynthia to beat the game, so regardless of how nice she is, you’re inherently invested in beating her. In a tournament arc in a manga/story, it’s important to give your readers a reason to root for the main characters beyond just the fact that they’re the main character.
@@redi.c.e.6046 FRRRR!!! This is genuinely why I feel like Mask is the one of the more unique characters -- even after losing, *he still maintains hostility.* He doesn't just become buddy-buddy with Team Blue post-battle like nearly every "Serious and Mean Character" has. That lil' mf BITES. He's one of the few who actually stays committed to the bit... which is a shame considering how Vintage was built up That being said, more info abt him in the source info?? Hello?
@@popsicIes in all honesty… I never got that impression off of Mask, he warned them to be careful about team Purple, and you could tell his approval still grew as the salmon shift went on, and overall seemed to just be eager to watch them in tournament the same as all the other characters did. Maybe ‘stays committed to the bit more than the others do’ does still suit… but still just that, just a ‘bit’. As for what I meant down there, I’m talking about apparent big differences in the dialogue between the viz version, the one I read, and the original in Japanese and it’s mangadex translation, which give a bit more reason to his character that I felt was lacking. Difficult to confirm, seeing as most of his fight got skipped by the mangadex translators, but that’s what I heard, you can read the replies to my comment here to understand
After reading the wiki it turns out that the "X-Zone" that Vintage seemingly did and was pretty unclear is actually a unique ability that he and Omega have that allows them to just sense where other opponents are moving and I just have to express my disappointment with the whole manga
koroika makes me sad cus the art is sooooo pretty but the jokes aren't funny and the serious sports manga scenes are poorly written :0( love this video tho, it makes me wanna see a more seriously written splatoon anime that talks more about competitive tactics and teamwork through party comp
tetra and naut as a pair works really well in my experience, having a weapon that can skirmish at a moment’s notice covers up one of naut’s biggest weakness imo, the fact that its vulnerable while firing. i do agree that paint does become an issue for them as a pair, but the other two spots on the team can be dedicated to helping with that, just that x-blood did this while also making their existing weaknesses even worse
In response to your question about what's supposed to make "X-Fall" and "X-Zone" special when they're just simple maneuvers, they're special specifically because of the names. When I see stuff like this, I think of pro wrestling. A lot of the wrestlers have their own signature moves that help them stand out from each other. When you look at the moves closely, a lot of them very basic moves, like kicks, grapples, slams, or drops, a lot of commonly used fighting moves that many wrestlers would be able to perform. But part of what makes those moves special is the names they give them, and the execution of said moves. A lot of times, the moves are differentiated between each wrestler by whatever different gestures, open projections, even simply calling out the move name before performing it. And that's part of what we're seeing here. X-Fall isn't special because it's a unique tactic or maneuver, it's special because it's X-Blood themselves that are performing the maneuver. It's basically a performance gimmick, a way of showing off to make something simple seem more special. It's actually something you see in a lot of professional sports.
9:00 Top player pika has made a video on why leaving the rainmaker behind like this is almost always a missplay. I won't get into the details of it as he explains in his guide video much better than I could ever in this comment. But the gist of it is popping the rainmaker after defending it. Just leaving it in your spawn is a terrible idea most of the time because it takes 15 seconds for the rainmaker to reset. In that time the respawning team would've already reached mid and be ready to fight in neutral again which will most likely be a coin toss as for who wins because neither team will likely have the specials to force neutral until the rm is back. In which the defenders could just end up back in the same position as where they were. If they grabbed the rm, they could've gotten into mid ready to make a break for it while the enemy team is still getting out of spawn. Getting more points on the board more guaranteed than if they were to have waited 15 seconds in mid. The respawn timer is shorter than the reset timer for the rainmaker. So because of that, it's almost always a bad idea to leave the rainmaker unpopped in your side of the map. Not just because it wastes time and makes you have to spend resources on an additional fight. You risk letting someone slip through creating a C9 situation where you're off fighting in mid while the other team is winning the game. The rainmaker is more important than a special. It essentially is a special That lasts for 60 seconds. There is a reason it replaces your kit and special Icon and doesn't charge your special. It's because the rainmaker is a special. And it's powerful. It's shots while slow firing are very very threatening and cover and deny a sizable area for a good length of time and it can be spammed. You have to respect the rainmaker as a weapon. Sure if you're fast enough you can get the drop on it and take it out. Cause it's slowness is very exploitable. But it doesn't mean that the weapon itself is weak. If the team plays around the raimmaker properly it is devastating in how much it controls the battlefield. Just like any other special. And just letting it sit in your spawn and waiting 15 seconds in mid just to play neutral again isn't worth it in comparison to picking up the special weapon that lasts for 60 seconds which is also the objective Getting back into mid and beyond before the enemies have gotten back into the game and suddenly you're the one pushing them into their spawn. You can't give the your opponents room to breathe as splatoon 3 is the fastest the series has been and not utilising that speed is a massive wasted opportunity.
*Stifled laughter* I have now Idea what you are talking about. That “succumb to the X” stuff is gold. Gold of the same sort as the street fighter movie, but gold all the same.
Talking about all the stuff. Team comps X-blood's feel like more something you would get from random matchmaking compared to how manga portray battles closer to a pb. A lot of strategies also seem more like something you would see in random matches compared to coordinated play. Also I guess you can maybe make the argument that the "specials" X-blood used was more of a stylistic portrayal of winning a team fight and I guess a single player wiping out the whole team.
X-blood: they are supposedly the best players to exist besides emperor of course... But they haven't discovered the power of friendship and enjoying yourself ...and even when they do they still lose for plot convinece
I think I figured out why the characters in the manga play this way. It’s that they are emulating how your average little Timmy would play, as the average little Timmy is the target audience for the manga. So while the manga gives terrible representation to the competitive side, it perfectly represents the young player mentality. That’s what I think anyway. Team ❌ 🅱️L00D is way to edgy I’ve cut myself from this video
I like examining things in a serious light, it can give learning to the orginal or reality. It's basically why game theory get's support from me, over examining games tells you about reality and the science
I haaate that vintage uses the same hair and the same jacket I use it makes the secondhand embarrassment worse also that end quote absolutely murdered me thanks
i love how this channel turned from indepth advice on competitive-general ranked splatoon play to "lets obliterate this horrible manga made for 10 year olds" i'm not complaining. this is awesome, fuck coroika lol
I find it funny how X-Zone is literally aimbot Most of the strategies and abilites in this manga are possible and, most of them are not good but this one is just aimbot ☠ how did he learn to have the ability of aimbot like
Bobble's absolutely my favorite character in the manga, she's super enjoyable every time she appears, whether she's being adorable or a menace to society
Team X-blood put on 1 piece of Annaki gear and made it their whole personality
They would 100% run quad annaki novas
@P-nk-m-na no 2 annakis 1 painbrush (because of its name) 1 custom range (because of the fire and if it get its splat 1 kit)
Bros went to Splatoon Hot Topic
REALLLL
The slander on my fave brand 😂
I can fully believe a team of 14-year-olds would name themselves X-Bloods.
I mean… that sounds like a typical middle-schooler move
Thinking about it, they’re ages would range from 14-16 because 14 is I THINK the cannon age that an inkling or octoling can start playing turf. (Don’t quote me on that, im pretty sure it’s said in the art of Splatoon book) and knowing they’ve probably been playing for a while, im gonna guess most of them on that team are around 15-16, but the name is still pretty goofy 🤭
X BLOOD
Vintage and Omega are both older than 14 because they were on a team with skull in splatoon 1 before goggles started
Fair ig
Team X-Blood gives me “I’m 13 mom, I eat unhappy meals now” vibes
Mom, I’m officially emo
They remind me of those kids using edgy anime characters as their entire user profile
their team Spotify playlist is full of mcr
theyre probably active on mentally ill pinterest
@@KIIROCORE ayy aroace :)
the sheer disdain struggling through his voice as he tries to keep in mind that this manga is for kids is really delightful
This is hilarious
Gem when a manga for kids has tropes and doesn't have characters that have the most skilled comps and strategies and doesn't have tournament level matches and isn't extremely realistic to the actual game 😨
@@MeltingRougeSoul13 doesnt he acknowledge in this and the first video
@@sonjaa.martin6269 I know and that makes it even funnier
I wonder if we can spare a thought for that one strategy in the manga that was, like, the exact opposite of the kind of healthy self talk a Splatoon player needs to learn to keep playing...like, it was basically catastrophizing as both a gag and legitimate technique...
Honestly X-blood just existing is way funnier than anything goggles has done
At least red sole is likable as a character in comparison… the rest of X blood thou, not so much but still better than goggles
@@staticaleel5068yeah red sole’s design is pretty nice imo, but other than that they all get on my nerves 💥
Lies. Goggles bombed the Crust Bucket and Emperor overheated a fryer.
Pfp Sauce (Artist)? 🗿🗿
@@KIIROCORE Pfp Sauce (Artist)? 🗿
This gotta hurt gem more than the average comp player since he’s an English teacher
Team Gloves: 😊💞✨🌼
Team X-Blood: 👹🔪💣🩸
But then some panels draw it like 👹🔪💣💞 for some weird reason
Example 7:20
“Team X-Blood” is definitely a name that a kid I knew in middle-school would’ve come up with. Bro played Shadow the Hedgehog once and was changed forever
where's that DAMN fourth chaos emerald
Wait until Gem sees the X-Blood vs Team New-peror(??) clam blitz match where one of the other team’s ideas is to run straight into enemy fire with clams
I mean I see people do that on C rank all the time, is that not normal on higher ranks?
what stage was that on again? because if it’s not on a stage that got ported to s3 he wont really be able to analyze it-
edit: just realized you were talking about prince laceless etc not blue-peror lol, it was on arowana
and yeah prince ily (/p) but the eminence arrow is going to get you absolutely nowhere
@@trickygamer555 the general goal of ranked is to stay alive
@@trickygamer555it’s best to wait until your team has more members alive and in play than the other team and then go for a push. Your goal in battles in splatoon 3 is to create the most advantageous situation for yourself rather than just rushing the objective immediately
@@popsicIesNo? The general goal of ranked is to win.
I'm guessing X-Blood gets schooled by the Power of Friendship at some later point, so hopefully they aren't exactly promoting the edginess and bad mindset?
They absolutely do 👍
By the power of getting pantsed by Goggles. I read ahead; the ending line is informed by fact, not a prediction.
I thought so…
@@SquidSchool dang spoilers...
2:17 the rare “squished by brella” death screen
not super rare in that situation, the only way vbrella 1 shots is by landing a direct and then doing contact damage so its the most common way for them to camp super jumps
The Deep Voice everytime he reads X-Blood 😂
His throat is gonna come for vengeance after that 😭
Watching Gem slowly become more and more upset with the manga as this series continues is kinda hilarious.
Also makes me wonder what an actual splatoon fan-made manga following a new player's journey to being in a high-level tournament would look like.
There’s a TON of Splatoon fan comics, but that would honestly be a nice premise.
that's what i've been saying! istg i'm going to make my own manga about the comp scene.
@@itssoclover yeah! From what I’ve seen most fan comics/mangas have been centered around the hero modes (Ex. Memory No. --) but something about the actual main parts of the game, especially the competitive side, would be amazing!
Honestly your idea could be an excellent idea for the first half of the manga
The second half would be the main character becoming a new agent and that part would focus on the game’s lore and the characters backstories
@@4Monadonis2 I think I might have read a little bit of that? I don’t really remember but it seemed interesting. I’ll have to check it out later
Gem, I feel extremely sorry for your throat after saying X-Blood like that the whole video.
seeing a splatoon story explore a self vs self storyline would be really cool one of these days.
cause i feel if we’re exploring a competitive game we don’t need a villain or antagonist, because the people who are going to be antagonistic to you aren’t going to improve to be better than you (since they drive others away and just be banned from tournaments anyway)
They could of used the pokemon approach to antagonists: what makes champions the antagonists is that they are the final challenge between the trainer and the rank of champion, they will wipe the floor with your team without a single after thought, then they're gonna give pointers and wish the trainer luck for next time. It would make a lot of sense in a splatoon story to have the antagonists be a strong team, have them beat up the main guys, give them tips and root for them until they get a rematch.
However that self vs self would be a really cool idea and I think it should be explored more. Too bad when a media is targeted at younger audiences you rarely get to see these as a well written, in depth self vs self can be really rough on the reader
There's something so ridiculous about team name *X-BLOOD* that made me audibly laugh every time it appeared or anyone from it spoke. It may also be the fact that Gem just couldn't with any of it, as well
Edit 10 days later: I just found out something even funnier about it: this is a sport to them. This is like if some mid to high level college school basketball team went against a mid to low one and said something like *"Never take the Tennessee lightly."*
"You shall succumb to the goalie"
“As if these imbeciles obsessed with having fun… …could ever score a Touchdown!”
LMFAO THAT ANALOGY KILLED ME
*"The Personal Foul is still unbeatable!"*
Annaki clothing is just so emo that anyone wearing only one piece of it is instantly edgy looking.
With that said I like the emo aesthetic, team X-Blood is pure edge and I lowkey love it lmao.
Aw man I didn't know my beret and shades made me an edgelord...
Did some "resaerch", 'ppearantly, X-zone is a unique abilty held by Vintage and Omega to sense other peoples movements
Turning into sans undertale is actually a very good play, but I would only use it in solo queue
when i read the ranked arc i thought x-blood was “painfully pretentious” but “painfully edgy” works too i suppose
"Your a beta squid Goggles" -team X-blood probably
Ha! I'm so glad you covered X-Blood! They're easily my favorite characters from the manga with how over-the-top they are. Red-Soled and Vintage would have to be my favorite...although Vintage has been a little scarred for me ever since...the fire incident...
What incident?
tf is the fire incident????
@@redi.c.e.6046 Back when Splatoon 3 was just announced in early 2021 (gosh that was two years ago oh my gosh), there was a budding Splatuber called Fireroka who was gaining in popularity. One of his quirks was that he was obsessed with Vintage and it spread throughout his community. Unfortunately, after about a year or so, information came out that he...had done some questionable things. He tried to defend himself but the cancel culture was too strong and he ended up leaving the internet. The whole ordeal kind of left a bad taste in everyone's mouth.
@@popsicIes Please see my other reply to @redi.c.e.6046
@@sherbertshortkake6649 oh, that guy... yeeeah... Shame too, i did like a lotta those vids, but whatevs.
oh i did NOT expect that voice for x-blood
The worst thing about the "X-fall" is that you'd be likely to hit your teammates. While there's no friendly fire in the game for gameplay reasons, theres nothing on the subject in the lore. For similar reasons, soldiers and cops dont position directly across from friendly units when setting lines of fire in ambushes etc.
Heck, that was a gag in that Aladdin sequel. "Nobody move, or we'll be shooting ourselves!"
“goggles is going to pull this guys pants down” is The funniest way to end the video, 10/10
I just love ,how vintage is so invested in the game ,while all of his teammates pick of meta weapons and proceed to downright throw the game and goof off.
Captain 3 made up a special on the fly, so maybe that's what X-Blood is doing with X-Fall and X-Zone? In which case, they're literally cheating as I'm pretty sure only officially regulated specials are allowed in battles.
X-Fall and X-Zone seem to be more like special, personal techniques that X-Blood made (sorta like goggles squid lightning jet) rather then Special Weapons. (That’s what it looks like to me at least)
@@JellifiShugoSorta like Goggles’s *WHAT*
@@GreatFernicus Goggles has a special move that's functionally similar to the X-Zone; the difference being that Goggles' move has a 25% chance of removing your clothes as well
@@GreatFernicusGoggles learns how to squid hop and it’s a special ability he uses to defeat the final member of the S4 final member
@@JellifiShugoAh, a special move unique to X-Blood, splatting opponents.
The slow descent into madness really makes this video series enjoyable.
Noticing the manga I am wondering if from the 12 principles of animation have anything to do with how the story is written
2 of the principles in question are called timing and staging
Meaning that when building a scene, you can not have overlapping important actions happening at the same time
I think when I read the Manga for the first time, I understood the x fall and x zone as vintage just having temeportation abilities. I thought the x team was meant to not have any strategy, just the hugest amount of pure mechanical skill.
The one thing that could make this better would be to use every player's real name. "And then Double Egg drops from bunker and splats Clip-Ons" has such a ring to it don't you think
As someone who has just joined a competetive team I'm tempted to suggest X-Blood as a name now for no other reason than to give us motivation. If we get good enough Gem may at some point have to say our name out loud and just know.
Thats amazing; go for it!!
@@Batterykitten8 unfortunately we named ourselves trident not long after posting that, but just because I didn't go for it doesn't mean the dream is dead.
11:05 I mean if you really think about it, X Fall technically works in Manta if done at street instead of Mid. Blob can sit on mast spamming blobs in an uncontestable position while BP/Tetra could set up on bunker (assumes they sharked during the push and the enemy team doesn't paint bunker in a desperate attempt to capitalize off a stagger) to shoot at awkward angles and capitalize on blob's reflection mechanic to further slow the enemy down. The remaining 2 people would sit on sides poking/killing any stragglers after rm dies.
Huh, weird. I just call running at the enemy team screaming and getting a quad the "Unga Bunga"
Excuse me Gem but why did you become a death metal growler for saying X Blood.
The bazoo passing right After them Is a reference to x rank teammates
I wonder if Vintage's X-Zone ability would become a new special in the next Splatoon 3 season...
And how would that even work? Sudden very extreme movement and firerate boost for a few seconds with 100 shield health?
i once met a guy in a discord server whose whole personality was pretending he was vintage and acting exactly like him even when he wasnt playing. he was unbearable to be around and pretty toxic lol.
Your voice for Vintage was so funny I couldn't stop laughing whenever you voiced him or said X-Blood!
These videos have been an absolute treat to watch.
I try not to be too hard on the manga in public because I get that it's made for 10 year olds but there's a sense of comfort knowing that it's extremely underwhelming for comp players and lore fans alike.
This is so amazing, the pain from the edginess is so real
Team X-BLOOD!!!!! Is the ultimate edgelord team, with a ridiculous ego ☠️
The fact that the ones running the matches looked at the team name and was like "yeah this is okay" sends me
@3:05 It took me until then to realise you're playing Splatoon 2. The stage didn't give it away; it had to be the Splashdown.
This guy was actually killing me omg. Gem’s throat is gonna riot after this.
“Goggles is gonna pull that guy’s pants down.”
And then after Team Glue bullshits their way to victory because power of friendship and having fun they are all gonna be best friends like nothing happens
I actually really like the manga but yeah X-Blood is edgy and Team Blue has enough plot armor to rival John Wick
Watching Gem break down the Splatoon manga makes me feel frustrated on two fronts because on one hand I want to defend storytelling over realism/reasonable comps because imagine if this came out with Splat 3 and you had an artist/writer trying to stick to all but the most recent Splat3/Crab meta meta. You'd have to draw/write so many Splash/Ballpoint/Machine scenes and get virtually no variety in weapons or tactics to make it interesting for the viewers. On the other hand, as a writer, HOW. How did they get this so wrong? I would AT THE VERY LEAST make sure I knew how the basic fundamentals of the game played and made sure to pick at least 1-2 frontlines, 1-2 supports, and 1 anchor weapon for each team. Even if they didn't synergize well, that would at least be better than what was done here.
And before people say "oh, it's just a manga for kids, it's not super serious and obviously it's not going to be accurate to the series" there are definitely manga based off of games and marketed to kids in Japan that are just straight-up way better handled than this, taken way more seriously than this, capture the feeling of the original game way more than this does, and just are better handled overall. This just makes me so frustrated because of what we could've had.
You know how you write a good villain team in a Splatoon manga? Make them GOOD. Make them the best of the best. Make them coordinated and a genuine threat, who utilize all their tools effectively. But then make them awful people. Squidbaggers. Cocky jerks. The kind of people who use their skill in the game to lord over other people and make themselves feel better. Have them be a team you think can't be beat, and then show them fighting the "good guys" and being unable to take a loss. Have their members throw tantrums each time they get splatted. Getting more mad and tunnel visioning in over the course of the game. Have that be the reason they lose to Team Blue. That would be so much better than just making them edgy and not understanding "the power of friendship and working together" and having "I should be X-rank" be their sleeper agent activation phrase.
From a storytelling standpoint, I agree the bad guys need to be an actual threat, however I don't think splatoon needs villains outside of the campaings. They could totally write the antagonists as just really good players, even have them root for the main characters, but making them a much stronger team the good guys want to beat. It's like with pokemon and Cynthia, she is not a villain, she actively roots for you during the story, but when that piano starts playing as you challenge her, you know you're in for a rough fight.
For me, this could be fixed by just ONE little thing, because I do actually believe having a proper recurring villain could work in the manga. There was just one thing they needed to do: ACTUALLY COMMIT TO IT.
what I mean by this: after it’s over, vintage is just ‘there’. Just still there, like the author expects it to automatically feel like he’s ‘just another one o da bois’ now, when that should absolutely not be the case, given how immovable and immovably tunnel-visioned he was already established to be. That. Doesn’t. Work.
That was how it felt right for it to be, with Rider, with the S4, and with Emperor, given what their stories were actually about. You can’t just expect that to happen with anyone characterised like Vintage ‘just because’. Popping up in the hero arc doesn’t do crap, because there was no reason for him to be there, it shoulda been just Skull, or even Emperor. Yet because it DID happen, we’re supposed to just be like ‘all’s good now’
People immediately frown at any character that’s just a 2 dimensional cardboard cutout villain, but I believe, in a kids comic at least, that can work, IF you actually make them properly villainous. The s+’ers and so on can talk trash, but obviously they’re still basically the team’s mates at the end of the day, and the problem is the story just treats Vintage and Xblood like they’re supposed to just be more of the same. After team blue just befriending so many opponents, xblood, imo, should’ve lost and become the first proper-actual antagonistic force recurring in the manga, that everyone in the story can hate, and gets stronger but comes to fall every time, and eventually have some climactic showdown with an ‘avengers endgame portal moment’ where even Skull decides to side with Goggles over his once-friend and… getting a bit too far over my head there.
But yah, if I was making some ‘The One Writing Change That COULDVE Saved X Blood’ essay, that would be the gist of it. I believe it would’ve been fine having an overturned jerk bad guy in this manga, IF they hadn’t just made a complete cop-out of it.
(Btw, if anyones saying ‘well isn’t there also a third route of doing it like Emperor, just give him some actual time to make him a better character later on, my response is… I mean sure, that works, obviously, but that’s missing the point, that’s still just going along with the status quo and doing the same thing again and it was just more interesting to……..(rambles and rants about the situation for a further 40 minutes))
Edit: I’ve just learned (tho not yet confirmed for myself) that apparently they imply a lot more about him in the source material, so I understand if any Vintage fans read this and… may be a little upset with me 😅… I’ll look further into it soon-ish.
@@smexydeer1820I never said there needs to be a villain team in a Splatoon manga, I'm just saying if you're going to write one, there are better ways to handle it.
Also keep in mind that Cynthia is an entirely separate situation. In the Pokemon games, you as the player has to take down Cynthia to beat the game, so regardless of how nice she is, you’re inherently invested in beating her. In a tournament arc in a manga/story, it’s important to give your readers a reason to root for the main characters beyond just the fact that they’re the main character.
@@redi.c.e.6046 FRRRR!!! This is genuinely why I feel like Mask is the one of the more unique characters -- even after losing, *he still maintains hostility.* He doesn't just become buddy-buddy with Team Blue post-battle like nearly every "Serious and Mean Character" has. That lil' mf BITES. He's one of the few who actually stays committed to the bit... which is a shame considering how Vintage was built up
That being said, more info abt him in the source info?? Hello?
@@popsicIes in all honesty… I never got that impression off of Mask, he warned them to be careful about team Purple, and you could tell his approval still grew as the salmon shift went on, and overall seemed to just be eager to watch them in tournament the same as all the other characters did. Maybe ‘stays committed to the bit more than the others do’ does still suit… but still just that, just a ‘bit’.
As for what I meant down there, I’m talking about apparent big differences in the dialogue between the viz version, the one I read, and the original in Japanese and it’s mangadex translation, which give a bit more reason to his character that I felt was lacking. Difficult to confirm, seeing as most of his fight got skipped by the mangadex translators, but that’s what I heard, you can read the replies to my comment here to understand
15:33 Looks like you are becoming a div 1 LUTI player!!!!!!!!!! YEA WOOHOO GREAT TEAMWORK!
All I can see is *“X-BLOOD 👹”* just losing to a bunch of actual X players with the gameplay they have
i'm really late and this just got randomly reccomended to me, but X-blood gives me "I'm in 5th grade. Life is pain" vibes
After reading the wiki it turns out that the "X-Zone" that Vintage seemingly did and was pretty unclear is actually a unique ability that he and Omega have that allows them to just sense where other opponents are moving and I just have to express my disappointment with the whole manga
So he just popped Echolocator?
@@jasonwalton9553 I wish, this is the splatoon 2 arc so echolocator doesn't exist lol
@@lament5516 so he just popped echolocator illegally
Wait so they're the first people to discover what a Turf Map is?
I want gem to do a let’s play of shadow the hedgehog
accurate vintage voice acting at 16:32 thanks gem 💪
"Succumb to the X" that's a great team name
When he said “SUCCUM TO THE X” I died laughing.
koroika makes me sad cus the art is sooooo pretty but the jokes aren't funny and the serious sports manga scenes are poorly written :0( love this video tho, it makes me wanna see a more seriously written splatoon anime that talks more about competitive tactics and teamwork through party comp
no one:
gem: X BLOOD 💀☠️🖤🕸🕷🔪🩸
tetra and naut as a pair works really well in my experience, having a weapon that can skirmish at a moment’s notice covers up one of naut’s biggest weakness imo, the fact that its vulnerable while firing. i do agree that paint does become an issue for them as a pair, but the other two spots on the team can be dedicated to helping with that, just that x-blood did this while also making their existing weaknesses even worse
In response to your question about what's supposed to make "X-Fall" and "X-Zone" special when they're just simple maneuvers, they're special specifically because of the names. When I see stuff like this, I think of pro wrestling. A lot of the wrestlers have their own signature moves that help them stand out from each other. When you look at the moves closely, a lot of them very basic moves, like kicks, grapples, slams, or drops, a lot of commonly used fighting moves that many wrestlers would be able to perform. But part of what makes those moves special is the names they give them, and the execution of said moves. A lot of times, the moves are differentiated between each wrestler by whatever different gestures, open projections, even simply calling out the move name before performing it. And that's part of what we're seeing here. X-Fall isn't special because it's a unique tactic or maneuver, it's special because it's X-Blood themselves that are performing the maneuver. It's basically a performance gimmick, a way of showing off to make something simple seem more special. It's actually something you see in a lot of professional sports.
9:00 Top player pika has made a video on why leaving the rainmaker behind like this is almost always a missplay.
I won't get into the details of it as he explains in his guide video much better than I could ever in this comment.
But the gist of it is popping the rainmaker after defending it. Just leaving it in your spawn is a terrible idea most of the time because it takes 15 seconds for the rainmaker to reset.
In that time the respawning team would've already reached mid and be ready to fight in neutral again which will most likely be a coin toss as for who wins because neither team will likely have the specials to force neutral until the rm is back.
In which the defenders could just end up back in the same position as where they were.
If they grabbed the rm, they could've gotten into mid ready to make a break for it while the enemy team is still getting out of spawn.
Getting more points on the board more guaranteed than if they were to have waited 15 seconds in mid.
The respawn timer is shorter than the reset timer for the rainmaker.
So because of that, it's almost always a bad idea to leave the rainmaker unpopped in your side of the map.
Not just because it wastes time and makes you have to spend resources on an additional fight.
You risk letting someone slip through creating a C9 situation where you're off fighting in mid while the other team is winning the game.
The rainmaker is more important than a special.
It essentially is a special
That lasts for 60 seconds.
There is a reason it replaces your kit and special Icon and doesn't charge your special.
It's because the rainmaker is a special.
And it's powerful.
It's shots while slow firing are very very threatening and cover and deny a sizable area for a good length of time and it can be spammed.
You have to respect the rainmaker as a weapon.
Sure if you're fast enough you can get the drop on it and take it out.
Cause it's slowness is very exploitable.
But it doesn't mean that the weapon itself is weak.
If the team plays around the raimmaker properly it is devastating in how much it controls the battlefield.
Just like any other special.
And just letting it sit in your spawn and waiting 15 seconds in mid just to play neutral again isn't worth it in comparison to picking up the special weapon that lasts for 60 seconds which is also the objective
Getting back into mid and beyond before the enemies have gotten back into the game and suddenly you're the one pushing them into their spawn.
You can't give the your opponents room to breathe as splatoon 3 is the fastest the series has been and not utilising that speed is a massive wasted opportunity.
i still want more of this silliness
The way he says, "Team X-Blood", kills me. Haha...
*Stifled laughter* I have now Idea what you are talking about. That “succumb to the X” stuff is gold. Gold of the same sort as the street fighter movie, but gold all the same.
X blood feels like "I'm 10, I'm an adult now."
X-Blood looks fun to be around :)
Talking about all the stuff. Team comps X-blood's feel like more something you would get from random matchmaking compared to how manga portray battles closer to a pb. A lot of strategies also seem more like something you would see in random matches compared to coordinated play. Also I guess you can maybe make the argument that the "specials" X-blood used was more of a stylistic portrayal of winning a team fight and I guess a single player wiping out the whole team.
X-blood: they are supposedly the best players to exist besides emperor of course...
But they haven't discovered the power of friendship and enjoying yourself
...and even when they do they still lose for plot convinece
17:27
you know the box you get stuck in in undertale
that's the zone they're referring to
"succumb to the X"
The edge
D- Do inklings have blood?
Yup
celaphapod blood is blue
X-Blood sounds like a fan made team ngl
0:38 this caught me off guard lol
The sans joke was both funny and accurate
“Succumb to the X” had me rolling on the ground lol
I think I figured out why the characters in the manga play this way. It’s that they are emulating how your average little Timmy would play, as the average little Timmy is the target audience for the manga. So while the manga gives terrible representation to the competitive side, it perfectly represents the young player mentality. That’s what I think anyway.
Team ❌ 🅱️L00D is way to edgy I’ve cut myself from this video
Watch as this comp gets finals at the next Area Cup
sometimes I enter the X zone and start to turbo feed
bro said "bad morning" when coming into class
Happy 727th vid
Wysi
It's funny that most of the video is him calling out the poor strats
every day is silly comp Sunday in the manga 😂
1:22 except omega uses the nautilus with the ink jet
That's not what the wiki said, and there's another match where they roll someone over with the baller
2:06 TF- is this turf war?!?!?!? WHY IS SO MUCH OF THE MAP JUST COMPLETELY UNINKED???!!?!?!?!?!?
I like examining things in a serious light, it can give learning to the orginal or reality. It's basically why game theory get's support from me, over examining games tells you about reality and the science
Omg I literally use the same voice for x-blood. This series is killing me.
When I realized he was playing two, I was very happy 😊
this is the best series gem has ever done
Is this the first instance of X rank that we see in the manga? That'd be hilarious if it was, lol
X-blood's team is, in fact, the first instance of X rank that we see in this manga. If I recall correctly that is.
I haaate that vintage uses the same hair and the same jacket I use it makes the secondhand embarrassment worse
also that end quote absolutely murdered me thanks
i love how this channel turned from indepth advice on competitive-general ranked splatoon play to "lets obliterate this horrible manga made for 10 year olds"
i'm not complaining. this is awesome, fuck coroika lol
i think coroika is a nice thing to kinda turn your brain off to, but other than that it’s just kindaaa … cmon now
cuando esta en sesion el curso de espanol gem?
I find it funny how X-Zone is literally aimbot
Most of the strategies and abilites in this manga are possible and, most of them are not good but this one is just aimbot ☠ how did he learn to have the ability of aimbot like
Simple: he turned into sans
Bro pressed the X button 😱
Yay! More manga shenanigans!
"Succumb to the ex"
what
"Never take the ex lightly"
WHAT
I can only imagine how tired his voice was after this
I thought you were going to talk about a real team because I haven't read the manga this far 😭
What’s with the splatoon 2 gameplay?
the manga at this point is still in splatoon 2
Completely unrelated to the video, I'm here to spread the love for bobble hat because she is peak fictional character
Wrong. Do you wanna know REAL peak fictional character? Pelinal Whitestrake, the genocidal gay time-travelling cyborg crusader.
Bobble's absolutely my favorite character in the manga, she's super enjoyable every time she appears, whether she's being adorable or a menace to society
God, and I thought Cloud was an absolute edgelord...
I legit thought these were real teams lol
Hey. At least you want to see the team get pantsed. Maybe that's a win?