I get asked a lot on how to get better at Splatoon or get used to playing on a higher rank, or even Salmon Run - so here are my thoughts and my mindset that helped me achieve high ranks in games in general! Share your tips and thoughts too as I am really interested - but I hope this video will help!
Bruh, you are spitting facts here about self improvement, regardless of Splatoon. Dudes like you should teach in schools how to just learn to be better at anything
I have made a habit of giving my opponent credit when they splat me and say things like “nice bomb, you got me” or “wow that guy punished me for my mistake”. Making a habit of acknowledging your opponents for their performance during a match really helps
Love how these tips can also translate over to Salmon Run. Sure its a pve mode rather than Anarchy pvp, but it’s still a fast paced team game you have to learn how to adapt on the fly to. The tactics are different but the core concept is similar. I wish there were SR replays tho to see what went wrong and how I could improve there 😅… Overall great video and excellent advice!
This!! I mean I have been both the "my teammates suck" and "I suck" person in Salmon Run but then find I play better if I am more focused and relaxed instead of focusing on winning. Because there are times (especially in clips that I save) where I am like "oh god that was silly of all of us. Who knew that three of us standing on the slammin' lid hovering above the water would result in us... falling into the water after we defeat it. Our final living team-mate must have been like "oh my god, really?!" I laughed so hard. And sometimes that's my method, just imagine how the other person must be thinking.
@@angelsartandgaming Omg that sounds hilarious XD! And yeah I can agree with what you said about being more relaxed tends to bring better results. I was playing VP a little mindlessly in front of my family but I ended up making it all the way to the final seconds of wave 3 as if nothing was stressful about it. Sure since its VP it requires some cognitive skill of what you’re doing, but the point still stands that I was able to preform much better when I wasn’t stressed about the game vs when I only prioritize “winning” or whatever is going wrong. I even recently got the VP 200 badge for Sockeye during the Dynamo rotation through Freelance only! You have the right mindset and I wish you luck 💖
@@JustaTeaLeaf OOHH CONGRATS!! I haven't got to VP yet mainly because I did have a loss streak recently (nor have I got back to profressional 2+ yet because conch shells!! I need my titles dagnabbit!!), but I will one day.
@@angelsartandgaming Understandable since conch shells are very important when they appear. I believe in you when you do return to the SR hellhole grind. If you want some advice for ranking up in solo, always watch your back. Practicing game awareness in a game with limited communication can save many coworker’s lives! See what your teammates are focusing and take a quick glance for anything that can be a threat to them. For example two coworkers might call out a Big Shot by shore, but then you look behind you and you’re the only one who sees a Stinger on the opposite side of the map! Pop special or whatever is most convenient in that scenario so your coworkers can continue taking down the Big Shot and you’ve essentially removed two huge threats from the board
Thanks for the video! I'm just a casual player who tends to stick with turf, but it's a good listen. I think it's great you brought up the topic of blaming others. All it does is create toxicity. And you never know the people on the other side of the screen. One of my personal tips: when you're getting a losing streak, or you're in a match where you're being overpowered, focus on the little victories. Is the opposite team too far along with their Tower? Okay, maybe you don't have the time to turn over the game, but take this opportunity to figure out good positions for defence. You're being spawn camped in turf? Oh look, convenient target practise for my tri-stringer that I'm learning to use! Or a personal example: I had a match where we were dominated by a mob of blob lobbers. I could not for the life of me figure out how to counter them. So toward the end I set myself a new goal, I'm splatting at least one of them before the match is over. At that point I stopped panicking about losing the match and focused on how to actually splat these guys, and wound up doing an immensely satisfying ambush OHKO with my Splatana Stamper. We still lost the match, but that wound up one of my favorite memories of Splatoon. And the best part is that "little victories" are both motivating, good teaching opportunities and can push you towards an actual win. That OHKO moment taught me the importance of slowing down and the power of an ambush. It made me feel better for the next match. And often these little goals can serve as stepping stones to actually recovering and winning.
Whenever I get a bad losing streak or otherwise super frustrating game in pvp I move over to salmon run cause I feel like the mindset is very different in SR when you win/lose compared to playing against other people. You lose in pvp you might be mad at the opposing team or at your own. If you lose in pve you can't really be mad at the AI, so you'll either be sad for your teammates or just have a chuckle at unlucky rng.
Ok, now this is exactly what I've been looking for within the past few days. When I got to s+, I was not ready at all. I got knocked down time and time again, and I only chalked it up to unlucky matchmaking. Then the splatfest rolled around and I was on team grub. You all know how that went. The thing is, this was the fourth splatfest I've ever been in, and I lost every. Single. Time. This brought me to a realization: am I bad at this game? Am I a hindrance to the people on my side? I mean, the only weapon I'm good at is the aerospray, which everyone views as the single worst weapon in the game. Then Squid School made a full weapons tier list and went to town when he got to the aerospray. "The only thing it's good at is special farming," he said, "but it doesn't have a special worth farming for." His words "are you meming right now?" Resounded through my head for weeks on end. So not only can I not play this game WELL, I can't even play it CORRECTLY. So now I'm sitting here with -3000 points I AM NOT JOKING in s+0, thinking about how if I want to get good, I'll have to throw fun out the window. Have my three years of playing aerospray meant NOTHING!? I developed a motto: "oh yeah, forgot I wasn't allowed to win." Thank you, Haz. This should help me get in a better place.
I don't think it's the Aerospray that got you stuck overall - but it does contribute to it, since you are playing at a disadvantage, so it's an easy culprit to blame! It's always worth to check your replays and see what exactly is the reason of your losses and what you could do better to counter some of the negatives of the weapon. In the end, there's a lot to it and it's not easy to answer, but it's a start!
Got a similar story here actually. First time playing a Splat game, climbed through the ranks incredibly fast, winning all my series matches - got to S+0 and to a level where I can call myself decent enough to belong in this rank through Turf and Salmon practice, and overall just playing the game a lot. I'm close to 200 hours. Once I got to S+0, I started going into points debt for the first time, and lost about 10-20 series which got me to -1.5k or something. Not as bad as 3k like you, but still, you can surely agree that even getting to -500 is a devastating blow. Magically started winning again today for some reason, and climbed up back to -600. So just give it some more time my g. There are lose streaks and there are win streaks. And yeah, try switching to a different weapon from time to time, even one you're not good at. Tinker with the aim sensibility too, get out of your comfort zone - that should help you to A) have more fun B) get better at the game. If nothing helps just take a break really, get plenty of sleep, and come back after a bit. P.S. Haven't watched the full vid yet, so Idk if something that I said earlier also gets said in the vid
Ranked is a mess now. Don't sweat it. I don't know what they did with the elo but the game is not fun. I was using my s2 mains (hydra,blaster,daple,inkbrush) and was doing 17+ kills, easy climb to S+2. But I got bored. So I switched to tristringer and nautilus, weapons that cannot carry. Proud s+ -8000 now with 20% wins. Game does not want me to have balanced matches. Only pain. Thanks Nintendo. (Was quad X 2400 on s2)
@@jousis_ Yeah, sometimes Nintendo really doesn't want you to enjoy your session. It happens to me mostly when I have time to play in the morning, my lineups include: - Splat-focused people who suck at splatting - Base inkers in Ranked modes, and no they don't have missiles - People who might have modded their game to get rid of the pesky objective icons - That one wannabe sniper who stands in one spot, their end-game score ends up being 0/2 100p - The 2 or 3-people squad that gets taken out by the same isolated Dualies / Shooter user, detected by Point Sensor during the entire fight - That one player who thinks they're about to carry with their flank, only to find out their aim would miss a barn at point blank And then you wonder why Nintendo believed that'd result in an even game
Splatoon is the only online PVP/PVE game I can play, even though I'm not the best at it. It's fun even when I'm losing. Mostly I stick to Turf, but I think the fact that I can still earn exp even when I'm failing keeps me coming back? Like I'm not just penalized for "being bad", and I still have incentives to play even if I keep losing. Also, the fan base has a lot of surprisingly chill people if you can find other people to play/chat with.
Yeah Splatoon does an excellent job as I would say...making an FPS fun for people who normally don't like them - it's a really unique solution to the genre!
I play with Chargers so I'm always in the improving mindset. Its like art, you keep practicing and improving, but not moving on to selling art despite being ready. Which is why when I play rank mode, I climb really quickly. Start of S3, I haven't haven't played S2 in awhile so my movements and aiming felt bad. Then eventually it came back once I got into charger drills again. I watch a lot of streamers and I still see a lot of really good players still blaming teammates and comp. I get that there's weapon tier lists and meta, but I feel like their salt does get in the way of improving or even winning. Everyone, including top players, still have something to improve and it could be something like mentality.
This is the reason this is my favorite splatoon channel. Good wholesome info (the whole community is pretty wholesome and nontoxic generally) and life advice even. Also salmon report is great
I can't stress enough how useful Gem's videos are. Just working on game awareness, learning to often check my map, pay attention to opponents' gear abilities at the start of a match (especially ninja squid) and pay attention to numbers and special advantage, all these tips helped me improve tremendously. Then there are his vids on specific game modes that are amazing as well when you get a bit more advanced. I'd advise checking these two types after watching his vids on weapon roles to have a good starting point. As for the mindset, i'd say the most effective thing to do is to enter a mindset where instead of paying attention to your rank, you take every situation as a way to learn. And once again, Gem's vids help a lot, since he's a teacher IRL. So that helps me a lot to get into that mindset.
I've bee stuck at S+ for the longest time, like I'm in negative 1100s 😭😭 but this video was really helpful! I'll definitely be taking your advice and maybe become a better me
Thanks for the video mate! Your videos are really fun to watch, and very informative! Your doing everyone a solid just by being you!! Good day and keep making high quality content! (But also take care of yourself! No rush for making content!😅)
Definitely helpful even if I haven't touched ranked. I usually tend to only win half of my matches, but the one time I won all but one threw me off SO hard. I got cocky and I immediately went back to losing most matches. I definitely agree with taking breaks, I ended up taking a break from turf because I was so frustrated and played salmon run instead, which I also was prepared to suck at but found an amazing team of randoms and that definitely improved my mood. When I stepped back into Turf with some friends, I started doing a lot better again. Playing with friends definitely takes the sting out of losing as well
After watching this I feel a lot better about getting from S to S+ ! I will let you know how it goes! You made a lot of good points I hadn't thought about! Thank you!
This might be your best video yet! I needed to hear a lot of this, and these tips apply to other things than Splatoon and videogames as well. I just got to S-rank, and I'm doing pretty well, even though I often have blamed my teammates for losing. Not anymore!
Great video overall, but just a minor correction at around 5:17. Your rank definitely factors into matchmaking. It's not a meaningless value, though the game does try to match you based on your power level within your rank. If it was meaningless, people wouldn't be complaining about being stuck in massive debt as after you lose enough, your power level would drop to a point where you should be better than your opponents and thus, be able to win much more often than lose, but this doesn't happen.
At -3K myself now and on a massive loosing streak in Anarchy for about 3 weeks. If the video was correct, that would have broken by now. I play anarchy occasionally when I am in the mood to learn. And I have seen improvement in that I will win about 1 out of four matches (not really breaking a streak) as opposed to loosing every game as I was before. I can only take this for so long though.
@@SubjectNate Yeah I'm pretty much in the same boat. I'm "improving", but still lose 1 in every 6 games or so whenever I go to Series (was worse earlier last month). Ironically enough, Open seems to have much better matches. I suspect it's because there's no rank restriction there so the game can more easily pair based on your power level.
This is definitely helping me, I’ve been stuck in overachiever forever in salmon run and I’ve just been not wanting to play just because I’m scared of getting pretty bad teammates. (One reason that is unable to change is Aussie ping here, the internet here just sucks)
I feel it necessary to note that, yes the problem can sometimes be your teammates. Like I’m talking about Splattershots with like only 3 kills in like 3-4 minute ranked games. S+1 btw with bad super jumps into death still. And then there are times where you just let the tilt from those games get to you too much and play worse yourself. And then there’s times where you just are ass.
Sometimes you make mistakes, sometimes your team members make mistakes. Sometimes you're the best player on your team, sometimes you're the worst. Sometimes you're up against people with more experience, sometimes you aren't. Sometimes the matchmaking screws you over, sometimes it doesn't. It can be one of those things or maybe even a combination of them. I find it helps to remember that not everything is your fault, which in turn helps you improve because your mindset shifts into a more rational mode. You'll start to figure out when any of the above has happened, which means you won't be pigeonholed into one-sided blame as a result. If you do find yourself getting angry, then definitely take a break even if it seems hard to do, or find something that'll help relieve the stress. Personally I don't take a break; instead I channel the rage into my Inkbrush, and somehow start winning games in the process. Different strokes for different folks though, pun thoroughly intended.
I stopped tilting when I stopped caring about ranking up and just started enjoying playing the game and not taking losses so personally. It helps to remind myself why I even care so much as splatoon is JUST a game and there's no need to let it affect my emotions so much. When I started doing that, the game became so much more enjoyable and I started to improve way faster.
I was playing different weapons for a while since launch, feeling like I was playing terribly for a while. I then started using the base dualies, which were my most played weapons in Splatoon 2. I saw instant improvement and the game in general felt alot better to play for me. I definitely learned first hand that sticking with what you know can help with improvement quite a bit.
I needed this video right now. I had an x power in splat zones of over 2400, ranked about #1000 and then went on a horrible losing streak. I'm talking 15 games in a row of straight losses. Went below 2100 and dropped out of top 3000 very early on the losing streak. I stopped seeing top players, but I see them again now. Building myself back up but gosh there is still something bitter about going back and playing.
Another tip I find very useful is to remember the specials and subs of certain weapons. Keep an eye on your enemy's weapons before the match starts. 5 to 6 of the current meta should be enough.
Excellent lesson in mindset. My karate teacher is often talking about "Beginners mind" and I have been thinking that Splatoon is akin to sparring. Nothing like getting kicked or punched to learn how to effectively block. Our egos get in the way so often, I especially liked you mentioning that blaming your teammates is ultimately unfair and that you only can work on yourself. We all start somewhere and want people to play with. Who wants to play with a big, old grump? Not me. In Salmon Run I can get caught in being reluctant to play with more difficult (for me) weapons since I worked so hard to rank up. Letting go of that attachment and realizing that the only way to improve is to keep playing, losing, winning and mostly enjoying the game. Still working on it (gutted when I get knocked down a few levels quickly) and if I feel discouraged taking a break helps a lot. Sleep on it and give our synapses time to develop and learn new skills. It especially has helped my mindset to see that you can actually demote yourself voluntarily! Maybe it's nice for it to not be so overwhelming so you can catch up and figure it out. Thanks again for your great videos.
I'm certain that Series matchmaking is just looking at rank and nothing else. I never saw anyone with S+ badges until I got to S+, and upon getting to S+ I went straight down into hell. Surely if it was matching on any other criteria I would see the negative S+ folks prior to reaching S+ myself, and when I'm in negative S+ I should be getting matched with players at my actual skill. The reason negative S+ is a phenomenon that exists is because these players are not getting matched correctly, apparently they're not even getting matched with each other it seems. Hopefully they take another look at this next season, because something definitely is broken. Losing streaks should put you back down in a pool you can hang with, but this isn't happening.
That is actually a myth, I personally have seen S Rank Players even in my B Rank Matches. The reason S- exists is that Nintendo does not allow people to derank for purposes unknown since it's against what matchmaking is supposed to be - but you do actually have a hidden ELO that ranks you with worse players even if you are stuck in S-. This Ranking bump exist because people can't de-rank and lose their letter when they are supposed to.
@@HDHaZmY In Series or Open? That's normal in Open, but I'm certain it doesn't happen in Series. And that's the only logical explanation I can see for why Series is the way it is, surely negative S+ wouldn't be such an issue if it was able to match you based on your true score.
I used to have this problem, but now I have the problem of feeling like a rank is too hard for me and a rank is too easy for me Which is why I kinda don’t wanna rank up, I just feel like I’ll get permanently stuck in s rank
Thanks I really needed this. I hate how hard I am on myself in real life and then when I play Splatoon I'm still hard on myself. I feel like I can't even have fun right. I can't even play a game right and I feel like a hindrance to my team. Especially since I can't know what they are thinking. It definitely helped calm me down because splatoon is supposed to be the distractions to my problems not another one added on top
Im a A+ rank player and after getting my ass handed to the enemies I realized that if I wanted that S rank I would have to work harder for it, this video has helped me into realizing that im the problem too in a lot of matches too. I play sticks because I my hands and body shake a lot(medical condition) so im trying my best even with those problems, I hope that even with my terrible condition I will reach that S Rank
I’ve been fighting every weekend to get into S+, using weapons I’ve been using since Spla2. Everytime I lost the Rank Up I kept falling into a pattern of expecting it, even though I was thinking “I ought to be better with these weapons”. I had completely forgot how I got up to S in the first place: I love playing different weapons every time I pick up the game. I knew what I wanted to do today was use the Hydra for the first time outside of Salmon. Little did I expect to enjoy my time with it to the point of ranking up. And it was all because I was having fun again.
Don't forget too, that using the same main weapon as in S2 is very different due to different subs and specials. Carbon roller deco was one of my favorite 3 weapons in S2, with the burst bomb sub. Now with just the autobomb available, I tried to make it work a few different times, but have dropped it entirely.
I've personally found that maining and switching between 2 weapons works best to kill a losing streak for me. Sometimes I'm just not having a Dynamo day, so I'll switch to Heavy Splatling. For some reason this always works, and I'd recommend trying it :7
I’m taking a little break rn but I did do some matches and I have been doing a lot better with the ballpoint splatting. Then in my ranked match I was against my first meme team and I pretty much won us the game but it was rlly close. But it’s been working for me really well! :)
Ty Hazmy I subbed. I love when I heard acceptance. I got to S+0 and I'm stuck I was x in splat 2 and s in splat 1. I been starting to call myself trash and calling teammates trash but now that I watched this I feel better ty for you help🤗
Thanks for the vid I actually I felt completely calm when I played with a friend in rm but when I zones I kinda gotten out of control I need this keep this vid as a reminder by how I did so well in rm
i go into ranks with a positive mindset. i try not to think too much about my losses and think about what i was lacking and then i try to improve on that. sometimes sitting back for a few seconds in match can help you coordinate on what your next moves are
So one thing I was surprised on was stick player's in Splatoon, I have been playing Splatoon since I was a kid but a whole lot but I only ever used the motion controls in the first game and I forever have used the stick controls
was just on a massive losing streak where i got 20 kills on average every game and had dead focus on the objective and supporting teamates but non the less went from s 800 to s 200 because of lack luster team mates i honestly dont know what i could of done better.
it's my first time playing splatoon 3. and now i'm in rank s and now i don't play rank mode.. i enjoy playing turf war without thinking about losing or winning 😅
I just wish at the bare minimum rank up battles gave some points back for the wins you DID get. The game feels like a chore cuz in s2 I’d rank up but just getting enough wins to get there but rank up battles make you HAVE to get more on top of the points grind it’s just really degrading. I’m still in b rank purgatory since launch. And my desire to rank up prevents me from just having fun with the game.
Lol I was on a 18 game losing streak on anarchy open AND!!! a 20 defeat losing streak in salmon run a couple weeks ago (to be fair it was a tricky rotation but still). This was after taking multiple breaks over a couple days, i felt myself tilting and would walk away but would come back and immediately lose again. My battle stats got down to 15/35 and I went from eggsecutive VP 230 to profreshional +2. I was definitely not playing my best in every game, some of them I was playing my absolute 100%. I’m in S rank and kept getting into battles with people who had S+ badges which was frustrating too but I hate anarchy series because it’s more stressful to me. I’d say about 30% of the losses were due to unlucky weapon comps or playing against absolutely cracked teams and getting KOd within 2 minutes, then 70% as what I would consider a fair match regarding skill and comps, that we just ended up losing due to mistakes being made. My unlucky streak randomly ended, but I was definitely getting really unmotivated during that week. I have been working on my in game awareness a lot more in S3 and squid school has helped significantly. When I lose I try to think of what I could have done differently and review my replays. Knowing many other people have had losing streaks comparable to mine makes me feel a little better!
for motion controls, best to use an office chair rotation to your advantage, use your legs/feet to help with motion in solo queue i just assume everyone are npcs and i'm playing a high difficulty single player mode since no one chatting lol other way to control your emotions/stress during play is not focus on the score. Just do your best (no point in adjusting playstyle to difficulty) and check score when your gaming session is over and stop playing for the day/evening/etc. it's not a physical sport where you have to gauge your physical capabilities/endurance as matches are just 3 mins each when playing ranked, best to do warm ups/training first to reinforce muscle memory so you don't blame yourself on bad execution or whiff a move/maneuver another good tactic is have a friend and sibling who also play the game watch our replay to get different perspective if all else fails...git gud haha
No, I'm sorry. The rank system in Splat 3 is seriously scuffed. I basically ruined my experience by ranking up above my skill level and now I get crushed 3 out of 4 games, hidden points system be damned. I had a balanced win rate at Rank A. At A+, it's been absolutely miserable to play ranked at all. The games are over so far that I barely even have time to learn anything. I seriously consider throwing my rank up matches in the next season to never rise above Rank A.
Haha I’m stuck at A+ too. Got there with the tristringer but definitely got frustrated with it as it is almost unusable in stopping clam (?football) and rainmaker carriers. Switched to e-liters and had a laughable experience. Now I’ve decided to practice on my aim daily and play only anarchy open. You’d be surprised by how early I started winning again (especially splat zones which I feel is really good to play with eliter). I like thinking of it as a challenge (like everything else in life) and I have set myself a goal of playing with eliter and scoped eliter (which is really fun btw) in anarchy open and turf for a month and then reassess my progress. It’s been a week since I started and I have been winning lots of clam and splat zones. Obviously I lose more than I win, but that’s the part of the learning process and since it’s anarchy open, I don’t get penalised much. The long term goal is to get good enough with eliter and then rank up with series. TLDR, just play open with your favourite weapon/pick a difficult meta weapon you’d like to master and play open with it. It’s amazing how quickly you start winning when you take the pressure off. (Also, if you’ve read this far, one more thing. I saw some Japanese players matches on UA-cam and was shocked with how good they were. Went to their live streams and saw that they too get curbstomped and crushed once in 4 or 5 matches. So it is normal to lose badly since it’s a team game and odds stack badly against even the best of players )
@@NadeemKazi777 It just doesn't feel like I am getting better in that sense, it feels more like I hit my personal skill ceiling and trapped myself in the no-win zone.
@@GoblinTinkerer I’d say it takes time to get better at anything. Just stick to what you know works, watch replays and analyse what you felt could be better and go ahead from there. And if it feels too much work, just play anarchy open where you’ll get some easy wins as well as some well fought wins regularly and losing doesn’t matter much. While I say all this, my skill is pretty average right now. But it will surely get better with time and effort. Keep doing what you do and see where you land up in ranked after a month 👍🏻
@@NadeemKazi777 Listen, I know you mean well but like, I'm kind of reaching an age where my reflexes aren't what they used to be anymore and game knowledge can only get me so far. I have a very real skill ceiling in that regard. I do not enjoy the rank system in this game, I just want to be bounced back a rank if I perform poorly enough and yoyo between ranks if I have to. Being trapped in A+ is absolutely miserable.
@@GoblinTinkerer I’m sorry if I was being inconsiderate 😔 I understand what you’re saying and it sucks that you’re not having fun. I guess in December the season ends and they will demote us down by two ranks. That should take care of your problems. I still feel you’re being too hard on yourself. Play salmon run or turf war if you’re not enjoying anarchy. Just playing the game will help with the reflexes and muscle memory. (I don’t know why I’m being so pushy. I’m sorry if I’m annoying you)
The way you are saying that it that it's our fault for players die that we don't have control of. I get it. We got to accept our defeat. But we can't accept our team for not trying to win and quitting in the beginning or the last minute. There are some players carrying the team that make players in a lot of pressure. The thing is, it's not just u to blame. It's also that your team needs to take the blame for their own mistakes and that how you lose. But the biggest problem is an unbalanced team. Players teaming up with new players. Make it hard to win.
Honestly, sometimes there really are idiots, and I feel like I'm the only one who minds the objective. Some people fully ignore it as they allow a very preventable defeat, only to be miserable at getting splats as well. That's the exact situation I was in the first time I lost my promotion series to S.
7:03 I have a problem where seeing people doing better than me demotivates me. 9:30 I also never got there on any certain metaphor unless I was literally forced to. My sense of internal motivation and patience does not exist.
But what if you try to have retrospective and see what's wrong, start to fix it little by little and you see improvements but you still lose because,.for example, in splat zones the teammate with the aereospray does not ink the big, glowing rectangle in the middle of the field but instead chase enemy players and gets ganked all the fight?? What if you your other teammates just do not want to go forward to help you push the rain maker? They do not go back and help intercept the dude with the shells going in a straight line into the net? I feel your points are super valid, and i love your vids but 25% of the match is on oneself, the player, you can't be responsible for the other 75% of the match that does not cooperate
The seasonal rank down reminded me that I really am an S or higher player since I spent a several hours casually in A+ having enough time in between team fights to paint 1300p+ with the tristringer There was a game when I even had 1700p! Edit; if it wasn't obvious I was playing Zones 👍
There is one outside factor that is absolutely irrefutable and its "Connection error occurred". But for real the advice in the video is great and I would even emphasise on the taking breaks when disconnections occurs as I can say that this instance can add more stress which in turn can make the player play worse and its okay to step back a bit if the issue is not the players end.
My muscle memory for some weapons is a bit too good some time's, in splatoon 2 I stopped playing for months and about a month before splatoon 3 came out I decided to play a bit of splatoon 2 and when I booted up the game I was telling my brother how I was going to be super rusty but when I went into a match I went beast mode my brother in shock asked how are you doing this and I said I have no idea it's like my hands have a mind of there own!😄
My teammates suck. -600 because of incompetent teammates. The ONE time I die, my teammates can't handle it and it's really hard to carry with the explosher even though I'll get 21 splats and point sensor everyone and they STILL can't kill them even with my chip damage. They are literally 1 shot🤦♂️
I been trying to get to S rank not S+ S freaking rank. I been stuck on A rank for nearly a year (Splatoon 2) Recently ranked down back to B+. on tower control. I don't blame teammates at all tho should I just give up after all the practice, play style changes, breaks i've taken, and mindsets?
this is quite insightful, I fall into a few bad habits sometimes lol. I often start out my session incredibly and then i think my adreniline hypes me too much 😂 and it all falls apart lol. I do think that the rank system could do with some improvements though, Ive been B+ for a while and just ranked up to A-, now A and since i started ive been versing S+ players 😫. Im like all I want is to battle people in my rank like in S2 and 1 but game is like nup 😆
I agree with a lot of what you say and while I'm a splatoon 1 veteran I'm nothing like a pro but if I'm playing a match and my team sits at spawn doing nothing while i fight a 1v4 in mid blaming them a little seems justified to me. 🤷♂️ maybe that says something about me but when my team pulls their weight i have no qualms if we lose.
As an eliter main, if I get matched against another sniper who manages to do really well or if I get sniped by another sniper, I take the time to appreciate the skill and or strategy of the shot and think about how I could utlilize it for the future Edit: I can’t English-
As a new eliter player, the duels I have with an enemy eliter is usually the most satisfying part of the match, win or lose. It’s almost as if you can see the nod of encouragement towards each other when we square off !
What was going on there where up top it looked like there was a button assigned to each of the 8 players in the match, and a number that I think was indicating each player's special charge percentage?
Great video :), but i there is other factor that i think is inavoidable, depends where you live, here in chile, almost in the entire country, we play with a lag that no matter how good is the internet connection, with LAN adapter o specific configurations... specially japanese players, have an "advantage lag", it's hard to explain but its almost imposible to splat any player without "magically" getting splatted just because lag :( in my case, happens in every match, so play ranked or turf wars against a team o pro players it's just a absurd :(
I literally can't rank up because I am being put against players WAY better than me. I got into S rank recently and it's so annoying because I can't do anything about it 😭
The understanding part is where i struggle the most (at least rn). I have been stuck around S rank 500-600 points for quite a while now and i do not understand the problem, i go through the replays of losses and wins and i play the same way in both. the only changing variable i notice between matches are my teammates and enemy teams. i feel like the only 2 options i have to improve are to either get lucky and get good teammates every game or spend thousands of hours in S rank until you eventually are able to carry every team you get. i am certain neither of those are the case but i can't think of any other reason because the only changing variable between the games i lose and the games i win are my teammates and the enemy team, so if anyone knows if I am just entirely missing something important or any other variable that could affect my gameplay please tell me. if this helps I main the E-Liter and have a thousand hours between splatoon 2 and 3
It's hard to invisibly tell what could go wrong but a balanced win/loss ratio is usually the sign you peaked! In that case what you need to observe is what you could do better in the games you lose and figure out a new way to win those matches since your current way of thinking / playing seemed to have peaked.
God thx for this. I’m currently an a plus rank player and want to get better. My friends think Splatoon isn’t very competitive. They’re wrong. I’ve been playing for like 4 years now and have enjoyed the game ever since I was 9 or 10 years old.
It's really strange. I had like 5 rank up games to go from S to S+ and those games were extremely competitive my team just got completely demolished all the time. But the final rank up games that finally got me to S+, It felt like players were around my skill level all of the sudden and I managed to get into S+ I don't know what was that about lol. But happy regardless that I managed to get to S+ with the E-Liter :) I can finally wear the gold anarchy badge
Would it be possible for you to do a video on rank up battles? The matchmaking for them is a mystery for me. My biggest wonder is if some of my regular anarchy battles are against teams doing "rank up battles" for lower ranks.
Hey, great video! I just want to offer a counter-argument to something you said, based not only on my experience as an X-Rank player, but also a part-time coach in other shooters and someone who talks to eSport professionals and aim researchers (and people like KovaaK) almost every day. You talk a lot about the importance of muscle memory and recommend that people stick to one gun, but I very much disagree with that. "Muscle memory" doesn't factor in at all for aiming etc. and while it's true that the cream of the crop of professional players know the details of every gun better than anyone else, I don't think beginners should stick to one main gun for many of the same reasons you mention throughout the video: you are training bad habits and give yourself less of a chance to look beyond that. The more (diverse) weapons you play, the more you get to understand about how Splatoon works as a game, how people move, how people should not move, what the strengths of certain weapons/roles are and what the weakneses. Say you're maining a Splattershot, and you think you're playing well and need to stick to that weapon to improve. But then you switch to a Hydra and learn to position yourself with it. And as you sit back and anchor you all of a sudden notice how a game flows throughout a match much more than you would by pressing forward on the stick constantly to get into slaying range with a Splattershot. Your own experience with the game will teach you which Splattershot tactics are easy prey for a weapon like the Hydra, and which tactics cause you an issue. This will not only make you a better Hydra player, it will also make you better at the Splattershot and better at the game in general. tl;dr: Learning the game wholistically is much more important than min-maxing your knowledge of a specific gun. Perfect mechanics can win 50/50 fights, which is good of course. But the best players don't take 50/50 fights, they learn how to take advantage of any minor mistake and avoid their own. Being able to instinctively read the game regardless of the gun in your hand will make you rank up more consistently AND across more shooters than just Splatoon.
Thank you for the comments, even though I don't think we are actually disagreeing! In the video I talk about muscle-memory on getting used to playing with a weapon, which I 100% stand by as an important thing, since swapping them all the time won't let you truly master a weapon. I do agree that trying out different weapons is important not only to give yourself a chance to find the weapon that really fits you but to learn the game on a big picture level on what is every gun's strengths and weakness so you know what weapons you face and what their weaknesses are. On that note - I think these are two completely different issues and topics, since you can still main a weapon and try your best to improve with it and also experiment with different ones and study them every now and then without giving up your major playtime on your main. An an example you can totally play a few battles with a Hydra - but if your aim is to actually win and train - it's likely better to focus on your Splattershot to become even better.
I do have a weird question. How do I get over thia weird claustrophobic feeling of getting flanked on my side? Like if they ahead of me I feel like I can start thinking of strategies to get around that opponent. Though as soon as they get on my side; something physically stops me from just turning my camera to its side and aiming. I dunno where I picked this habit up from in 3... Edit: In Splatoon 2 my main weapon was octobrush. It taught me alot about flanking. My main now is Splatana. In 3 it feels like flanking is lot harder to do now.
Good posture definitely helps, but explain this: how on the world did I manage to win a Anarchy Series with NO LOSSES while having back pain, slouching, and playing in handheld with motion controls on. And yet I lose a Series with zero wins when I'm the most comfortable. My body works in strange ways. Also mindset helps A LOT. When I changed my mindset from "WHAT ARE MY TEAMMATES DOING?!" and "Bro the weapon lineup is SO unfair" to "Okay, I died there. So how can I do better next time? What can I do to avoid that?" sent me from the bottom of S- to S+ and top 20,000 in X battle. (And that was from the 5 placement matches ONLY because ZONES WAS NEVER IN ROTATION WHEN I PLAYED Ht g5894iyehrhWRYG&). Please ignore my rant, felt the need to say that. Also looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong comment :)
I hate WHEN i get noob that only paint start and NEVER MID and also just started playing hwile my enemy's of corse have areospray, gal 52., And this blaster for kids that kill in 2 hits and shot like crazy
I wish I had more friends that actually play Splatoon, cause it'd be really nice to be able to play with a consistently competent team. I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I am never a drag and the biggest problem I'm having right now is many times, I get paired with incompetent teams with bad weapon comps, but then on the odd chance that I DO get a good team, we play like one or two matches, then the freaking online service takes a dump and the team is gone! I just need a way to get a consistent team, because at the end of the day, Splatoon is a TEAM based shooter. Nobody can win all by themselves!
Had my first go at a rank up to S and it feels like a different game. I heard S+ was a huge jump in skill but didn't know S would be as well. Went 0-3 and I was very clearly holding my team back. I actually felt bad. The fact you demote after seasons sucks. I want to just stay at A+ tbh.
I'm on S rank and I find it unlikely I'm going to be S+ soon... Sometimes it's my team that is bad, sometimes the weapons I get ranked with are so bad. One point you can't argue with is my internet or Nintendo's bad net code, which results in disconnects very often, so I don't really have a chance
I get asked a lot on how to get better at Splatoon or get used to playing on a higher rank, or even Salmon Run - so here are my thoughts and my mindset that helped me achieve high ranks in games in general!
Share your tips and thoughts too as I am really interested - but I hope this video will help!
Bruh, you are spitting facts here about self improvement, regardless of Splatoon. Dudes like you should teach in schools how to just learn to be better at anything
I have made a habit of giving my opponent credit when they splat me and say things like “nice bomb, you got me” or “wow that guy punished me for my mistake”. Making a habit of acknowledging your opponents for their performance during a match really helps
@@ClayAdams same here, I know when I put my self in a bad position or out played.
And just say “you clever girl”.
Ditto idk how tf to get past everyone n a rank being pro lvl already yet but ima keep banging my head n2 the wall hopefully someday I get n2 s rank.
Splatoon is one of the most high skill ceiling games I've ever played.
It is, and it's often just shrugged away as a "Children's Game"
Just because 🌟colour🌟 is involved and its by Nintendo
I felt the same way with smash melee
I think that goes to Smash
@@Danny328DT I think we can all agree that none of us are gonna hit the ceiling of either of them
Love how these tips can also translate over to Salmon Run. Sure its a pve mode rather than Anarchy pvp, but it’s still a fast paced team game you have to learn how to adapt on the fly to. The tactics are different but the core concept is similar. I wish there were SR replays tho to see what went wrong and how I could improve there 😅… Overall great video and excellent advice!
This!!
I mean I have been both the "my teammates suck" and "I suck" person in Salmon Run but then find I play better if I am more focused and relaxed instead of focusing on winning. Because there are times (especially in clips that I save) where I am like "oh god that was silly of all of us. Who knew that three of us standing on the slammin' lid hovering above the water would result in us... falling into the water after we defeat it. Our final living team-mate must have been like "oh my god, really?!"
I laughed so hard.
And sometimes that's my method, just imagine how the other person must be thinking.
Still doesn't take away the fact that a particular set of boss salmonids are the most detestable turds that have ever existed...
@@angelsartandgaming Omg that sounds hilarious XD! And yeah I can agree with what you said about being more relaxed tends to bring better results. I was playing VP a little mindlessly in front of my family but I ended up making it all the way to the final seconds of wave 3 as if nothing was stressful about it. Sure since its VP it requires some cognitive skill of what you’re doing, but the point still stands that I was able to preform much better when I wasn’t stressed about the game vs when I only prioritize “winning” or whatever is going wrong. I even recently got the VP 200 badge for Sockeye during the Dynamo rotation through Freelance only! You have the right mindset and I wish you luck 💖
@@JustaTeaLeaf OOHH CONGRATS!! I haven't got to VP yet mainly because I did have a loss streak recently (nor have I got back to profressional 2+ yet because conch shells!! I need my titles dagnabbit!!), but I will one day.
@@angelsartandgaming Understandable since conch shells are very important when they appear. I believe in you when you do return to the SR hellhole grind. If you want some advice for ranking up in solo, always watch your back. Practicing game awareness in a game with limited communication can save many coworker’s lives! See what your teammates are focusing and take a quick glance for anything that can be a threat to them. For example two coworkers might call out a Big Shot by shore, but then you look behind you and you’re the only one who sees a Stinger on the opposite side of the map! Pop special or whatever is most convenient in that scenario so your coworkers can continue taking down the Big Shot and you’ve essentially removed two huge threats from the board
Thanks for the video! I'm just a casual player who tends to stick with turf, but it's a good listen. I think it's great you brought up the topic of blaming others. All it does is create toxicity. And you never know the people on the other side of the screen.
One of my personal tips: when you're getting a losing streak, or you're in a match where you're being overpowered, focus on the little victories.
Is the opposite team too far along with their Tower? Okay, maybe you don't have the time to turn over the game, but take this opportunity to figure out good positions for defence.
You're being spawn camped in turf? Oh look, convenient target practise for my tri-stringer that I'm learning to use!
Or a personal example: I had a match where we were dominated by a mob of blob lobbers. I could not for the life of me figure out how to counter them. So toward the end I set myself a new goal, I'm splatting at least one of them before the match is over. At that point I stopped panicking about losing the match and focused on how to actually splat these guys, and wound up doing an immensely satisfying ambush OHKO with my Splatana Stamper. We still lost the match, but that wound up one of my favorite memories of Splatoon.
And the best part is that "little victories" are both motivating, good teaching opportunities and can push you towards an actual win. That OHKO moment taught me the importance of slowing down and the power of an ambush. It made me feel better for the next match. And often these little goals can serve as stepping stones to actually recovering and winning.
Whenever I get a bad losing streak or otherwise super frustrating game in pvp I move over to salmon run cause I feel like the mindset is very different in SR when you win/lose compared to playing against other people. You lose in pvp you might be mad at the opposing team or at your own. If you lose in pve you can't really be mad at the AI, so you'll either be sad for your teammates or just have a chuckle at unlucky rng.
Ok, now this is exactly what I've been looking for within the past few days.
When I got to s+, I was not ready at all. I got knocked down time and time again, and I only chalked it up to unlucky matchmaking.
Then the splatfest rolled around and I was on team grub. You all know how that went. The thing is, this was the fourth splatfest I've ever been in, and I lost every. Single. Time.
This brought me to a realization: am I bad at this game? Am I a hindrance to the people on my side? I mean, the only weapon I'm good at is the aerospray, which everyone views as the single worst weapon in the game.
Then Squid School made a full weapons tier list and went to town when he got to the aerospray.
"The only thing it's good at is special farming," he said, "but it doesn't have a special worth farming for."
His words "are you meming right now?" Resounded through my head for weeks on end. So not only can I not play this game WELL, I can't even play it CORRECTLY.
So now I'm sitting here with -3000 points I AM NOT JOKING in s+0, thinking about how if I want to get good, I'll have to throw fun out the window. Have my three years of playing aerospray meant NOTHING!?
I developed a motto: "oh yeah, forgot I wasn't allowed to win."
Thank you, Haz. This should help me get in a better place.
I don't think it's the Aerospray that got you stuck overall - but it does contribute to it, since you are playing at a disadvantage, so it's an easy culprit to blame!
It's always worth to check your replays and see what exactly is the reason of your losses and what you could do better to counter some of the negatives of the weapon.
In the end, there's a lot to it and it's not easy to answer, but it's a start!
Got a similar story here actually.
First time playing a Splat game, climbed through the ranks incredibly fast, winning all my series matches - got to S+0 and to a level where I can call myself decent enough to belong in this rank through Turf and Salmon practice, and overall just playing the game a lot. I'm close to 200 hours. Once I got to S+0, I started going into points debt for the first time, and lost about 10-20 series which got me to -1.5k or something. Not as bad as 3k like you, but still, you can surely agree that even getting to -500 is a devastating blow. Magically started winning again today for some reason, and climbed up back to -600. So just give it some more time my g. There are lose streaks and there are win streaks. And yeah, try switching to a different weapon from time to time, even one you're not good at. Tinker with the aim sensibility too, get out of your comfort zone - that should help you to A) have more fun B) get better at the game. If nothing helps just take a break really, get plenty of sleep, and come back after a bit.
P.S. Haven't watched the full vid yet, so Idk if something that I said earlier also gets said in the vid
Ranked is a mess now. Don't sweat it.
I don't know what they did with the elo but the game is not fun.
I was using my s2 mains (hydra,blaster,daple,inkbrush) and was doing 17+ kills, easy climb to S+2. But I got bored.
So I switched to tristringer and nautilus, weapons that cannot carry.
Proud s+ -8000 now with 20% wins.
Game does not want me to have balanced matches. Only pain. Thanks Nintendo.
(Was quad X 2400 on s2)
@@jousis_ Yeah, sometimes Nintendo really doesn't want you to enjoy your session. It happens to me mostly when I have time to play in the morning, my lineups include:
- Splat-focused people who suck at splatting
- Base inkers in Ranked modes, and no they don't have missiles
- People who might have modded their game to get rid of the pesky objective icons
- That one wannabe sniper who stands in one spot, their end-game score ends up being 0/2 100p
- The 2 or 3-people squad that gets taken out by the same isolated Dualies / Shooter user, detected by Point Sensor during the entire fight
- That one player who thinks they're about to carry with their flank, only to find out their aim would miss a barn at point blank
And then you wonder why Nintendo believed that'd result in an even game
if you want to switch over to a similar weapon, i would recommend the jr. it’s actually really solid in this game and bubbler is a great special
Splatoon is the only online PVP/PVE game I can play, even though I'm not the best at it. It's fun even when I'm losing. Mostly I stick to Turf, but I think the fact that I can still earn exp even when I'm failing keeps me coming back? Like I'm not just penalized for "being bad", and I still have incentives to play even if I keep losing. Also, the fan base has a lot of surprisingly chill people if you can find other people to play/chat with.
Yeah Splatoon does an excellent job as I would say...making an FPS fun for people who normally don't like them - it's a really unique solution to the genre!
I play with Chargers so I'm always in the improving mindset. Its like art, you keep practicing and improving, but not moving on to selling art despite being ready. Which is why when I play rank mode, I climb really quickly. Start of S3, I haven't haven't played S2 in awhile so my movements and aiming felt bad. Then eventually it came back once I got into charger drills again.
I watch a lot of streamers and I still see a lot of really good players still blaming teammates and comp. I get that there's weapon tier lists and meta, but I feel like their salt does get in the way of improving or even winning. Everyone, including top players, still have something to improve and it could be something like mentality.
This is the reason this is my favorite splatoon channel. Good wholesome info (the whole community is pretty wholesome and nontoxic generally) and life advice even. Also salmon report is great
I can't stress enough how useful Gem's videos are. Just working on game awareness, learning to often check my map, pay attention to opponents' gear abilities at the start of a match (especially ninja squid) and pay attention to numbers and special advantage, all these tips helped me improve tremendously.
Then there are his vids on specific game modes that are amazing as well when you get a bit more advanced. I'd advise checking these two types after watching his vids on weapon roles to have a good starting point.
As for the mindset, i'd say the most effective thing to do is to enter a mindset where instead of paying attention to your rank, you take every situation as a way to learn. And once again, Gem's vids help a lot, since he's a teacher IRL. So that helps me a lot to get into that mindset.
I've bee stuck at S+ for the longest time, like I'm in negative 1100s 😭😭 but this video was really helpful! I'll definitely be taking your advice and maybe become a better me
Thanks for the video mate! Your videos are really fun to watch, and very informative! Your doing everyone a solid just by being you!! Good day and keep making high quality content! (But also take care of yourself! No rush for making content!😅)
Definitely helpful even if I haven't touched ranked. I usually tend to only win half of my matches, but the one time I won all but one threw me off SO hard. I got cocky and I immediately went back to losing most matches. I definitely agree with taking breaks, I ended up taking a break from turf because I was so frustrated and played salmon run instead, which I also was prepared to suck at but found an amazing team of randoms and that definitely improved my mood. When I stepped back into Turf with some friends, I started doing a lot better again. Playing with friends definitely takes the sting out of losing as well
After watching this I feel a lot better about getting from S to S+ ! I will let you know how it goes! You made a lot of good points I hadn't thought about! Thank you!
This might be your best video yet! I needed to hear a lot of this, and these tips apply to other things than Splatoon and videogames as well. I just got to S-rank, and I'm doing pretty well, even though I often have blamed my teammates for losing. Not anymore!
Great video overall, but just a minor correction at around 5:17. Your rank definitely factors into matchmaking. It's not a meaningless value, though the game does try to match you based on your power level within your rank. If it was meaningless, people wouldn't be complaining about being stuck in massive debt as after you lose enough, your power level would drop to a point where you should be better than your opponents and thus, be able to win much more often than lose, but this doesn't happen.
At -3K myself now and on a massive loosing streak in Anarchy for about 3 weeks. If the video was correct, that would have broken by now.
I play anarchy occasionally when I am in the mood to learn. And I have seen improvement in that I will win about 1 out of four matches (not really breaking a streak) as opposed to loosing every game as I was before. I can only take this for so long though.
@@SubjectNate Yeah I'm pretty much in the same boat. I'm "improving", but still lose 1 in every 6 games or so whenever I go to Series (was worse earlier last month). Ironically enough, Open seems to have much better matches. I suspect it's because there's no rank restriction there so the game can more easily pair based on your power level.
This is definitely helping me, I’ve been stuck in overachiever forever in salmon run and I’ve just been not wanting to play just because I’m scared of getting pretty bad teammates.
(One reason that is unable to change is Aussie ping here, the internet here just sucks)
I feel it necessary to note that, yes the problem can sometimes be your teammates. Like I’m talking about Splattershots with like only 3 kills in like 3-4 minute ranked games. S+1 btw with bad super jumps into death still. And then there are times where you just let the tilt from those games get to you too much and play worse yourself. And then there’s times where you just are ass.
This is all well said. So much in this video is also incredible advice for implementing change and improvements in our personal lives!
Sometimes you make mistakes, sometimes your team members make mistakes. Sometimes you're the best player on your team, sometimes you're the worst. Sometimes you're up against people with more experience, sometimes you aren't.
Sometimes the matchmaking screws you over, sometimes it doesn't.
It can be one of those things or maybe even a combination of them. I find it helps to remember that not everything is your fault, which in turn helps you improve because your mindset shifts into a more rational mode. You'll start to figure out when any of the above has happened, which means you won't be pigeonholed into one-sided blame as a result. If you do find yourself getting angry, then definitely take a break even if it seems hard to do, or find something that'll help relieve the stress.
Personally I don't take a break; instead I channel the rage into my Inkbrush, and somehow start winning games in the process. Different strokes for different folks though, pun thoroughly intended.
One of the best videos I've seen on the subject. Really put all the points in such understandable ways and showed great knowledge on this topic.
I stopped tilting when I stopped caring about ranking up and just started enjoying playing the game and not taking losses so personally. It helps to remind myself why I even care so much as splatoon is JUST a game and there's no need to let it affect my emotions so much. When I started doing that, the game became so much more enjoyable and I started to improve way faster.
Not only did he give us gaming tips but he gave us a life lesson
Thank you so much for encouraging keeping the community a healthier place. I really appreciate the wholesomeness ❤
I was playing different weapons for a while since launch, feeling like I was playing terribly for a while. I then started using the base dualies, which were my most played weapons in Splatoon 2. I saw instant improvement and the game in general felt alot better to play for me.
I definitely learned first hand that sticking with what you know can help with improvement quite a bit.
Honestly this really helped, I’ve been in a massive losing streak but this made me fell better about it
I needed this video right now. I had an x power in splat zones of over 2400, ranked about #1000 and then went on a horrible losing streak. I'm talking 15 games in a row of straight losses. Went below 2100 and dropped out of top 3000 very early on the losing streak.
I stopped seeing top players, but I see them again now.
Building myself back up but gosh there is still something bitter about going back and playing.
this is a like a nice therapy session lol. thank you for this video haz, more people could benefit in giving it a watch :)
Another tip I find very useful is to remember the specials and subs of certain weapons. Keep an eye on your enemy's weapons before the match starts. 5 to 6 of the current meta should be enough.
This comment has been way more useful and relevant. You have to be aware of the weapon role or range of your opponents.
watch the pro's, watch Dude, never blaming his team, they only care about their own contribution.
i hate how at 2:31 i keep getting distracted by the spinning crab🤣great video its nice and concise
Excellent lesson in mindset. My karate teacher is often talking about "Beginners mind" and I have been thinking that Splatoon is akin to sparring. Nothing like getting kicked or punched to learn how to effectively block. Our egos get in the way so often, I especially liked you mentioning that blaming your teammates is ultimately unfair and that you only can work on yourself. We all start somewhere and want people to play with. Who wants to play with a big, old grump? Not me.
In Salmon Run I can get caught in being reluctant to play with more difficult (for me) weapons since I worked so hard to rank up. Letting go of that attachment and realizing that the only way to improve is to keep playing, losing, winning and mostly enjoying the game. Still working on it (gutted when I get knocked down a few levels quickly) and if I feel discouraged taking a break helps a lot. Sleep on it and give our synapses time to develop and learn new skills. It especially has helped my mindset to see that you can actually demote yourself voluntarily! Maybe it's nice for it to not be so overwhelming so you can catch up and figure it out.
Thanks again for your great videos.
Squid school is the shit. I can't recommend the "What am I doing" series enough to people who want to get better.
I'm certain that Series matchmaking is just looking at rank and nothing else. I never saw anyone with S+ badges until I got to S+, and upon getting to S+ I went straight down into hell. Surely if it was matching on any other criteria I would see the negative S+ folks prior to reaching S+ myself, and when I'm in negative S+ I should be getting matched with players at my actual skill. The reason negative S+ is a phenomenon that exists is because these players are not getting matched correctly, apparently they're not even getting matched with each other it seems.
Hopefully they take another look at this next season, because something definitely is broken. Losing streaks should put you back down in a pool you can hang with, but this isn't happening.
That is actually a myth, I personally have seen S Rank Players even in my B Rank Matches.
The reason S- exists is that Nintendo does not allow people to derank for purposes unknown since it's against what matchmaking is supposed to be - but you do actually have a hidden ELO that ranks you with worse players even if you are stuck in S-.
This Ranking bump exist because people can't de-rank and lose their letter when they are supposed to.
@@HDHaZmY In Series or Open? That's normal in Open, but I'm certain it doesn't happen in Series. And that's the only logical explanation I can see for why Series is the way it is, surely negative S+ wouldn't be such an issue if it was able to match you based on your true score.
@@missingno_fgc It also happens in Series - Of course the current system is not perfect but it's also not a disaster that people claim it to be.
THIS! We need more stuff like this. Thank you!
15:50 " When you are given a hammer, you tend to treat every problem as if it were a nail"
I used to have this problem, but now I have the problem of feeling like a rank is too hard for me and a rank is too easy for me
Which is why I kinda don’t wanna rank up, I just feel like I’ll get permanently stuck in s rank
Thanks I really needed this. I hate how hard I am on myself in real life and then when I play Splatoon I'm still hard on myself. I feel like I can't even have fun right. I can't even play a game right and I feel like a hindrance to my team. Especially since I can't know what they are thinking. It definitely helped calm me down because splatoon is supposed to be the distractions to my problems not another one added on top
Im a A+ rank player and after getting my ass handed to the enemies I realized that if I wanted that S rank I would have to work harder for it, this video has helped me into realizing that im the problem too in a lot of matches too.
I play sticks because I my hands and body shake a lot(medical condition) so im trying my best even with those problems, I hope that even with my terrible condition I will reach that S Rank
You continue to improve as a Splatoon content creator as well. Which is representative of the advice you give as well. Keep it up
Of course this video drops the day after I make it to S+😂
Regardless great video keep up the great work
I’ve been fighting every weekend to get into S+, using weapons I’ve been using since Spla2. Everytime I lost the Rank Up I kept falling into a pattern of expecting it, even though I was thinking “I ought to be better with these weapons”.
I had completely forgot how I got up to S in the first place: I love playing different weapons every time I pick up the game.
I knew what I wanted to do today was use the Hydra for the first time outside of Salmon. Little did I expect to enjoy my time with it to the point of ranking up.
And it was all because I was having fun again.
Don't forget too, that using the same main weapon as in S2 is very different due to different subs and specials.
Carbon roller deco was one of my favorite 3 weapons in S2, with the burst bomb sub.
Now with just the autobomb available, I tried to make it work a few different times, but have dropped it entirely.
I've personally found that maining and switching between 2 weapons works best to kill a losing streak for me.
Sometimes I'm just not having a Dynamo day, so I'll switch to Heavy Splatling. For some reason this always works, and I'd recommend trying it :7
I’ll try now and tell you how it works out. c:
It is ok if I try 3 weapons instead of 2?
@@starvthemo2363 Obviously! I think a big part of improving is experimenting what works best for you :)
I’m taking a little break rn but I did do some matches and I have been doing a lot better with the ballpoint splatting. Then in my ranked match I was against my first meme team and I pretty much won us the game but it was rlly close. But it’s been working for me really well! :)
I have seen some of your videos before and liked them but this video made me Subscribe awesome work!
One thing that helped me stop raging is thinking about how you’re making someone else happy.
12:45 the same applies when using a different kit for a weapon, your brain thinks, bomb but instead you send a suction or wall
Ty Hazmy I subbed. I love when I heard acceptance. I got to S+0 and I'm stuck I was x in splat 2 and s in splat 1. I been starting to call myself trash and calling teammates trash but now that I watched this I feel better ty for you help🤗
I love your videos. The philosophy in this one is so good. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for the vid I actually I felt completely calm when I played with a friend in rm but when I zones I kinda gotten out of control I need this keep this vid as a reminder by how I did so well in rm
i go into ranks with a positive mindset. i try not to think too much about my losses and think about what i was lacking and then i try to improve on that. sometimes sitting back for a few seconds in match can help you coordinate on what your next moves are
So one thing I was surprised on was stick player's in Splatoon, I have been playing Splatoon since I was a kid but a whole lot but I only ever used the motion controls in the first game and I forever have used the stick controls
was just on a massive losing streak where i got 20 kills on average every game and had dead focus on the objective and supporting teamates but non the less went from s 800 to s 200 because of lack luster team mates i honestly dont know what i could of done better.
I watched this because I’ve been trying for my third X Rank in 2, since I got S+ in 3. Good motivational advice tbh.
What I notice with Japanese players too, they tend apologise if they die or lose, they don't blame their team.
it's my first time playing splatoon 3. and now i'm in rank s and now i don't play rank mode.. i enjoy playing turf war without thinking about losing or winning 😅
I just wish at the bare minimum rank up battles gave some points back for the wins you DID get. The game feels like a chore cuz in s2 I’d rank up but just getting enough wins to get there but rank up battles make you HAVE to get more on top of the points grind it’s just really degrading. I’m still in b rank purgatory since launch. And my desire to rank up prevents me from just having fun with the game.
Lol I was on a 18 game losing streak on anarchy open AND!!! a 20 defeat losing streak in salmon run a couple weeks ago (to be fair it was a tricky rotation but still). This was after taking multiple breaks over a couple days, i felt myself tilting and would walk away but would come back and immediately lose again. My battle stats got down to 15/35 and I went from eggsecutive VP 230 to profreshional +2.
I was definitely not playing my best in every game, some of them I was playing my absolute 100%. I’m in S rank and kept getting into battles with people who had S+ badges which was frustrating too but I hate anarchy series because it’s more stressful to me.
I’d say about 30% of the losses were due to unlucky weapon comps or playing against absolutely cracked teams and getting KOd within 2 minutes, then 70% as what I would consider a fair match regarding skill and comps, that we just ended up losing due to mistakes being made.
My unlucky streak randomly ended, but I was definitely getting really unmotivated during that week. I have been working on my in game awareness a lot more in S3 and squid school has helped significantly. When I lose I try to think of what I could have done differently and review my replays.
Knowing many other people have had losing streaks comparable to mine makes me feel a little better!
Thank you!
Losing because i'm bad is perfectly fine to me, it's the constant fear of getting disconnected that kills my motivation personally
Sadly I can relate to that - hopefully Nintendo will fix it soon!
for motion controls, best to use an office chair rotation to your advantage, use your legs/feet to help with motion
in solo queue i just assume everyone are npcs and i'm playing a high difficulty single player mode since no one chatting lol
other way to control your emotions/stress during play is not focus on the score. Just do your best (no point in adjusting playstyle to difficulty) and check score when your gaming session is over and stop playing for the day/evening/etc. it's not a physical sport where you have to gauge your physical capabilities/endurance as matches are just 3 mins each
when playing ranked, best to do warm ups/training first to reinforce muscle memory so you don't blame yourself on bad execution or whiff a move/maneuver
another good tactic is have a friend and sibling who also play the game watch our replay to get different perspective
if all else fails...git gud haha
No, I'm sorry. The rank system in Splat 3 is seriously scuffed. I basically ruined my experience by ranking up above my skill level and now I get crushed 3 out of 4 games, hidden points system be damned. I had a balanced win rate at Rank A. At A+, it's been absolutely miserable to play ranked at all. The games are over so far that I barely even have time to learn anything. I seriously consider throwing my rank up matches in the next season to never rise above Rank A.
Haha I’m stuck at A+ too. Got there with the tristringer but definitely got frustrated with it as it is almost unusable in stopping clam (?football) and rainmaker carriers. Switched to e-liters and had a laughable experience. Now I’ve decided to practice on my aim daily and play only anarchy open. You’d be surprised by how early I started winning again (especially splat zones which I feel is really good to play with eliter).
I like thinking of it as a challenge (like everything else in life) and I have set myself a goal of playing with eliter and scoped eliter (which is really fun btw) in anarchy open and turf for a month and then reassess my progress.
It’s been a week since I started and I have been winning lots of clam and splat zones. Obviously I lose more than I win, but that’s the part of the learning process and since it’s anarchy open, I don’t get penalised much. The long term goal is to get good enough with eliter and then rank up with series.
TLDR, just play open with your favourite weapon/pick a difficult meta weapon you’d like to master and play open with it. It’s amazing how quickly you start winning when you take the pressure off.
(Also, if you’ve read this far, one more thing. I saw some Japanese players matches on UA-cam and was shocked with how good they were. Went to their live streams and saw that they too get curbstomped and crushed once in 4 or 5 matches. So it is normal to lose badly since it’s a team game and odds stack badly against even the best of players )
@@NadeemKazi777 It just doesn't feel like I am getting better in that sense, it feels more like I hit my personal skill ceiling and trapped myself in the no-win zone.
@@GoblinTinkerer I’d say it takes time to get better at anything. Just stick to what you know works, watch replays and analyse what you felt could be better and go ahead from there. And if it feels too much work, just play anarchy open where you’ll get some easy wins as well as some well fought wins regularly and losing doesn’t matter much. While I say all this, my skill is pretty average right now. But it will surely get better with time and effort.
Keep doing what you do and see where you land up in ranked after a month 👍🏻
@@NadeemKazi777 Listen, I know you mean well but like, I'm kind of reaching an age where my reflexes aren't what they used to be anymore and game knowledge can only get me so far. I have a very real skill ceiling in that regard. I do not enjoy the rank system in this game, I just want to be bounced back a rank if I perform poorly enough and yoyo between ranks if I have to. Being trapped in A+ is absolutely miserable.
@@GoblinTinkerer I’m sorry if I was being inconsiderate 😔
I understand what you’re saying and it sucks that you’re not having fun. I guess in December the season ends and they will demote us down by two ranks. That should take care of your problems.
I still feel you’re being too hard on yourself. Play salmon run or turf war if you’re not enjoying anarchy. Just playing the game will help with the reflexes and muscle memory.
(I don’t know why I’m being so pushy. I’m sorry if I’m annoying you)
The way you are saying that it that it's our fault for players die that we don't have control of. I get it. We got to accept our defeat. But we can't accept our team for not trying to win and quitting in the beginning or the last minute. There are some players carrying the team that make players in a lot of pressure. The thing is, it's not just u to blame. It's also that your team needs to take the blame for their own mistakes and that how you lose. But the biggest problem is an unbalanced team. Players teaming up with new players. Make it hard to win.
I think it was all well explained
Honestly, sometimes there really are idiots, and I feel like I'm the only one who minds the objective. Some people fully ignore it as they allow a very preventable defeat, only to be miserable at getting splats as well. That's the exact situation I was in the first time I lost my promotion series to S.
7:03 I have a problem where seeing people doing better than me demotivates me.
9:30 I also never got there on any certain metaphor unless I was literally forced to. My sense of internal motivation and patience does not exist.
I was having a great time in Harmony
But everything change till the communication error attack
😡
But what if you try to have retrospective and see what's wrong, start to fix it little by little and you see improvements but you still lose because,.for example, in splat zones the teammate with the aereospray does not ink the big, glowing rectangle in the middle of the field but instead chase enemy players and gets ganked all the fight??
What if you your other teammates just do not want to go forward to help you push the rain maker? They do not go back and help intercept the dude with the shells going in a straight line into the net?
I feel your points are super valid, and i love your vids but 25% of the match is on oneself, the player, you can't be responsible for the other 75% of the match that does not cooperate
The seasonal rank down reminded me that I really am an S or higher player since I spent a several hours casually in A+ having enough time in between team fights to paint 1300p+ with the tristringer
There was a game when I even had 1700p!
Edit; if it wasn't obvious I was playing Zones 👍
I would also suggest watching pros.
You will understand what and they do in ranked
There is one outside factor that is absolutely irrefutable and its "Connection error occurred". But for real the advice in the video is great and I would even emphasise on the taking breaks when disconnections occurs as I can say that this instance can add more stress which in turn can make the player play worse and its okay to step back a bit if the issue is not the players end.
Also, but what if your team was ACTUALLY bad, and it is not you blaming them?
My muscle memory for some weapons is a bit too good some time's, in splatoon 2 I stopped playing for months and about a month before splatoon 3 came out I decided to play a bit of splatoon 2 and when I booted up the game I was telling my brother how I was going to be super rusty but when I went into a match I went beast mode my brother in shock asked how are you doing this and I said I have no idea it's like my hands have a mind of there own!😄
My teammates suck. -600 because of incompetent teammates. The ONE time I die, my teammates can't handle it and it's really hard to carry with the explosher even though I'll get 21 splats and point sensor everyone and they STILL can't kill them even with my chip damage. They are literally 1 shot🤦♂️
I been trying to get to S rank not S+ S freaking rank. I been stuck on A rank for nearly a year (Splatoon 2) Recently ranked down back to B+. on tower control. I don't blame teammates at all tho should I just give up after all the practice, play style changes, breaks i've taken, and mindsets?
this is quite insightful, I fall into a few bad habits sometimes lol. I often start out my session incredibly and then i think my adreniline hypes me too much 😂 and it all falls apart lol. I do think that the rank system could do with some improvements though, Ive been B+ for a while and just ranked up to A-, now A and since i started ive been versing S+ players 😫. Im like all I want is to battle people in my rank like in S2 and 1 but game is like nup 😆
I agree with a lot of what you say and while I'm a splatoon 1 veteran I'm nothing like a pro but if I'm playing a match and my team sits at spawn doing nothing while i fight a 1v4 in mid blaming them a little seems justified to me. 🤷♂️ maybe that says something about me but when my team pulls their weight i have no qualms if we lose.
I just wish I could stay in A+ and I feel the need to promote just so I don't have to slog through ranks again when next season starts.
As an eliter main, if I get matched against another sniper who manages to do really well or if I get sniped by another sniper, I take the time to appreciate the skill and or strategy of the shot and think about how I could utlilize it for the future
Edit: I can’t English-
As a new eliter player, the duels I have with an enemy eliter is usually the most satisfying part of the match, win or lose. It’s almost as if you can see the nod of encouragement towards each other when we square off !
@@NadeemKazi777 exactly! It’s a feeling of respect and admiration instead of a loathing.
i belong to rank B i guess, im just gonna focus on salmon run for now on
Just have fun and don't look at rank as a demotivator ^^ It's there so you can have fun!
What was going on there where up top it looked like there was a button assigned to each of the 8 players in the match, and a number that I think was indicating each player's special charge percentage?
Great video :), but i there is other factor that i think is inavoidable, depends where you live, here in chile, almost in the entire country, we play with a lag that no matter how good is the internet connection, with LAN adapter o specific configurations... specially japanese players, have an "advantage lag", it's hard to explain but its almost imposible to splat any player without "magically" getting splatted just because lag :(
in my case, happens in every match, so play ranked or turf wars against a team o pro players it's just a absurd :(
I literally can't rank up because I am being put against players WAY better than me. I got into S rank recently and it's so annoying because I can't do anything about it 😭
The understanding part is where i struggle the most (at least rn). I have been stuck around S rank 500-600 points for quite a while now and i do not understand the problem, i go through the replays of losses and wins and i play the same way in both. the only changing variable i notice between matches are my teammates and enemy teams. i feel like the only 2 options i have to improve are to either get lucky and get good teammates every game or spend thousands of hours in S rank until you eventually are able to carry every team you get.
i am certain neither of those are the case but i can't think of any other reason because the only changing variable between the games i lose and the games i win are my teammates and the enemy team, so if anyone knows if I am just entirely missing something important
or any other variable that could affect my gameplay please tell me. if this helps I main the E-Liter and have a thousand hours between splatoon 2 and 3
It's hard to invisibly tell what could go wrong but a balanced win/loss ratio is usually the sign you peaked!
In that case what you need to observe is what you could do better in the games you lose and figure out a new way to win those matches since your current way of thinking / playing seemed to have peaked.
God thx for this. I’m currently an a plus rank player and want to get better. My friends think Splatoon isn’t very competitive. They’re wrong. I’ve been playing for like 4 years now and have enjoyed the game ever since I was 9 or 10 years old.
Lol, Splatoon is extremely competitive - it's just well hidden behind a family friendly look.
Thx for understanding
I literally lost 3 rank up battles in a row 3 losses to 0 wins 😢
It's really strange. I had like 5 rank up games to go from S to S+ and those games were extremely competitive my team just got completely demolished all the time. But the final rank up games that finally got me to S+, It felt like players were around my skill level all of the sudden and I managed to get into S+ I don't know what was that about lol. But happy regardless that I managed to get to S+ with the E-Liter :) I can finally wear the gold anarchy badge
Can anyone teach me how to beat 52. Gals
Would it be possible for you to do a video on rank up battles? The matchmaking for them is a mystery for me. My biggest wonder is if some of my regular anarchy battles are against teams doing "rank up battles" for lower ranks.
Hey, great video! I just want to offer a counter-argument to something you said, based not only on my experience as an X-Rank player, but also a part-time coach in other shooters and someone who talks to eSport professionals and aim researchers (and people like KovaaK) almost every day.
You talk a lot about the importance of muscle memory and recommend that people stick to one gun, but I very much disagree with that. "Muscle memory" doesn't factor in at all for aiming etc. and while it's true that the cream of the crop of professional players know the details of every gun better than anyone else, I don't think beginners should stick to one main gun for many of the same reasons you mention throughout the video: you are training bad habits and give yourself less of a chance to look beyond that.
The more (diverse) weapons you play, the more you get to understand about how Splatoon works as a game, how people move, how people should not move, what the strengths of certain weapons/roles are and what the weakneses.
Say you're maining a Splattershot, and you think you're playing well and need to stick to that weapon to improve. But then you switch to a Hydra and learn to position yourself with it. And as you sit back and anchor you all of a sudden notice how a game flows throughout a match much more than you would by pressing forward on the stick constantly to get into slaying range with a Splattershot. Your own experience with the game will teach you which Splattershot tactics are easy prey for a weapon like the Hydra, and which tactics cause you an issue. This will not only make you a better Hydra player, it will also make you better at the Splattershot and better at the game in general.
tl;dr: Learning the game wholistically is much more important than min-maxing your knowledge of a specific gun. Perfect mechanics can win 50/50 fights, which is good of course. But the best players don't take 50/50 fights, they learn how to take advantage of any minor mistake and avoid their own. Being able to instinctively read the game regardless of the gun in your hand will make you rank up more consistently AND across more shooters than just Splatoon.
Thank you for the comments, even though I don't think we are actually disagreeing!
In the video I talk about muscle-memory on getting used to playing with a weapon, which I 100% stand by as an important thing, since swapping them all the time won't let you truly master a weapon.
I do agree that trying out different weapons is important not only to give yourself a chance to find the weapon that really fits you but to learn the game on a big picture level on what is every gun's strengths and weakness so you know what weapons you face and what their weaknesses are.
On that note - I think these are two completely different issues and topics, since you can still main a weapon and try your best to improve with it and also experiment with different ones and study them every now and then without giving up your major playtime on your main.
An an example you can totally play a few battles with a Hydra - but if your aim is to actually win and train - it's likely better to focus on your Splattershot to become even better.
I'll admit the entire reason I freakin got n2 b rank was repeat maining a weapon
I do have a weird question. How do I get over thia weird claustrophobic feeling of getting flanked on my side? Like if they ahead of me I feel like I can start thinking of strategies to get around that opponent. Though as soon as they get on my side; something physically stops me from just turning my camera to its side and aiming. I dunno where I picked this habit up from in 3...
Edit: In Splatoon 2 my main weapon was octobrush. It taught me alot about flanking. My main now is Splatana. In 3 it feels like flanking is lot harder to do now.
this is a great vid but i have no clue why i watched the whole thing i’m already almost s+8
Good posture definitely helps, but explain this: how on the world did I manage to win a Anarchy Series with NO LOSSES while having back pain, slouching, and playing in handheld with motion controls on. And yet I lose a Series with zero wins when I'm the most comfortable. My body works in strange ways. Also mindset helps A LOT. When I changed my mindset from "WHAT ARE MY TEAMMATES DOING?!" and "Bro the weapon lineup is SO unfair" to "Okay, I died there. So how can I do better next time? What can I do to avoid that?" sent me from the bottom of S- to S+ and top 20,000 in X battle. (And that was from the 5 placement matches ONLY because ZONES WAS NEVER IN ROTATION WHEN I PLAYED Ht g5894iyehrhWRYG&). Please ignore my rant, felt the need to say that. Also looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong comment :)
I hate WHEN i get noob that only paint start and NEVER MID and also just started playing hwile my enemy's of corse have areospray, gal 52., And this blaster for kids that kill in 2 hits and shot like crazy
I wish I had more friends that actually play Splatoon, cause it'd be really nice to be able to play with a consistently competent team. I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I am never a drag and the biggest problem I'm having right now is many times, I get paired with incompetent teams with bad weapon comps, but then on the odd chance that I DO get a good team, we play like one or two matches, then the freaking online service takes a dump and the team is gone! I just need a way to get a consistent team, because at the end of the day, Splatoon is a TEAM based shooter. Nobody can win all by themselves!
This game DO PUNISHES you for playing well. That's why.
I'm trying to rank up for S rank but there's a massive skill difference between regular series and Rank up Series :skull:
Had my first go at a rank up to S and it feels like a different game. I heard S+ was a huge jump in skill but didn't know S would be as well. Went 0-3 and I was very clearly holding my team back. I actually felt bad. The fact you demote after seasons sucks. I want to just stay at A+ tbh.
I'm on S rank and I find it unlikely I'm going to be S+ soon... Sometimes it's my team that is bad, sometimes the weapons I get ranked with are so bad. One point you can't argue with is my internet or Nintendo's bad net code, which results in disconnects very often, so I don't really have a chance
I’m stuck at 1800 xrank 😕
Matchmaking sucks in splatoon I’m struggling to get to s+ and I keep getting shit teams who have prob had played the game once