Setting the Board with Squid Beakons | Splatoon 3 Guide
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- čas přidán 13. 07. 2023
- *This video was made during Splatoon 3 version 4.0, if any future balance changes are made to squid beakon that are relevant to content covered in this video I will note them here!
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My favorite beakon tip is to get a kill, then, while they're spectating you running around after death, place a beakon in an accessible location. They're drawn like moths to a lamp directly to that location. Go paint a little, then come back for your free splat :) extra bonus because opponent will probably tilt a little bit and get thrown off ;)
Sprinkler next maybe? Or even curling bomb, even though it is a bomb it is not often used as a bomb, rather a movement tool.
I agree with sprinkler. I have no idea how to skillfully use it.
@@Sonconobi
I use it a lot with heavy. Ultimately you mostly want to use it to build special most of the time, otherwise hit up some maps in practice and find places where its difficult to shoot it from and will give your team paint to work with. The other option is to paint an area you really want but need to focus on another area first, letting you start on that area while you take another area back. It's passive so as long you can avoid dying you can paint a lot and regain map control quicker.
There are two ways to use it aggressively, Against crab and against super jumpers. Sprinklers are harmless unless your standing right on top of one, in which case the dps is kind of absurd (put one on a dummy in the practice range and watch how fast it goes away). If someone is going full speed ahead of you, you can place a sprinkler in their path and in a lot of cases get a free splat. It can destroy crabs with support if your close enough to reach them and can aim it underneath them and if you place one on a super jump spot, it's either a free splat or their at 80 damage by the time they escape. It takes awareness and its use cases are very niche that you'll forget about these because the opportunities are so rare but it can be done.
If you take the time to aim and cook it, it kills more often than you'd think. Nobody expects the curling bomb.
I think the reason most people don’t like beakons is because beakons can be really hard to use in casual environments with no communication. I play wiper deco a lot in anarchy open and it’s criminal just how much my beacons go ignored by most of my teammates
I like to call it beacon blindness, lol. Most people online seem to just be completely blind to beacons, friend and foe alike. Sometimes it works out in your favor though, when enemy players completely ignore them too
Honestly it feels like half the time people dont even know you can jump to players beakons that arent your own. Should probably be communicated better
I've long felt this, in 3 and especially a lot in 2 I liked using the Dapple Dualies frequently and how often I'd place great beakons down just for my whole team to completely ignore them for the whole game was maddening, in fact I'd say that on average only 1 in 10 games would actually have someone in them that would jump to my beakons more then maybe once if that.
I think what the devs should do is add a little notification when players use your beacons. Something like the little "refreshing!" text you get when people drink from your tacticooler. Dunno if it'd actually help teammates pay attention to beacons, but it would at least feel nice for the beacon user and maybe that nice feeling would help other people remember to use them.
Another thing that really hurt them was that only two weapons had beakons at launch, both of which don't mesh well with the casual environment. It feels like a lot of people wrote them off because of that. It wasn't until this season that we got weapons that'd draw in those who normally don't like the sub.
This video was recommended to me by a friend because I'm picking up wiper deco. The part that caught my attention the most was the constant jumping to beakons in order to reposition and disorient the enemy team. I'll definitely have to try to implement that into my games.
As a long time Beakon user, I have something more to add, something that should influence your beakon placement:
Enemy Wavebreakers. Its Shockwaves 1-shot beakons, literally washing them away. So if your opponents have a Wavebreaker, be careful placing beakons in places Wavebreaker commonly covers that would be otherwise safe. They will likely be removed without the Wavebreaker user even realizing what they did.
I actually already knew most everything gone over here (though the Booyah Bomb dodging is a cool trick I haven't seen before)
I wanna scream every time I see a WB approaching my freshly placed Beakon
Ink mines! The sub that makes your pushes much more consequential, because you can setup the defense so well
The best use of Squid Beakon is pooping a Squid Beakon in front of your enemy because you forgot you don't have a bomb.
I love these videos, they're easy to understand and informative even for a casual player like myself. Squid Beakons have become one of my favourite subs in the game, they feel well designed and when you get those moments where your teammates use them it's so much fun. I'm in A rank now and the best experiences going up through the ranks have been A) Clam Blitz becomes actually fun because everyone has some understanding of what to do and B) people get progressively more attentive to your beakons.
I'd love ink mines next. I want to try and learn the undercover brella but I can't wrap my head around them.
My favorite thing to do is take a beakon weapon into open with 3 mains of sub power up and just give my teammates basically tacticooler jumps all the time for free, its so funny seeing them not realize at first and then as the match goes on seeing them exclusively use my beakons
Despite how much i know about splatoon listen to those lessons is always helpful to elaborate new startegies and ways to use my weapons at the best, thanks a bunch for this video^^
Im so glad Custom E-Liter got mentioned bc that weapon was my favorite weapon of all time thanks to you guys, I hope this video shows other people their favorite weapon with beakon they didnt know existed like how yall did for me!
if it got beakon twice in a row it feels very likely to return again
Who’s gonna tell him
@@Me_Myself_Maly Tell me what? THAT IT GOT BEAKON? BC I SURE KNOW IT DID BABY! ALREADY 4 STARRED IT!
@@Twig_the_Blue_Pikmin hehe love to hear you’re having fun. Bet there’s no better feeling than getting your dream kit :)
Beakons can be also used for painting the ground for the Krak-On-Roller because it's faster than swinging with Roller and can let escape you in some situations with the Roller then 👀
Actually smart cuz if they do end up making beakon cheaper then it could def become something to help paint your feet
Its painfully bad in terms of how much paint they put out though. Maybe the paint could receive a buff to it similarly to sprinklers in splat 1->splat2
there's no whiting frames on beakon so by the time you launched a beakon and squid rolled away you'll have about 45% or so of your ink tank which is enough for most things you need to do with the weapon
Really appreciate these videos giving the less popular sub weapons some more attention, very well made and enjoyable to watch. Looking forward to more of this series!
one incredibly impractical yet hilariously fun option beacons open up is the ability to trigger a roll from any location when you have drop roller equipped. this is almost entirely useless on most weapons, but with something like octobrush nouveau it can be a niche way to catch your opponents off guard when approaching them from behind cover (or even in the open if you’re feeling particularly deranged).
Watching after the disappointment that is Ballpoint Noveau not having Beacon, cool stuff!
Dapple duelies, or as I like to call them, the engineer duelies
I'm a huge beacons user and I had no idea that the dots at the top indicated the amount of jumps left.thanks for the video!
Great video! I'd love to see either sprinkler or ink mine next in the series!
A minor detail not talked about is that beakons, along with ink mines, have 0 white ink frames. So they can better utilize ink recovery up and it's what contributes to redshell's museum flank since they can swim up while refilling immediately
i love this series so much! i feel like splatoon has been lacking in content creation creativity ( phew thats a mouthful ) so this is a huge refresher for me, and is inspiring me to start playing more squeakon weapons
i’ve been playing for a little over 600 hours and only just learned the beacons have indicators for how many uses they have left, haha
as someone who mained neo sploosh in s2 and mains splatana deco in s3 (been dabbling in order dualies though) I did know a lot of this, but that booyah dodge is very cool and something I wouldn't have thought of. Neat video! :)
I'm a fair believer in the power of the Beakons and the Dapples and I'm overjoyed to find more Beakon propaganda. I didn't know about the thing that tells you how many uses the Beakons have left! I'm sending this to my teams, maybe we can get a few more converts to actually start using the pretty Beakons I lovingly lay down just for them 🥺
This guide is fantastic. Super helpful and perfect incorporation of the clips. Thanks for such a helpful resource!
Squid beckons are super cool and dangerous if ignored definitely my favorite utility sub
YES!! Beacons have not always been my go-to, but I’ve always seen their high potentional. One of my favorite meme builds is 3 pures of sub power up used on any beacon weapon. I used it a lot on Krakon Roller in Splatoon 2 for the rat behavior like at 13:09 and for sharking walls similar to 16:30. For Splatoon 3 (yes I grinded the build again), I’ve found it works really well on dapples of because of the high aggression, ability to dodge roll out of jumps, and tacticooler for instant respawns (sometimes you can be killed, and then get a revenge kill 2 seconds after, it’s ridiculous). Thanks Pika for covering this sub to it’s full potential, this video definitely hit home for me
17:56 I remember actually doing this way back in splatoon 1 with krak-on roller, lol. It was never a "good" strategy, but it was always really cool and funny, and I think that was the weapon it worked best on by far. You could even use it with kraken for some absurdly silly kills cause it had a hitbox when you superjumped.
Sadly with the vertical flick being introduced, it became impossible for roller to attack mid-jump before hitting the ground, and in splatoon 3 kraken royale can't super jump at all, so that's out too
You should also note that all 4 people on your team can jump to 1 beakon as long as all of you commit to the jump before the second player lands.
Great series, cheers, keep it up
Just found this channel. Great voice. Decent pacing. Definitely subscribing
Vanilla dapples has my favorite kit in the game but I want it on a different weapon. Not having a bomb for a short ranged weapon is very difficult to play with. I would love this kit for the next ballpoint or a stringer, and I’m not even much of a back line fan.
Came back to say, I would love to see curling bomb cause I think it has a similar untapped potential to Angle Shooter, or Ink Mines because good use of them is often miscontextualized as an anchors tool of setting trip wire without the discussion of creative uses within a frontline play style! 😊 This one was great as always
I think curling bomb is classified as a bomb? not sure
@@blockediting3404 Correct! But it is still an odd sub in terms of a "meta" perspective, and receives similar disdain to what the utility subs do! That much makes it worth discussing imo c:
I personally use a main of Sub Power Up in place of Stealth Jump on my beacon weapon build. The idea is to have stupid fast beacons that make getting back into combat fast. Which makes for very aggressive Dapples gameplay. And also occasionally bailing out when I remember to do that lol.
Honestly, most of the weapons I've mained over the years have had a kit with beacons, and most of the time that's been my favorite kit. I honestly think in a vacuum they're the strongest sub in the game, but in practice a few things hold them back. They're not always on the best weapons or kits, and having more than one beacon user on a team limits you. But disregarding that, honestly some games I play like dog water and can point out beacons as the reason my team won. The maps in 3 put beacons up on a pedestal because of how large certain maps are, you just save so much time on respawn over your opponents. Maps like eeltail, haggle fish, wahooworld, hammerhead, flounder heights, humpback, and I'm sure I'm missing a few more just are on a whole other level for this sub. They're really slept on.
i'd love if you could do point sensor next! i'm a squiffer main and im trying to get into competitive so i'd love a video on it 😌
This video was amazing I had no idea that sub power up had any useful context but here we are. Would love to see a video on point sensor because I've never understood why that sub is desirable at all. After seeing this video I am wondering if there are hidden benefits that I was unaware of
Though I enjoy a good sprinkler, ink mine is the one that I'm most excited for. Vanilla Rapid is my go to casual weapon because of that sub, even though I'm otherwise not great with blasters. (Though I started playing Rapid Pro Deco after the angle shooter video. I'm still horrid with it, but having lots of fun.)
MY FAVORITE SUB! GOD IT'S SO GOOD
I am so looking forward for sprinkler!!
12:30 until after the nerf :C (love ur videos btw keep making them :D) btw the description is wrong it says angle shooter instead of beacon
the funniest part of being a dapples main was seeing how people that picked up the new beacons weapons for sizzle season and had some atrocious spots for the sub
I would love to see a splash wall video next because I feel like I’m not getting value off of it
nice info
i can’t wait for beakon on eliter it’s so much fun
Can we see sprinkler or point sensor since people think theyre such bad subs? or ink mines, honestly i love all untiliy subs and would love a video about any of them, ive been enjoying this series
Very useful guide, thank you!
The only thing you didn't include (I think? Might've just missed it) is about their function as a mini meatshield.
I was sort of hinting at that with using them as bait right at the end, but you're right! It's something I want to talk about a lot more once I get around to sprinkler
I really appreciate this video, I'm a V Sploosh player and really want to try that killer wail 😂
Sprinkler and Ink Mines are both my second favourite sub after Toxic Mist. But I want to see next Ink Mines. Instant kill from S1 was fun. 😁
This is how I found out that the dots on the beakon on the map show how many uses it has left
What are your thoughts on using beakon as a mini meat shield? Occasionally when my team has advantage, I'll place one at a choke point where a team fight could happen, like the enemy ramp to mid on barnacle zones for example. My thoughts process is this gives my team one or two extra shots to potentially survive longer in a fight if they can strafe behind it briefly during an exchange but not sure if this is a good use of my ink or time.
it's the most expensive sub in the game. i think you'd get more value pushing the enemy further back with your main, putting beakons in safe locations as a safety net, etc.
i've usually seen people use sprinkler as a shield for slower fire rate weapons in the middle of the action, rather than preemptively, so i assume the same would go for beakon. it makes more sense that way because you force the enemy to break it mid engagement when they weren't accounting for it when deciding to take the fight. you still have to decide if it's worth 75% of your ink though.
@@itssoclover Same logic, but Beakons as distractions for sharking is also sometimes effective
That can be a solid play in the right situation! The main concern is being sure you have enough ink to get away with it and not be immediately left without it. This is also somewhat of what I was referring to with the final point about using them as bait generally, but I didn't want to go too deep into it with how long the guide was already getting. It's also something I'll talk a lot more about with sprinkler!
You can throw a tactacooler at beacon if done right you can’t damage it with a weapon except subs and specials
GOD DAMMIT
WHY IS PIKA BEING COOL *AGAIN* >:(
I learn it from you bro
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thanks @@pikadave465, dope video
SPRINKLER VIDEO NEXT PLSSSS I LOVE THIS SERIES SO MUCH 🩷🩷
As a squiffer main I need more on point sensor half the time I forget to use it
sprinkler next please (S-Blast propaganda)
Now I wanna see someone with all Sub Power Up place a beacon and see someone with all Super Jump Speed jump to it
I usually use becons as a way to tell where enemies are. If one of them breaks, I know where they are! :3
Plz sprinkler next, I want to use it better on pencil
I've always wondered where people get the graphics for their thumbnails from. I've been wanting to improve the look of mine.
How does Redshell select the beacons from the map so quickly to superjump to them? It's only open for a split second!
pika i went against you in splat zones today you beat me up lol
Splash wall next please? 👉🏼👈🏼
ah yeah, tips for my wiper deco gameplay
splash wall 💪💪💪
i would love sprinker and also would be willing to provide assistance with sprinkler clips o7 but also... curling bomb. why do i use the weapons with the subs nobody knows how to use lmao
How do people quickly select points to jump to? I’ve seen so much gameplay where the map doesn’t even flash on screen. Is it a macro?
Oh hey, the disclaimer at the top of the description says "angle shooter" and not beakon btw
OOPS, thanks!
13:53
How can one directly jump to the Beakon like this, without opening the map and motion control to its symbol to select it as the destination?!
does Sub Power Up on beakons stack with Quick Super Jump? Eg, if you have 1 sub of SPU and your teammate has 1 sub of QSJ, do they get 7ap of QSJ when jumping to your beakon?
They do stack.
Yes they do!
Here cause new octobrush.
Sprinkler please for all the S blast gamers!
If only people used the beacons I set when I run it with sub ups :/
Random question: Does object shredder boost object damage with sub weapons and specials?
Yes it does
Yes!
Ah, yes. The sub weapon no rando online uses. :(
Beakons are my fav sub and it always hurts when people don’t use my beakons like guys, i use SPU for faster jumps pls 🫠
when krak on roller originally came out i was like well im never gonna use beakons, but as it turns out i was wrong lol i use them every time i can