3rd Kits Tier List - Splatoon 3

[@tomatoblate2170]

It’s sad to see how many weapons are basically screwed without 3rd kits

[@QwertyS3]

3rd kits aren't completely out of question, they could happen. Just because it's the end of seasons doesn't mean that kits will end but I'm leaning on there not being 3rd kits for this game

[@Heyn_17]

​@@QwertyS3 Considering that the Switch 2 is probably going to get announced at mid 2025 we could get 3rd kits during Halloween or Christmas

[@Polmo1997]

Some weapons needed but I think some current kits are underdeveloped and still haven't taped their true potential

[@TheLaXandro]

Some rightfully so, though. You really don't want Jet to be good in current enviroment, and with Marker it is dangerously close to being really damn good. Give vJet literally any other special and bam, it's an instant top tier. Even if it's something stupid like Wavebreaker, it would benefit even from a free refill.

[@sonicrunn3r895]

I wouldn't entirely say screwed, a lot of weapons have just either balancing problems (i.e. Splatoon 2 screwed them over and they're still trying to recover) or a special that needs tuning better.

[@adrianoctavio]

Looking at the heavy kits in this game makes me feel like new norm when he looks at the gay beer and wants to go back to the old beer

[@squidsabi]

HELP?? 😭😭

[@fishygaming2554]

What?

[@Potato-so6zr]

💀

[@bnuuyfufu]

I'm an old splatling main! I want normal kits!

[@_elynas]

i love this comment so much

[@SJrad]

While splash doesn’t need a 3rd kit, we were robbed of the zipcaster splash that was shown in trailers. So should go in “potential new playstyle” tier. Like neo splash should have gotten that as a special instead of tri strike, since ttek splattershot is a thing

[@romanaww]

But without neo splash, how will I achieve 2000p in painting? (Just joking btw)

[@dProp.34]

I agree, neo splash was such a waste

[@AntiFlow-dm9zu]

I saw the title and I was like "third kit revealed?'

[@ComfiestBlanket]

The specific part of my hyperfixation I care about most has been catered to. I am happy. 😊

[@sonicrunn3r895]

Here's a fun fact: The “Custom” Weapon Brand is the brand with the fewest third kit weapons in S1 and S2 (that got at least one), as it has a lot of weapons, but it only had Grim Range Blaster. It's so funny but also kinda sad

[@alexgrunde6682]

Yeah, Gloogas are in a pretty good spot kit wise. Vanilla has perfect sub synergy and a good special, Deco has one of the best specials in the game and the sub synergizes with it and fits the play style.

[@Deimos0VI]

Burst Storm Undercover clears any kit that someone can come up with for undercover, if it got that it could probably replace the short range shooter role

[@bitfish2155]

Storm would be alright with it. Undercover is better as a support because it can’t kill that well. I think booyah would be better because if someone pops your shield you can use it to save yourself and get your shield back. Because it is a support booyah can add extra paint to it.

[@AzuriteMaybe]

burst bomb tacticooler clears storm is, alright on it. but it isnt the best special it could get (tacticooler)

[@hexxibojexxi]

As an Undercover player... Fizzy/Burst with Cooler...

[@apersonwhomayormaynotexist9868]

It'd be better than its current kit but it would still be an INCREDIBLY niche pick, casuals likely to prefer the others and comp players preferring just literally any other weapon or just using the short range shooter that it somewhat fills the role of

[@coldfanta4963]

Burst cooler or kraken. Storm's good in theory but it's not likely to get something similar to screen.

[@Overhawk_Red1214]

goated tier list as per usual

[@Overhawk_Red1214]

also first i guess

[@seymourflux747]

I feel so bad for Dapple Dualies gamers holy fuck

[@sonicrunn3r895]

Hey, at least the kits are fun in this game.

[@Sizzling_Roses]

I'll always find both enjoyable lmfao.

[@inevitablecrit4869]

yeah unironically, i love both kits just fine. Kinda forget its S2 kits even though im pretty sure i used them both recently, but i believe it gets mist inkstorm, which has insane synergy even though mist isnt the best, and at least mist cant be painted over unlike bombs. Even with reefslider in S3, i remember doing particularly well with that weapon in particular, simular to how somehow, i actually preform above my average with Anakii Nova even though on paper, inkmine and the main weapon seems underwhelming

[@dq3w]

It's shocking how in the entire series Dapples have never been given a good kit. Like it consistently got fucked over, in S3 you literally have to choose between good sub, terrible special or terrible sub, good special. Personally I think burst bomb Inkzooka would be amazing (inexpensive sub with a mid-long rang counter) or burst rain (rain is a good tool to push in with and allows you to recover when making risky pushes quicker).

[@hollowfoundry]

Respect to the true designer eye at the end, it really did make the list look more organized lol

[@SilentSkye]

As a Big Swig main... my ideal 3rd kit would be Burst Bomb and Triple Splashdown. Was gonna say Fizzy Bomb but since it's horizontal swing's min damage was increased to 40, I could see Burst comboing with it very well. As for Triple Splashdown? I like it and it might give Swig a more aggressive play-style.

[@Cool-Vest]

Honestly, I wonder if a lethal bomb would be better? Depends on how you want to play the weapon. Burst bomb is better for aggression, which isn't big swig's thing, and doesn't synergize as easily with the vulnerable Tri-strike.

[@blackwidowpowersports6037]

I personally want 210 cooler

[@blackwidowpowersports6037]

@@Cool-VestBurst better than a lethal bomb, Big Swigs ink efficiency is good but not good enough to get value out of a bomb

[@pkcryo]

i want it to get fizzy and cooler so its soda soda and soda

[@AzuriteMaybe]

@@Cool-Vest big swig can definitely play aggressively and can do it really well if its given the proper tools and burst bomb is perfect for that. even if it isnt playing aggressively burst bomb still helps really well with its poor damage output also they said triple splashdown, not triple inkstrike

[@FelineDeskFan13]

10:16 Splat Bomb + Inkjet maybe? That could possibly open up a new more aggressive playstyle for Pencil

[@s-charm8004]

I NEED AEROSPRAY PG BRING BACK BURST BOMB KRAKEN PLEASEEEEE

[@blackwidowpowersports6037]

As long as it doesn’t get a bad special I’ll take burst anything

[@gymdilettante8407]

switch to splashomatic

[@blackwidowpowersports6037]

@@gymdilettante8407 crab is boring and it’s a transformation special, I don’t like transformation specials

[@joejones6353]

FOR EEL

[@latesthope]

yall just give hopes until the end of the year

[@daneleventsixti]

Don't think it will happen but if Blob getting a Burst (Dart isn't cutting it), Blob can literally go from midline to frontline with very steady aim and insane ledge camping

[@AzuriteMaybe]

chances are it'd get splash wall and ink vac lol (which really isnt bad for it)

[@daneleventsixti]

It may not be bad but for me I really don't vibe with wall and vac. If it means supportive we already have vBlob with huge paint output to control area. Even Point Sensor I would prefer that over Wall to help tracking peeps above the ledge or behind covers then arch the shots over

[@AzuriteMaybe]

@@daneleventsixti wall vac would be another (and healthier) take on a supportive kit for blob. instead of sitting back and being a paint bot wall would enable blob to actually move forward and helps cover for its fairly slow fire rate, while vac is to, yknow, support its teammates and force it to move forward instead of sitting back and painting the zone while going 2-9 kdr. blob is a weapon that should never be given the tools to sit back and not move forward at all, and this kit would be perfect for that while still fitting a supportive play style sensor wouldnt really help it play aggressively because of its slow fire rate and decent amount of downtime. and even if it sat back and spammed sensors it doesnt really benefit the weapon because then it cant really play off of them effectively. and then if it had sensor vac blob would be awkwardly forced to move forward to use ink vac and then run away when the special ends. ...also it would be the 3rd slosher to get point sensor and thats more than likely not going to happen

[@TheLaXandro]

Dart cuts it very well for a frontline Blob though. It /would/ be better with Burst, but then again, aside from S-Blast, everything is better with Burst, and in many cases too much good can be too much. Marker is enough to patch up Blob's inability to quickly follow up, and as a bonus it's the only weapon where Marker's trajectory and main's reticle actually match. In some cases Marker is even better, since it's easier to hit than Burst direct, and both pass the 2-shot treshold (while Burst's splash does not).

[@AzuriteMaybe]

@@TheLaXandro ??? no????????? marker doesnt work well on blob at all and doesnt really do all that good of a job at enabling it to play aggressively. marker is such a whatever sub on blob and barely helps with anything and also works about as well as marker worked on slosher deco at the release of chill season 2022. yeah sure marker can combo with blob and kill with only 2 blobs. but remember how slosher deco at release couldnt combo with marker if the opponent had just 1 sub of sub resistance? nearly the exact same problem exists on blob deco where 1 sub of sub resistance makes the marker combo go down from 2 blobs to just comboing with 1 blob. so you're essentially praying that the person you're trying to kill doesnt have any form of sub resistance in order to combo properly

[@perplexedsandwich2183]

As a huge sploosh main, my dream kit for it would pretty much be the same as its current kit, but with tristrike instead of stamp. Not having a sub that can go over walls and boarders feels bad, but I like the curling bomb because it can provide a solid escape options and helps overall mobility while having solid damage. I think if sploosh had tristrike or a different special that allows it to get over walls, it would be 10x better

[@MalzenoE7]

Title is such bait 💀

[@RaptorEDWB]

FR

[@vegetables1593]

Being a Tent main has been so rewarding this game

[@Redrooey]

dapples don't need a third kit because there's an 80% chance it will also be terrible

[@Velocity_6410]

Chara did not want to waste his time on goo

[@twewymuncher]

I’m actually happy with almost all kits in this game, like, in a solo queue environment or just non-competitive in general I think almost every kit has merit to exist - so personally my dream kit for my favourite weapon would probably be either autobomb missiles or burst bomb booyah bomb for dynamo roller. I don’t have much else I’d hope for lmao, maybe fizzy triple splashdown on big swig would go hard.

[@why3994]

dapples with burst bomb or suction would be the most fun thing to play ever

[@naocaat]

this is advanced cope

[@dynamorolleruser]

This is stage 5 cope bro 😭

[@Moi_Ari]

yeah....lol like in almost everyway possible lol

[@delitaheiral3268]

sploosh 7: triangle bomb + zooka, this is what I am waiting for

[@gymdilettante8407]

triangle bomb lol I've never heard it called that before

[@senel1996]

I don't even know what I'd want for a 3rd Tristringer kit. Definitely something with inkmines or burstbombs though

[@AzuriteMaybe]

more than likely not burst bomb

[@apersonwhomayormaynotexist9868]

@@AzuriteMaybe yeah but literally anything that deals damage somewhat quickly would be fine in burst's place. Torpedo, fizzy, honestly even splat bomb would be fine

[@BigPro1123]

@@apersonwhomayormaynotexist9868I honestly think angle shooter could be good. If you hit only two of the shots you can quickly throw angle shooter to finish them off with it’s long range

[@BigPro1123]

I’d love big swig with burst bomb and ink jet. The synergy would be so good. Then there would be support, displacement and aggressive swig.

[@zabdyztar6521]

i seriously want a heavy remix with wall and wail, i think that would be amazing

[@moonieeee]

the notif for this one baited me so hard 😭

[@guillermocervisalmeron2209]

I hate how the meta in this game just only wants 1 or 2 types of weapons

[@ferret77]

Heavy Splatling Remix with wall PLEASE

[@fleromor]

I think it's incredibly sad that stamper got its God kit this game and in S4 it could be fumbled repeatedly if it can't get burst zip back

[@ClangVe3ms]

Chara, don't get me excited like this 😭

[@6VaporX]

Fizzy cooler stamper would be an insane support weapon

[@springlink3188]

Do a tier list ranking weapons by how much better or worse they would be if their kit was simply Splat Bomb-Trizooka

[@ShurikanBlade]

Flingza torp jet would be godtier

[@littlemouche]

I still haven't gotten over the Dread D kit ngl 😭 like what was going through their heads when they made that?

[@slyllamademon2652]

I mean they Could give Flingza Fizzy and Splashdown. No rollers have that yet.

[@HenBurgerBurger]

as a tetra dualie I would very much like a third kit

[@DaBoy2187]

10:10 Pencil could combo with reefslider and toxic mist

[@delta_power3049]

What Heavy needs is Sting Ray

[@sounkade41]

I dream of better big swig kits or angle shooter reworks. like make it pierce on hit and make the line deal damage.

[@Scatterjet]

I was thinking that splattershot pro would get into "potential new playstyle" mainly because of the potential of burst

[@unl3ash3d95]

pro has never had burst

[@Scatterjet]

​@unl3ash3d95 I am just saying that if it did get burst bomb, which is probably unlikely but still there, it would be good. Pro two shots on both indirects and one shot on a direct

[@meowsername]

I just want dynamo with burst bomb and big bubbler, ain’t nothing touching you if you play well

[@lucrativelucas2655]

23:30 I disagree I think Stamper with Fizzy is a great kit and giving it Tristrike could top the vanilla kit, and I think the Side Order kit would’ve been a perfect 2nd/3rd kit for it

[@AzuriteMaybe]

fizzy tristike would not top the vanilla kit be so fr

[@twewymuncher]

tristrike on the stamper is not topping zipcaster be fr right now 😭😭😭 fizzy crab would have been equal to burst zipcaster but they fumbled it so the next best thing would be like, fizzy booyah.

[@lucrativelucas2655]

@@twewymuncher i forgot about booyah but yeah I’m saying it could have the potential, that plus Kraken, or Inkstrike could make for a great kit

[@THECyberStriker]

Just put all the weapons in the red tier cause we NEED third kits for every weapon Nintendo pleaseeeee

[@SomeFreakingCactus]

I am sorry yall they are not making third kits.

[@gymdilettante8407]

Dousers kits are really good but ink mines doesn't do anything for it

[@MikulOnIce85]

I'm happy with the 96 gal deco, but it's been THREE GAMES and there still isn't a 96 gal kit with an actual bomb. Can I please have one nintendo?

[@SeaSlug]

fingza has a good kit but you can't play it cuz like haft the teams ban screen.

[@mechanicalnemesis1379]

Ntri is some of the worst main/special synergy tbh Having your cooler weapon as a frontline is just awful you want your cooler weapon to be a midline/anchor to support frontlines other you sacrifice a lot of fighting power Tri is also not that good at support and very reliant on fizzy

[@AzuriteMaybe]

it isnt good synergy but i definitely wouldnt say its some of the worst

[@TheLaXandro]

>If you put sensor cooler on any decent painting weapon, it would probably be meta >meanwhile H3, one of the best inkers in the game: The main reason cooler H3 is not meta is because cooler Edit is meta. Edit is easy and consistent. H3 is volatile. They are very similar otherwise. If we didn't have Edit, I feel like we'd converge on vH3 meta eventually, a midline cooler is about as good of a niche as midline armor in S2.

[@AzuriteMaybe]

yes he already explained that h3 isnt meta because the main weapon kinda sucks

[@TheLaXandro]

@@AzuriteMaybe it doesn't suck, it's just not really worth it. It's as strong as it ever was, it's just that other, less finnicky things have caught up, and one of them happens to sit in the same cooler niche. If cooler Edit wasn't a thing, people would've eventually picked H3 up and got comparable results, just with more effort.

[@AzuriteMaybe]

@@TheLaXandro h3 struggles to consistently kill so badly, thats the thing thats holding it all back and even if edit didnt get cooler, it'd still be outclassed by pencil or dynamo as a midline cooler weapon

[@TheLaXandro]

@@AzuriteMaybe a strong player can make it work consistently enough. That's what they did in pre-MPU Spla2n, H3D was such a staple that it got 220p special before 99.9 broke the main completely. But that level of skill requires player to be dedicated to playing H3, while Edit is pick up and play for any Splash one-trick left unemployed from the great Crabtank crash. Snipes outclasses all other cooler weapons in most circumstances, but there are some places where you'd rather use a smaller gun. Dynamo is its own can of worms, powercreep, map design and even mechanical changes in 3 haven't been kind to it.

[@AzuriteMaybe]

@@TheLaXandro h3 is too difficult of a weapon to play to be worth picking over other cooler options even if edit didnt have cooler. and even then h3 doesnt really work well with how fast-paced splatoon 3 is compared to, say, splatoon 2 and it ends up struggling to keep up to everything else

[@kylecrane-u6n]

i think the grizzco weapons need new kits tbh

[@Flares_splatoon]

I have one problem with decav the vkit needs curling as a better entree tool and a way to play mind games with opponents

[@AzuriteMaybe]

okay but if specifically mint decavitator had curling bomb that would literally just be, splat roller exact same kit and exact same sharking playstyle

[@Flares_splatoon]

@@AzuriteMaybe decav cant ledge peek roller can decav has better paint its would be more of a would you rather to have horrible painting ability and be able to ledge peek or not be able to ledge peek but be able to cover turf

[@AzuriteMaybe]

@@Flares_splatoon they would still be very similar to each other, just give curling to charcoal also decavitator cant pain :p

[@alrawafidengineering3864]

Dapples just hurt every time i play them GIVE US TRIZOOKA its not that hard. If i could choose a weapons kit id choose to make dapples have trizooka and torp

[@gudboi_ofthestars]

So… are we getting 3rd kits??

[@Sim23.]

Dont get my hopes up 😭

[@0ctAdar.io712]

kinda unrelated but i just wanted to pitch an idea for custom kits: you start off with jr, splat bomb and whatever default special there is and you can then buy each main, sub and special individually, and you can pair anything together, but each piece affects the stats of the others (fire rate, damage, ink efficiently, range, paint output etc.)

[@thiefpotato2759]

Tbh, for swig, I would really like torpedo + super chump/crab. We dont have a roller with torpedo (iirc) and it could help swig with kill combos.

[@5hark906]

PLSSS GIVE JET A 3RD KIT PLSSSSS-

[@alfredocardenas8454]

We aren’t getting third kit’s unfortunately. Officially the worst Splatoon game.

[@RaymanKO99]

Just let it go bro, this game is so over.