Splatoon 3, Nintendo’s latest entry in the ink-blasting multiplayer shooter franchise, is a largely familiar experience. It features most of your favourite weapons from the previous two games, alongside a handful of new options. Chances are, if your favourite weapon …
Splatoon 3, Nintendo’s latest entry in the ink-blasting multiplayer shooter franchise, is a largely familiar experience. It features most of your favourite weapons from the previous two games, alongside a handful of new options. Chances are, if your favourite weapon from the first or second performed well there, it will also do so here. However, we’re here to take the guesswork out of that, with our Splatoon 3 tier list.
In this here guide, we’re going to rank all of the Splatoon 3 weapons from S rank (the best) to D rank (the worst). Naturally, this is somewhat subjective by nature, but we’ll draw from a number of different sources when determining this list. We’ll talk about that at the bottom of the article too, so if you’re curious about how we decided on placements, scroll down to the bottom of this article.
Or, if you’re looking for something new to play, we recommend checking out our Gunfire Reborn tier list, HoloCure tier list, and T3 Arena tier list.
Here’s how our tier list will work: we’ll rank the weapons from S tier to D tier, with S being best and D being worst. Weapons that appear in the top tier should perform better for the average player than a weapon in a lower tier. We’ll include an explanation at the bottom of this article.
Before we move onto the tier list though, we thought we’d quickly explain what our tiers mean:
These weapons are the best in the game, and should help you compete with players of all skill levels.
Solid weapons that might require a bit of mastery to beat the best.
You’re not going to struggle with these weapons, but nor will they guarantee you a win.
These weapons can perform well in certain game modes, but are otherwise worth avoiding.
Skip these ones – there are better alternatives.
Now, we’ll answer a bunch of FAQs about Splatoon 3 or tier lists in general
A tier list is a list of weapons or characters that you can unlock in a game – particularly a gacha game – ordered from best to worst. We rank from S tier to D tier, with S being best and D being worst.
The purpose of a tier list is to help you, the player, determine who the best characters or weapons to unlock are, so you can save time or money. Once you know who the best weapons are, you can choose the best and ignore the others.
We used a combination of the following factors when deciding on our Splatoon 3 tier list:
However, it’s worth noting that tier lists are subjective by nature. This is based on our experience with the game, but yours may vary. So, we recommend that you take this with a pinch of salt and play Splatoon 3 for yourself.
We update this tier list regularly to ensure that it always follows the latest meta. Typically, you can expect an update around the following happenings:
There may be a small delay between the above two events as we’ll return to the game to check out the new character for ourselves, or to see how the balance patches have affected things.
