User blog:ShaunoftheRed/Ok I Have an Inkling Idea

Hey. So yeah recently I picked up Splatoon and it is a great great game. It's so unique and a nice change of pace in an otherwise crowded genre. But yeah, praising aside, now that I have played as one of the Inklings, I feel confident enough to come up with a moveset for them.

I think everybody who has thought about Inkling in smash has also thought about how the squid-change mechanic would come into play. I mean that's what would make him really stand out. One of the quirky "new mechanic" characters like Olimar or Robin or Rosalina. I thought about reserving his neutral special for turning into squid mode but it just seem like a waste of a special. And offers a lot of room for stalling as you could just hide in the paint you just created until it runs out (If it does. Not decided yet). So I reckon that the only way to enter squid mode is to dash. The squid is Inkling's dash animation. (Dash attack pending).

This way you can't just hide around in the paint and it would only serve as a navigation/evasion tool (Much like in Splatoon actually). When you're not in your paint the dash would be very sluggish and comparable to your regular walking speed but when dashing in your own paint, not only do you go much faster (About Fox?) but you submerge and disappear so you can avoid attacks for as long as you are dashing in paint. When not in paint your dash is useless; when in paint your dash avoids attacks. That way it kinda neutralises.

I still don't know what do to about the painting itself. Should we make his jab the splattershot (a regular gun) and give him interesting specials, or should we make his Neutral special the splattershot and give him ordinary A moves? How long should the paint last on field? Should the paint damage foes? If so then only when you're squirting it or if they step on it while it's grounded too? Or should it only exist to aid your navigation? Should there be a paint limit so you can't fight well until you recharge? How do you recharge? By stepping/dashing in paint? What if the paint has disappeared? it must be a time thing. Like you have to wait... There's so much to consider.

Well I guess I'll iron that out later. But I did come up with an idea for his up and down specials. The up special should be that super jump thing you can do in the campaign to quickly move from mission to mission. It appears in online mode too but you need a beacon. So this would be the down special. You can place this beacon anywhere on the stage and your up special will send you straight to it over the heads of everybody. This would be ridiculously OP so the beacon itself must be destructable/it doesn't last long/both.

So that's all I have. I reckon this is one of only feasible ways to put Inkling in smash WITH the squid transformation. Thansk for reading all that btw :D