Splatoon 3 Gear and Skills Guide for Beginners

in the turn 3, equipment is everything. Whether you like a fit because it’s meta or you just like the look, there are ways to beef it up so it suits your playstyle.

For new players, upgrading gear can be overwhelming. Our Splatoon 3 Beginner’s Guide explains how to upgrade your gear with hunk and Murch.

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How the equipment works turn 3

All equipment has one main ability slot and up to three subslots. the higher one star power a piece of gear has, the more subslots it has. Each star the gear has after its second star increases the XP you receive.

You can play games from Turf War or battle of anarchy to gain XP for your equipment, giving it random new abilities (if there is space) or ability chunks. You can use Ability Chunks to choose which specific abilities you want to add to your gear to avoid the random element.

Depending on the brand of equipment, certain abilities appear more frequently and others less frequently. We present these below.

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How to level up gear and use ability chunks

Murch the sea urchin, sitting just outside the lobby, offers a number of essential services. It scrubs all sub-skills off your gear and gives you one skill chunk per skill for 20,000 gold. if you give it Super sea slugsyou can also increase the star power of your gear or completely reroll its ability subslots.

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Notably, he can also use Ability Chunks to set specific abilities on your gear. It costs 45 ability chunks to set the main ability and 10 ability chunks to set the first sub-ability on a piece of gear. However, if you want to place multiple instances of the same ability on a piece of gear, the cost of the Ability Chunk increases to 20 for two with the same ability and 30 for three. (For example if I wanted three Swim faster skills on my shoes, that would cost me a total of 60 swim speed skill nuggets.)

You can also increase your Star Power by purchasing duplicates of the same gear from the regular stores. However, this becomes expensive as each upgrade costs more money. You can also reset the gear’s abilities by trading yours for the ones in the store, but this won’t give you any ability nuggets.

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How to farm ability chunks fast

There are two great ways to farm Ability Chunks: salmon run and splatfest.

Use Salmon Run to farm chunks

Salmon Run repeatedly rewards you with random reward capsules and a specific piece of gear. (As of this writing, the gear in question is the Bream-Brim Cap.) You can only have one copy of the gear, so the other one gets scrapped and you get skill chunks for the skills. Spamming Salmon Run and splitting up gear is an easy way to quickly rack up ability chunks.

Salmon Run’s bonus meter resets every 40 hours, so you’ll need to earn around 1,200 points before you only get gear as a reward each time it resets.

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Using splatfests to farm chunks

That Splatfest t-shirt (which you can grab a week before each Splatfest) has three sub-slots and Scrubbing only costs 2,000 gold. Playing regular matches with the Splatfest Tee equipped is cheap fast ability chunks.

To take it a step further, if you have an ability drink for an ability you want chunks for, use that. (You can get skill drinks from the shell-out machine randomly.)

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When you use an ability drink, your gear rolls that ability at a higher rate. Players using this strategy recommend scrubbing their Splatfest t-shirt after it gains its first ability to minimize use of the drink, as it’s only active for 20 games.

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What skills are the best in Splatoon 3?

There’s a pattern where abilities like swim speed boosts and ink savers are the most commonly used, but the exact abilities you bestow on your gear will depend on your playstyle and weapon choice.

If you love rushing in and throwing bombs, then the Swim Speed ​​Up, Ink Saver (Sub), and Ink Recovery Up would probably be worth getting. If you love firing your Tenta missiles, maybe Special Power Up would be your favorite sub-ability.