#splattedby.e

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Hey I did an art for this one. Happy Valentine's!

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Amiibo photos!!

❄️ Frostyfrest ☃️

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I love you team Shiver fans

I love you team Frye fans

I love you team Big Man fans

I love you Splatoon players! It’s been an amazing splatfest let’s keep it up!

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How my big run has been going

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Devastated to learn team rock and team paper were seeing text boxes from Frye or Shiver during tricolor when scissors got nothing

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The girl <3

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Mostly I’m just annoyed the splatfest teams have been so unbalanced. I love Shiver and gg to team money (you guys were fighting hard whenever I saw y’all) but 9% is pretty indicative of the larger problem.

Team Fame had 9.10% and Team Bigfoot had 8.69%. When less than 10% of your player base wants your option (no offense team fame love you guys) then you are not picking good themes/good teams for it.

3/8 splatfests have had one team with more than half the votes:

Ice Cream Splatfest - Team Vanilla: 55.04%

Taste Splatfest - Team Sweet: 56.84%

Deserted Island - Team Gear: 58.28%

That’s 5/8 splatfests with massive popularity disparages. 2 of the remaining 3 were NOT EVEN SPLATOON ORIGINALS—they were the pokemon and Zelda collabs (zeldafest has most even teams to date for those curious). The chocolate splatfest was almost equal to the pokemon percentages, with 24-33-42 and 25-33-40 respectively.

This would be less of a problem if it weren’t for the mirror matches. When more than half your players are stuck in mirror matches (and even more in the case of Fame and Bigfoot skewing the splatfest so badly) the splatfest itself becomes disheartening. While I love getting to play the game regardless, a not insignificant number of players don’t want to be stuck in mirror matches all weekend when they don’t give any clout/points for their team.

This also impacts tricolor, as the mode needs all three teams to have a real match. With less than 10% popularity, both Team Love and Money (+ Nessie and Aliens) get stuck in mirror matches regardless of who is most popular until the minority team can be found. And everyone makes jokes about only seeing these teams once or twice when it happens, so you can see how the average (and casual!) player will suffer if this isn’t addressed.

Tl;dr Splatfest teams have large popularity disparages and this causes excess mirror matching/unbalanced splatfests. Splatoon devs need to start doing polls ahead of time or something it’s really bugging me.

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Logged onto Splat 2