The Shortcomings of Splatoon 2's Balance: A Patch Retrospective

Today we delve into why exactly I haven't been streaming or enjoying Splatoon 2 as much as I used to lately.

We delve into a heart to heart retrospective with Keen about many of the weapons that made the game fun for them, how they were nerfed, and what happened as a result. We also discuss how the risk/reward shifts with buffs and nerfs and explain why you see so many shooters everywhere.

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Editing by me *wow*

Timestamps:

Intro/Disclaimers: 0:00
Remember to Do This 3:34
Forms of Power Creep 4:01
How did the developers generally approach balancing? 5:31
How Balancing can affect all levels of play/How strong WERE some weapons before being nerfed? 7:37
3 Major Examples of Balancing Changes:
Explosher 9:44
Sorella Brella 21:58
Ballpoint Splatling Nouveau 31:14
Uh Oh, Poor Balancing 39:10
The Shortcomings of Balancing/Why difficult weapons need to feel GOOD to play 40:04
So what have we learned?/The mileage of easy to play low risk weapons 45:34
The BEST special weapons in the game and how they limit viable options even further 52:00
The Antifun Gun 59:12
The Antifun Gun's....Nerfs? 1:02:43
Why is it bad to have a meta with almost only shooters? 1:04:10
Conclusion/Closing Thoughts 1:09:14

Music:

Persona 4 Golden OST- A Sky Full Of Stars
Persona 4 OST I'll Face Myself - 2nd Version
A Gaze That Invited Disaster - VA-11 Hall-A
Nighttime Maneuvers - VA-11 Hall-A
Bug Fables OST - 64 - Termite Capitol
Orange Waltz - Butaotome
Slow Night - Takayan - Cafe de Touhou 2
Seaside - Bizen - Cafe de Touhou 3
Lotus - KA=YA - Cafe de Touhou 1
mental sketch modified (A to S) - flap+frog
paine - flap+frog
Apollo - flap+frog
Galaxy in a Pot (Eirin) - Touhou Lost Word
Sun, Moon, and Talia - flap + frog
flap+frog - stepIllumination (Garage Refix by Musicarus)
flap+frog - starlight snowwhite
Katawa Shoujo OST - Raindrops and Puddles

Weapons I talked about and their balance changes:

https://splatoonwiki.org/wiki/Custom_Dualie_Squelchers#Version_history
https://splatoonwiki.org/wiki/Explosher#Version_history
https://splatoonwiki.org/wiki/Custom_Explosher#Version_history
https://splatoonwiki.org/wiki/Splat_Brella#Version_history
https://splatoonwiki.org/wiki/Sorella_Brella#Version_history
https://splatoonwiki.org/wiki/Kensa_.52_Gal#Version_history

Hey if you're this low into the thumbnail then thanks bc compiling this took me about an hour