Heavy Splatling Guide: How to Use, Stats, and Best Gear Abilities

The Heavy Splatling is a Splatling weapon in Splatoon 3. Read on to see its stats, including its sub, special, damage, and range, as well as our analysis and tips on how to use Heavy Splatling and the best gear abilities to go with it.

Heavy Splatling Info and How to Get

Heavy Splatling Overview

Weapon	Sub	Special
Heavy Splatling	Sprinkler	Wave Breaker
Points for Special	Type
200	Splatling
Unlock Level
Heavy Splatling will be available for purchase from Ammo Knights upon reaching Level 4.

Heavy Splatling Tier Ranking

	Heavy Splatling currently is considered an S Tier weapon. Considered one of the better weapons at the moment, using Heavy Splatling can help you get the upper hand in battles.

Best Weapons Tier List: Main Weapons Ranked

Heavy Splatling Stats: Damage and Range

Heavy Splatling Analysis, Strengths, and Weaknesses

Heavy Splatling Analysis

Overall Ranking
Turf Wars	Splat Zones	Tower Control	Rainmaker	Clam Blitz

Heavy Splatling Characteristics

Ratings of Individual Characteristics
Inking Potential		Ease of Use
Offense		Defense
Utility		Shield Penetration

Heavy Splatling Strengths and Weaknesses

Heavy Splatling Strengths	Heavy Splatling Weaknesses
Outstanding for inking large areas in a short amount of time. Huge abundance of ink storage.	Short delay before being able to shoot ink. Limited mobility control during combat due to the heaviness of the weapon.

Best Gear Abilities for Heavy Splatling

Gear Ability	Effect
Ink Resistance Up	Reduces damage taken and improves mobility when walking through enemy ink.
Quick Super Jump	Increases Super Jump speed.
Run Speed Up	Increases movement speed in Inkling or Octoling form.
Special Charge Up	Increases special-gauge fill rate.

All Gear Abilities and Effects

How to Use Heavy Splatling Effectively

Cover your allies on the front lines. Do your best to ink from the center of the stage. Place the Wave Breaker slightly behind the front line.

Cover your allies on the front lines with the huge ink capacity.

The Heavy Splatling's fantastic fire-rate is great for covering teammates from behind. Keep a charge ready to splat any oncoming threats to your team. The sheer speed and power of your hits can easily guarantee a kill in a shoot-out.

Keep applying pressure by spamming ink if the fight becomes uneven or outnumbered.

Even when fights seem to be on the back foot, the Heavy Splatling can hold its own as long as you are quick to dodge. Try maintaining fights from the center of a map to keep pressure steady instead of staying safe from the base.

Place the Wave Breaker slightly behind the front line so it won't be easily destroyed.

You'll want your special Wave Breaker to last as long as it can in a skirmish. To maximize this, make sure not to throw it too far in the middle of a shoot-out.

Splatoon 3 Related Guides

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