Splatoon 3

Thermal Ink Effects, Gear, and Brand Rarity

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Last updated on: September 30, 2022 06:32 AM

Thermal Ink is a Gear Ability available in Splatoon 3. Read on to find out Thermal Ink's effects, best weapons to use, brand rarity, and all the Gear that come equipped with Thermal Ink!

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Effects
Best Weapons
Brand Rarity
Gear With Thermal Ink
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Thermal Ink Effects

Thermal Ink

Allows you to track distant players hit with shots from you main weapon.

Additional Effects

Effect will not work on indirect hits from weapons such as Blasters.
Effect lasts for 12 seconds, regardless of the amount of damage dealt.
You don't have to fully charge your Charger to apply the effect.
The effect will not be applied unless you're a certain distance away from the target. ( 3 lines in the training area ).

Best Weapons for Thermal Ink

Best Used on Long Ranged Weapons

Tri-Stringer

Bloblobber

Thermal Ink works well with mid to long-ranged weapons that usually don't splat opponents very quickly since Thermal Ink requires you to be quite a distance away from your enemies to work.

List of All Weapons

Thermal Ink Brand Rarity

Common and Uncommon Brands

Common Brand(s)	None
Uncommon Brand(s)	None

Certain Gear Abilities are more likely to appear in specific brands while others are less likely to appear. Take this into consideration when deciding what gear you want to purchase.

All Gear Brands and Compatible Abilities

Gear With Thermal Ink

Clothing

Vaporwave Tee	Takoroka Nylon Vintage	Enchanted Robe B
Apex Sweater

The following Gear have this ability by default. However, other Gear can gain this ability through leveling up or talking to Murch.

All Gear and Equipment

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Splatoon 3 Gear Abilities

All Gear Abilities and Effects

List of All Gear Abilities

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Ability Doubler	Comeback	Drop Roller
Haunt	Ink Recovery Up	Ink Resistance Up
Ink Saver (Main)	Ink Saver (Sub)	Intensify Action
Last-Ditch Effort	Ninja Squid	Object Shredder
Opening Gambit	Quick Respawn	Quick Super Jump
Respawn Punisher	Run Speed Up	Special Charge Up
Special Power Up	Special Saver	Stealth Jump
Sub Power Up	Sub Resistance Up	Swim Speed Up
Tenacity	Thermal Ink	-