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Fish Stick Salmon Run Boss Guide: How to Beat

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The Fish Stick is a Boss Salmonid in Splatoon that consists of eight Smallfry carrying a steel pillar and will ink the surrounding area in Salmon Run Next Wave. Read on to learn the Fish Stick's stats and difficulty, as well as how to beat it and other strategies.

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Fish Stick Stats and Difficulty

Fish Stick Strengths and Weaknesses

Fish Stick
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Difficulty
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Strengths ・The squad of Smallfries will keep spraying ink around its vicinity
・Often accompanies other Boss Salmonids.
Weakness ・The Smallfries are easy to splat.
・Is generally just a nuisance if it spawns alone.

Drops a Pillar that Inks the Surroundings

The Fish Stick is a Boss Salmonid that consists of eight Smallfry carrying a large tower-like pillar that they will drop on a random spot in the arena. Once the the pillar is in place, the smallfry will continuously ink the surrounding area.

The Fish Stick is a minor nuisance and relatively harmless, but you should still splat it to prevent it from covering parts of the arena with ink!

Pillar Will Remain in Succeeding Waves

The pillar will remain on the stage after defeating the Fish Stick and serves as an additional platform that you can perch on, and is very useful when fighting against the likes of Slammin' Lid or Steelhead since you can target their weakpoints easily.

How to Beat Fish Stick and Strategies

How to Defeat Fish Stick
Splatoon IconHead Up the Tower and Splat the Smallfries
Splatoon IconUse a Special to Wipe Out the Smallfries

Head Up the Tower and Splat the Smallfries

To defeat the Fish Stick, you'll need to ink one side of the tower to swim up the tower and get to the Smallfries on top! The Smallfries have very low HP and you can splat them easily with any weapon.

Splat the Smallfries with Long-Range Weapons

You can also splat the Smallfries without heading up the tower if you have a long-range weapon like a Splat Charger.

It's also possible to splat the Smallfries with any weapon if they happen to drop the tower close to an existing platform or elevated ground.

Use a Special to Wipe Out the Smallfries

It's also possible to instantly splat the group of Smallfries by using the Booyah Bomb special on the top of the tower, with the resulting explosion will wipe out the entire group of Smallfries.

How to Use Special Weapons

Splatoon 3 Related Guides

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List of Boss Salmonids

List of Boss Salmonids

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Splatoon 3 - Maws Partial IconMaws Splatoon 3 - Drizzler Partial IconDrizzler Splatoon 3 - Flyfish Partial IconFlyfish Splatoon 3 - Flipper-Flopper Partial IconFlipper-Flopper
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