How Do Inklings Deal With Rain?

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  @quasar5563 · 4 years ago

  My headcanon is that inklings just can’t swim in water because they’ve evolved to swim in ink, which is MUCH thicker than water, meaning that they can’t displace enough water to swim and therefore drown, but that drinking water, showering, bathing, or wading in shallow water is perfectly fine.

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• EE

  @eelektrify · 3 months ago (edited)

  After 4 years, we finally have an answer.<br><br>In the “Deep Cut’s Island Misadventures” comic, there’s one part where it starts raining. They don’t panic nor do they seem to be fazed much.<br>Shiver even says “it’s really coming down”, so they seem to handle it as we humans do.

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• TI

  @tinytreesap · 4 years ago

  I feel like Inklings/Octolings operate under the rule of osmosis. Drinking water or getting drizzled on a bit isn&apos;t that bad but if they absorb too much water or are submerged in it, there&apos;s more water than ink and they go splat. I feel like the same thing happens with enemy ink, taking 100 damage is at the point that there&apos;s more enemy ink than their own and they get splatted due to that.

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• JM

  @JmonsterNEO · 4 years ago

  I believe that for Inklings and Octolings, rain doesn’t hurt them, but it does feel real weird to them

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• TH

  @TheShadowcreator · 4 years ago

  I&apos;m guessing since Inkopolis is sunny most of the time and they seem to be surrounded by desert, they have a climate that is similar to Nevada. That means it is hot and dry with infrequent rainfall. It also means that when it rains, it pours, but not for very long. So, in the rare occasion where Inklings encounter rain, they just hide inside for a couple minutes while it passes. As far as weather goes, I&apos;d think that tornadoes would be a bigger deal than rain in Inkopolis and The Splatlands.

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• TR

  @TrueZalamander · 4 years ago

  I&apos;ve always figured that rain would just sting a bit at most, and a heavy downpour would feel like being bombarded with hail or something.

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• BR

  @bruhderp · 4 years ago

  Considering that really strong water can be bad for inklings, does that mean water guns are considered lethal weapons?

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• KI

  @Kiblia · 4 years ago

  Rain to an inkling is like a precise missile strike; A friendly predator missile.

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• SI

  @silikerYT · 3 years ago

  I&apos;m pretty new to splatoon so I don&apos;t quite have the best understanding of everything, but my takeaway on inklings/octolings so far is:<br><br>they&apos;re weakness is disrupting their chemical composition, they&apos;re made of ink, so adding too much water, or ink of another color makes it too hard for the ink to hold itself together, resulting in a splat. as a trade-off though, since they&apos;re effectively just a water balloon filled with ink, they&apos;re highly resistant to physical trauma, hence, they don&apos;t take fall damage (it also explains Mr. Grizz&apos;s use of ink in splatoon 3&apos;s story mode, bear claws wouldn&apos;t really hurt an inkling, so he created the fuzzy ooze instead to combat them)

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• MI

  @Mileymoo3642 · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkYFjB5vv34&amp;t=192">3:12</a> yeah im pretty sure thats paris

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• FO

  @foxcyber404 · 4 years ago

  Honestly how I feel about it is that inklings and octings completely lost the ability to swim and sink like a rock, them splatting in large bodies of water is a defense mechanism to get out to prevent drowning.

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• PU

  @puhfylin · 4 years ago

  in the splat 2 art book it’s mentioned that toxic mist is made out of mixing two kinds of ink so maybe different ink colors have different compositions, that could be the reason why ink colors aren’t randomized as well

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