

Weapons have a finite amount of ink ammunition, and going into squid form replenishes it quicker than in humanoid form.īoth of the Inklings' forms have abilities associated with them. Inklings also have the ability to morph into squid creatures, which are used to climb ink-covered walls or swim through ink faster than the humanoid forms can walk.

Inklings in Splatoon 3 expands upon their abilities by adding new main and special weapons to the game. The Inklings were designed to be teenagers since the developers wanted to give the image of a strong, rebelling character, while having the attitude of being "cool". When designing the Inklings the designers centered around it being female at first, which they stated was because there were not many other female leads in Nintendo games at the time. The "missile-like" shape of their head was a good complement to the Inklings' movement according to the development team. Designers came up with the idea for Inklings to be able to hide and swim in ink. This idea was worrisome to the designers, who were not sure whether it would sell. The player characters of Splatoon were originally based on anthropomorphized tofu in a prototype called "Tofu Prototype." Following this, the designers considered rabbits before their design were settled around squids, though they required that it be a squid-humanoid hybrid.
