Getting a few splats in S Rank Tower Control (12-8, Carbon Roller Deco)

23rd April 2017 – 7.00 pm

My current stint in S Rank battles is like most others. I get here and face the slow but inevitable decline back to A+, but thankfully with the occasional battle where I'm not dragging the rest of the team down. I swap over to the Carbon Roller Deco to try to get more non-horrible battles.

Naturally, I find the Seeker to be a valuable part of the Carbon Roller, and launch one when it seems appropriate, which is pretty often. I quite like seeing how they play with the conveyer belts too. I also see there is a Carbon Roller on the other team, and we meet quite early. We seem to be wearing quite similar kit too.

I try to temper my need to ink turf to manoeuvre in with not being quite so aggressive, and it works really well for taking back the Tower the first time. Three good splats in a row, and two when I was Echolocated! It's a shame the flick missed the first inkling, I suppose, but I boost my numbers and we get the Tower moving in the right direction.

I leave my Hydra Splatling squidmate on the Tower to launch a Seeker Rush, which inks turf but does little else, and wander around trying to get splats where my ink doesn't quite reach. I do manage to stop the other Carbon Roller harassing a squidmate, I think, and try to hold some turf for us until I squid in to a Seeker minding its own business.

I am overwhelmed by ink for a bit, until a standard Seeker launch from the base gets an opportunistic splat, and moving around catches the opposite Hydra Splatling as her Bubbler runs out. But I am facing the wrong way with an active Seeker Rush as more purple ink comes my way.

Inking some turf to support the Tower sees a Seeker, and behind it the Carbon Roller comes out to splat me, but a nifty bit of side-squidding gets me the splat instead, and the jump on the Hydra Splatling looking away from me. That gives me the impetus to go after an inkling going for the Tower. Another splat to me!

I take a moment for myself, to see what else I can do, and wait perhaps a little too long to pounce on the Hydra Splatling. But at least I manage to evade her when she pops her Bubbler, and the Carbon Roller looking to uncover a hiding inkling like me. Seeker Rush ready, I head back around the Tower and clumsily launch a few in to the Tower itself.

Moving forwards from the Tower, I get a lucky splat on a jumping squid and another good splat on the Hydra Splatling, before trying to follow-up on a hit I hear only to have it be the Carbon Roller who stops my little streak. And that's the end for me. Despite time running out, we enter extra time, and I do little but get splatted a couple of times.

At least the final splat was attempting to retake the Tower. Sure, I didn't exactly help directly, but I think I did the best I could whilst being Echolocated, and hopefully I was a distraction. My squidmates take control of the Tower soon afterwards, giving us the victory.

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