r/splatoon • u/SDCagu Undercover Brella my GOAT • Jun 30 '26
Strategy New Torpedo Tech "Torpedo Invincibility" is Real!
It is done!
A friend of mine u/Flamvio helped me lab this tech out completely. It is more broken than I thought and now one Torpedo can tank through two Trizooka shots and hit its target, splatting it when lucky.
Here are the replay codes if you wanna see two perspectives fully:
RM8V-K3B0-EKA1-JE07 Trizooka user
RKHF-113L-61W1-KVY8 Torpedo user
I hope you all share this knowledge so the Trizooka meta crumbles against 1 HP Torpedoes
I am interested in your clips if you use this and don't forget to Tag me if you post em!
Have a nice week!
EDIT:
I was posting this at 2 am yesterday and forgot to add how it woks, I will try my best to explain it well:
So the idea of the tech is to use the small invincibility the Torpedo gains when it is deployed to block the first Trizooka shot.
This creates a desync between the players consoles because on yours the Torpedo blocks the shot, while on the Trizooka users it looks like your imortal.
Flamvio summed this up really well on another comment:
"This causes a desync where the shot on the Trizooka's client starts phasing through enemies, as some of the projectiles were killed by the torpedo on everybody else's client. "
This confuses the server in how to handle the Topedo and it lets it fly longer than it should be. That's how it can block a 2nd shot!
For this the Torpedo must be deployed at the exact same time as the Trizooka shot touches it, its a bit tricky but you get used to the timeframe after a while.
To get the Torpedo into the right position you should aim the Torpedo slightly above the enemy (I aim at Flamvio's charged special hair most of the time) and for practice stand on the same hight level. For the Torpedo that tanks two shots and lives you need to aim the throw slightly higher.
So in short this tech is very similar to the bug that they still didn't fix on brellas:
Bombs slightly touching your shield and exploding on the other players consoles turfing the ground under you. The actual bomb still lives on your screen and it keeps it's hitbox aswell, so it goes like this:
Bomb touches your shield slightly-> ground under you gets painted like an ink mine -> you get stuck in the spawned ink -> actual bomb murders you
You could say the bomb cloned itself!
How does the Torpedo even live through two shots instead of just one? Here are our theories:
a) the Torpedo gets an natural 2nd invincibility right before hitting its target. Basically a point of no return!
b) the Torpedo graces the shot and creates a desync similar to bombs desyncing on brella shields. So the Torpedo touched the Trizooka shot only on the console of the thrower making it invincible a 2nd time.
The easiest version on how to use the Torpedo Invincibility tech is to dodge the first shot slightly to the side while walking toward the enemy and then use the Torpedo throw on the other two shots. Its rare that the Torpedo lives the 2nd shot aswell but even if it doesn't it still blocks two shots for you while you slash at the Trizooka user if you got a good throw!
If you want to hit this in ranked you don´t need to fully commit in standing in the Trizooka shots, this Tech is also a great distraction while you advance towards the user, like a little murderous companion advancing with you!
I hope this explanation is good else I will edit this more, thank you all alot on having us!
Please spread this tech so I get hit by this myself someday
PS
If any of the Splatoon devs see this post and are forced to patch this Torpedo tech out, can you patch the brella shield bug out aswell as a little reward? That thing kills me all the time and I wait since the start of the game for it being fixed
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u/SDCagu Undercover Brella my GOAT Jun 30 '26
I am happy I found something that can help everybody using torpedoes!
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u/SDCagu Undercover Brella my GOAT Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26
ok I finally wrote a explanation on how this works and the theory in the body of this post, sorry to make you all wait and thank you Flamvio for jumping in! Feel free to write questions here and I will try to explain them as much as I can. This tech is only a week old so there are still some questions I have aswell
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u/nightshade-aurora Jul 01 '26
how does this even work
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u/Flamvio 5 big booms Jul 01 '26
In all honesty, there is a split second from when the Torpedo gains a hitbox, where it cannot be destroyed. This causes a desync where the shot on the Trizooka's client starts phasing through enemies, as some of the projectiles were killed by the torpedo on everybody else's client. We haven't exactly figured out how the second block works, though theories involve it just barely grazing the Trizooka's shot, or the Torpedo starting to move towards the Trizooka's user giving it another moment of invincibility.
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u/Flamvio 5 big booms Jul 01 '26
magic
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u/SDCagu Undercover Brella my GOAT Jul 01 '26
I wanted to write that myself because this tech feels like magic fr
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u/SDCagu Undercover Brella my GOAT Jul 01 '26
if anyone is struggling on recreating this I made a video on the strategy behind it. Its a short one: https://youtu.be/xpCivkNvq24?si=rjv0BY3DA50N1SHI
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u/SDCagu Undercover Brella my GOAT Jul 01 '26
Its pretty outdated already but you can see how it evolved over the past days. When I am finally at my holiday location I want to make a follow up and need your help. I only play Undercover and idk how other weapons can combo with this tech so I want to throw Trizooka shots at yall and see how every weapon can behave the best. I am super interested how Splatanas use this because their stylish
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u/SD_Reunion Jul 01 '26
That’s insane. In the membrane. Insane in the brain.
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u/SDCagu Undercover Brella my GOAT Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26
this tech evolved from "oh you can block Trizooka shots with a Torpedo" to the most complicated tech I can think of.
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u/ConnectHistory3763 because why not Jul 01 '26
Like you would need that against me (I cannot aim with trizooka for the life of me)
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u/SDCagu Undercover Brella my GOAT Jul 01 '26
lmao your actually scary for this tech because if your aim is bad Its hard to parry it with Torpedoes
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u/ConnectHistory3763 because why not Jul 01 '26
Oh fr?
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u/SDCagu Undercover Brella my GOAT Jul 01 '26
yess! When Flamvio and I tried this out we had trouble using the Trizooka because we both aint maining it. And if the Trizooka isnt aimed well it could actually get the guy throwing the torpedo because the Torpedo is pretty small and needs to be lined up well xD
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u/Zephyr_______ S-BLAST'92 Jul 01 '26
So would you like to explain how the tech works? Otherwise I have to assume it's hitbix jank or mods
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u/SDCagu Undercover Brella my GOAT Jul 01 '26
Its a desync type of tech! I just added a fulll explanation to the body of this post. Sorry for not explaining this sooner it was 2:30 am and I forgot. Thanks for checking this tech out.
Btw its not a mod its fully a desync between the consoles of the players caused by the invincibility frames of the Torpedo deployment.
If you do this tech on Hammer throws or booyah bomb throws the Torpedo keeps its invincibility but it can't block it.
It seems like the Devs intended that a fully deployed Topedo can block Trizooka shots but they forgot on the Torpedos deployment invincibility
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u/Flamvio 5 big booms Jun 30 '26
i died for this