Ranking Salmon Run maps

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Friday, November 14th, 2025, 5:16 PM16 days ago

The are the Splatoon 3 Salmon Run maps, I'm not ranking the Splatoon 2 exclusive ones because I haven't played Splatoon 2.


1 - Bonerattle Arena This is just a really good map. It's not overly easy to get overrun. Glowflies and Grillers aren't super duper hard, like they usually are. Great map! 👍

2 - Gone Fission Hydroplant Gone fission is generally really well balanced. The outside sections aren't too easily overcrowded. High tide is easy to take care of. My only complaint is that the low tide has a bit of a choke point. 3 - Sockeye Station Absolute classic. The open areas are a little sucky if there's a flyfish out there and it's all painted in salmonid ink, but it's a lot better than a lot of other maps. The high tide is, I'd argue, the best one in the game. 4 - Jammin' Salmon Junction Not too good, not too bad. The jump in the middle is a little annoying (you need some speed for it), but it's manageable, especially if you ink the walls. It's a good map, it is a little easy to get overrun tho. 5 - Salmonid Smokeyard This one might deserve a higher place, I'm not sure. It's kinda sucky, especially the high tide, but mostly it's just kinda average. Nothing really too special. Pretty average map. :/ 6 - Spawning Grounds Ok, spawning grounds? Spawning grounds suck. The little bridges off to the sides; if there's a flyfish there good luck getting a bomb in the buckets. In mid tide, everything's too separate. In high tide, it's all too close, except for that fucking grated section. And low tide has all those little offshoots that are like: "Oh hey, a big shot spawn, I'm gonna go take advantage of that. Oh, there's a wall of salmonids." Spawning grounds sux. 7 - Marooner's Bay

I Hate marooner's. I fucking Hate marooner's. Me and Marooner's Bay are in a long term kissmisatude. You have no idea how many times I've ranked down because of Marooner's Bay. The whole thing is a elevated fucking ship with only 3 ways to get up there: the back, which takes forever, and 2 moving platforms on the sides, which suck for slow weapons. If you want to get golden eggs up there you have to either carry up one by one, shoot each one of them onto the platform, then shoot them into the basket, or make a kinda difficult shot which is actually kinda good game design, but WHATEVER. It's the only map where tornado is actually kinda tough.

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