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[testmen]

Since it's my thing, I should probably support it

Bravely Inkantry: (1) TricMagic
Mark 2 Ink tank: (1) TricMagic
Pocket Spray (3): SamSpeeds, NUKE9.13, testmen
Wanted Posters: (0)
Umbrella Armor: (0)
Close Air Panic Bomb (1): SamSpeeds

[Happerry]

Revision : Pocket Spray (Easy Difficulty)
3+4+1 = 8: Unexpected boon

The Pocket Spray works. Granted, Inklings aren't really sure why the effort was put in to make it work, as it doesn't actually heal an Inkling faster then just taking a quick healing break in their own ink already and, unlike a healing bath, needs someone else to do it to you. Oh, sure, it can also be used as a short ranged weapon... but its not really a good weapon. The dilution of the Ink into Ink Fog might make it painful, but it's generally less efficient then just shooting the Octoling in question. Likewise, normal Inkarms are superior at inking up territory, despite its spraycan like appearance.

Granted, it can still be used to create concealing smoke clouds, with more control over the shape and area of the smoke then a normal smokebomb... but a normal smokebomb covers a larger area much faster. All in all the Pocket Spray is easy to use, no more expensive then the item it was based on, and reliable, suffering only from the fact that almost none of the Inkantry see a reason to use it. Commander Cauldo does point out that it could be useful at signals and communication duty if it was loaded with glowing ink instead of normal ink. So the designers add 'glowingness' to the mix and now it glows, so at least it can be used for that?

On the other tentacle, the Ink fog is nice and refreshing to 'bath' in, and some think it might be salable on the open market as a luxury product. Depending on how sales go, perhaps the extra profit could be used to fund additional design studies.

Costs 2 Plastic and 3 Super Sea Snails, making it Expensive. Gain a +1 bonus to next season's Design Roll.

Spoiler: Resources (click to show/hide)

Basic Resources
Plastics : 2
Super Sea Snails : 1

Advanced Resources
Zapfish : 2

Spoiler: Inkling Armory (click to show/hide)

Primary Weapon

• Bamboozler : A compression powered ink gun that was recently invented before the Great Turf War. It charges somewhat slowly, is hard to charge on the move, can not store a charge, has limited maximum range, has low ink usage efficiency hampering repeated use before one must refill their ink tank, and can not be fired while uncharged. In other words, a revolutionary improvement over all that came before. Despite being shaped somewhat like a hammer, it is not advisable to use it in melee to hit someone over the head with.
  Cheap - Cost : 2 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails.
  
  • Bamboozler Quickcharge Cartridges : A modification of the Bamboozler that adds a socket for a pre-filled and pressurized cartridge of ink. A simple lever allows the user to switch between normal firing mode and using the cartridge to fire an instant and fully charged shot, if one at only around 85% the range and power of a normal charged shot. Takes a little bit to unscrew the old cartridge and then screw another one in, limiting their ability to be used more then once in an exchange.
  • Spiral Barrel Refit : A modification of the Bamboozler that adds a new barrel as well as an air compression tank, thusly resulting in enhanced firing range, shot damage, and ink efficiency. While improved noticeably over the original model, this is still inferior to the second generation Bamboozler the Octolings have in production, among other things being around 15% shorter ranged then the enemy model. Produced in enough numbers to allow for mass deployment by way of hiring some Urchins to do the needed carving of Super Sea Snail shell.
    Cheap - Cost : 2 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails.
• Inkerial Blotter : An ink shell launching gun powered by super sea snail homeopathy and applied anti-logic. It fires blobs of ink that burst upon contact with a target, splattering a small area around said target with ink. It is hampered by its relatively short range, but uses a triple firing chamber array to permit an acceptable rate of fire. It's ink shells are also fired in an arc, instead of having a straight trajectory like other inkarms, permitting a limited amount of indirect fire. The recent addition of a proper pressurization chamber has both increased the AOE of the shells to a more average radius, and also has somewhat increased the range of fire to 'below average'. Also has snazzy new stone triggers.
  Expensive - Cost : 3 Plastic, 2 Super Sea Snails.
• ⑨-Scope : A powerful charger that uses eight Quickcharge Cartridges arranged around the primary compression chamber to achieve the forces needed for long ranged fire. The necessity to replace all the Cartridges between shots as well as re-compress the ink in the primary chamber ensure the ⑨-Scope has an absurdly low firing speed as well as a ferocious amount of recoil when fired. On the other hand, with a normal compression chamber and eight cartridges powering the shot, at least it hits hard. Also, the designers ran out of time and never got around to designing a scope for the gun, hindering its accuracy at its maximum range.
  Very Expensive - Cost : 4 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails, Complex.
• 3D-Scope : A powerful charger that uses three secondary compression chambers around the primary chamber to power its shots. Using all three of the secondary chambers requires more charging time then using fewer of them for a weaker shot, but only when all chambers are used does the 3D-Scope gain its true power and range. Comes with a simple scope for accurate fire out into the long range bracket, but uses up lots and lots of ink when being fired out to its full range and power. Unlike the ⑨-Scope, using it will no longer cover your entire shoulder and or arms in bruises from the recoil.
  Expensive - Cost : 4 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails.
• Rapid Shooter : A short ranged triple chambered gun, the Rapid Shooter is the first proper Shooter to be put into production in the Great Turf War. It's short ranged and has minor accuracy issues at the edge of its range, but it is also light, handy, and can recharge its compression chamber on the go. As such, as long as one doesn't literally hold the trigger down until the compression chamber is empty, it can maintain a continual stream of fire no other gun in the turf war can yet match.
  Cheap - Cost : 2 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails.

Sub Weapon

• Inkdisc-A Bomb/Mine : A disk shaped plastic casing for ink filled balloons that can be used as a thrown projectile detonated upon impact with a needle of hardened ink, or with the flip of a lever the needle may remain unused to allow for the deployment of the Inkdisc as a sort of non-stealthy mine. While limited in range, despite and because of its frisbee like shape, by the muscle power and throwing ability of its user one good direct hit within its range can splat the average target. Takes a few seconds to inflate though.
  Cheap - Cost : 2 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails.
• "Big Smoke" Smoke Bomb : A shell shaped throwing weapon that emits aerosolized ink from three separate ports, providing concealment, soothing friendly Inkantry, and serving as a low level ablative defense verses enemy shots. Enemies moving through a cloud will feel like they're moving through a cloud of itching powder, and the cloud is pretty effective at blocking line of sight. Of course, like other smoke weapons, that includes friendly line of sight...
  Expensive - Cost : 2 Plastic, 3 Super Sea Snails.
• Ink-Missile : A weapon based equally off the Inkdisc and the Big Air Ink Bomb, the Ink-Missile is a plastic disk with an almost frictionless bottom, allowing it to be sent skating into enemy lines where an ink signature detecting sensor causes it to explode as soon as it gets close enough to an enemy. Or sufficiently inked enemy turf, for that matter. It also has a motion sensor to cause it to explode when it finally comes to a halt if it manages to find no targets at all during its long skid. Has a somewhat smaller explosion radius then the Inkdisc due to the space taken up by the sensors and special bottom.
  Expensive - Cost : 3 Plastic, 1 Super Sea Snails.
• Pocket Spray : A spraycan shaped container of pressurized aerosolized glowing ink. When sprayed on a fellow Inkling it can rapidly heal them, just as fast as taking a bath in friendly ink, as well as being useable to spray into the air to make walls of smoke, thrown as an improvised smoke bomb, or sprayed directly on surfaces to ink territory directly, hopefully in snazzy glowing patterns. A well designed and easy to use product marred only by the fact that its intended users see very little reason to actually use it.
  Expensive - Cost : 2 Plastic, 3 Super Sea Snails.

Specials

• Vortex Armor : A defensive special that generates a vortex of ink around the user. Its immense energy expenses prevent it from lasting beyond four to six seconds, with its time falling to half of that while being heavily used. While the vortex lasts it will cover anything nearby in friendly ink, turf or foe, as well as intercept enemy shots with its own ink. Its defensive coverage isn't perfect though, and well aimed, sufficiently lucky, or singularly powerful enough shots can penetrate its defensive shroud.
  Cheap - Cost 1 Plastic, 1 Super Sea Snail
• Big Air Ink Bomb : A special that allows the user to fire a glowing artillery shot of ink up into the sky, to then fall back down and land on an unfortunate Octoling's head. Has some minor issues aiming, but has decent range, enough damage to splat basically anyone directly hit, good splash radius, and leaves a five second cloud of aerosolized ink floating around the impact site. Was immediately co-opted by tactical officers for use as a signal flare. It's simplicity allows it to be charged faster then normal for a special.
  Cheap - Cost 1 Plastic, 1 Super Sea Snail

Ability
No Abilities start out designed.

Personnel

• Inkantry : Brave Inklings, run through basic training and drilled repeatedly in weapon use and other skills needed on the modern battlefield. The Inkantry not only know how to use a gun, but also hold a basic understanding of the concepts of planning, crossfires, flanking maneuvers, and actually communicating with each other, and have superior running and swimming speed from all those athletic drills. They're still fairly basic soldiers, but they actually are soldiers now.
• Markslings: Inklings whom have powered through the frequent and blatant distractions and misuse of the Firink Field to maximize their accuracy, snapshot skills, and ability to assess cover to as high as the Firink Field could take them. While few are dedicated enough to become known as a Marksling, those whom are are rightfully known for their skills.
  Uncommon Specialist.
• Inkrunners: Inklings trained in Camp Booyah for speed, agility, and the arcane are of the Dodge Roll. Not actually better in direct combat then a normal Inkantry, but harder to hit and able to get to the fight, or any other location of interest, faster then a normal Inkantry. They need to use a light and easy to use weapon to be able to properly employ their skills however, preventing them from using most of the current armory. As only the best trainees can achieve this title, they are somewhat Uncommon.

Cultural Artifacts

• The Inkspire : A vast and continual open air market and cultural festival without end that has grown around Inkopolis Tower, better known as the Inkspire in those times. While of little direct military use, it's presence as a sign of what all Inklings fought for had noticeable effects on their overall morale. And besides, I found the cutest pair of booties there last time I went! Must visit again soon. And this time, I'll avoid drinking that homemade fire-water.

Other Gear

• Mark 1 Ink Tank : A basic ink tank, invented by the same inventor that invented the Bamboozler, and designed to work with the Bamboozler. A quarter of its mass is taken up with the complicated gearing that connects it to a Lings primary weapon and the generator for the subweapon, limiting how much ink it can store. Still better then having to produce ink manually whenever you need a refill though.
  Cheap - Cost : 2 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails.
  
  • Super Sea Snail Filters: The heavy valves that controlled ink flow in the Mark 1 Ink Tank have been replaced with a system of Super Sea Snail derived filters, which control the flow of ink without any jams or needed maintenance. The decreased size of the filters, in comparison to the original valve system, allows the non-tank part of the Ink Tank to decrease to taking up only around 15% of its mass instead of 25%. This does, however, mean that the Ink Tank now needs Super Sea Snails for construction.
    +1 Super Sea Snails (Cheap)
• Military Inkline Camp : A camp that teaches a two month course on the basics of military skills, with plenty of athletic and accuracy drills, as well as a new standardized basic training program to teach students how to be proper soldiers whom actually have basic military skills. Doesn't stand out as being awesome, but grants all students whom are put through its training a solid foundation for their new roll as Inkantry.
• Firink Range : An expanded weapons testing and training field with automatic targets that do things such as move and shoot back, as well as a multitude of different firing positions to practice from. For some reason the Inkantry have taken to using the place as a tournament ground, hindering attempts to train within it. Still, for those whom persist and fail to be distracted by the team verses team playfights, a noticeable level of skill can emerge. Markslings may not be common, but they have learned the lessons of the Firink Range well and full-heartedly.
• Camp Booyah : An alternate training area, Camp Booyah is an obstacle course that specializes in training Inkrunners instead of long ranged combatants. Unlike earlier obstacle courses it is far less likely to traumatize and splat it's victim-, er, trainees. On the other tentacle, it also produces far less lawsuits.
• Spike Covered Crevasses : It turns out that these are illegal to drop Inklings into, and do not in fact make good obstacle courses.

Superweapons

• Thunderbird Lightning Plane: A giant plastic airplane with four propellers, two wing mounted zapfish, a dump bay for air deployed Inkantry or masses of Inkdisks, and a lightning rod cannon on the nose. Accumulates lightning from the wing tips and the propellers and then fires lightning rods down to guide said lightning down and fry everything in an area. Totally not at risk of something crazy attacking a charged lightning rod and sending the lightning crashing back up into the airplane. Who'd be stupid enough to try that, after all?
  Needs 2 Zapfish to be deployed.

Heroes

• Commander Cauldo : A former instructor of the Inkantry Brevetted to Commander and deployed to battle. Armed with a refined Inkerial Blotter using lighter materials and a five-firing chamber arrangement for greater firing speed and usability, as well as experimental ink energy batteries that are no longer mildly explosive when things go wrong. Commander Cauldo is known for his tactical skill and ability at small scale unit command, skills which seem to come from his days as an instructor, and unlike most heroes works closely with an attached squad of Inkantry. His presence is inspiring to said squad and any other Inklings around, and he can use his reputation to get other squads to listen to him, increasing local coordination.
• Aoi the Painter: A former security guard and self employed manga artist, Aoi has been recruited into the ranks of the special Inkling Agents as Agent 2. She's armed with a self designed giant paintbrush weapon able to really paint some turf as long as the enemy is at point blank range, and uses compressed air to let her throw the ink off the brush farther when she swings it around. Even if the compressed air capsule has to be replaces every few minutes as it runs out of air, it still gives her a bit of extra range. Aoi is pretty fast on her feet and nimble, if not unreasonably so. Lastly, her glowing facepaint makes her look extra fresh.

The Deployment Phase of Winter, Year 2 has begun.
Please vote for which two fronts reinforcements should be actively deployed to in an attempt to push forwards, and where heroes and superweapons should be sent.

[NUKE9.13]

Okay, so, that was a waste of a revision. Whoops. In fairness, the fact that lings can regenerate by taking a dip in ink isn't mentioned that often. Still, we should've known.

Anyway.

We need to push the Octolings back in the Towers. Air power has consistently been mentioned as a major factor there, so the Thunderbird should go to that front. I think we should also send Commander Cauldo there, to maximise the advantage of the Thunderbird- I'm sure he would love to be able to deploy a squad of paralings behind enemy lines, and now he can.

Aoi, meanwhile, I reckon we send to Port Mackerel- I figure the close confines of the alleyways and buildings will make her close-combat abilities stand out. Alternatively, we could send her to try and nab back a Zapfish.

Push Moray Towers and Port Mackerel/Calamari Country
Deploy the Thunderbird to Moray Towers
Deploy Commander Cauldo to Moray Towers
Deploy Aoi the Painter to Port Mackerel

Plan A: (1) NUKE9.13

[TricMagic]

Push Moray Towers and Port Mackerel/Calamari Country
Deploy the Thunderbird to Moray Towers
Deploy Aoi the PainterDeploy  to Moray Towers
Commander Cauldo to Port Mackerel

Port Mackerel will be close range with many alleys between the crates. During the battle for the Fax machine, Commander Cauldro dealt with Dofley with his tactics leading their forces around by his own plan, not theirs. The Superweapon will do well to deny air advantage at the Towers, and Aoi can fight in the close hallways as leader and individual operative as necessary.

Dofley is out for the season, so the Commander can push them back with tactics alone, making use of the battlefield to our advantage.

Plan A: (1) NUKE9.13
Plan B: (1) TricMagic

I am also disappointed in the Spray, but hopefully it may boost our resources for later. At least it offers us another DESIGN bonus for next season.

Also, NUKE, I did design the Inner Spirit ability to BOOST recovery, all inklings can already heal. At least it was easy, and I hope the sales do go well in the future. Maybe a Social design for next season?

Actually, that healing Exp would go well with the Inner Spirit Ability, wouldn't it? So +2 next season on top of a jumpstart, giving it at least a 4, at worst.

[testmen]

Plan A: (2) NUKE9.13, testmen
Plan B: (1) TricMagic

[NUKE9.13]

Port Mackerel will be close range with many alleys between the crates. During the battle for the Fax machine, Commander Cauldro dealt with Dofley with his tactics leading their forces around by his own plan, not theirs. The Superweapon will do well to deny air advantage at the Towers, and Aoi can fight in the close hallways as leader and individual operative as necessary.

Dofley is out for the season, so the Commander can push them back with tactics alone, making use of the battlefield to our advantage.

I think Cauldo will be better able to make use of the Thunderbird's abilities. Not that it wouldn't be useful alone, but he'd be a force multiplier, where Aoi would be merely a force addition. Yes, Cauldo would also do well in the Port, most likely, but so will Aoi.
I'm not sure where you're getting close hallways in the towers from- from the BRs, it sounds like most of the fighting takes place on rooftops. In fact, I'm pretty sure Aoi would be significantly less effective in the Towers than in the Port.
And it's more important that we push them back in the Towers, as they are much closer to our HQ on that front.

...also, Dofley was stealing a Zapfish last turn when we got pushed back on both fronts. I'm not sure why you think him being absent again will make us invincible.

[TricMagic]

Excuse me while I snicker...

snickers

Really? You do realize that we didn't send any forces to Moray Towers last season, right?

If it wasn't for the superweapon, the Inklings might have managed to push the Octolings back out of the towers through the superiority of having a shooter and a blaster weapon and better, if no longer flatly superior, snipers. But the Typhoon is here, and so the Inklings get forced back once more.

We're sending the Superweapon there this season, with our forces as well. With Air Superiority, we shouldn't have much trouble there this season.

Port Mackerel meanwhile needs a defense. Aoi won't be the greatest of help there. Sure, the place will likely be close range, but Lings can also use the tops of containers, most likely. It's a new area too, so Commander Cauldro's tactics will push them back out before they have a chance to get settled in. Then next season will be Spring in Calimari Country, rather than Spring at the Port if they do manage to get settled in.


Granted, this is all guesswork, really. They could just decide to go for Mount Nantai instead. Which would be interesting, given no battles have been fought their in the winter season.

As a final note, why do people keep thinking that pushing into the Canyon multiple times is a good idea We always got pushed back to the Mount in those times from one thing or another..

[NUKE9.13]

Excuse me whilst I calmly and respectfully point out the flaws in your arguments.

I just went and re-read the BRs. Unless I missed something, there has never been any indication that where we choose to deploy reinforcements has any impact on our defensive ability. So, regardless of whether or not I remembered our exact troop deployment last turn, it doesn't change the fact that we got pushed back on both fronts without Dofley's help.

The deployment of the Thunderbird will help, but we don't know what the enemy has developed this turn. If I were them, it'd be something to help push the Towers, though, as they're very close to our capital on that flank. To cement our victory, we need a hero who has demonstrated their competence in the area already, who can make the best use of the strategic and tactical advantages that the Thunderbird offers.

Port Mackerel doesn't need defending nearly as much as the Towers. For all we know, our current arsenal will be enough to defend the place unaided. And even if it's a complete rout, they've got 4 sections to push there, versus 2 in the Towers.
I am frankly baffled by your argument for why Aoi wouldn't be useful in the Port. You know where else people can stand on top of things, rather than being confined to narrow spaces? The Towers.

As for your final note, I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. I have literally never advocated pushing into the Canyon.

[TricMagic]

Really? When they send a Superweapon, we tend to lose. Commander Cauldro can better take advantage of the field at Port Mackrel. And the Towers require the crossing of bridges, there aren't that many ways, if any, to get around them. It's windy, and we battle from floor to floor, and on rooftop, never ground.

In this, we are sending our Superweapon there, which can deploy our Inklings behind enemy lines, as well as give us rooftop and air superiority. As well, their Superweapon only has balloons they must drop. Aoi is a bonus, and I've yet to see us take 2 areas at a time.

At the Port, Aoi can work, but Commander Cauldro will do much better in organizing Defense and Offense. As well, where the Towers are Windy and disrupt their Superweapon's aim, the Port isn't, and Commander Cauldro will have an easier time making a plan to hit the Blimp while it reloads, and taking it.

Where is their Superweapon most effective, that's the question. In this, Towers falls on the short end of the Calculation.

Next question, who's more effective where. Commander Cauldro organizes our Inklings into better formations, and has good group planning. Aoi is a single Agent, good for disruption.

In the end, both are good choices for each area, but I think Commander Cauldro will do better with the Port, and Aoi will be perfectly capable at the Towers.

As for the Canyon bit, people here voted to go in, even after we saw the issue with actually making headway. And there was the time we got bombed. We don't really have cover there, so it's a straight firefight most times. Our current gear, added to our new Superweapon, does give us better odds, but not perfect.

I kinda feel they could just try and attack the Mount too, but that's less of an issue unless they made something gamechanging this turn.

[SamSpeeds]

Plan A: (3) NUKE9.13, testmen, SamSpeeds
Plan B: (1) TricMagic

[Happerry]

The Great Turf War of Winter, Year 2, has now Finished.

The Design Phase of Spring, Year 3 has begun.

[NUKE9.13]

Shellskin - Ability (Clothing):
Check out these new threads! Not only do they look well fresh, but they're infused with a powerful defensive ability that can seriously increase longevity in an inkfight. Using ancient human science and a generous budget, the Shellskin ability causes ink to slide off the user like water off a duck's back. How? We already said ancient human science, didn't we?
Naturally, this means that enemy ink attacks do considerably less damage, although the ink-repelling effect also slows swimming speed and in-ink regeneration. But hey, the effect only repels large concentrations of ink... so if you had some sort of, I dunno, aerosolised ink, that could pass through and heal you easily.
The clothing which is infused with this ability was designed by Nauty Studios, well known for making cephalopod wear that is both stylish and sturdy. See, cos they're named after nautiluses. Who have shells.   

So, I dunno if this is an acceptable design. Like, the description of abilities in the core thread OP specifically mentions that no one knows how they work, and I tried to find actual Splatoon lore on them to no avail. It's also a bit bare-bones. But I think something along these lines would be a good way to go.

[TricMagic]

Ace Swimmer Shirt-Ability (Clothing)
Check out these threads. They'll made with ancient human sub-marine techniques to reduce drag in ink to near nothing. This means the wearer won't leave a sign of being/swimming in ink, and will be able to swim even faster. They also have ink just slick off of the wearer, thanks to that property. Made by Nautical Productions for the best in Spiral-Shell-Geometry, coming to you this Spring!

Ability: Stealth Swim
Sub-Ability: Swim Speed Up

Ability (Clothing)
Shellskin: (0)
Ace Swimmer Shirt: (1) TricMagic

Note, the Spiral-Shell-Geometry is mostly fluff, just putting design on them in lines pleasing to the eye.
Slick meanwhile is also marketing, other than maybe reducing Ink-covered to Normal Time.

[testmen]

Dazzle Camouflage – Ability:
On closer inspection of the documents, they may not be precursor military technology, but about military FASHION.  I mean, just look at the fatigues, and how the precursor soldiers have different color uniforms for every situation; ‘Olive drab,’ ‘Woodland,’ ‘Snow,’ and… ‘Banana’?  ‘Rainbow?’  Some of these styles seem weird, but it would be really neat if we could outfit our troopers with something similar.  We even had plans to let them change the color and pattern of their uniforms like they could change their ink color

However, it seems some intern must have mixed up formulas, because upon inspection of the prototype uniforms, a fight broke out because part of the design team said it looked like a ‘eyesore,’ and a fight broke out.  After investigating the matter further, it turned out they meant literal eyesore, and a recreation of the dye showed that it had effected the light that bounced off of it somehow, where those who are a opposing color to the dye note it as being ‘loud and straining on the eyes, like the contrast between colors is more severe than actually thought possible.’  Yet, when looked at by someone of a friendly ink color, it looks perfectly normal.  Must be something to do with the ink that flows through our eyeballs. 

This has led to the development of Dazzle Camouflage, an ability that reduces the enemy’s accuracy by making it difficult and straining to keep a bead on someone wearing this uniform. We can only hope that while making these special Dazzle Camouflage fatigues we still have time to make regular fatigues for the rest of the troops.

tl;dr  Clothing that makes it hard to look at our dude, decreasing accuracy
I feel that the reason nobody has made any abilities yet is because they seems harder to make then weapons and such, and feel like they would have less effect than making other things, but we will see.

Edit:  Oh yeah, votebox

Ability (Clothing)
Shellskin: (0)
Ace Swimmer Shirt: (1) TricMagic
Dazzle Camouflage: (1) testmen

[NUKE9.13]

Whilst there is something to be said for dazzling people, I feel like more conventional camouflage might be more effective, if we want to go down that route.
I'm not sure of the value of stealth+faster swimming... I mean, I can see on this here Splatoon wiki that those are real abilities in the game, so presumably they have some use, but I can't really picture them. Can you illustrate what sort of situations they'd be useful in?
I know that defence up is kinda a boring ability, but I also feel like it's guaranteed to be useful in basically all situations. I added a downside in an attempt to make the upside more powerful, but we could do a version without a downside if people'd prefer.