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An orange Inkling using her Splattershot against Ryu

Ink is a special effect in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate that is used only by Inkling in most of its attacks and Kirby when copying them. When opponents are covered in ink, they take additional damage from attacks from other fighters. A fully inked opponent takes 1.5x damage with no extra knockback and will stay inked for 20 seconds.

Inkling's attacks that use ink

• Neutral infinite/finisher
• Forward smash
• Up smash
• Down smash
• Forward throw (second hit)
• Floor attack (front, back, and trip)
• Splattershot
• Splat Roller
• Splat Bomb
• Killer Wail

Origin

A blue female Inkling using her Splattershot in Splatoon.

Ink is a major aesthetic and tool in the Splatoon series, being the embodiment of the Inklings in Inkopolis, and the basis for their weapons. For the Inklings, it is their major form of transport, since they can swim in it, and defense, since they can use it as a projectile, and that an Inkling of different color cannot step in that Inkling's ink, which can be lethal to them. Ink is also used in the annual Turf Wars, where competing teams of Inklings try to cover as much area as possible in their team colored ink.