Taking control on Moray Towers

After the chaos of five chargers on Tower Control in Arowana Mall, the battle in Moray Towers is rather more subdued. The only charger in the battle is the Splatterscope I have equipped, which puts rather a lot of pressure on my tentacles. I relax a little after I get my first splat, right across the concourse, as a good charger should. After that, it's a matter of moving with my team and keeping them covered. I'm still a bit shaky with my aim, though, so I welcome the super-jumping squid coming down in to my sights.

Although I enjoy the move to a charger, a weapon I wasn't comfortable with for a long time, I still don't fully embrace it. I still want to push forwards and take control of the tower if it is available, instead of pulling back and providing a stable position for squidmates to super-jump to, and giving myself the benefit of range that the charger offers. But that's how I play for now, and even though it gets me splatted more often than I should it lets me enjoy the battle more.

I do like the number of perches available on Moray Towers, probably as much as non-chargers dislike them. This goes doubly for Tower Control, where the route of the tower is nicely predictable, as are the positions of squids on the towers. If I could aim, this would be more of an advantage. But the main point to note occurs at around the two-minute mark. A roller starts working his way up to my perch, and rather than ignore him I try to splat him. Zooming in with my scope, and missing, makes me lose him, though, and although I wait for his squid to reappear I see nothing. I assume he's gone, and move down to cover his ink, at which point he makes a surprising and unfortunate reappearance.

In the end, it's a win for us, and I get a positive ratio of splats, which is a good result. And, hey, look: here's a helicopter landing on another tower at 4:50!

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Tags: console, moray towers, splatoon, splatterscope, tower control, wii u