Clam Blitz​

Clam Blitz

Clam Blitz

Type	Online multiplayermode
Players	2-8
Ranked	Yes
Weapons	All
Controllers	Joy-Con Nintendo Switch Pro Controller
Release Date	13 December 2017

Clam Blitz is one of the fourRanked Battle/Anarchy Battle modes inSplatoon 2 andSplatoon 3, alongsideSplat Zones,Rainmaker, andTower Control. Clam Blitz is the only ranked mode that was not inSplatoon.

History

Clam Blitz was announced on21 November 2017 when Nintendo released a video showing the updates for the coming weeks.

On13 December 2017 at02:00 UTC, version2.1.0 made Clam Blitz playable.

On10 August 2022, Nintendo revealed Clam Blitz returns forSplatoon 3 forAnarchy Battles. This time clams spawn in clumps of three instead of four, and the number of clams required to form a Power Clam is eight instead of ten.

Gameplay

The objective of Clam Blitz is to pick up clams, which are scattered around the stage, and deposit them into the goal near the opposing team's base. Once a player picks up ten/eight clams, it transforms into a Power Clam, which is used to destroy the barrier around the other team's goal when thrown towards it.

Collecting clams

At the beginning of the match, thirty clams are scattered all around the center of the stage and towards the teams' bases. They can be picked up by getting close enough to them. After picking up clams, they start to trail along behind the player in humanoid form and disappear when swimming. When standing still in humanoid form, the clams form a pyramid shape. A Power Clam is formed by picking up ten clams inSplatoon 2, and eight clams inSplatoon 3. Clams and Power Clams can be thrown by pressing or. Clams can be passed to any player on the field, but Power Clams are distinct to each team and can only be picked up by members of the same team. A Power Clam, when thrown to the ground, inks the ground in a radius of 2.5 units. Picking up a Power Clam while holding regular clams will force the player to drop all of their regular clams. A player can only hold one Power Clam at a time and cannot pick up additional clams while holding one. A player that gets splatted while holding clams drops up to four clams inSplatoon 2, and three clams inSplatoon 3. It is possible toSuper Jump to a teammate or aSquid Beakon and keep all held clams intact. If a player returns to their spawn point inSplatoon 2, all clams or Power Clam gathered will break. Throwing clams at the spawn also breaks them. After using certain specials like theSplashdown,Baller,Reefslider, orKraken Royale, the player drops all clams they were holding.

Any regular clams or Power Clams disappear after ten seconds if not picked up. After a Power Clam disappears or enough clams have disintegrated, new clams appear on the stage at selected locations in groups of four/three.

Clams on surfaces inked with the player's teamink color appear as pulsating circular markers on themap and on-screen, and can be seen through walls. Power Clams are seen as bright pulsating circles in their corresponding team color, marked with the Ranked logo.

All players can see the position of both teams' Power Clams at all times on both the screen and the map, shown as aRanked Battle symbol in white over their appropriate color. Once a player holds a Power Clam, it follows the player and can be seen even when swimming. A dropped Power Clam (or the one that spawns when the barrier regenerates) is similarly shown on all players' maps and screens in inverted colors (team color logo on white background). If the player is holding a Power Clam, or if the opponent's goal is open and the player is holding any clams, a marker shaped like a Power Clam in the opponent's color appears on-screen, showing the location of the opponent's goal.

Any friendly players holding clams have a numbered marker showing how many they are holding above their name. Also, the scoreboard on the top of the screen shows the total number of clams currently held by a team, with Power Clams counted as ten/eight clams, and each team member is marked with how many clams they currently hold.

Scoring

Each team's clam basket is covered with a barrier, preventing any attempts to score unless first broken with a Power Clam thrown by the enemy team. Breaking an enemy team's basket barrier with a Power Clam immediately awards twenty points and lifts the scoring team's basket behind a protective sleeve, temporarily preventing the enemy team from attempting to score. After the barrier is broken, both Power Clams and regular clams can be thrown into the basket, with each successive Power Clam again being worth twenty points, and regular clams being worth three points. If a team's barrier closes with the same point total as the opposing team, the last team to score loses one point, a feature which is done to avoid tied scores.

The basket stays open for ten seconds. Throwing a clam into it extends the timer by three seconds, but cannot make the remaining time go over ten seconds. Throwing a Power Clam into an open basket resets the timer to ten seconds. When the barrier timer runs out, the enemy team's basket lifts to regenerate the barrier for ten seconds, while the scoring team's barrier drops immediately, making it easier for a counter-attack. If both teams have thrown a Power Clam at the basket, the team that threw the Power Clam first will score, and the other team's Power Clam will fall out of the barrier.

If the barrier goes back up before the scoring team gets to 100 points, a penalty of half the points scored, rounded down, is imposed on the team, similar to the penalty for ceding control to the other team inSplat Zones. The total for this calculation includes the twenty points gained from breaking the barrier, as well as any points that made up for previous penalties. If a point was deducted for the barrier closing with a tied score, the penalty does not change (e.g. if the team only ended up scoring nineteen points, the penalty is still +10). Finally, a Power Clam for the team whose barrier got broken spawns by their goal and does not time out unless picked up. No additional Power Clams spawn if the previous one was not picked up and the barrier got broken and returned.

Several stages have a bump near the basket that makes it easier to score and measure the distance needed to score a Power Clam. The baskets and bumps have theSorella logo marked on them.

*Kelp Dome has two bumps.

*The bump at Barnacle & Dime has been removed of the map rework inversion 8.0.0
*Humpback Pump Track has a formation similar to a bump but is not uniform at the base and does not match colors

Overtime rules

When time runs out and at least one team has scored,overtime begins when either:

• The losing team has a Power Clam in their possession, or one on the field that has not yet disappeared.
  • This includes the free Power Clam gained from a team's barrier closing.
• The winning team's barrier is still open.
• The losing team's barrier is open, but they were winning when it was opened.

Overtime ends when either:

• The winning team scores.
• The winning team's barrier closes.
• The losing team loses all of their Power Clams before opening the winning team's barrier.
• The losing team fails to open the winning team's barrier within twenty seconds.
• The losing team takes the lead, giving them the victory.

If time runs out and neither team has scored, a three-minute overtime begins, which ends when either team scores. If neither team manage to score after three minutes of overtime, the team who formed the most Power Clams wins the match with one point; should both teams form the same number of Power Clams, then Team Alpha is awarded the victory. Take note that Team Alpha and Team Bravo are assigned randomly at the start of each match, and are not explicitly noted to players.

Passive Special Charge

Players' special gauges will fill automatically under certain conditions.

• When one team is holding one or more Power Clams and the other team is not, the special gauges of the team holding one or more Power Clams will fill at 3p per second.
  • The Power Clam must be held by a player. A Power Clam on the field, including the Power Clam produced from the basket closing, will not count.
• When both teams are holding one or more Power Clams, or while neither team is holding a Power Clam, the special gauges of the losing team will fill at 3p per second.

Badges

Main article:Badge#Battle

Winning a certain amount of battles will reward the player with specialbadges that they can use on theirSplashtag.

Clam Blitz badges
	100 Clam Blitz Wins
	1,000 Clam Blitz Wins

Gallery

Splatoon 2

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  Clams and a Power Clam.

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  Inklings playing with a miniature version of the game.

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  Clams

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  Clams following an Inkling.

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  The map, showing the location of each clam that is on friendly ink.

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  An Inkling dropping their clams after getting splatted.

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  A Power Clam behind an Inkling.

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  A clam bouncing off the protective barrier around the goal.

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  A Power clam being thrown at the goal.

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  The goal's barrier exploding after being hit with a Power Clam.

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  The goal without a protective barrier.

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  The goal with its barrier intact.

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  Concept art of Power Clams and the goal.

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  Artwork

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  Mode icon

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  Themem cake of a clam.

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Splatoon 3

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  Mode icon

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  Locker decoration of a clam.

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  Locker decoration of a Power Clam.

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  Locker decoration of a Clam Blitz trophy.

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  Artwork of anOctoling holding a clam

Trivia

• The Power Clam resembles anAmerican football and has clams inside of it. Additionally, the goalpost supporting the barrier and basket resembles an American football goalpost.
• There are only two scenarios in which a team can have a non-zero score below twenty points.
  • If both teams have broken the opponent's barrier once, but have not scored any further clams, the last team to score will lose one point upon the first team's barrier closing (leading to a score of 20-19), to prevent a tie.
  • If neither team breaks the other team's barrier after eight minutes, the team which formed the most power clams (or, in case of this being tied, Team Alpha) will be granted a point (leading to a final score of 1-0).
• The maximum number of clams that can be on the field while not held by players is fifty.
• At some time early in development, it appeared that splatting an opponent who was carrying clams would cause them to drop a maximum of six clams, instead of a maximum of four.
  • This can be seen during the version2.0.0 update trailer, at the 1:05 mark,^[1] where the greenInkling (carrying eight clams) is seen dropping six clams upon getting splatted.

Names in other languages

Clam Blitz

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	ガチアサリ Gachi-asari	CompetitiveJapanese-littleneck
Dutch	Schelpenstrijd	Shell battle
French	Pluie de palourdes	Clam rain
German	Muschelchaos	Clam chaos
Italian	Vongol gol	Clam goal
Russian	Устробол Ustrobol	Clamball
Spanish	Asalto Almeja	Clam Assault
Chinese	真格蛤蜊 zhēn'gé gélí (Mandarin)	Real clam
Korean	랭크 바지락 raengkeu bajirak	Rank Manila-clam

Clam

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	アサリ Asari	Japanese-littleneck
Dutch	Schelp	Shell
French	Palourde
German	Muschel
Italian	Vongola
Russian	Устрица Ustritsa	Clam
Spanish	Almeja	Clam
Chinese	蛤蜊
Korean	바지락 Bajirak	Clam
Internal	VS_Obj_11[2]

Power Clam

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	ガチアサリ Gachi-asari	CompetitiveJapanese-littleneck
Dutch	Superschelp	Super shell
French	Super palourde
German	Powermuschel
Italian	Super vongola
Russian	Круть-устрица Krut'-ustritsa	Cool-clam
Spanish (NOA)	Almejón	Big-clam[a]
Spanish (NOE)	Superalmeja	Superclam
Chinese	真格蛤蜊
Korean	랭크 바지락 raengkeu bajirak	Rank Clam
Internal	VS_Obj_10[2]

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