All 120 Weapons in Splatoon Raiders

How Many Weapons Are in Splatoon Raiders?

There are 120 weapons: 60 base weapons and a Primo version of each. They are spread across the 11 weapon types the Splatoon series is built on: Shooters get the most variety at 9 base weapons, seven types get 6 each, and Brushes, Stringers and Splatanas get 3 each.

That is worth stating plainly because the number moved. Launch-week coverage, ours included, reported "25+ weapons" from what had been datamined and found by then. The complete catalogue is 120, and English wikis are still catching up: Game8's English weapon list currently holds 97 of them, missing 23 Primo variants that the Japanese list already has.

Counts verified against Game8 Japan's 120-row weapon table and Game8 English's 97-row table, cross-checked row by row on 2026-08-01.

How Do You Read a Weapon Name in Splatoon Raiders?

The catalogue looks like 120 unrelated joke items: a soap bottle, a shrimp balloon, a jet engine. It is not. Every weapon is generated from three decisions, and once you can read them you never need to look a weapon up again:

1. 1. Type

   One of the 11 Splatoon classes. Decides the fundamental attack: charge, slosh, slash, roll.

2. 2. Playstyle family

   A tag inside the type, such as Balanced or Long-Range for Shooters, or Heavy-Hitting for Rollers. Types have one, two or three families.

3. 3. Specialisation

   Every family contains exactly three weapons: one tuned for ink efficiency, one for range and coverage, and one for speed. Same family, same role; only the tuning differs.

A worked example

Shooters have three families, Balanced, Nimble and Long-Range, so 3 x 3 = 9 base Shooters. Rollers have two families (Balanced, Heavy-Hitting), so 6. Brushes have one, so 3. Add it up across the 11 types and you get exactly 60 base weapons, which is why the total lands on 120 with Primo versions included.

What "speed" means per type

The third slot is always the speed pick, but the stat it moves depends on the type: fire rate for Shooters and Blasters, charge speed for Chargers, Splatlings and Stringers, swing speed for Rollers, Brushes and Sloshers, slide speed for Dualies, purge speed for Brellas, and swing plus charge speed for Splatanas.

What Are Primo Weapons?

Primo (絶品, "exquisite") weapons are the second half of the catalogue. A Primo weapon is not a different weapon; it is the same weapon pushed further along the same axis. Where the base Plastic-Bottle Splattershot is "specialised in ink efficiency", the Primo Plastic-Bottle Splattershot is "specialised in ink efficiency to the extreme".

• One Primo version exists for every one of the 60 base weapons: no Primo-only weapons, no base weapons without a Primo.
• They keep the type, family and specialisation of the base weapon. If a base weapon does not suit you, its Primo will not either.
• Cosmetically they are the base weapon with charms, stickers, coral or fish bones attached, and Nintendo wrote each one its own flavour text.
• They are farmed in the Bottomless Buffet: progress the Buffet and Primo drops come with it. See the endgame guide for the floor-by-floor routine.

All 60 Weapons and Their Primo Counterparts

One row per base weapon. Every entry also exists as "Primo <name>" in English and 絶品 + the Japanese name, and that is the other 60. English names are Nintendo's official localisation; Japanese names are included because most datamined lists and Japanese guides use them.

Pairing method: each Japanese weapon was matched to its English counterpart by type, playstyle family and specialisation slot, then checked against Game8 English's list. All 60 resolved with no unmatched names on either side. Where a source disagrees with us we will say so rather than quietly pick one.

What Do the Star Ratings Do?

Rarity is separate from which weapon you have; the same Steam Blaster can drop at any star level. Stars decide two things: the stat ceiling, and how many Weapon Powers the drop rolls.

The level cap is the whole story of the endgame: a ★4 weapon stops after five upgrades, while a ★5 keeps going to level 100. Anything below ★5 is a stopgap, however good the roll looks.

How Do You Upgrade a Weapon?

Weapon upgrading is unlocked by building the Weapon Upgrading facility on the Hideout Ship, at Frye's weapon stash. Upgrades are paid for in Spirhalite Shards and raise the weapon's damage numbers directly.

• Unlock cost for the facility: Spirhalite Gem x1, Stinger's Colander x3, Salivator's Plastic Bag x5, Spirhalite Shards x500.
• Shard cost scales hard with level: the official screenshot shows a level-21 Steam Blaster asking 2,836 shards for a +3.
• Damage scales with it: that same +3 moves direct hit 1,731 → 2,045, max blast 1,212 → 1,432, min blast 865 → 1,022.
• You can buy several levels in one confirm, so bank shards and spend in blocks rather than one level at a time.
• Priority note: Game8 rates weapon upgrading below tank upgrades and gadget development early on, because early weapons get replaced anyway. Start pouring shards in once you are holding ★5 drops.

Scrapping Weapons and Re-Rolling Weapon Powers

Scrapping is unlocked at Hideout Ship level 2 and turns unwanted drops into Weapon Power Shards, the currency for changing the powers on a weapon you actually want to keep.

• Scrapping a ★5 weapon returns 9 Weapon Power Shards; a ★4 returns 4. Scrapping high-rarity junk is far more efficient than clearing out ★1s.
• Power swapping unlocks after you finish the story, at the ship facility.
• To upgrade a power in place, feed it shards of the same power; matching shards level it rather than replacing it.
• Only ★5 weapons can have their Weapon Powers swapped. This is the second reason ★5 is the only rarity worth investing in.
• Weapon Powers stack with Relic Powers of the same name, so read your relic loadout before deciding which power to chase.

→ Weapon Powers

Where Do Weapons Drop?

Weapons drop unidentified during a raid and only reveal themselves when you get back to the Hideout Ship, so the run decides your loot, not your choices in the menu.

• Breaking wooden crates and crystals inside dungeons is the main source.
• Defeating large Salmonids drops weapons as well as their signature materials.
• Higher-level dungeons roll higher rarities, so clear the hardest dungeon you can actually finish rather than farming a safe one.
• For ★5 specifically, Super Spicy difficulty in the Giant Crystal dungeons is the best rate; after the credits, fast Super Spicy loops of Awlmun Den are the usual farm.
• For Primo weapons, progress the Bottomless Buffet; they come as you climb rather than from a dedicated farm.

Which Weapons Are Best?

Rarity and upgrades matter more than weapon choice for most of the story, but the endgame does have a clear meta. Current standouts are the Thermal Brella, Alpine Stringer and Butane Blaster, all high single-hit damage that pairs with the Ice Breaker Weapon Power. For the full ranking see: Tier List

Related guides

• Splatoon Raiders Weapon Tier List
• S-Tier Weapons: Every Individual Weapon Ranked
• All 15 Weapon Powers in Splatoon Raiders
• Which Weapons Are Worth Investing In?
• All Items and Materials in Splatoon Raiders
• Splatoon Raiders Weapon Farming
• Slosher Builds for the Bottomless Buffet: Clay-Pot Pow Slosher and Camo Slosher

Sources

• 武器一覧と効率的な入手方法・全120種網羅, Game8
• List of All Weapons and Weapon Types, Game8
• Weapon Rarity Guide, Game8
• Weapon Upgrading Unlock Guide and Priority, Game8
• ゲームの流れ（公式）, Nintendo (official)
• ブキの種類と強化、おすすめなど基本を総まとめ, 電撃オンライン (Dengeki Online)