Nagao Kei Coaches Three Nijisanji Peers in Splatoon 3 Ahead of Team Tournament Matches

NIJISANJI — Nijisanji’s Nagao Kei, Koshimizu Toru, Umise Yotsuha and Pomelo Punch spent Saturday evening and the early hours of Sunday practicing Splatoon 3 together, with Nagao coaching the others ahead of the team matches tied to the #にじイカ祭り2026 event.

Koshimizu opened his stream by himself and put in about two hours of solo work. He ran private matches for viewers, capping entrants at roughly 1,500 to 1,900 on the game’s ranking scale, then sorted players into teams and rotated through stages and modes. After one match he said he was annoyed at how good the opposing bomb throwers were, noting that bombs had killed him about four times in a single game.

Once Nagao’s group joined the call, Nagao laid out the plan: individual coaching first, then a practice match against another team that night, with a full team gathering the next day. He asked Koshimizu to take up the standard Sharpmarker and the crab tank special, which he called very strong in this game. He taught Koshimizu to throw the sub weapon first when starting a fight, and to use the crab tank with a purpose, such as pushing back enemies who have just respawned or opening space to break out of a bad position, rather than firing it at random. He then walked Koshimizu through where to fire it on each of the stages in the event’s rotation. Koshimizu, who said he had already been about to practice that very weapon, spent his turn working at it while Umise, who had bought a new weapon that day, waited for hers.

Pomelo Punch, who is still learning the game’s gear and weapons, joined the practice matches as a guest after opening her own stream, using the starter Splattershot Jr., known in Japan as the Wakaba Shooter. The group played Splat Zones and Tower Control through the night. Nagao asked for rough left-and-right callouts from his teammates, and by the late matches one of the participants remarked that rough calls were now enough. As the night wound down, Nagao shared his screen to show Pomelo a gear setup for the Wakaba and how to roll its bombs along the floor so they go off at an opponent’s feet. Pomelo thanked the group and said she would take what she learned back to her own team.

Afterward Nagao said Umise had impressed him with her callouts and her fit with her new weapon, and that Koshimizu looked to have a good grip on the crab tank. The team planned to gather at 8 p.m. the next day for a match against another team half an hour later. Nagao said that, counting that match, three team matches remained, and that he was weighing another event-related project. Koshimizu said he had learned a lot on the first day. Umise said she would watch weapon guides before bed, and Pomelo said she would put the next week into Splatoon.