Sakura Ritsuki Squats Off Splatoon Losses and Learns of a Gear Power She Never Knew

NIJISANJI — Sakura Ritsuki, a Nijisanji streamer formerly of the SEEDs group, learned during a Splatoon stream on Friday that a gear power exists to reduce damage and effects from sub-weapons, and she said she had never known it. Chat pointed it out while she complained that sensors and similar sub-weapons kept getting the better of her, and she first suspected viewers of teasing her before checking the gear menu and confirming it herself.

The stream, titled as a “healthy Splatoon” session, ran on a self-imposed rule: whenever she lost a match, she would do squats equal to her number of deaths times two. She did 12 after the first loss, 16 after another and 18 after a third, counting out each set aloud. Before the first match she explained that she had been taking powdered herbal allergy medicine for hay fever, and chat spent several minutes recommending *oblates*, the edible film used to wrap powdered medicine, to help her swallow it.

“Wait, I didn’t know that. What has my Splatoon life even been?” — Sakura Ritsuki, on learning about the sub-weapon damage gear power

After the gear discovery she rebuilt her setup with a sub-damage-reduction piece and spent time choosing a winter-style outfit with a fluffy knit and pink eyes, which chat praised. Later she watched a replay from the point of view of an opposing Prime Shooter player who had beaten her team, admired the player’s careful spacing, then looked at the gear and said it did not fit how the player fought, joking that the player should be voted out of the village. She added that she did not think the player was cheating.

Her final match was a tense win. The team survived the last minute while an opposing player she had not noticed was hiding right beside her, and she ended the stream on that victory. She said she would play a love-and-cheating judgment sheet made for her at 7 p.m. the same day, blind, without looking at other people’s results.