Sakaki Ness Follows Three Hours of Splatoon Scrims With Solo Charger Drills

NIJISANJI — Sakaki Ness spent Monday evening on a practice day for Nijisanji’s Splatoon 3 event, #にじイカ祭り2026, playing about three hours of private matches against Todo Kohaku’s Team 18 and then turning to long-range charger drills on his own. A charger is a sniper-style weapon that has to be charged before it fires. His stream, titled as a session for polishing the charger and a new weapon, ran past five hours.

Five Nijisanji talents streamed the day from their own channels. Kohaku held Team 18’s first get-together. Shirose Isumi did the same for Team 11 before a match against a neighboring team. Seraph Dazzlegarden marked day five of his solo practice, and Murakumo Kagetsu ran an impromptu Splatoon stream. Ness joined Seraph and Kagetsu as a free agent, one of the players available to fill out other teams’ practice rooms, and faced Team 18, which included Karuta Yamagami.

“It’s coming together little by little.” — Sakaki Ness, in solo practice

Ness’s side won the opening game, and the evening settled into rounds of Splat Zones and Tower Control, with both sides swapping weapons between games. In one tight game, with about ten seconds left, Ness and his teammates pushed forward all at once and came up just short. Chat filled with messages about a “relay of lives” as the push played out. About two hours in, Belmond Banderas played his last game of the night, and chat thanked him.

The next game started with four opponents against Ness’s two, and Ness finished it with four kills. He then picked up the Bottle Geyser, a rapid-fire shooter the players said almost no one uses, and Oliver Evans joined the room soon after.

The free agents won the last game, and the two sides traded thanks. Kohaku closed by saying the practice had been a lot of fun, that the team would settle its weapon picks together, and by asking viewers to back Team 18. Seraph said he would keep practicing off-stream for a few more days. Isumi called Team 11 a good team and talked through when it would meet again.

Alone after that, Ness compared the reach of the Splat Charger Collab with that of the Liter, the longest-range charger he had been using, on several stages. He then won a string of open matches in Anarchy Battle and said, “It’s coming together little by little.” Past the four-hour mark he tried another charger-class weapon and found it hard to hold a charge while moving, a feel he said differed from the Liter and other chargers. He ended the night in a private match with an organizer and other players, then closed the stream and said he would play on in an off-air room. Chat wished him luck in team practice.