Ex Albio Finds a New Favorite in the Splatana Wiper During Five Hours of Splatoon 3

NIJISANJI — Ex Albio of Nijisanji (LvEx) spent about five hours on Thursday night playing X Battles, the top ranked tier in Splatoon 3, and came away saying the night’s discovery was a weapon he had struggled with until recently: the Splatana Wiper, known in Japan as the Gym Wiper (ジムワイパー).

He opened by joking that he was just a person playing Splatoon with no connection to the recent Nijisanji Splatoon festival, and he said he is the kind of player who is poor in the first match and warms up from the second. He started with the Hot Blaster, a weapon he said he likes, and dropped a close match early on that left him one short of finishing the job. A dinosaur-like noise that escaped him after a teammate’s play drew “Ebiozaurus” from chat.

“I’m happy that I can use the Wiper this well now, that I can use it at all. I was really bad at it until recently.” — Ex Albio, midway through the stream

The middle of the stream was rougher. He cycled through the Carbon Roller and other weapons, complained that the game kept sending the same stage, and said he is happy to criticize maps and weapons but not players. Past the two-hour mark he said he had slipped into a “losing mode” and told himself to calm down. He also riffed on the name of the Gym Wiper’s special, the Zipcaster (ショクワンダー), asking to be called “Shock Wonder Woman” and getting a run of “Woman?!” in reply.

Things turned around with the Gym Wiper. Around the 3:28 mark he said he was glad to be using it well after being bad at it not long before, and later said it was fun in a way few weapons had been for him in a long while. He then won an X Battle with it and said he now believed he could win at that level with the weapon. He kept announcing “final last” matches, noted that it was already 3 a.m., and won a tight last one before wrapping up.

He signed off by saying he plans to keep working on the Gym Wiper, and that he might take the next day off. He mentioned playing a Like a Dragon (Ryu ga Gotoku) game the day after, a horror game next week, and asked viewers to send thoughts through Marshmallow on whether to play Like a Dragon 8 over the weekend. The stream drew 10 Super Chats.