So, what are all the Splatoon 3 Side Order palettes you can unlock? Each palette gives you a new weapon to use inside the Spire of Order, a tower consisting of 30 levels that you need to beat in one go in order to win. Obviously, there are spoilers ahead if you haven’t finished the DLC, so continue at your own risk.
As you attempt to beat the tower, you get a load of Splatoon 3 Side Order rewards, which can help you out. Plus you meet some new Splatoon characters. As always, keep an eye out for the next Splatoon 3 Splatfest and what its theme is.
All Side Order palettes
You are Agent 8, but you start off using Agent 4’s palette. From there, you can get a number of other palettes at random from the lockers outside the Spire. To get them, you need keys that appear after beating bosses every ten floors. However, you only get one key per boss and weapon combination. That means if you fight the Asynchronous Rondo with an Order Shot twice, you only get one key.
Once you have a palette, you can start using it in the Spire. Each palette pertains to a different character and has a unique combination of main weapon, special, sub, and color chip drop rates. Here are all the different palettes along with how to get them, and what equipment they have.
Pearl
- Main weapon: Order Dualies
- Sub weapon: Curling Bomb
- Special: Reefslider
- Common color chip tones: Lucky (green) and support (purple)
- How to obtain: You get this palette automatically when you start the Side Order DLC
Agent 4
- Main weapon: Order Shot (reskinned Splattershot)
- Sub weapon: Splat Bomb
- Special: Trizooka
- Common color chip tones: Range (orange) and mobility (blue)
- How to obtain: Unlockable with a locker key – this seems to be a common unlock in the third locker
Marina
- Main weapon: Order Brella
- Sub weapon: Sprinkler
- Special: Ink Storm
- Common color chip tones: Drone (light blue) and power (red)
- How to obtain: Unlockable with a locker key from glowing lockers
Shiver
- Main weapon: Order Stringer
- Sub weapon: Toxic Mist
- Special: Killer Wail 5.1
- Common color chip tones: Mobility (blue) and range (orange)
- How to obtain: Unlockable with a locker key from glowing lockers
Frye
- Main weapon: Order Splatana
- Sub weapon: Fizzy Bomb
- Special: Crab Tank
- Common color chip tones: Lucky (green) and drone (light blue)How to obtain: Unlockable with a locker key from glowing lockers
Big Man
- Main weapon: Order Slosher
- Sub weapon: Suction Bomb
- Special: Triple Inkstrike
- Common color chip tones: Support (purple) and drone (light blue)
- How to obtain: Unlockable with a locker key from glowing lockers
Callie
- Main weapon: Order Roller
- Sub weapon: Burst Bomb
- Special: Kraken Royale
- Common color chip tones: Power (red) and lucky (green)
- How to obtain: Unlockable with a locker key from glowing lockers
Marie
- Main weapon: Order Charger
- Sub weapon: Ink Mine
- Special: Triple Inkstrike
- Common color chip tones: Support (purple) and range (orange)
- How to obtain: Unlockable with a locker key from glowing lockers
Murch
- Main weapon: Order Blaster
- Sub weapon: Curling Bomb
- Special: Wave Breaker
- Common color chip tones: Range (orange) and power (red)
- How to obtain: Unlockable with a locker key from glowing lockers
Sheldon
- Main weapon: Order Brush
- Sub weapon: Ink Mine
- Special: Ultra Stamp
- Common color chip tones: Mobility (blue) and lucky (green)
- How to obtain: Unlockable with a locker key from glowing lockers
DJ Octavio
- Main weapon: Order Splatling
- Sub weapon: Splash Wall
- Special: Booyah Bomb
- Common color chip tones: Drone (light blue) and support (purple)
- How to obtain: Unlockable with a locker key from glowing lockers
Eight
- Main weapon: Octo Shot (reskinned Splattershot)
- Sub weapon: Splat Bomb
- Special: Triple Splashdown
- Common color chip tones: Power (red) and mobility (blue)
- How to obtain: To get this, you need to get every key on every other palette – that means you must beat the bosses on floors ten, 20, and 30 with each palette to get this one
What are Splatoon 3 Side Order color chips?
Every time you pick a level in the Spire, you get to pick a color chip to get. Very occasionally, you’ll get two – if you’re lucky. You can attach up to 36 chips to each palette, in a range of different colors pertaining to a variety of buffs. These are:
- Range – increases the size of your reach with each weapon and sub
- Power – increases the damage done by each hit, bomb, sub, etc
- Mobility – adds to your speed when in and out of ink – yours and the enemy’s
- Drone – adds abilities to Pearl in her drone form like new subs and lowering point requirements
- Support – gives you buffs to things like ink recovery, targeting, and knockback among others
- Lucky – increases the drop rate of ink, special, and armor refills, as well as increasing your lucky chain
By the way, your appearance and ink color change depending on how many chips you have of each color – so look out for a new hair color and contrasting nails.
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