I've spent hundreds of hours in Splatoon and Splatoon 2. It is my absolute favorite online game outside of smash. You bet your Booyah that I was planning on making inkling the second the teaser trailer came out and oh boy are they are super fun to play as. I sit around 3.60~3.67 GSP and win or lose it is always fun because I am the goddang Inkling.
People complain a lot about the roller, but the way I see it if you get caught by the roller that's your fault. It is absolutely shieldable and very escapable if you mash even at higher percentages. Especially after 2.0. A lot of the time, people just don't want to make the effort to mash because they think they won't make it before I get them. That's their fault for not trying. Besides there are plenty of cheaper moves on other characters that people spam like no other, so to anyone that complains about the roller, cry me a river.
Their aerial game is godly if you can space it right and when you get gud at aiming that bomb, say goodbye to your enemies recovering. Not to mention that ink is just so good and so much fun. Jumping in close when they're at low percentages and laying on that neutral B stuns them long enough to get almost full coverage real quick. Then racking up that damage with Aerials and tilts makes for an EZPZ game.
I used to play Brawl and Project M competitively, but even as the roster grew in smash 4 I never found a character I truly connected despite being a longtime, diehard Nintendo fan. However, as soon as I saw the trailer for Splatoon at E3, I knew it was something special and I was right. So why do I main the Inkling?
I. BLEED. INK.