Weapons are a super important part of Splatoon, but as many as there are, they won’t be available in the beginning; you will have to unlock and buy these weapons in Splatoon 3. To make it even a bit more difficult, most of these weapons will have to bought with a special currency that you have to jump through hoops to obtain. You’ll have to be dedicated and determined to unlock some of the coolest and more useful weapons in Splatoon 3. Keep reading below to learn how to unlock and buy weapons in Splatoon 3.

How to Buy New Weapons in Splatoon 3

The main way to obtain weapons is through purchase. But, naturally, the easiest way to get most things is just simply to buy them. To buy weapons, you must go to the Ammo Knights store. This will be run by Sheldon. The kicker here is that Sheldon only accepts a specific kind of currency, Sheldon Licenses. Luckily, there are a few ways to get this strange currency.

  • You can gain Sheldon Licenses by leveling up your character’s catalog level.
  • Leveling up your character grants Sheldon Licenses
  • Gaining freshness levels from weapons can also earn you some Sheldon Licenses

Once you’ve obtained some Sheldon Licenses, these can be used at the Ammo Knights store to purchase weapons. Each weapon that you’ve unlocked will be worth 1 Sheldon License. However, you will not have many weapons unlocked and available in the beginning. You will have to work a bit harder to get those unlocked. Though, if you don’t want to put in the work to level your character to unlock more, you can simply pay additional Sheldon Licenses (depending on how high the weapon unlock level is) to unlock it even at a lower level.

Splatoon 3: How to Get Sheldon Licenses

Free Sheldon Licenses

If you played Splatoon 2, you can obtain some free Sheldon Licenses by simply transferring over your saved data. This can be done easily and only takes a few minutes. Read this article to learn more about transferring your saved data from Splatoon 2 to Splatoon 3.

How to Raise your Freshness Level to Unlock and Buy Weapons in Splatoon 3

Most games have mastery levels for their weapons, right? Well, Splatoon 3 does, too. The only difference is that it is called Freshness rather than Mastery. Leveling up your Freshness Level is as simple as playing the game as your normally would. The more you use certain weapons, the more Freshness experience you gain from them.

Hopefully, you can use this information to get loads of cool weapons to fight with!