How to Add More Ability Slots in Splatoon 3

To get an edge over your enemies in Splatoon 3—it is crucial to use good gear with the max number of secondary Ability Slots. This guide will help you with details on how to add more Ability Slots in Splatoon 3. You can use it to get additional Ability Slots for some of your most used low rarity gear. 

• Getting useless secondary Abilities for your gears in Splatoon 3? Do you want to reroll Ability Slots in Splatoon 3? If yes! Then check out our guide on Splatoon 3: How to Reroll Ability Slots for more details. 

How to Add More Ability Slots in Splatoon 3

In Splatoon 3, you can add more Ability Slots by increasing the Star Rarity of the gear using duplicates you can obtain from the Shop section. Alternatively, you can also use Super Sea Snails to upgrade a gear’s Star Rarity with the help of the NPC, Murch. 

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Each gear in Splatoon 3 can have one or more Star Rarity. And since secondary Ability Slots depends on the rarity of the gear, you can upgrade the Star Rarity of low rarity gear to obtain more Ability Slots. Though, keep in mind! The max number of Ability Slots a gear can have is three. 

So even if you upgrade any gear to four-star rarity, you will not get extra Ability Slots. All you get in return is more EXP and other benefits from that gear. 

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Now that you know how to add more Ability Slots in Splatoon 3, it is time you go and start grinding for gear with great abilities that will aid you in combat. 

Splatoon 3 is currently available on the Nintendo Switch platform.