Splatoon 3: How to Get Bronze, Silver, and Gold Fish Scales in Salmon Run

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Splatoon 3 players that engage with the rewards counter at Grizzco will find that there are a variety of Work Suits, Decorations, Stickers, and Banners available for them to unlock. To perform this unlocking, fans must use Fish Scales, a special currency in the Salmon Run game mode that come in Bronze, Silver, and Gold varieties. This guide is here to provide details on how to earn these Fish Scales in Splatoon 3, and it will help players obtain the rewards that are of interest.

In order to earn Fish Scales, players must put their efforts toward dealing damage to King Salmonids in Salmon Run. For the uninitiated, these gigantic enemies are encountered during an Xtrawave, which will occur immediately after a third wave if a participant's Xtrawave meter is full. This meter appears directly below the progress bar that players will see in the top-right corner of the screen when they are standing in Grizzco, and it is filled simply by playing matches of Salmon Run in Splatoon 3.

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To note, the Hazard Level of a particular Salmon Run match informs which type of Fish Scales are awarded for damaging the King Salmonid. More specifically, the chance of receiving higher-rarity Fish Scales increases as the Hazard Level does. For full clarity, Hazard Level is determined by the sum of all the participants' ranks, which means that a group of high-level Profreshional rank players will have a much higher Hazard Level and chance of earning Gold Fish Scales than a group of Apprentice rank Splatoon 3 players.

As such, fans should not expect to unlock the rewards that require high-rarity Fish Scales early in their Salmon Run careers. In fact, it may take many hours of grinding in this Splatoon 3 game mode