It was released as a three-pack along with the Octoling Girl and Octoling Octopus as well as separately. He wears the Fake Contacts, Black V-Neck Tee, and Yellow-Mesh Sneakers and carries the Splattershot.

Its functionality is identical to the original, but the character's in-game appearance matches the new model. The three amiibo that were announced were the Inkling Girl, Inkling Boy, and Inkling Squid, with the squid only available as part of the three-pack in North America, and in Europe exclusively in a Splatoon + Inkling Squid amiibo bundle. In Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, the Inkling Girl and Inkling Boy characters' appearances are based on their amiibo counterparts from Splatoon, including the recolors. Scanning any Splatoon or Splatoon 2 amiibo (except for playable Octoling amiibo, which were not yet released at the time of Gold 's launch) makes Wario poorly draw the scanned character which can then be sold for coins.The Octoling Octopus amiibo was released on 7 November 2018 in Japan and Europe, on 9 November 2018 in Oceania, and on 7 December 2018 in North America. Amiibo are a series of Nintendo character toys that interact with multiple games on the Nintendo Wii U and 3DS consoles.

In Splatoon, the Inkopolis Plaza out of bounds glitch reveals that the back of the amiibo box at the southeastern corner does have a texture and looks like the back of real amiibo packaging, except the words are written in Inkling. The Octoling Octopus amiibo had neon pink ink like Inkling Girl 2 instead of reddish-pink ink like the other Octoling amiibo. Octolings are naturally good with their hands and adept at using tools and machinery, which makes them quite formidable in battle.

The purple Inkling Boy amiibo has green eyes in Splatoon 2, but this was fixed in Splatoon 3 where he had orange eyes. Not sure if this was anyone else’s experience, but after my son scanned them for his save file, I couldn’t get the free gear on my save file. Unlike the other standard Splatoon amiibo, it, the Octoling Boy, and the Octoling Octopus all have the same colored ink. The Inkling (Yellow), Octoling (Blue), and Smallfry amiibo were eventually released on 11 November 2022.