The Mario Kart community calls this sandbagging. You do it to chain extremely good items and "item smuggle" them into higher positions you can't usually get them in where they are more useful. It's a legitimate strategy. Aqua learned from the best.
It's not just for items, it's also good for very quickly getting coins. Because when you're in the very middle, which is the worst spot to be, you get hit by a lot of items and lose a lot of coins, so if you are a bit back, you can quickly gather ten since everyone in the middle dies and drop coins for you to grab and since you quickly jump between the safest spots (back and front), you pretty much are at max speed the whole race.
@@Necroneer It's a game that's way less about RNG than people think. Like, RNG is obviously a big deal, but there's a very high skill ceiling to it, which makes it really cool to learn.
It's funny that it looks so surprising to a lot of people, but that's a genuient strat (normally especially for 200cc), it's called Item Smuggling, popularised a lot by Mankalor, doing multiples fun and interesting videos using it like that one with 2.3M views : ruclips.net/video/8HFZwjCUEg0/видео.html
You mean an integer overflow (or an underflow in this case). You go beyond what the data format for the number allows so you loop around to the opposite end. A stack overflow would cause a memory leak, not make numbers do funny things.
Reminds me of this one friend who was pure skill at Mario Kart. He hung out in the back of the pack until he got a bullet bill, used his skill to get to the front of the pack and activated the bullet bill at a spot where he could put the controller down and got 1st place. If there was lightning or a Boo before he activated the bullet bill he still would have won. I didn’t know you could disrespect someone in Mario Kart, but he did it.
That's me in the game (xander)!! I remember watching her at 4am (ruined my sleep schedule over break) and decided to try to join her. When I got in i noticed she was in last place and ended up winning, I was like dang she's good. Then I decided to rewatch the game the next day and realized how insane that game was because she had the late start. GGs Aqua
I believe in Minato Aqua's power of destiny, it's not something you go against. Pro player is really good not just because of their skill, but it's also because of their luck.
@@cc9787 mario kart gives 12 place good items and 1st place trash items. Item smuggling is driving slow to get good items in 12th place, then driving good to catch up and using the good items when you're in 4th or something to crush 1st
I remember this being the standard strategy for short courses for cart games in PS1, used to do this with Chocobo and Crash team Racing the RNG for items becomes insane haha
Not worth to sandbag in CTR at all, unlike mariokart, comeback in CTR is harder. Rather than sandbagging, the best strategy in CTR is to nail all the secret shortcut (some are pretty hard to do).
I think she was the first one to sandbag like this. ToryWD does this a lot in some of his Item Rain videos. I was surprised to to see the bullet bill take that shortcut.
The comeback mechanics in Mario Kart were always crazy. On N64 playing against friends I would often make sure I was last in the beginning and item hunt for a super mushroom or lightning. Then I would race as normal, keeping it until the end. Even if you don't use any items, you can catch up because the others will attack themselves and avoid you for the most part. If you're good and don't make many driver errors, it's a great strategy.
Yea that's kinda amazing how she knows how the item dropping works if you actually stay in the back it's just waiting for the right items to show up and from there it's all about just a win
In all honesty, aqua is legit one of the best Mario cart player in hololive. During the competition between two teams, she practically carried the red team
The race even started, and Aqua immediately backward driving. Everyone : baqua 5000 IQ gameplay Come!! Meanwhile, Big Brain Aqua : Yeahh.... LITERALLY 5000 IQ gameplay From rank 12 to rank 1 in less than 3 minutes. Everyone : I -- IMPOSSIBLE!!
Aqua's a speedrunner. It's that mentality that gets her to do her research. The only speedrun I know she did was Sekiro, but she's also gotten grand master equivalent ranking in mario maker co-op
She did dark souls speedrun as well. She's a diamond player in League of Legends, no-lifed Smash to get good (she was bad at the start) and beat the new character in record time, and got to a high level in Super Mario Maker. Not to mention the fact that she reached the highest tier in Apex as well.
@@konaccha calm down 💀, Aqua’s ranked Diamond at Apex, 1-2 tiers away from the highest tier (Diamond < Master < Apex Predator). And that’s still pretty impressive specially that she’s solo queuing.
Many things could go wrong with this strategy, since there is a ton of RNG involved. But in the end, it worked out. It would be fun if she tried that at the tournament, whether she succeeds or not.
While true mario kart's item distribution heavily favors those in the back to help catch up, 10 - 12th place will usually get bullet bills, blue shells, golden mushrooms etc. While the one in first usually get coins or mushrooms, few times defensive items
I know about the item distribution, i've been playing Mario Kart since i was a kid haha Since the N64 era (Mario Kart Wii is still my favorite and i watch the competitive scene as well) But i'm saying that there is still a lot of RNG, like getting shocked in the middle of a shroom shortcut, not getting your desired item, losing your items to a Boo, or even not being able to catch up if it's a short track.
Thats the reason why she went backward first, to higher her chance to get good items. Also iirc the rate is not based on the rank but by distance / how far with the 1st (cmiiw).
You can tell she really wanted to show off the BB extension, except (from what I know) Aqua isn’t the type of player who likes to explain her strategy like a shonen anime protag (I wish she did tbh. Would make her stream educational on top of being cute & bubbly) so a lot of her audience probably doesn’t know this technique and thought it was a magical “big brain” maneuver when really, it’s a known trick you can pull off with the right luck and knowledge and the stars aligned especially on the 2nd one.
@@AM-rs4yv True she got lucky with double bullet bill, then again there isn't much of the last place item pool that she didn't get. She did drive pretty clean for someone called "Baqua"
@@AM-rs4yv Yeah she won because of RNG, but that's just how Mario Kart is. She legitimately exploited the risky gamble with a defined strategy. If you still doubt her though, just take a look at any of her practise streams where she's not using items and just trying to work out the best lines and shortcuts. She's hardly world class, but she's well above average, like she is with most of the competitive games she genuinely tries to be good at.
Idk if you're joking or not, but try-hard Minato Aqua is quite possibly the best gamer in Hololive (its either her or FBK imo). It's just that sometimes she become Baqua naturally/intentionally for lolz and giggles and we love her for that!
It's normal for Aqua. She's really good at games and try hard at everything she plays. All the baqua memes isnt truly representating her. People just tend to clip her baqua moments than her pro gamer moment just because it's funny, thats why she's well known more for her Baqua in EN community.
As a few pointed out this is a big brain strategy for the item smuggling but also, (correct me if I'm wrong), if she's playing against ai there is what's called rubber banding. Racing games will slow down ai racers as they pull away from you to keep you in the race. Which helps this giga brain strat
To be fair we all know the trick to winning mario kart is to not win for most of the race, but like many others here it seems I was ignorant to the degree of effectiveness/common use of "smuggling" as it seems to be called. But yeah when it comes to execution and mechanics she's a pretty veteran and versatile gamer with good skills. Albeit more of a "I read this tactic online and I can execute it perfectly" type of gamer than a "I did the math and have found the ultimate strategy" or "Hmm I wonder if this could work.. oh shit it does" type.
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When Aqua actually engages try hard mode she's actually a top tier gamer
She did finish getting over it in less than 10 minutes
well that s what happened when u reset ur stat and dump all of it on Gaming Skill
But she can only use it for so long so there's a backlash
She is a gamer maid anyway. A maid that help playing game :)))
So she is not idiot or stupid like what people tell us
The Mario Kart community calls this sandbagging.
You do it to chain extremely good items and "item smuggle" them into higher positions you can't usually get them in where they are more useful.
It's a legitimate strategy. Aqua learned from the best.
Yeah, it's a well known strategy in the community
she also knows the spots(1:49 2:22 on Yoshi Circuit) that extend bullet bill timer. she is truly a gamer.
It's not just for items, it's also good for very quickly getting coins. Because when you're in the very middle, which is the worst spot to be, you get hit by a lot of items and lose a lot of coins, so if you are a bit back, you can quickly gather ten since everyone in the middle dies and drop coins for you to grab and since you quickly jump between the safest spots (back and front), you pretty much are at max speed the whole race.
Never played this game and barely know anything about it, so this tactic fascinates me.
@@Necroneer It's a game that's way less about RNG than people think. Like, RNG is obviously a big deal, but there's a very high skill ceiling to it, which makes it really cool to learn.
Aqua: *Start by driving backwards and win*
Those player: *"IMPOSSIBLE!!"*
Doc Hudson: Sometimes you just gotta drive backwards to drive forward.
Ready Player One watchers : First time?
Masaka!?
lmao I've been doing that since I got my first Nintendo consel the dsi
It's funny that it looks so surprising to a lot of people, but that's a genuient strat (normally especially for 200cc), it's called Item Smuggling, popularised a lot by Mankalor, doing multiples fun and interesting videos using it like that one with 2.3M views : ruclips.net/video/8HFZwjCUEg0/видео.html
Truly a 44.5k IQ manouver.
Still 4.45 IQ to me.
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Nice reference
4.45k iq copy
Everyone probably knows but it's about her weight.
Didn’t expect her to Sandbag, I thought she’d only be driving looking backwards lmao
Theory: Baqua IQ went so low in the negative, it caused a stack overflow leading to this infinite IQ play
You mean an integer overflow (or an underflow in this case). You go beyond what the data format for the number allows so you loop around to the opposite end. A stack overflow would cause a memory leak, not make numbers do funny things.
@@CyberDagger003 my bad, yea. I mistook the error for the website :p
Me before the video: So she drives backwards the whole time and wins? That's cool
Me after the video: WHAT! SHE WON THAT WAY?!
Reminds me of this one friend who was pure skill at Mario Kart. He hung out in the back of the pack until he got a bullet bill, used his skill to get to the front of the pack and activated the bullet bill at a spot where he could put the controller down and got 1st place. If there was lightning or a Boo before he activated the bullet bill he still would have won. I didn’t know you could disrespect someone in Mario Kart, but he did it.
You could also hold a blue shell until you get to first and front run so far to the point where you can throw it onto yourself and *still* win
@@actuallyanimatics2938 wait, only one person can hold a blue shell?
That's me in the game (xander)!! I remember watching her at 4am (ruined my sleep schedule over break) and decided to try to join her. When I got in i noticed she was in last place and ended up winning, I was like dang she's good. Then I decided to rewatch the game the next day and realized how insane that game was because she had the late start. GGs Aqua
damn man
u r lucky
Watching this after she got 2nd place in the Mario kart tournament as cried. She’s still the champion in my heart. Love this girl so much
Baqua proving being *baka* can be also an advantage.
Is this what its like to activate all 44.5 of your brain cells?
I believe in Minato Aqua's power of destiny, it's not something you go against. Pro player is really good not just because of their skill, but it's also because of their luck.
Baqua having an IQ above 3
Us: *Impossible*
always has been
Iq below three = iq
Her IQ is multiplicated by 50 when she's gaming
sorry for late comment kek but it’s 4.45iq now
The onion is unstoppable
She may got 1 point on Choco's Quiz. But, If about gaming skill she's top tier (except tetris) i got into Aqua because her LoL clip
_hold the f/ck up since when did she learn how to item smuggle_
Thanks for context on what she was doing there! XD
Whats an item smuggle?...... I dont play the game sorry
@@cc9787 mario kart gives 12 place good items and 1st place trash items. Item smuggling is driving slow to get good items in 12th place, then driving good to catch up and using the good items when you're in 4th or something to crush 1st
@@davidy22 ohhh ty ty.... Now i wanna play it
@@cc9787 play it mate, it's a great game
I remember this being the standard strategy for short courses for cart games in PS1, used to do this with Chocobo and Crash team Racing the RNG for items becomes insane haha
I miss Chocobo :( why don't they remake it
@@AzaraShiki same bruh, agreed :(
Is it worth it to sandbag in CTR though, even against super fast skilled racers? Just asking because I have no online CTR:NF racing experience yet
Not worth to sandbag in CTR at all, unlike mariokart, comeback in CTR is harder. Rather than sandbagging, the best strategy in CTR is to nail all the secret shortcut (some are pretty hard to do).
You can be a good player, you can even be a pro player, but there's only one Minato Aqua.
i rewatched this clip after the holo mario kart 2022 announce. Cant wait for aqua revenge arc
Ok, that was pretty POG not gonna lie.
I think she was the first one to sandbag like this. ToryWD does this a lot in some of his Item Rain videos. I was surprised to to see the bullet bill take that shortcut.
That's some next level, pro gamer shit right there. You go onion girl!
The comeback mechanics in Mario Kart were always crazy. On N64 playing against friends I would often make sure I was last in the beginning and item hunt for a super mushroom or lightning. Then I would race as normal, keeping it until the end. Even if you don't use any items, you can catch up because the others will attack themselves and avoid you for the most part. If you're good and don't make many driver errors, it's a great strategy.
I like how excited she gets when she plays
I really like watching Aqua. She can be brilliant or a total baka. It's always a surprise.
She really flexing on us xD
Can't wait for her to reclaim her title again tomorrow.
Oh no, she knows the art of item smuggling
Onion or not, shes a real pro gamer
Ok im actually speechless by how amazing that was
Maid is someone who's Superior in the field that they're doing. Therefore A gamer Maid really suits Aqua.
I forgot about item smuggling!!!! Big brain plays from her!!!! 😂
She actually used it in this year’s tournament as well
I always forgot how good aqua is in playing games lol.
she is gaming maid after all
That was greater than I ever possinly could’ve epected when clicking on this video. Thank you for the subs, even the non-directly-translated ones.
Very impressive onion
what a gamer
She just used 101% of her brain power
Valentino Rossi GP Valencia, Start from Pit stop
Yea that's kinda amazing how she knows how the item dropping works if you actually stay in the back it's just waiting for the right items to show up and from there it's all about just a win
bounces on kart*
1rst PLACE ITADAKIMAAAAAASU!!!!!
That was legendary...
In all honesty, aqua is legit one of the best Mario cart player in hololive. During the competition between two teams, she practically carried the red team
Now this is a top tier strategy
What a 44.5head onion
Legendary of goddess minato aqua
man she's really good, let's see who will today!
1:50
When Aqua plays Eurobeat
Ready Player One
If this was real life Williams would've been champion.
Pro gamer move
Can't believe Aqua is a Baka for everything except smuggling in Mario Kart
From -1 IQ to 5k IQ
would you look at the time: it's 4:45 AM
Maybe Aqua has got her "neuron activation" moment before the race 😆
5Head for mario kart
0Head for minecraft xD
Baqua strats 101
Imma do what is called a pro Gamer move
MORE CHEEKY THAN SHION
It is said that the gods throw a coin everytime aqua plays a game..
The race even started, and Aqua immediately backward driving.
Everyone : baqua 5000 IQ gameplay Come!!
Meanwhile, Big Brain Aqua : Yeahh.... LITERALLY 5000 IQ gameplay
From rank 12 to rank 1 in less than 3 minutes.
Everyone : I -- IMPOSSIBLE!!
Aqua's a speedrunner. It's that mentality that gets her to do her research. The only speedrun I know she did was Sekiro, but she's also gotten grand master equivalent ranking in mario maker co-op
She did dark souls speedrun as well. She's a diamond player in League of Legends, no-lifed Smash to get good (she was bad at the start) and beat the new character in record time, and got to a high level in Super Mario Maker. Not to mention the fact that she reached the highest tier in Apex as well.
@@konaccha calm down 💀, Aqua’s ranked Diamond at Apex, 1-2 tiers away from the highest tier (Diamond < Master < Apex Predator). And that’s still pretty impressive specially that she’s solo queuing.
I didn't mean it in an aggressive way. I was just stating her achievements so that anyone coming to look at the comment would go check it out
The most Professional mario kart i've ever seen. 😮 Naisuuuuu
GG Onion
きちゃこれ侍かわいい
Pro Gamer Move
Queue Summoning Salt music.
She be flexing her 3 brain cells
懐かしすぎるw
あああああああ i love her
more like Baqua-rd amirite
"Marika"
Latin Americans: oh no
?
@@keyebr2105 In latin america is kind of a bad word
@@marauder870
Yeah, i remembered this
When you create the ultimate unbalanced character
Full point on luck be like
@@omybro1978 she has a below average intelligence stat and an awful luck stat, but besides that everything else is maxed
Ready player one intensifies xD
POG
LETS FUCKING GOOOOO
Nobody in holo other than aqua did it
Never thought this single brain cell onion pulled out some galaxy brain strategy.
Oh boy smuggling aqua
Hubris... Pain...
Aqua tryhard mode:
When you tune in you never know whether you're getting Baqua or God Gamer Aqua. That's part of the fun.
Two sides of the same coin really
Many things could go wrong with this strategy, since there is a ton of RNG involved. But in the end, it worked out. It would be fun if she tried that at the tournament, whether she succeeds or not.
While true mario kart's item distribution heavily favors those in the back to help catch up, 10 - 12th place will usually get bullet bills, blue shells, golden mushrooms etc. While the one in first usually get coins or mushrooms, few times defensive items
I know about the item distribution, i've been playing Mario Kart since i was a kid haha Since the N64 era (Mario Kart Wii is still my favorite and i watch the competitive scene as well)
But i'm saying that there is still a lot of RNG, like getting shocked in the middle of a shroom shortcut, not getting your desired item, losing your items to a Boo, or even not being able to catch up if it's a short track.
Pogchamp
There's RNG factor since you need to get the bullet. If she gets boomerang like Fubuki, that would be hilarious.
Thats the reason why she went backward first, to higher her chance to get good items. Also iirc the rate is not based on the rank but by distance / how far with the 1st (cmiiw).
You can tell she really wanted to show off the BB extension, except (from what I know) Aqua isn’t the type of player who likes to explain her strategy like a shonen anime protag (I wish she did tbh. Would make her stream educational on top of being cute & bubbly) so a lot of her audience probably doesn’t know this technique and thought it was a magical “big brain” maneuver when really, it’s a known trick you can pull off with the right luck and knowledge and the stars aligned especially on the 2nd one.
Wait this is actually a good strat. to do wtf she's taking advantage of the item being given to you when in a bad position
*4545 IQ Acquired*
fucking legend
All according to keikaku
I can't believe that fucking happened lol
That one guy that study the wrong subject before the exam and got the highest score
wtf how is this onion actually pretty good
She got bullet twice and golden shroom and triple shroom. Got carried by luck alone.
@@AM-rs4yv lots of luck but she is legitimately really good at most games
@@AM-rs4yv True she got lucky with double bullet bill, then again there isn't much of the last place item pool that she didn't get. She did drive pretty clean for someone called "Baqua"
Always has been
@@AM-rs4yv Yeah she won because of RNG, but that's just how Mario Kart is. She legitimately exploited the risky gamble with a defined strategy. If you still doubt her though, just take a look at any of her practise streams where she's not using items and just trying to work out the best lines and shortcuts. She's hardly world class, but she's well above average, like she is with most of the competitive games she genuinely tries to be good at.
Me talentlessly laughing
・・・ふぁ！？
Who knew this onion could pull off such a gamer move?
Always has been
Idk if you're joking or not, but try-hard Minato Aqua is quite possibly the best gamer in Hololive (its either her or FBK imo). It's just that sometimes she become Baqua naturally/intentionally for lolz and giggles and we love her for that!
It's normal for Aqua. She's really good at games and try hard at everything she plays. All the baqua memes isnt truly representating her. People just tend to clip her baqua moments than her pro gamer moment just because it's funny, thats why she's well known more for her Baqua in EN community.
WP
As a few pointed out this is a big brain strategy for the item smuggling but also, (correct me if I'm wrong), if she's playing against ai there is what's called rubber banding. Racing games will slow down ai racers as they pull away from you to keep you in the race. Which helps this giga brain strat
Sasuga, Baqua
This shit is the reason me and my friends dont play short course anymore. Nobody wanna move at start 🤣
To be fair we all know the trick to winning mario kart is to not win for most of the race, but like many others here it seems I was ignorant to the degree of effectiveness/common use of "smuggling" as it seems to be called. But yeah when it comes to execution and mechanics she's a pretty veteran and versatile gamer with good skills. Albeit more of a "I read this tactic online and I can execute it perfectly" type of gamer than a "I did the math and have found the ultimate strategy" or "Hmm I wonder if this could work.. oh shit it does" type.
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