Tracklist: Title - Mario Kart Wii Option - Mario Kart Wii Grumble Volcano - Mario Kart Wii Waiting to Join & Ghost Replay - Mario Kart Wii DK's Snowboard Cross - Mario Kart Wii GBA Shy Guy Beach - Mario Kart Wii Moonview Highway - Mario Kart Wii Wario's Gold Mine - Mario Kart Wii Monkey Baseball (Wheel) - Super Monkey Ball 2 Wii Coconut Mall - Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Rainbow Road - Mario Kart Wii Mute City - Super Smash Bros. Brawl Nintendo WFC - Mario Kart Wii Waluigi Pinball - Super Smash Bros. Brawl Cloudtop Cruise - Mario Kart 8 Underground Theme (Super Mario Land) - Super Smash Bros. Brawl Castle & Boss Fortress (Super Mario World & SMB 3) - Super Smash Bros. Brawl Castle Grounds - Mario Party 3
@@hhhh82userAs a Wii Wheel player, I agree. If you don’t already have pretty steady hands it can be a lot harder to do strats for a while till you can achieve a good amount of steadiness. (Sorry if this sounds kinda dumb btw, I didn’t know what other word to use for steady and steadiness)
I cannot express how happy I was when I saw this in my recommended. One thing that I would like to say as an outside drift bike main, though. The drift style isn't the main reason odbs and karts are slower, it's the speed. The flame runner, spear, and mach bike (meta for the majority of the game) all have high base speed and the ability to wheelie, amplifying their dominance on straightaways. Some karts have high base speed, but obviously cannot wheelie (and thus resort to snaking). Unfortunately, there aren't any outside drift bikes with base speeds comparable to anything else in the game. Shooting star has the highest base speed out of all of the odbs, but--at a high enough level--is still a few seconds slower than idbs on most tracks. If the odb community was lucky enough to be gifted with the equivalent of an outside drift flame runner, the difference wouldn't be so pronounced (especially with odm). It's also further amplified by the fact that hardly anyone plays odbs because of this misconception. Interestingly enough, we can compete pretty well with karts on quite a few tracks in theory, it's just that there are only a dozen or so odb mains that have optimized tracks over the years. And one more thing: big thanks to both Ejay B and Alego11. Ejay's run was my initial inspiration to pursue the flap category, and then I used Alego's optimized TAS to make the 3lap possible. Without them, I don't think I could have ever had the chance to be where I am right now :D Of course, there could have been more members of the TAS community behind all of this, but those are the only two players I've personally been in contact with. Massive props to the entire TAS community and what they've done to show that breaking a game only makes it more fun to play.
Agreed! There was so much "minmaxing" attitudes in this game that it even bled into Mario Kart 7 and 8 in terms of people telling others how they're allowed to play the game, just like the Gen 4 days of Pokemon where "memorizing strats" was the only way to play for a lot of people (mostly impressionable kids who wanted to brag to thier playground friends and be extremely obnoxcious online). but even in Pokemon, there's been a major resurgance of people trying entirely unorthodox strategies, forgotten pokemon that fell through the cracks, only to find they're not only meta viable, but even win tournaments, and these aren't because of new rules or updates, these are based on the strict rules of the old generation. It's simply people looking at other options instead of assuming there are only 10 pokemon worth ever using in tournaments. People looking at defensive options and unique move combinations like a strong defensive Ground/Poison tank that can absorb toxic spikes and resist stealth rock and other benefits like that that didn't seem meta until recently. I just really like seeing casual strats become more meta and hopefully encourage more people to just play the game for fun and not worry a bout getting the fastest times all the time. Plus I hear outside drifters are slightly easier to control with the wii wheel and automatic drift as it gives you time to react to a turn turning to a drift.
Outside drift is used on Desert Hills ultra because the momentum from outside drift allows it to have the right angle and hit the right checkpoints for the ultra to work, inside drift bikes can probably get the bounce too but it would never count the lap. Just putting this here for clarification tho. It's cool to be part of this game's history and I'm proud of what I've done
Quick footnote (spoiler warning): Mushroom Gorge’s ODM is so broken that the current WR loses nearly 2 whole seconds due to a mistake hitting the mushroom stalks at the end and still beats 2nd. This category is going to be destroyed soon.
It's crazy because *as a kid* I always thought the Shooting Star was the best bike because everyone was using it online before the official severs shut down. Obviously now most people use Flame Rider for normal races but the Shooting Star and it's character specific recolours will always look cooler imo. I'm glad it has a proper niche in some speedruns.
In fairness Shooting Star wasn’t really that bad compared to the whole cast. Mach Bike and Flame Runner were just that much better than every other option.
Wow! thank you so much for the generous pledge! I have a few Metroid ideas I wanna cover soonish, so def be on the lookout for those! Merry Christmas!!
12:13 Putting this here before it happens: Owen Smith will hit the first 3/3 RR ultra. No player is as capable as him at grinding out insane categories for ridiculous amounts of time as him. He previously spent over two years trying to get a sub 59 on Yoshi Falls; a track which is essentially a huge lottery. When he goes for a category, it’s a question of when he’ll get it rather than if. The guy does not know how to quit. Edit: I was right.
I’ve never believed outside drift kills a vehicle, rather it’s just that the game is so unbalanced that the bikes that have it just end up superior due to the tradeoff being more than not worth it. Flame runner and spear are just broken anyway, not only because wheelie and inside are obviously better
Yeah, it's like when they introduced Garchomp to Pokemon and it was like "Game freak.... did you even THINK about balance at all? Did you learn NOTHING from Gen 1 psychics!?" by making the dragon type have crazy high attack and speed, decent defenses, a type combo that resists a lot of things and is only weak to itself and ice (double weak to ice) and making most ice types slow and easily crumble to a dragon danced Outrage.... at least Mewtwo was a legendary...., but thanks to fairies putting dragons in thier place, people are starting to notice that "hey...other types are actually useful and even fun to build around, I guess not every game has to be a battle of dragons, steels and ground types after all." but sadly there's no denying that inside drift bikes are vastly overpowered. they were heavily nerfed in Mario Kart 8 though as the drift boost is on a timer, there's no wheelieing, and it's kind of possible to snake.
Flame runner and spear have very similar stats to flame flyer and jetsetter, but the key difference is that the former are inside drift bikes and the latter are karts. You could argue that the wheelie makes a bigger difference than the drift type, but inside drift on bikes is definitely better for getting good alignments with wheelies as well. That said, balancing is definitely the bigger issue for outside drift bikes because all of the fastest bikes were given inside drift resulting in shooting star, the fastest odb, being slower than half of the idbs.
Great video! I knew multiple people that were thinking about making a similar recap of the odb revolution, but you beat everyone to it, and well researched at that. One thing I do want to mention though is that the coconut mall flap wasn't improved by starting the lap with odb; it was improved by the new turnaround method with the drift into a wall bonk ssmt. The previous idb strats in the flap had started the lap the same way but drifted around the entire turn with mach bike (or bullet bike in the tas bkt). The outside drift is useful here because you can start turning significantly earlier than idbs and keep moving in the same direction, and you can immediately cancel the outwards swing by hitting a wall and shrooming. This is not actually the first use of that strat, because the idea was likely taken from the wario's goldmine flap tas introducing shooting star only a few months earlier (yet to be implemented into rta wrs). Also none of the wall clips on the daisy circuit ultra video are odb clips and wario bike was only used for supersliding after the ultra (the previous tas bkt did all of the same clips with flame runner).
Yeah, the inside drift bikes were really difficult to use at first cause they make you turn super sharp, but when you get used to them, that ends up being the point, they can cut corners very rightly and hold a wheelie more often. Though recently some people found out in some stages, an outside drift kart can better chain drifts (snaking) so it really is stage dependent which is "better".
First lunaticJ video I see since you decided to switch to baseball. Nice to see you back Edit: Which is funny, since I like Jomboy and Baseball Doesn't Exist, but ever since Lunatic's announcement that he's pivoting to baseball, the algorithm seemed to decide he doesn't exist anymore.
The explination for how an ultra shortcut works isn't entirely true, if you skip dirrectly from the first key checkpoint, KCP 1, directly to the last key checkpoint your lap won't count since the last key checkpoint isn't loaded, you need to go directly from the finish line, KCP 0, to the last key checkpoint for it to be loaded
Apparently, someone using a different bike than usual in *Funky Bike Wii* is apparently such a cause for alarm. I remember back when Mario Kart Wiki actually had, y'know, *karts* in it. Honestly, I'm just gonna say this: per-character stats in Mario Kart Wii ruined it in the end. It just turned the meta of the game into "use funky lol". I wanna see world records that use other characters. Where's the "not Funky" category of time trial records?
character stat changes are small enough that for online you can mostly play whoever you want, I hit 9k playing yoshi mach bike even for vehicle choice bullet bike and sneakster are surprisingly viable, just that bullet bike gets bounced to narnia and sneakster on mach bike tracks is pure hell- and obviously there’s the kart mains if you like masochism it’s really just time trials where basically every track is funky/daisy spear/runner/machbike, but it’s not different than any other games speedrun scene where everyone mostly runs the same strats per category
How much of a factor is character selection here? We're all aware that Funky Kong is undisputed top 1, but I noticed a handful of different selections as part of this revolution.
Funky simply gets the highest top speed boost, the character bonuses are kind of bullsh8t because they are just straight additions to the stats, so Funky is literally going to be better than anyone else unless a course has some crazy off road (like Sherbert Land, which is 99% offroad) where lighter characters can maintain top speed and take better angles. But because most of the MKWii tracks are so massive and the nature of inside drift AND the numerous straight paths, Funky just has pure advantage. MK7 and 8 fixed that by making the boosts specific to the class of character rather than specific characters and you can now see the stat changes so it's not just a "bonus". (Mii's had +3 boost in several stats ironically making them the best all around character and thanks to inside drift, handling was the most useless stat to buff. Off road was the second most useful though and Miniturbo is third and acceleration is a close 4th)
i'm gonna make a video about this, but the only +3 stat increase is weight for baby mario and baby luigi no character has above +2 in a stat increase characters with +2 speed are funky, both daisies and baby luigi
I love mariokart wii speedruns, and I loved the game as a kid, but man, I've always just accepted I had to swallow my dislike of inside drift bikes when watching these videos, and it was fine, until this video shows up and something primal inside of me is rooting for the ODBs to rip and tear the IDBs
Not to be that guy, but I'm honestly not really sure why it's called "inside drift" because that's not what drifting is. Drifting by definition throws the back of the vehicle out in a controlled slide. I tend to just call inside drifting "carving" instead because it's what sport bikes do when taking tight corners.
mechanically you perform it using the same actions as outside drift, and it uses the same effects with the sparks and sfx, so there isn’t really a point in giving it a different term for Mario kart drift always just means the “extra” turning you get from a hop, inside drift just happens to not change your angle of attack
On how many levels is now the record held by outside drift and on how many with inside drift? is it like almost even or is it still like 90% inside drift?
the constant sound effects, flashy transitions, and refusal to let a backing track stay on for more than 30 seconds makes this video really annoying to watch. it's like you're not confident people won't swipe off if you don't jingle the keys every 10 seconds. PLEASE go back to editing your videos yourself, chasing the shorts crowd is going to really alienate your current viewerbase.
Tracklist:
Title - Mario Kart Wii
Option - Mario Kart Wii
Grumble Volcano - Mario Kart Wii
Waiting to Join & Ghost Replay - Mario Kart Wii
DK's Snowboard Cross - Mario Kart Wii
GBA Shy Guy Beach - Mario Kart Wii
Moonview Highway - Mario Kart Wii
Wario's Gold Mine - Mario Kart Wii
Monkey Baseball (Wheel) - Super Monkey Ball 2
Wii Coconut Mall - Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
Rainbow Road - Mario Kart Wii
Mute City - Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Nintendo WFC - Mario Kart Wii
Waluigi Pinball - Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Cloudtop Cruise - Mario Kart 8
Underground Theme (Super Mario Land) - Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Castle & Boss Fortress (Super Mario World & SMB 3) - Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Castle Grounds - Mario Party 3
Fun fact: the gameplay I recorded myself was done with Wiimote. At the same time I learned I don't like to play MKWii with Wiimote anymore.🙃
yeah honestly i just feel like wiimote + nunchuck is better as wiimote/wii wheel can be very imprecise due to motion controls
@@hhhh82userAs a Wii Wheel player, I agree. If you don’t already have pretty steady hands it can be a lot harder to do strats for a while till you can achieve a good amount of steadiness. (Sorry if this sounds kinda dumb btw, I didn’t know what other word to use for steady and steadiness)
who r u?
The kid in me still plays MKWii with motion controls - As a result I will never, ever change that memory.
@@Tosh.O If only a body of text, say, the one under the video known as a "description", could clue you in on that.
I cannot express how happy I was when I saw this in my recommended.
One thing that I would like to say as an outside drift bike main, though. The drift style isn't the main reason odbs and karts are slower, it's the speed. The flame runner, spear, and mach bike (meta for the majority of the game) all have high base speed and the ability to wheelie, amplifying their dominance on straightaways. Some karts have high base speed, but obviously cannot wheelie (and thus resort to snaking). Unfortunately, there aren't any outside drift bikes with base speeds comparable to anything else in the game. Shooting star has the highest base speed out of all of the odbs, but--at a high enough level--is still a few seconds slower than idbs on most tracks. If the odb community was lucky enough to be gifted with the equivalent of an outside drift flame runner, the difference wouldn't be so pronounced (especially with odm). It's also further amplified by the fact that hardly anyone plays odbs because of this misconception. Interestingly enough, we can compete pretty well with karts on quite a few tracks in theory, it's just that there are only a dozen or so odb mains that have optimized tracks over the years.
And one more thing: big thanks to both Ejay B and Alego11. Ejay's run was my initial inspiration to pursue the flap category, and then I used Alego's optimized TAS to make the 3lap possible. Without them, I don't think I could have ever had the chance to be where I am right now :D
Of course, there could have been more members of the TAS community behind all of this, but those are the only two players I've personally been in contact with. Massive props to the entire TAS community and what they've done to show that breaking a game only makes it more fun to play.
Agreed! There was so much "minmaxing" attitudes in this game that it even bled into Mario Kart 7 and 8 in terms of people telling others how they're allowed to play the game, just like the Gen 4 days of Pokemon where "memorizing strats" was the only way to play for a lot of people (mostly impressionable kids who wanted to brag to thier playground friends and be extremely obnoxcious online). but even in Pokemon, there's been a major resurgance of people trying entirely unorthodox strategies, forgotten pokemon that fell through the cracks, only to find they're not only meta viable, but even win tournaments, and these aren't because of new rules or updates, these are based on the strict rules of the old generation. It's simply people looking at other options instead of assuming there are only 10 pokemon worth ever using in tournaments. People looking at defensive options and unique move combinations like a strong defensive Ground/Poison tank that can absorb toxic spikes and resist stealth rock and other benefits like that that didn't seem meta until recently. I just really like seeing casual strats become more meta and hopefully encourage more people to just play the game for fun and not worry a bout getting the fastest times all the time. Plus I hear outside drifters are slightly easier to control with the wii wheel and automatic drift as it gives you time to react to a turn turning to a drift.
0:48 this video is sponsored by outside drift
It got me so good lol. A beautiful Misdirect
Agreed.
Outside drift is used on Desert Hills ultra because the momentum from outside drift allows it to have the right angle and hit the right checkpoints for the ultra to work, inside drift bikes can probably get the bounce too but it would never count the lap. Just putting this here for clarification tho. It's cool to be part of this game's history and I'm proud of what I've done
The legend himself 💪🔥
Congrats Core!
@@MeesterTweester hi meester
@ Hi!
OMG core I’m a big fan man! Congrats to the amazing work you have done on DS Desert Hills!
Hyping up the cool players and then being like, “this is Jim” and it’s the goofiest Mii ever is so funny
Quick footnote (spoiler warning):
Mushroom Gorge’s ODM is so broken that the current WR loses nearly 2 whole seconds due to a mistake hitting the mushroom stalks at the end and still beats 2nd. This category is going to be destroyed soon.
nah, it happened in a wr therefore it's faster :D
Me when supposed F tier is actually broken
Thanks for the spoiler warning! Eventhough not needed, it is nice somebody thinks about spoiler warnings❤
@@flambambamI need to learn your ways. When I hit those stalks I fail 1:42, when you do it’s WR.
yup he just beat it by 2 whole seconds
it took me way too long to realize "ODB" meant "outside drift bike"
Ol Dirty Bastard
0:48
Clever sponsor fake-out. I was practically ready to skip how many seconds it takes to get back on the video topic.
It got me too LMFAO
If only you made this video today. Flam got a 1:37 on MG earlier with ODB (Shooting/Twinkle Star)
It's crazy because *as a kid* I always thought the Shooting Star was the best bike because everyone was using it online before the official severs shut down. Obviously now most people use Flame Rider for normal races but the Shooting Star and it's character specific recolours will always look cooler imo. I'm glad it has a proper niche in some speedruns.
In fairness Shooting Star wasn’t really that bad compared to the whole cast. Mach Bike and Flame Runner were just that much better than every other option.
Love this content, man. I hope you cover Metroid Prime (or anything Metroid related) in the near future! Merry Christmas!
Wow! thank you so much for the generous pledge! I have a few Metroid ideas I wanna cover soonish, so def be on the lookout for those! Merry Christmas!!
damn i think just 2 days ago Owen Smith MKW just got the glitch 3/3 on Rainbow Road with phantom, obviously getting the world record with that
That's crazy, I just watched Owen's 3/3 yesterday and then this today. Hopefully another summoning salt video coming soon!
12:13 Putting this here before it happens: Owen Smith will hit the first 3/3 RR ultra. No player is as capable as him at grinding out insane categories for ridiculous amounts of time as him. He previously spent over two years trying to get a sub 59 on Yoshi Falls; a track which is essentially a huge lottery. When he goes for a category, it’s a question of when he’ll get it rather than if. The guy does not know how to quit.
Edit: I was right.
Zoren is also a competitor, but I do hope that Owen gets it first
@@flambambamngl totally forgot zoren was going for it LOL yea he can def do it
how right was i
@@CowMaam I was there live lol. So glad to see him get it
So I'm learning that Mario Kart Wii runners just go by singular normal people names for their handles lol
This video got me hella invested. Nice commentary, a ton of knowledge, music was implemented godly, keep it up!
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"Odb clip" lol my mind went to "Old Dirty Bastard" and makes every reference to it pretty amusing
The sound effects you put in throughout the video add so much to the overall quality. I love that. Really good stuff
Awesome video man! I’m glad I could be a part of it!
The goat himself, congrats on the wr!
YES
y’all from an mkwii player this has been unbelievable. the fact that this has been found and used now is an insane revelation
Thank you for covering such an interesting development in our community; this was very well presented!
4:00 that was the best Mr.Bean episode lmao
I like outside drift because it forces you to learn the track and you can control the drift and drift longer
First ever 3/3 Glitch Lap on Rainbow Road!! WR is 57:688 by Owen Smith, December 28th 2024!!
YOU JUST GOT COCONUT MALLED
Share this with all your friends to totally Coconut Mall them
By a tiger.
I’ve never believed outside drift kills a vehicle, rather it’s just that the game is so unbalanced that the bikes that have it just end up superior due to the tradeoff being more than not worth it. Flame runner and spear are just broken anyway, not only because wheelie and inside are obviously better
Yeah, it's like when they introduced Garchomp to Pokemon and it was like "Game freak.... did you even THINK about balance at all? Did you learn NOTHING from Gen 1 psychics!?" by making the dragon type have crazy high attack and speed, decent defenses, a type combo that resists a lot of things and is only weak to itself and ice (double weak to ice) and making most ice types slow and easily crumble to a dragon danced Outrage.... at least Mewtwo was a legendary...., but thanks to fairies putting dragons in thier place, people are starting to notice that "hey...other types are actually useful and even fun to build around, I guess not every game has to be a battle of dragons, steels and ground types after all." but sadly there's no denying that inside drift bikes are vastly overpowered. they were heavily nerfed in Mario Kart 8 though as the drift boost is on a timer, there's no wheelieing, and it's kind of possible to snake.
Flame runner and spear have very similar stats to flame flyer and jetsetter, but the key difference is that the former are inside drift bikes and the latter are karts. You could argue that the wheelie makes a bigger difference than the drift type, but inside drift on bikes is definitely better for getting good alignments with wheelies as well. That said, balancing is definitely the bigger issue for outside drift bikes because all of the fastest bikes were given inside drift resulting in shooting star, the fastest odb, being slower than half of the idbs.
outside drift is unviable unless if you're time trialing. if you're racing, you definitely don't want to use outside drift
This was literally my set up back in the day
I find it interesting that Mairo Kart games keep finding it faster to drive sideways
6:00 I am NOT this Justin but i take all the credit your welcome 💀
Great video! I knew multiple people that were thinking about making a similar recap of the odb revolution, but you beat everyone to it, and well researched at that.
One thing I do want to mention though is that the coconut mall flap wasn't improved by starting the lap with odb; it was improved by the new turnaround method with the drift into a wall bonk ssmt. The previous idb strats in the flap had started the lap the same way but drifted around the entire turn with mach bike (or bullet bike in the tas bkt). The outside drift is useful here because you can start turning significantly earlier than idbs and keep moving in the same direction, and you can immediately cancel the outwards swing by hitting a wall and shrooming. This is not actually the first use of that strat, because the idea was likely taken from the wario's goldmine flap tas introducing shooting star only a few months earlier (yet to be implemented into rta wrs). Also none of the wall clips on the daisy circuit ultra video are odb clips and wario bike was only used for supersliding after the ultra (the previous tas bkt did all of the same clips with flame runner).
Remember to shoot for the moon??? I thought everything was about the shooting star
lmao you got me with that fakeout at the start, i started skipping immediately only to just see more gameplay
ive never been able to get used to how inside drifting bikes control so i use outside drift. this video makes me happy :)
Accurate information and excellent commentary!
The Zip Zip was my favorite outside drift bike as a kid, so seeing it start the ODB Revolution made me lose my mind when I first learned about it
Good explanation between the different bikes, for those who may not have heard before.
Who else skipped the fake sponsor ad
Going faster by going slower.
13:00 the matt mii from wii sports is well made
Pov : Me if i was a chill Guy with depression AT 13:00
Thank you lmao
@@EjayB no problem 😎
Expected to hear about malleo's TAS work on rainbow road but oh well
COCONUT MALL MENTIONED ‼‼‼
but fr great video, glad to see some more mkw videos like this
I love that cutting the last turn on Mushroom George is SO common, that it's still referred to as "no shortcut" xD
Mushroom George
@@FuneraillesDuMonde Don't make fun of Mushroom George :(
@@Kya10 no he’s my buddy
@@FuneraillesDuMonde Yay! George is awesome :D
this is hilarious tbh i love that this is happening
I used to think inside drift was difficult to play as. But eventually I got the hang of them and I just can't go back.
Yeah, the inside drift bikes were really difficult to use at first cause they make you turn super sharp, but when you get used to them, that ends up being the point, they can cut corners very rightly and hold a wheelie more often. Though recently some people found out in some stages, an outside drift kart can better chain drifts (snaking) so it really is stage dependent which is "better".
the way my finger was already reaching for the screen with the fake sponsor
Evil LunaticJ be like... Shoot for the stars.
Come back from the moon 😂
4:05 - Nice match cut (?) could be just cutting on action but the motion matches between cuts. Anyway, nice transition.
10:52 nightmare blunt rotation >♡
Very interesting video just goes to show that something once thought to be useless was quite the opposite like Moonwalk in Super Metroid!!!
8:25 im 99% sure the clip has nothing to do with it, its the turnaround back to the line that saves the time
First lunaticJ video I see since you decided to switch to baseball. Nice to see you back
Edit: Which is funny, since I like Jomboy and Baseball Doesn't Exist, but ever since Lunatic's announcement that he's pivoting to baseball, the algorithm seemed to decide he doesn't exist anymore.
The explination for how an ultra shortcut works isn't entirely true, if you skip dirrectly from the first key checkpoint, KCP 1, directly to the last key checkpoint your lap won't count since the last key checkpoint isn't loaded, you need to go directly from the finish line, KCP 0, to the last key checkpoint for it to be loaded
Th-the “old dirty bastard” clip? Mario Kart Wu-Tang
GLORY FOR OUTSIDE DRIFTING BIKES
appreciated the reverse sponsor bait lol
I am excited :D Havent seen a vid of yours in a bit!
3:49 that is insane
As my good old friend Mr. Smash Mouth used to say..
Only shooting stars break the mold 🌠
Apparently, someone using a different bike than usual in *Funky Bike Wii* is apparently such a cause for alarm. I remember back when Mario Kart Wiki actually had, y'know, *karts* in it.
Honestly, I'm just gonna say this: per-character stats in Mario Kart Wii ruined it in the end. It just turned the meta of the game into "use funky lol". I wanna see world records that use other characters. Where's the "not Funky" category of time trial records?
character stat changes are small enough that for online you can mostly play whoever you want, I hit 9k playing yoshi mach bike
even for vehicle choice bullet bike and sneakster are surprisingly viable, just that bullet bike gets bounced to narnia and sneakster on mach bike tracks is pure hell- and obviously there’s the kart mains if you like masochism
it’s really just time trials where basically every track is funky/daisy spear/runner/machbike, but it’s not different than any other games speedrun scene where everyone mostly runs the same strats per category
Loving the inclusion of Mr. Bean at the 4:00 mark. Shoutouts to MrBean35000vr btw
Zcubed biography
The joke at 0:50 would be way funnier if you didn't post ads in community posts
a mans gotta make money somehow
Unless he deleted them all, I’m seeing one ad in one community post in the past year.
Ive run all 8 Cups in this game, and ran 1 cup with the karts.
3:02 massive?
You know what else is massive?
3:25 i assume that stands for outside drift bike
yes it does
it won't mean Obliterated Desired Bullsh*t anytime soon
How much of a factor is character selection here? We're all aware that Funky Kong is undisputed top 1, but I noticed a handful of different selections as part of this revolution.
Funky simply gets the highest top speed boost, the character bonuses are kind of bullsh8t because they are just straight additions to the stats, so Funky is literally going to be better than anyone else unless a course has some crazy off road (like Sherbert Land, which is 99% offroad) where lighter characters can maintain top speed and take better angles. But because most of the MKWii tracks are so massive and the nature of inside drift AND the numerous straight paths, Funky just has pure advantage. MK7 and 8 fixed that by making the boosts specific to the class of character rather than specific characters and you can now see the stat changes so it's not just a "bonus". (Mii's had +3 boost in several stats ironically making them the best all around character and thanks to inside drift, handling was the most useless stat to buff. Off road was the second most useful though and Miniturbo is third and acceleration is a close 4th)
i'm gonna make a video about this, but the only +3 stat increase is weight for baby mario and baby luigi
no character has above +2 in a stat increase
characters with +2 speed are funky, both daisies and baby luigi
Does ODB stand for Old Dirty Bastard?
FLAM HIT A WALL LAP 3 STILL WR THOO 🎉
I love mariokart wii speedruns, and I loved the game as a kid, but man, I've always just accepted I had to swallow my dislike of inside drift bikes when watching these videos, and it was fine, until this video shows up and something primal inside of me is rooting for the ODBs to rip and tear the IDBs
Oh snap that looks like a hard trick
Not to be that guy, but I'm honestly not really sure why it's called "inside drift" because that's not what drifting is. Drifting by definition throws the back of the vehicle out in a controlled slide. I tend to just call inside drifting "carving" instead because it's what sport bikes do when taking tight corners.
mechanically you perform it using the same actions as outside drift, and it uses the same effects with the sparks and sfx, so there isn’t really a point in giving it a different term
for Mario kart drift always just means the “extra” turning you get from a hop, inside drift just happens to not change your angle of attack
What song do you use for your outros?
On how many levels is now the record held by outside drift and on how many with inside drift? is it like almost even or is it still like 90% inside drift?
Only on mushroom gorge for no glitch
@Nao-ll7su and rainbow road no glitch.
so your answer is 30/32 inside drift bike, 1/32 outside drift bike, 1/32 outside drift kart
I love that all the MK Wii speedrunners' names are just regular names like Justin and Vincent instead of names like xXx_420_blaze_it_xXx
Can I ODM to the moon?
11/10 qualitu video
In mario kart wii nothing matters
When you use an abbreviation could you please define it in the future?
Jargon like “flap” is also not an intuitively understood phrase and im sure newcomers to the MKWii community would appreciate their definitions
He literally did explain what flap is... 5:09
@@epiclemon9927 my fault. Thanks for pointing this out
Cool video!
Hello LunaticJ How's your day today?
wow thank you
until today i somehow always have thought ur name was linkus7
linkus does his own breakdown and gameplay videos lol
ah
keep the great work up
Facts
10:05: That's my birthday!
You were born in 2023😂
nice sponsor fakeout
No way
ODB = Old Dirty Bas.....
Some of us are old enough to remember....
Worst bike (Outside drift bike) + Glitches, and several world records broken with shortcuts = Best worst bike
W lunatic post
W
the constant sound effects, flashy transitions, and refusal to let a backing track stay on for more than 30 seconds makes this video really annoying to watch. it's like you're not confident people won't swipe off if you don't jingle the keys every 10 seconds. PLEASE go back to editing your videos yourself, chasing the shorts crowd is going to really alienate your current viewerbase.
Respectfully I gotta disagree with this. I quite like how it's more engaging with the viewer.
I thought the editing was really good. I liked the background music variety and found the video engaging
I’m the first one 🎉🎉😝
third comment woooooooo
"obsoleted" is not a word
try saying "made obsolete"