I don’t actually hate this game, that was just really annoying. Also, I forgot a couple things: The tier list I kept mentioning throughout the video was only for Mario and Luigi, and all characters with the same stats as one of them. They aren’t different enough (1 extra Handling versus 1 extra Traction) for me to separate their CPU combo tier lists. I plan to have a separate tier list for each character stat class (with some combined for cases like Mario and Luigi). I also forgot to display the tier list at the end of the video, so here’s a quick list (ordered within tiers): S Tier: None A-Tier: None B-Tier: - Standard Everything - Comet/Slim Tires/Super Glider - Mach 8/Slim Tires/Super Glider - P-Wing/Blue Standard/Super Glider - B-Dasher/Standard Tires/Super Glider C-Tier: - Circuit Special/Slick Tires/Super Glider - Standard Bike/Slim Tires/Super Glider
I think it totally falls off to the person’s skill and item selection. Yes, there are karts with better stats than others but each combo has it’s flaw. Everyone focuses on acceleration and use karts with almost maxed out acceleration; but when it comes to speed and handling, it completely falls flat. Using a mushroom basically does almost nothing.
@@ZUKO-FROMTHEFIRENATION So, my initial response was way too long, so I’ll try to summarize my thoughts better. Stats are important at a higher level. While it’s not impossible to win with a suboptimal combo (the Waluigi Stadium race this video), it’s significantly harder with a lower than competitively recommended mini-turbo stat and/or mini-turbo + speed stat total. If you want more stat explanations there are plenty on RUclips, so I won’t go too in depth here. Also, people don’t focus on high acceleration, that’s just a byproduct of focusing on a high mini-turbo stat, which is the best stat in the game. Which is for some reason still hidden in game. As for your point about mushrooms doing basically nothing on the optimal builds, you’re half right. Yeah, it doesn’t do much when used by itself on a straight road, but that’s where a person’s strategy comes in. A player could use it on a turn (this cancels out the speed decrease from drifting), save it for a shortcut, or even use it to skip needing to accelerate after being hit (even with high acceleration, it still takes a bit of time to go from full stop to full speed). Also, handling is pretty much the most useless stat in the game. You have to be specifically trying for poor handling for it to negatively impact your race. Well, okay, handling might be more useful on 200cc, but that rarely shows up in Worldwides and most people tend to play 150cc anyways.
I don’t actually hate this game, that was just really annoying.
Also, I forgot a couple things:
The tier list I kept mentioning throughout the video was only for Mario and Luigi, and all characters with the same stats as one of them. They aren’t different enough (1 extra Handling versus 1 extra Traction) for me to separate their CPU combo tier lists. I plan to have a separate tier list for each character stat class (with some combined for cases like Mario and Luigi). I also forgot to display the tier list at the end of the video, so here’s a quick list (ordered within tiers):
S Tier: None
A-Tier: None
B-Tier:
- Standard Everything
- Comet/Slim Tires/Super Glider
- Mach 8/Slim Tires/Super Glider
- P-Wing/Blue Standard/Super Glider
- B-Dasher/Standard Tires/Super Glider
C-Tier:
- Circuit Special/Slick Tires/Super Glider
- Standard Bike/Slim Tires/Super Glider
A new video finalyyyy hope you rested well!
@@grace_lmpp I’m great, thanks for asking. I actually planned to upload a bit sooner but my internet went out for a while, so I’m just having it rough
I think it totally falls off to the person’s skill and item selection.
Yes, there are karts with better stats than others but each combo has it’s flaw.
Everyone focuses on acceleration and use karts with almost maxed out acceleration; but when it comes to speed and handling, it completely falls flat. Using a mushroom basically does almost nothing.
@@ZUKO-FROMTHEFIRENATION So, my initial response was way too long, so I’ll try to summarize my thoughts better. Stats are important at a higher level. While it’s not impossible to win with a suboptimal combo (the Waluigi Stadium race this video), it’s significantly harder with a lower than competitively recommended mini-turbo stat and/or mini-turbo + speed stat total. If you want more stat explanations there are plenty on RUclips, so I won’t go too in depth here. Also, people don’t focus on high acceleration, that’s just a byproduct of focusing on a high mini-turbo stat, which is the best stat in the game. Which is for some reason still hidden in game.
As for your point about mushrooms doing basically nothing on the optimal builds, you’re half right. Yeah, it doesn’t do much when used by itself on a straight road, but that’s where a person’s strategy comes in. A player could use it on a turn (this cancels out the speed decrease from drifting), save it for a shortcut, or even use it to skip needing to accelerate after being hit (even with high acceleration, it still takes a bit of time to go from full stop to full speed). Also, handling is pretty much the most useless stat in the game. You have to be specifically trying for poor handling for it to negatively impact your race. Well, okay, handling might be more useful on 200cc, but that rarely shows up in Worldwides and most people tend to play 150cc anyways.