The best Mario Kart 8 characters are listed on the Tier List.
It is easy to pick up, but difficult to master.The game isn't very good at explaining what its various statistics mean, and how they affect your chances of victory.
We can help you make sense of it all.Each character has their own statistics, so we've grouped them together in a handy table.Here's what each stat does.
The minimum and maximum values for each stat are 0.75 and 5.75.To calculate what your final stat will be, you'll take your character's base stat, then add the values of each part to come up with your total.Your character's statistics will be affected by the surface you're racing on.Racing underwater increases your speed by.25 points and lowers your handling by.5 points.You'll lose points when you're in the anti-gravity parts of the track.
Everyone's best loadout will be different.We will give some context in each section, but what works for you will depend on your playstyle.
The top speed is tied to the weight and size of the character.Some exceptions to this, and arguably a key factor, come with characters that were DLC in the past or are'metal' variations.Metal / Gold Mario may be a little behind the likes of standard Mario in grip and handling, but have notable advantages in weight and speed.Tanooki Mario favors a little more acceleration over Mario and has less top speed.
It's important to weigh up what qualities matter to you, but also look at subtle variations and accentuate those.You character stats are combined with your vehicle of choice.
The standard kart isn't up to much, and some karts have more negatives than positives.Some of the more reliable vehicles, ie those with more positives than negatives, include the Pipe Frame.
Whether you want your vehicle to complement your character's strengths or balance them out is a key consideration.One suggestion is to focus on two or three core strengths through your combo, as 'balancing' may undoing your character's positives in the process.Balance or prioritize a new ability if you try a heavy set and find the handling too poor.Depending on your preferred style of racing.
It's best to find something that works for your play style because there isn't a one-size-fits-all best Kart to build.
Heavy characters are helpful as the increased top speed combined with the ability to knock lighter racers out of your way is helpful.Time attack is a great way to get practice in with the kart you've built without having to contend with opponents throwing items at you.
You can use the guide to create a kart that has good acceleration, traction and top speed.
Do you have a go-to kart combo?Is it all about the bikes or the ATVs?Comment on your favourite loadouts.
There's a lot of useful information here, but I don't feel like I know anything more than I did before I read it.The headline suggests that it will tell me how to put together a build, but it doesn't.It just goes "here are some numbers, and really anything goes so just have fun and experiment", which may be true, but it's not really instructional.
A lower speed helps out a lot better for 200cc.If you get hit by an item, you can almost immediately hit that top speed again, and the lower speed helps on corners so you won't go blasting off to the side.The lowest speed classes allow the highest speed statistics to be used.
As soon as they did this, they created a meta and all anyone cared about was winning, which in Mario Kart is often times more down to luck than skill, so it becomes an oxymoron.
There isn't an ultimate setup.It's all about compromise and figuring out what works best for you.You'll lose out on one stat if you gain one.
I use the Mr. Scooty bike, Cyber Slick wheels, and the Airplane Glider with Inkling Boy.I don't know why.I do.
Nice!I was waiting for something like this to happen so I could create a better combo for online races.!
When they're just listing the raw data for each thing, there's no need for "Best character" or "best part" headers.
It's true that high-speed builds are less viable on 200cc, but the tricky thing is that once your online rank is high enough you have to play both 150cc and 200CC, so you need to be able to handle both.
I have used female Villager with B Dasher, Wooden wheels and Plane Glider.It looks cool and has decent speed and handling.I'm not sure if I like it in 200cc.
The highest possible combined Speed + Acceleration score and the highest mini-turbo out of the combinations that can reach that score was given to me.
Extra content has been added to give more advice.Picking key categories will help with some cool combinations.
There isn't one!What?Shiryu has lost it's marbles!Or did he?
I'm still sane.You won't find "THE" kart on all occasions because every single track has different obstacles.Some racers will benefit from slicks so they can stay on the tarmac at full speed while others will need Monster tires.Time trial is the best way to do this.If you beat the Nintendo Staff ghosts, you can see what racer and kart parts they are using to get a feel for what might be the best option for each race.You can build a kart that you can call your own, and you get to know exactly how far that kart can go.Even if you are the best in the world, your greatest build won't stop Blue Shell from knocking you from 1st to 8th on that perfect online race you were just having.
As for Mii?I play with Miiself because I'm a egomaniac.I want to get more weight on Mii.
Adding another line to the table at the end that gives the total figure would have made it more interesting.The best are:
A Pipe Frame with 1 City Tripper, 1 BiddyBuggy, Mercedes Silver Arrow, Tanooki Kart, and Koopa Clown.
With either the Pipe Frame or the City Tripper, you can have either a roller or azure roller and with any glider.
Mii, Flame Rider, Standard Blue and Hylian Kite have worked great for me, no clue why, but it seemed a perfect combination, I like racing as myself, so I might experiment with something new now.
All of the parts listed have a negative speed.The parts that boost speed have worse stat totals.I'm not sure if I agree with the design decision.
It's easier to build a kart with this tool.
I don't personalize as much as I should.I have standard everything.The only thing I do is wait for the pipe frame to be unlocked.I'm usually in top 4.Is a kart immune to shells?
There is a mistake in the article.Each vehicle part has its own modifiers for racing in water/air/antigravity.The Mach 8 has 0.25 handling in antigravity.These are not shown in the game, but there is a list that includes them.
All that setup will be sorted out by any number of mushrooms.If nlife were less family friendly, there would be a guide to the most effective swear words.
The statistics were updated for the new version of the game.I found this website on the internet, more infos can be found here.
The characters and vehicles are in my setting.
Is it possible to get the Big Horn from Donutman?If you're lucky, box can deflect all Shells attacks.Use it wisely.
I like kart/bike combinations.Dry Bowser is one of the ones that should be shared.
I enjoy playing with my triforce tires, sport bike and airplane glider, this game really comes down to you being able to stay on the road, and the items you get and your timing on using, blue shell ft
Not sure if this article helped me at all...It would have been nice if there were examples of putting a vehicle together and weighing in on the good and bad.
I'm in the "this article didn't help" category and I appreciate all the statistics being rolled out.It's better to have all the statistics in one chart, but I don't know how to use them.
I've been mostly going with the ones I know.I've tried the babys, but I find I can't do it right in 150, so I go online and either end up 7th or 2nd, sometimes.
Depending on Mii Maker stats, Miis can be three different sizes.Medium is equivalent to Mario/Ludwig and large is similar to Bowser.
Two of my favorite things are Luigi and the Plane Glider.
Always Luigi...I'm glad I found a couple of new combinations that work well for me, because I always used the Flame Rider and Retro Off-Road tires in the original.
Miis have different weights depending on how large they are.Miis can be part of three categories, light, medium and heavy.
Handling and acceleration for me!If you want to avoid the power up chaos in the middle of the pack, acceleration is the way to go.You can get rolling again if you get hit.While everyone else has to adjust their speed, handling makes it possible for you to turn tightly on the corners, making the track shorter and keeping you at top speed.I've heard it's called a loser combo, but I have played hundreds of hours of Mario kart, and my win percentage is different.
The Captain Falcon Amiibo racer is a great costume.Is your Captain Falcon Mii's voice Macho or Squeaky?That's right.
Sadly Squeaky.I hope Nintendo releases an update that restores Mii facial expressions.I used to watch them on my Wii U replays, but now I miss them.
I like high handling and acceleration.Handling and acceleration allow you to make the turns on 150 and 200cc.I don't think weight and traction are very useful.You shouldn't be playing bumper cars and with proper drift brakes you should be able to stay on the road.Sometimes an item knocks you off the road, but it should take a very small amount of time.
I value speed less than handling due to the fact that it's better to make the turns than have slightly higher speed.Speed would give you an advantage if you touch a wall or go off the road.
I didn't know the characters had hidden base statistics.It sucks the fun out of it.Absolutely.I can form a more effective strategy now that I know this.Mii, Pipe Frame, Cyber Slicks, and Super Glider have been my winning online combo recently.
I don't think the vehicle customization stuff that was introduced in 7 has a place in an arcade racer like Mario Kart.That stuff should be left in Gran Turismo.I don't care what kind of tires we use, let's just race!
In the original there were 8 characters with 4 racing styles, all in nice simple karts, rather than the ugly over-designed wacky races vehicles they have now.That was it.It was simple and elegant.Things have to become bloated over time.
I can use almost any vehicle build in 150CC, except if I go online and suddenly start running into walls for reasons I cannot explain, but in 200CC.
I wish they didn't change their statistics.I'm limited to a handful of characters I enjoy playing, and most of them are all the same class, because there's too few characters to play.I like a few of them, but I don't want to change because the babies have better handling.
Not trying to be clever or anything, but a touch of colour on those values would make the tables easier to read.
I like the wacky karts.It adds a bit of flair and character.I'm not sure if the stats going meta was a good thing or not.Maybe the bigger problem is that some builds are simply not viable for certain speeds rather than just tuning the cart how you like it.
It was a lot more balanced and fair with stock karts, but it's hard to sell a new version of the game with the same items for 25 years.We would be playing the Wii.
It's not a best kart as it depends on your play-style.I think you can compete in most modes.
The people who I play with enjoy choosing a kart.They are picking based on how it looks.
Time trial is hard.I don't have a chance unless I match the kart specifications that the ghost is using.
Time trials are about precision.You need to be able to hit your marks on the track and do a great race line for 3 laps.When you win time trials are usually less than a second long.I've been working on the 200cc time trial ghosts.
I don't like time trials, I can do great for a lap and a half, but if I hit everything the same I end up behind.I can't manage their ability to hit short cuts and they never seem to drift with mini-turbos.I keep going back to give it a try, and after a dozen tries of being ahead most of the race, I end up giving up in frustration.I've won a few, and only when I match their exact gear, but I would love to be able to see exactly what they're doing behind me.If I allowed them to get ahead of me they would just keep going.
Nintendo employees have to be a pre-scripted racer that races almost inhumanly but just with enough error they can be beaten by true perfection!
You can watch the ghost's replay on your own if you press A.It's helpful if you change the replay camera to the game camera.
I believe that playing online is important because you are going to get hit eventually.
The Cloud Glider has an unobscured view of coins and where you're going to touch down so it's the only way to go.
Sometimes you get ahead because they're going for coins so you can run a better line.The offroad shortcut is taken by the mushrooms.You have to be able to hit all the things.
Time trials can help you get better at the game.When you're ready to scream, you restart that track.You will come out the other end knowing exactly how to blaze through the track for the best time.There are people online who have mastered each and every track in the game.
When it comes to online fighting games, there is a bit of similarity between the two.In fighting games, people who can hit tiny frame windows and know when their attacks connect can adjust blocks all over.How does anyone do that?There are hours and days of practice.You have to know you're line and be able to hit it consistently.You can make adjustments when you're not racing alone.
When you play online, it becomes more intense.I haven't done much online on the switch but when I did, I was often lapping the rest of the pack.
I'm using Dry Bowser, Flame Rider, Slim wheels, and Bowser kite because it's still competitive and it looks awesome.
Adding up the scores for each category does not work for me.Does a kart's mini score carry as much weight as its top speed score?Not all scores have the same meaning.Maybe speed is more important than traction.Adding up the scores wouldn't show that.
The scores are not out of 0 or 1.To get a better sense of the true score, you would have to change the score from a base of.75 to one.
For online races?Since people now have double the item slots, handling and acceleration are more important than ever.
I like the Villager with the gold parts and the pipe frame.
Maybe that explains it.I don't like online fighting games.I gave up on that path after a while, because I was going down it with Splatoon.The obsessive "practice practice practice" mentality isn't fun.You don't get anything except a digital ataboy on the screen.If I wanted to do that, I could just work more.I was getting sucked into it, but I realized it has more in common with gambling addiction than fun.I don't like online gaming.Even if I am able to get addicted.
I want to get some of the time trials because it's my single player fun and I'll still screw around online if I get grouped with the chumps.
You can let it take over your life, but I think it's more the drive to get better.It's fun to push myself as hard as I can.It keeps things interesting to me.I enjoy pushing myself in non-competitive games.I'm always looking at the logs to see how I can improve.Some of my best memories are doing the most extreme content, failing over and over until the boss goes down.
I like to think I'm not like that, but I think it's the other way around, I would just go full tilt, not sleeping, or eating, until everything is perfect.I just go with "I don't enjoy that" because it's simpler than "if I try to do that I'll starve to death"
Not sure if this has been removed in the re-release, but it was discovered that there are hidden perks in Mario Kart 8.The speed was divided into ground, air, and water.The Steel Driver got a significant speed boost in water, and the slim tires that increase your speed a good bit actually decrease it.
The only thing you need to know is that the standard ATV and monster tires are not good.The sport bikes with inside drift give you a bad camera perspective while you're drifting.Unless there's a big skill gap, winning comes down to a lot of luck.
The inkling boy, the sponge tires, and the splatoon paint quad are some of the things I have been successful with.
I'm new to mario kart 8 and am confused as to why none of these statistics are explained in the game.One of the biggest gripes with the game is that it's too simple a concept and everything is unlocked.I am confused that none of these statistics are visible in the game.I don't see the appeal of playing Mario kart 8 deluxe as a first timer other than a few rounds of local mp with the kids here and there.
The appeal of playing the game is that it is enjoyable.There's no sweat if you're not finding it enjoyable.If you're worried about statistics, you shouldn't be.Most of the karts, bikes, etc, have the same stats as something else, and pretty much everything can work in the game.
Most people just get a little flexibility with the statistics.Due to all the different track designs and the chaotic nature of the game, there isn't a definite best combination.There is a lot of luck involved in winning in Mario Kart.
There is a pipe frame and Hyrule tires.Like how it looks.It seems to do well in racing as well.
Standart ATV, Slick Wheels, and Plane Glider.My setup is not the best.It works well on tracks like Rainbow Road.Not the best speed, traction, weight, and weight on most tracks.It was won over by Bowser.
It's true.I'm a little late to the party.Internet is useless in terms of title.
I like that setup.The one I use is the exact one.I think I go back and forth from that and the azure roller kart, but yoshi is my hero.
Do a lot of you readers check every word and phrase for meaning throughout the day?I think it's a good idea to figure out what is the best on your own.
Nintendo wants people to have fun.Hardcore people will figure it out or get a guide like this eventually.They should put some clues about the companion guides when they sell them.
If I see a guide titled "Fastest Kart - How To build the build kart", I want it to tell me what good builds are.
When you consider that Mario Kart Wii has a definitive answer: Funky Kong riding the Flame Runner, you expect an article like this to give meaningful information about min-maxed builds.
The writer said that there can't be one best unless everyone has the same play style.A full matrix and allowing an intelligent player to evaluate from there is appropriate for anyone that thinks logically.
Time trials have an objective best racer, typically whoever can attain the highest top speed, though it might also depend on mechanics such as how boosting works.
If you are someone that plays better using light or heavy weights, you can still guide them to the best build for those weight classes, because this guide fails to guide users who are figuring out their play style.
I didn't grow up with netdecking.Giving the numbers and allowing me to play around with them as a guide is great for me.If someone is just trying to play a certain way, people will always say BiS for Best in Slot.
They can make a guide to say that this is the best configuration if the game comes out and gives no choices at all.It was the fastest build.That's right.
A guide titled "how to build the best kart" doesn't give any building guidance, only suggestions and raw statistics.It doesn't analyse the game itself and apply knowledge to inform a learning player.
The guide suggests that you try combinations to find the best one.
The Wii U version of Mario Kart 8 was ridiculous.There were worldwide races that I did with nothing but Japanese players using Morton in the Blue Falcon.I wanted to vomit.
Should Nintendo just release Mario Kart 9 already?