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Maybe, but once the Bullet Bill is finished, one item attack, and you're pretty much back in dead last again.
You still have options against the blue shell. You can dodge it, take others with you, or you can just get enough of a lead to where 1 blue won't get you wrecked, which isn't that hard if you're clearly the best.
LOL what's the hell is wrong with the flower, the tail, and the blue shell that actually somewhat helps the person that throws it?
This is actually kind of a hard question to answer in a way, since what is considered "good" is kind of up to the person.What are considered the good tracks?
The flower is the equivalent of throwing like 4 Green Shells a second and you can spam it backwards and forward and repeatedly hit the same person. The tail has the ability to swipe away items without being affected as well as hit multiple people around you again, without having an affect on the item's time limit. I personally view them as being too OP. There is nothing wrong with the blue shell.
Don't get me wrong, I think they're part of this game, but not enough to where the best players won't show through.
Just gonna mention that this was more a joke than anything lol. Imo, Tail/Fire Flower are badly designed, they heavily encourage spamming, and you get a lot for it working out, and nothing bad for missing or screwing up. Other items, like Bombs, shells, etc, if they work out for you can be huge, but on a mistake can blow you up/ricochet and hit you, to punish a mistake. You dont have ANY repercussions for screwing up with Flower/Tail, when they hit you can demolish other players stupidly easy, and they quite frankly are just too spam happy/impossible to counter imo. As for Lucky 7, I think its actually a great Power item. While it gives you so much, you have to actually be smart with it as another player running into the star or shooting the bomb with a shell can ruin it for you, making it have some risk to go along with all that reward. A good item imo, would definitely not be against seeing it brought back in the future. The Blue shell change I have mixed feelings on; I dont think its OP since it follows the middle of the track and people hug corners making it usually miss, but I dont think a non power item should be able to do as much as that specific blue does, so while I dont mind the changes, I do think in order to keep it how it is, it needs some tweaks in its hitbox size, how to trigger it, what places you can pull it, etc. So basically, Lucky 7 = Good item, New Blue = Needs some tweaks but I dont mind the concept, Tail/Flower = Badly designed items.
This. Bullet along with Lightning are both undeniably the most powerful items from a potential reward standpoint, but both have repercussions, weaknesses, or strategies to overcome them. Bullet is the highest priority item in the game, in beats out everything, gives you the highest speed of any item, makes you a giant moving hitbox, etc. From that, youd think its overpowered, but its weaknesses, or downsides, are that for one, you cant control it, meaning you cant do shortcuts with it without chaining, it lasts less long the faster you go up in place, meaning it can have unpredictable durability times and can drop you on items at the end, its power and fact that you dont want to waste it, means you have to hold it which means no other items until you use it or lose it, and in order to get one, you need to be in one of the VERY bottom spots. For lightning, while it shocks everybody and slows everything down but you allowing you to pass everyone if used right, a lot of things dodge/cancel/block it, meaning it can disable a lot of the reward, the target shock areas are the best way to get reward out of it, but at the same time that makes it more predicable to go for the highest reward, like the bullet you need to be in one of the very bottom spots to get it, and also, it gives you no personal buff, it just hits everyone else, youre still vulnerable to EVERYTHING when you use it and if youre hit as/after you use it, you lose your chance to get much of anything out of it.
So can a good Lightning, so can a blue shell, so can a snipe with a Shell/Naner/Fib, so can a single shroom shortcut, etc. All items can get you into first, and the best ones at doing so require you to hit the very back of the pack in order to get them.
There arent so much 'Good Tracks' so much as Popular Tracks. Then to counter that, there are basically 'Luck Tracks', and 'Ultra Shortcut/Glitch Tracks'. The Luck tracks (Luigi Circuit, Shy Guy Beach, etc) are easy to abuse with items, whether it be through item box placement, massive shortcuts at the end, etc, meaning a single good item at a specific time can win you the game even if you didnt do too great. Then for the Glitch Tracks (Grumble Volcano, Coconut Mall, etc) are stages that arent so much bad, just that they have easy to abuse glitches that are impossible to beat without doing them yourself when theyre done correctly, that in tournaments and such have those cuts banned. While they are definitely not bad courses, you need to make sure not to go there against people who will abuse said glitches or you will lose and there is no way to avoid it (aside from the players doing the glitches messing them up.
Name one non-gimmicky tournament we've EVER had that items effected to the point where it screwed up results? The better players have always won, and the less good players have always lost. Shok/Travis always take a top spot, regardless of how bad the items where, and outside of some jumbling in the middle with close people in skill (like me, box, bsp, etc), the results have NEVER been crazy, even with the items. While items CAN effect some races, better players will do better on the other stages, and make up for it, in the end making the results end up how they should be. Besides, its not only items that skew results, its the courses to, theyre just as bad, if not worse in some instances.
This.
Also this.Don't get me wrong, I think they're part of this game, but not enough to where the best players won't show through.
Or, as Dre mentioned, I don't think they're powerful enough to kill competitive drive.
I remember there were 1 or 2 things that I wanted to change in that vehicle list, but I cant remember what they were... Regardless, I still feel its a good idea of the list is and should be quite reliable.
It's pretty much like you said. It can come down to predicting or it can come down to luck.
Well at a high level(meaning other players are mostly funky/daisy) weight is super important. You could have the best stats in the game but with no weight and everyone else having lots of weight in 10 or more person room your almost guaranteed to get bumped in a way that your going to lose a lot of time.
Flame Runner and Mach Bike are better than the Bullet Bike, Speed > All, and Weight is incredibly important (a big reason why Bowser is good).
