Boost Your Skills with these Five Secret Driving Techniques in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

Get ready for the inevitable comment of "why is this in video form?"

@SLIGEACH_EIRE why is it?

@SLIGEACH_EIRE Or the inevitable "nintendo is forcing us to double dip, long live the wiiu, die in a fire Switch" comment.

@crackafreeze In the 16 stories posted today, I've had 1st comment on 1 other story. I've commented on less than half of them.

Edit: Actually, to be precise I've commented on 3 out of the 16 stories today. So, eh, ya.

@crackafreeze It's a question that has no answer.

I was going to make an obligatory 'inevitable _____' comment, but I'd rather not.

One inevitable tactic I want to see: hogging item boxes and stalking people in battle mode.

.....and if Nintendo likes eight Koopa Kids, can we get Callie and Marie DLC?

A real Pro tip: practice driving backwards to do a boomerang. So many people get confused from this unorthodox tactic.

@crackafreeze Oh sorry, I misread what you wrote.

These are secrets.

Good one for new players.

When in air you can charge your drift boost so when you land instantly your mini turbo is ready. Good for time trials too.

@crackafreeze it does a little but more on time trials.

Another tip. Most of the time stunting off ramps is slower.

I 3-starred all gold cups earlier this week. I used break drifting but never felt the need for cancelling.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE One of the great mysteries of the universe has been solved.

Most important technique is holding the weapon button to keep as a barrier when holding a shell or banana

Already knew of all of these

Drift canceling might be a problem for me since I am used mks auto-accelerating now.

The Loud Horn power up thingy can destroy blue shells!!!

What's with the click bait tag line?

No one has done it yet? Okay... I'll give it a go. Nintendo should bla bla bla waaah**, Xbox is *insert bias comment, I have a PlayStation and I'm allergic to having a Nintendo but I'll play yours.

Phew! That's better

@Justaguest An alternative is just to slow down on turns while saving your boost like how they talk about in the video. Helps a lot for tighter turns.

Tips for the Noobs :
Don't Ever choose Bigger Characters (Bowser/ Wario / Rosalina/ etc) with Very High Speed but Very Poor in Acceleration & Handling + Race in 200 cc with No experience at all with Drifting !
Guaranteed 200 % they will fall from the tracks and got the Last Place frequently. Unless... if they add with Smart Steering.

@Anti-Matter It's still possible, I main Bowser with the faster karts... but it is not fun xD
Involves liberal use of the breaks.

I know these are in the help section of the game, but it never hurts to see some of them in action (particularly the drift break as I haven't tackled 200cc yet and I've been doing fine with my pre MK8 techniques so far) Thanks for this cool video!

(Also it isn't a good indicator of the state of the community that the first few comments aren't directed at the video but are instead chastising a Nintendolife user...who himself has been trying to push people's buttons and not helping things at all.)

I was going to write something but got distracted by people encouraging a troll and forgot. Oh well~

Great tips! Also, jump off of everything! No matter how small.

So far. I have finish once in the top three on online races from 54 races. With a ranking point off 890. So i guess any help is better then none. I wish mario kart would match you with people off similar ranking to give me a chance off finishing in the top three every now and then.

Does anyone else think that compared to MK8 Wii U that the items have gotten a bit overboard? I wanted to go through the 50cc in all cups just to get all the gold trophies. It didn't prevent me from getting 1st in every race in one try, but I swear I'm getting pounded by shells a lot more than before. And don't get me started on the lightning, I never get it myself but it's doled out to the CPU racers too often. It's just an annoying buzzkill that hits every time I get the horn to take it away before it's of any use, and it's constantly thwarting me as I'm trying to drift and build to the purple sparks.

So while it didn't prevent me from finishing 1st in every cup, it sure bled a lot of the fun out of things by crashing the party way too often. I guess the CPU players grab the double items every time they can, because it's a free-for-all of ink blots and lightning strikes and more than a few times I've had my character bashed with a blue shell the exact second I'm crossing the finish line. It's kind of amusing seeing the nanosecond of victory glee engulfed in a fiery blue explosion of pain, though, but I still wish they'd have balanced the items a little better so it's not an endless stream of hits.

@Jimsbo I think so as well. In fact I've even found that I've been hit by convenient combos (perfectly timed from more than one CPU player), hit by extremely perfectly rebounded green shells when I initially went through 50cc, and the few times I get triple bananas in first place are often short-lived thanks to a convenient Boo. One race I was also hit by 3 blue shells.

I'm not sure if it's just that more items = more chaos or whether the game was 're-balanced' to simply make it more chaotic in general. I only really played 50cc for my first playthrough though, and 150cc feels about what it was on Wii U for the most part I think.

@Jimsbo
Getting all the gold cups on 150cc automatically gives the same in 50 and 100cc. Just in case you were working through them all withought realising.

@Fandabidozi
So you're just awarded 3 star gold in those cups without playing through them? I'd actually rather go through each on its own still. I like to replay games but I prefer to have it add up to something each time. For me that would reduce the fresh plays to a third of what it would be.

This could actually stand to be a video, It's hands-on information on performing techniques in the game.

The golden car parts could have seriously been listed in 3 lines, that was my only complaint about that one, videos in general are not bad.

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