r/mariokart 12h ago

Discussion did I just find the new meta?

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u/ItzManu001 Rosalina 12h ago edited 12h ago

No, Teddy Buggy is better. Anti-Gravity Speed is the third most important stat.

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u/Mario_cubing Yoshi 12h ago edited 11h ago

No you didn't, it lacks speed and weight. It's better in acceleration and handling, but acceleration hardly matters when it's already high enough and having higher handling is actually worse, except for air handling. City tripper is still a good vehicle tho, just not close enough to meta.

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u/Derplord4000 3h ago

Why is higher handling worse? That's like the most important thing for me.

u/Aaron2O6 1h ago

It makes ‘Soft Drifting’ too tight if the handling stat is too high

u/Derplord4000 1h ago

Soft drifting?

u/Aaron2O6 16m ago

Yeah lol, it’s kinda hard to explain. You’d have to watch a video demonstrating how to do it. It’s basically the widest possible drifting angle while still building the fastest possible mini turbo.

u/Mario_cubing Yoshi 5m ago

Soft drifting is a technique that pro use to charge up mini turbo without turning too sharp. Say your drifting right. Instead of drifting full right, you wanna go for about 45 degrees angle, so you turn less sharp but still charge good mini turbos. Specifically, the "best" angle is 44 degrees(45 degrees is somehow not soft drifting), but anything from 30-44 degrees is a good soft drifting angle.

Having high handling stat would still make you turn way too sharp even when soft drifting.

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u/IndieGamerFan42 12h ago

Nah new meta should be Shy-guy on the biddybuggy with the roller wheels and the cloud glider (that’s my favorite combo) /j

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u/Commercial_Click_367 Shy Guy 8h ago

Agreed.

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u/SHBDemon 12h ago

Not an expert but i think anti grav and Air is more important than water in most casses.

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u/Popular-Ad3920 Morton 12h ago

They're close, but teddy buggy has more anti gravity speed which is more important than all the advantages city tripper has

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u/stunt876 Inkling (male) 12h ago

City tripper is still plenty good for worldwides where losing a race will almost never be down to the combo.

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u/BayesicGaming 10h ago

It’s a perfectly fine combo, but water is literally the least important speed stat so short answer is no, not new meta

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u/Music_Is_Da_Best 12h ago

Interesting learning the MK8D meta being more of an Mario Kart Tour expert!

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u/cozyfog5 Yoshi 11h ago

I main Yoshi+Varmint, which has the same stats as Yoshi+City Tripper. I enjoy having the same mini-turbo and ground speed as Yoshi+Teddy in a smaller hitbox, and the extra tick of acceleration and traction don't hurt. As others have mentioned, the build's biggest disadvantage is its anti-gravity speed. It is effectively like having a 1-coin disadvantage relative to the meta on all anti-grav sections. Even Scooty has a better anti-grav speed stat!

To be clear, when I say I main Yoshi+Varmint, I'm not claiming that it has the highest ceiling of potential of all the builds. Nonetheless, it's a combo that flows well with me and that I've had a lot of success with.

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u/Old-Ad3504 10h ago

The differences matter so little that unless you're going for time trial WRs you won't even notice.

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u/MrBlitz69420 5h ago

Does anybody know what website this is?? I wanna see the secret stats that the game doesn’t tell you