Who is the Worst Character in Every Mario Kart Game?

If you're reading this...I know you're absolutely insane at Mario Kart. Not to worry though as today we'll be analyzing the worst character/kart combinations from each of the Mario Kart games. That way, you'll be able to handicap yourself to the point where someone else might have a slight chance of winning.

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Chapters:
Intro: 0:00
Super Mario Kart: 0:55
Mario Kart 64: 2:54
Mario Kart Super Circuit: 4:58
Mario Kart Double Dash: 6:51
Mario Kart DS: 9:34
Mario Kart Wii: 11:07
Mario Kart 7: 13:14
Mario Kart 8: 15:17
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe: 16:57

[ignac]

While that combo for MK8DX is bad, at least it is somewhat balanced. Meanwhile if you focus purely on speed/weight, you have no acceleration, mini turbo, or even turning capacity left

[SoshiTheYoshi]

I feel Mario Kart Super Circuit is basically anti-Yoshi propaganda.
Not only with the bad stats, but also the fact the “punishment” of not owning the game for multiplayer play is racing as multi-colored Yoshis.

[TheDerpyDolphin]

6:24 excuse me, WHAT?! As a kid I mained Yoshi in this game, and I could rarely ever get a good rank. You’re telling me that on top of my character apparently driving the worst, he was sabotaging my GP rank this whole time without the game telling me? My friendship with Super Circuit Yoshi is over

[AmishParadise]

So funny story. When I was a kid playing Mario Kart 64 for the first time, I remember sucking as every single character, but then when I selected Wario, I began dominating and constantly doing a lot better than I previously had, so I constantly picked him from then on, so I feel accomplished that I was able to do so well with the "worst character" in Mario Kart 64. :D

[LuigiStrikeForceChaz]

When my friend flew out to hangout with me, we played Mario Kart Wii and he chose the Baby Booster. Even I knew it was a bad choice, but I didn't want to judge him.

[mkwpatsfan]

A few notes on MK8DX.

1. Baby tracks exist, where the speed stat is trash. (this is very nuanced though, and is almost 200cc only now or completely gone.)
2. Because of the handling stat, Baby Peach/Baby Daisy have held more world records than Baby Rosalina/Lemmy.

Those are all of my nitpicks. Another thing, you ended up picking the correct tires, as Metal tires have a +2 invincibility stat over gold tires (due to the balance patches.)

[SportsGaming-llru]

Mk wii is pretty funny because each weight class has a definitive best character that can hold their weight online compared to everyone else, lightweights even having 2 options

[RSYDMNTP]

Lad, Mario Kart Tour literally stopped updating a year ago

However, despite there being so many drivers, drivers with bubble as their special item are easily the worst ones (Baby Peach, Baby Daisy, Baby Rosalina, Lemmy and the Lemmy, Cheep-Cheep, and Fish Bone Mii suits)

[mkwpatsfan]

A few notes on MKWii.

1. The Bit Bike isn't the lightest combo in the game. The Quacker is.
2. Drift is considered to be far more important than mini-turbo. (hence why the Phantom sucks)
3. Bit Bike, which you considered the worst vehicle in the game actually had a world record for a long time due to it having important stats in that category.
4. Although bad for online play, Baby Mario is the most common lightweight in world records.
5. Bit Bike is one of the lightest vehicles in the game, but has similar weight to the Bullet Bike and the Magikruiser.
6. The drift stat is so important that an otherwise balanced vehicle like the Phantom becomes absolute garbage.

I honestly think that the Baby Booster/Booster Seat is the worst combo in the game just because it can't wheelie.

[CZreviewz]

Absolute Banger Kai, been waiting for this, a few opinions here.

For Mario Kart 64, I'd argue that Luigi is the worst, due to drifting being more important then handling for going fast in 64. Luigi would then be the worst due to him having lower weight then Mario. But still it's personal perference they both suck anyways.

For Mario Kart Wii, I'd rank the Booster Seat as worse then the Nanobike, because with a bike atleast you can wheelie to offset the speed imbalance, it also has little to no speed loss when turning in a wheelie. Then I'd pick Toad, because acceleration and drift make little to no difference on a vehicle that turns like ASS and already has close to max accel in the first place, whereas Baby Mario is fighting for his life to stay on the track in the first place.

In terms of character combo for 8DX, you're correct in picking Baby Peach and Rosalina. However with WORST CHARACTER? I'd give that out to Baby Mario's weight class, as Baby Daisy did manage to score a world record on Donut Plains 3 200CC. So atleast she has some merit to her.

Tiny discrepencies, that's all. Keep on making gold.

[greninjamariokartpokemonfan]

In Mario Kart Wii, the stat priorities should go like this.
1st: Speed
2nd: Drift
3rd: Weight
4th: Mini-Turbo
5th: Acceleration
6th: Off-Road
7th (Last): Handling

We all know the Flame Runner is the best vehicle in the game since it's fast, heavy, and has good drift (the three most important stats in the game) and is an inside drifting bike. To find the worst vehicle in Mario Kart Wii, I'll have to reverse engineer that philosophy. The worst vehicle in the game is slow, light, and has bad drift. It must either be a Kart or an outside drifting bike, so this automatically eliminates the inside drifting bikes (the Bullet Bike, the Quacker, the Magikruiser, the Jet Bubble, the Mach Bike, the Sneakster, the Dolphin Dasher, the Flame Runner, and the Spear).

First, let's find all vehicles from the twenty-seven options that are slow for their respective size classes. This eliminates the Standard Kart S, the Standard Bike S, the Standard Kart M, the Standard Bike M, the Standard Kart L, the Standard Bike L, the Super Blooper, the Tiny Titan, the Mini Beast, the Wild Wing, the Flame Flyer, the Honeycoupe, the Shooting Star, the Zip Zip, the Phantom, the Piranha Prowler, the Blue Falcon, the Sprinter, and the Jetsetter.

Remaining 8 vehicles: the Booster Seat, the Bit Bike, the Cheep Charger, the Daytripper, the Sugarscoot, the Classic Dragster, the Wario Bike, and the Offroader.

Next, let's find the vehicles from the remaining eight options that have bad drift for their respective size classes. This eliminates the Cheep Charger and Classic Dragster.

Remaining 6 vehicles: the Booster Seat, the Bit Bike, the Daytripper, the Sugarscoot, the Wario Bike, and the Offroader.

Finally, let's find the vehicles from the remaining six options that are light. This eliminates the Daytripper, the Offroader, and the Wario Bike.

That leaves us with just three vehicles remaining: the Booster Seat, the Bit Bike, and the Sugarscoot. Since the Sugarscoot is the fastest and heaviest of the three, it gets eliminated.

This means that, with my previously established criteria, the worst vehicles in the game are the Booster Seat and the Bit Bike. They are the slowest vehicles in the game, are the second lightest kart (behind the Cheep Charger) and bike (behind the Quacker) in the game respectively, and while they don't have bad drift, they don't have good drift either.

I'll say the Bit Bike is worse because not only is it the slowest vehicle in the game, but it's also the second lightest vehicle in the game, only being slightly heavier than the Quacker.

[SaltedNeos]

Did you just entirely disregard unlockables in Double Dash? Cause It seems like none of them were even unlocked.

[coolnhotmodding]

The best thing about MK7 is that acceleration doesn’t matter at all due to a technique called Delay Drifting/SSMTs. Essentially, all you have to do after getting hit is hop after a second, and right before you hit the ground, move your CPad to start a drift. You’ll be back up to top speed instantly

[Evan-mtbc]

The worst character in Mario Kart SNES is actually Bowser because of a recurring Mario Kart mechanic, the Rivals and also a SNES exclusive mechanic CPU items.

So every character in the game has 2 Rivals and every CPU has special items they'll pull randomly that the player can't obtain. Bowser suffers the most from this mechanic specifically because Bowser's Rivals are both the Mario Bros and both the Mario Bros special item is the Star. This means the 2 computers that are programmed to pressure you the most have the strongest CPU items in the entire game and they can pull them in any place. This makes winning games as Bowser feel virtually impossible at times because the Rivals, there's only 2 other characters that have to deal with 1 of the Mario Bros, Luigi's 2nd rival is Mario and Koopa's primary rival is Luigi (this is also what makes Toad the unequivocal best character in SNES because Toad doesn't have to worry about the Mario Bros.) Poor Bowser has to deal with the 2 most dangerous CPUs in the entire game alongside some piss poor handling so avoiding the sparkly bros will prove to be an exercise in futility

[prtra]

As a MK7 player myself, I'm surprised you nailed that part because a lot of times people dont know much about the game due to the lack of interest. But yeah for anyone wondering, every other class at least has some use cases. Small for battles and high accel combos, lightweight like yoshi for underwater, medium for small hitbox + glich categories and heavies ofc for max ground speed. Cruiser is just fully outclassed. Good video mate!

[negligible_reality]

I feel like it's not right to rank what the worst character/vehicle is based on how well they can execute speedrun strats, especially since the majority of Mario Kart players are mostly just casual players who aren't actively competing for World Records. I think it would have been best to give two options in that scenario: one that's the worst for standard/casual gameplay, and one that's the worst specifically for speedrunning and competitive gameplay.

[DnD_Robb]

12:49 The quacker beats that by one point. But unlike the quacker, this is an outside-drifting bike.

[RockylarsYT]

2:38 yes and bowser and dk have 3, its a bit weird to state this with that in context.

[BillyBillyandMandyReal]

For Double Dash, the Koopa King is NOT the worst kart, it has a bad mini turbo like all heavy karts but has the best speed. The worst kart is the Boo Pipes for how slow it is.

The worst characters would be Petey Piranha and King Boo. Yes, they can use all special items but that's a double edged sword because you can still get the less useful special items (especially Giant Bananas)

[jameskingscomicsandenterta]

11:00 Bowser in Royale is actually pretty good for Rainbow Road- easier to turn and harder to get knocked off the road by opponents