FULL Beginner Guide | Tips to Help You WIN at Mario Kart 8 Deluxe!

Tips & tricks + complete tutorial for how to WIN at Mario Kart 8 Deluxe for Nintendo Switch. Beginner tips, advanced tips, how to improve, techniques to make you go faster in Mario Kart for new players.

This video will show you how to be good or get better at Mario Kart 8 Deluxe so you can beat your friends at Mario Kart, beat all the Grand Prix modes (150cc, Mirror Mode, 200cc), beat the Time Trial staff ghosts for 150cc and 200cc, and get to over 10k rating (VR) online. Also how to unlock all the vehicle parts (collect coins).

0:00 Beginner to Advanced Guide
0:34 Choosing a Combo
3:42 How to Play
6:42 Game Modes
7:08 Racing Tips
9:53 #1 Most Important Tip
11:03 Item System
12:16 Attack Items
18:04 Speed Items
21:02 Other Items
22:47 Triple Items
23:23 Online Differences
26:10 Strategy Guide
26:48 Strategy: 1st Place
29:01 Strategy: Front
30:16 Strategy: Middle
31:09 Strategy: Back (Bagging)
33:22 Luck
33:43 200cc Differences
36:12 Wow

[Shortcat]

Thanks everyone for waiting patiently as I worked on this video! It took forever but I'm glad I had such a big backlog of recorded races to show examples from. This guide is more than enough to help you get over 10, 000 VR online, so keep practicing if you're not there yet!

I will be working on the Pro guide soon, which includes lots of other tips and tricks like soft drifting, glider vectoring, kusaan slides, hopping tech, more item and racing strategy, etc. I'll be watching the comments here so leave a question and I'll try to answer it!

[osgqvqs]

He taught us how to solve a Rubik's cube, helped us get faster times, and now helped Mario kart players get more wins.

[gsalex]

"go to bed and try again when the japaneses are sleeping"

[SevoraLF]

500 hours on this game over the years and I’ve learned some new things. Great guide.

[kairotae]

You're honestly a treasure to any community you join

[IronBlaze]

Thank you, Shortcat! One of the best Mario Kart 8 Deluxe YouTubers around!

[knoathing]

34:05 it's also worth noting that you can also use Y to accelerate, and some people find it easier to roll from that to B or X than A since you're able to work better with the length of your thumb instead of having to try and use the edge to press more buttons

[wind]

You put SO MUCH EFFORT INTO THIS, I hope this will blow up, from beginner to pro, this video will definetely enhance everyone's skill and knowledge. Great job🏅

[robinfox]

It's so hard to believe this channel is only 7 months old! It's like watching a veteran YouTuber with millions of subs. Love this channel, thank you so much for reinvigorating my interest in Mario Kart ^^

[iceheart_]

On the start up boost, the way I figured out the timing on the longest boost was actually by watching Lakitu's lights. What I do is start holding A immediately after the 2nd light comes on, and it usually works. So that could be something to try if the number movement thing isn't helpful to some people like me. =P

[yilsa]

I think this will really help a lot of people! Put it this way: It's just what we were waiting for from an epic creator like you! Keep up the good work!

[MorbidlyObeseTyreese]

You scripted this so well Shortcat! Both precise and concise teaching! Honestly you should consider being a teacher because you're so good at it. It was a pleasure watching this, truly!

[kbcreng]

I usually look at Lakitu's light for timing the start up because it's usually more accurate. Just press and hold A or Y as soon as the middle light turns red. It takes practice but its usually much better in the long run

[dakotahernandez]

A note on breakaways, once you build up a small/decent-sized lead, it becomes much easier to stay in first than when you just passed someone to take first. This is because you only have one person attacking you (the person in 2nd) compared to fighting everyone in the lobby when you're in a middle spot. At this point, your only major threats are blue shells and red shells; as long as you consistently pick up a protection item, you can only be hit by a red if the person in second pulls two red shells which is pretty uncommon unless your lead gets so big that 2nd/3rd place can pull triple reds.

[RickyRicoto]

'go to bed when the Japanese players are sleeping' brought back months of trauma from being relentlessly crushed

[ChrisDaGamer]

21:12 Actually, in online play, it can. If you are on a laggy connection and the game doesn't know what item to give you, it will default to a coin. Even when you already have one or grab a double item box. Normally the item selection animation will play for much longer than normal when this happens.

But in all other cases it will never give you two coins.

[dread.champloo]

Shortcat trying not to constantly make the best mario kart 8 deluxe content: impossible

[SkyeB]

He first taught us to solve a cube, now he's teching us how to be Mario Kart pros!

[draigon]

I don’t even play the game online 😭
But shortcat’s shorter videos (not these long explanatory ones) are actually so entertaining

[TheBestEver]

26:03 “Good luck not getting hit by my triple green shells while I’m kicking my internet router“

-Shortcat, 2024

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