How good is MAX WEIGHT in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe?

how important is the weight stat? this determines how far you get bumped by other racers, and how much you bump other racers!

combo used:
bowser / bone rattler / monster tires / wario wing glider

all maximum weight characters/parts:
- bowser / morton / petey piranha / metal mario / gold mario / pink gold peach
- bone rattler / tri-speeder / steel driver / GLA / standard atv / badwagon
- monster tires / hot monster tires / ancient tires / metal tires / gold tires /
- wario wing / plane glider / gold glider / paraglider / super glider / waddle wing / hylian kite

[Siler]

every baby character will try their best to stay at least 100 meters away from this kart combo

[miracledang]

Found a moment where having high weight helped you: At 14:45, your weight saved you from being bumped off the boost ramp.

[ErdemAltunhan]

If you ever run out of video ideas, you can always try out the DRIEST combo on Dry Dry Desert= Dry Bones + Bone Rattler + Ancient Tires!

[SunshineRey]

7:54 this whole sequence is just brutal. He gets hit, mushrooms to recover and uses his star to perfectly time a shock dodge, which he chained to get a boo. The blue shell shows up behind him and he uses his boo in fourth so he had a 1/3 chance to steal first place’s super horn, which he managed to get. After that, he made a push for first place and won without getting hit by the line of bananas and the person in a star. Truly a Baby Park worthy moment.

[DaShikuXI]

I wish that the weight stat made you more or less resistant to projectiles. For example with a min weight stat a red shell would knock you out for 2 seconds, but with maxed weight it would only be 1 second. Something like that. It would give weight much more importance, and it could essentially function as the opposite of acceleration. acceleration gives you faster recovery, whereas weight would lower the downtime.

[selfloathinggameing]

You make a good point about stats being "clustered" like acceleration and weight always being opposite. Some of the old MK games had more interesting stat lines, I remember in DS Luigi had both high speed AND acceleration but low handling and weight, making it super unique to control.

[conqueror]

The thing with this combo is that you effectively have a classic muscle car. Fast in a straight line, weak around corners. To counter act this you need to drift earlier and not do anything fancy. These setups work in the low level because you can just use the speed to run away. The higher the lobby they fall off as players can use advanced techniques to compensate for lack of speed.

[Eden-kwkw]

Shortcat uploaded, it’s gonna be a good day today.

3:40 No, they just couldn’t handle

[elementsofphysicalreality]

That blue shell on the last race was pretty good ngl. To stop on the end like that perfect timing.

[Waltezer]

-I don't want that track
Wins

-Oh ! I want this track
Loses twice in a row

[CookingKoopa]

"I've been waiting for a rainbow road." Instantly demolished.

[cys_bacon]

Anyone else bop their head when Wii Rainbow Road comes on? Such a banging track

[LordFurafura]

Thank you for your uploads :) I've learned so much more about MK8 from your videos and I really like your overall positivity! It made me realize that getting mariokarted is actually pretty hilarious and nothing to be mad about 😂

[autismandgaming]

Bone rattler has to be in the top 5 coolest karts

[handmetheparachute]

Nothing wakes me up more than seeing a ShortCat video in my feed

[ItchyBurritoMiniAltThingy]

I went to a MK8 Tourney yesterday and used your Old Main with B.Rosa, Bidy and whatnot, I lost but I had a great time and did better than I thought I could, thanks for the great content

[heatheretaithaha]

8:39 WHY DID THEY PUT A 1300 PLAYER IN *THAT* LOBBY 😭😭

[alanshaw]

We live for shortcat uploads! love watching an amazing driver try all the combo's

[topster]

it's good to see that even really good players experience getting destroyed right at the end of a race while in 1-3rd place

[samdilophosaur]

13:31 I love seeing people be introspective about their strategy, this was really cool