This would be specifically in the context of Mario Kart Wii online, where players using bikes (so most players) are often wheelying for extra speed on straight roads. Staying right behind another to get a draft for extra speed is fairly common too. However, if you bump into someone or something while in a wheelie, you get significantly slowed down for a few seconds.

People usually just wheelie bump people from the side but on occasion when someone is behind me trying to get a draft, I’ve had the thought to suddenly drop my wheelie and slightly brake, causing them to lose a lot of speed, and then I can just start another wheelie.

Am I onto something or is there a reason nobody’s doing it?

  • cattywampas@lemmy.worldEnglish
    192·
    6 days ago

    And what if they’re able to avoid you? It’s definitely not worth the risk. The meta for Mario Kart Wii is very mature and established. If the top players aren’t doing it, you can bet it’s not a good strategy.

    • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      5 days ago

      To be fair, it is entirely possible that top players wouldn’t consider something to be a valid strategy only because they never tried it and what they know already works well. Why fix it if it aint broke kind of thinking can lead to this, where someone experimenting can discover something new.

      This happens in speedrunning all the time, bunch of top players stagnate and then someone tries a weird new approach and shatters the record all the top players stagnated at previously. Only reason they stagnated is because they weren’t trying anything new, they were only doing what they already knew.

      Thats not to say new experiments always work, but to just hand waive it away by saying “none of the top players are doing it so obviously it isnt a good strategy” is kind of an invalid remark. I think OP should do some tests and then determine if it works or not. Maybe they change the meta with it, the worst is they got to play Mario Kart trying a new stat for a while. No big deal.