How good is MAX ACCELERATION in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe? 

In your opinion, what would it take to make acceleration the best stat in a Mario Kart game?

Clearly the luck stat is the most important one in Mario Kart

I love how ShortCat is so calm and happy all the time, but then instantly starts seeing RED when someone of similar VR is playing in the same room!

No, guys you see the best stat to optimize is your item luck stat. The worst stat on the other hand is the get hit stat, that one you have to make sure to minimize.

I think acceleration is the most important stat, because I've never seen anyone win a race without accelerating at least once 🤔

No point in arguing with people like that. It's like talking to a wall. They're "always right". Also just drive what you want. Shortcat is a perfect example that skill can make almost any combo work anyways ❤

at 4:42 he completely nailed the entire lap while explaining the pros and cons of acceleration, mad impressive

'Weight is THE single most important stat as it determines the intensity at which you get displaced from a wayward tailgater or an ill-willed opponent." Boom

12:04 I recognize the layout of the article. It's from TheGamer. As someone who used to write list articles for TheGamer, I can vouche for the fact that their list articles are an absolute clustertruck of bs. Sure, you’ll find plenty of good ones here and there, but in general they don’t really care that much about the quality or accuracy of their lists, and are far more concerned with getting clicks and forcing their writers to work at a breakneck pace to produce as many articles for them as possible within a small amount of time.

Max acceleration is brutal. If you can keep 10 coins you're golden but the instant you drop down you're consistently in the chaos. With lower acceleration builds you spend more time at the back meaning you're not getting hit by almost every single attack. Acceleration = consistency. If you're doing good you'll keep doing good and if you start doing bad, it will be nothing but bad.

About that acceleration argument… that guy could potentially be lying about being from the N64 days, calling people ignorant while also saying ‘that’s your opinion’, they probably just read an article in the corner of Google that was published just for clicks that said ‘aCcElErAtIoN iS tHe MoSt ImPoRtAnT sTaT’ and left it and believed it.

the green shell dodge at 18:18 was so clean. he moved out the way since the daisy was about to chain items

"If I get hit it shouldn't be that bad" **Immediately gets hit like 5 times and ends up in 11th**

Hey that’s my build! I definitely agree about the pros and cons of acceleration. It was a similar in 7 as well with acceleration being good but not necessarily the end-all-be-all stat to focus on. Mini turbo is still one of the more important stats and that’s why you see many builds getting the best mini-turbo while also not sacrificing as much on the other stats. Good video and I’m looking forward to the no acceleration video! If nothing else, the Toadette combo is Cute.

I hope the next Mario Kart game has more customization, such as painting your kart or putting stickers on it. It’d also be cool if there were ways to change the stats of a kart without adding a way to make something OP, so I can play my favorite combination without having bad stats

11:21 Dang, he really thought he got you there. Totally roasted.

I’ve been going through a lot of anxiety lately and these videos have helped me stay calm. I love your chill demeanor compared to a lot of other MK8 RU-vidrs. It also got me back into Mario Kart 8 and I have over 10,000 VR now!

Shortcat is the type of person to just casually perform things that others struggle with without mentioning it

You dare question the mighty authority of pnut3844able? Who do you think you are? He has played COUNTLESS hours of this game AND has played mario kart since the SNES. Just listen to his wisdom scrub

What I'd like to see in the next game is for miniturbo building to be attached to handling and mini turbo boost length to be attached to traction. This would make miniturbo less directly inherited from the two primary stats AND create a give and take between the heavy and light options. It would still need some balancing to create a game where both options were viable at low and high skill, but I think it would be a good step in that direction.

this is the combo that got the full lap win 💯

14:23-16:29 this entire filibuster hits the nail on the head so hard. ds and wii were really good about this and 7 kinda threw it away to try and make the game more balanced despite all the customization, and while i like having a balanced game, having that additional room for unique ways to play is really nice. as it stands, the only significant divergence from the norm in 8dx is inside drifting bikes, and when you compare that to the sheer variety in ds and wii *beyond* "fast but slow to recover with bad handling" vs "slow but tight handling and quick to recover", it's a little disappointing. speaking as someone who enjoys 8dx and wii about equally

I love how you’re explaining what you are doing in the race for new players/beginners

On the topic of better stat diversity, I wish we had more heavy vehicles with good mini-turbo/acceleration. I’ve fallen in love with the Boo Pipes in MKDD and I wish there could be another vehicle like it in a newer game.

Man you and Smii7y have completely reignited my love for Mario kart (haven’t played in 6 years cuz studying), thanks and much love❤

really love your videos!! fun, cute, and really taught me some techniques to win. love how you react everything in the race!!!

regarding the idea of the next mario kart game having more diverse stats, there's one build i like to use in mk8dx that feels super unique compared to just about any other combo i've tried: Tanooki Mario Gold Kart Slick/Slim/Leaf/Rollers Peach Parasol the idea is that it maximises miniturbo while minimising traction. there are very few parts that have high miniturbo and low traction, and i've listed them all here (not including reskins, of course). it's just super fun to take corners with this thing, and tracks like Mario Circuit 3 and Neo Bowser City become an absolute joy to play. i think my favourite wheels to use with it are the leaf tyres, but it really just depends on how much miniturbo you want to give up for -traction.

love your videos man, I love the information you tell us about mario kart 8 deluxe and on top of that you have amazing commentary

Really fun to watch keep uploading! 😊

It would be cool if in a future Mario Kart game, they had a similar system to MultiVersus where you could equip different loadouts to your kart, to boost stats etc. Im not a MK expert so I have no idea how that would balance out, or if it would make the game too complex, but hearing you talking about more fleshed-out stats made me think about it.

i love this channel so much, is so entretaining and specially Shortcat´s way to comment and explain. he is really good at it. The second thing i think when thinking of ShortCat is that, the first one is well... "anything remotly bad happens" Shortcat: its bagging time >:) And sometimes there doesnt even need to be anything bad lol XD. Keep it up Shortcat you are really good at this :) PD: Boom

I definitly agree with what you said about stat variety, though they would need to make all the stats more equivalent for it to work. I would also like if different stats encouraged different strategies. For exemple I wished high-speed high-weight stat would encourage you to bump more into people to basically knock them off the track, currently weight is only a defensive stat but it's still bad to run into people with high weight. It would also be cool if they made a set of kart without particularly good stats but with one gimmick, like one that allow you to get more of some item, a very bad kart but that almost doesn't get slowed down by off-road, a kart that has special flying/underwater properties ...

Hey shortcat, I realise I'm one voice in a sea of many, but I wanna say that I always love your videos. Seeing that little notification of your uploads always brings a little bit of joy into my day and for that I'm super appreciative!

I GET IT YOU LIKED YOUR OWN COMMENT

Nice videos! Been learning quite a bit from them. To your point about stat diversity, they could also play around with certain stats affecting item interactions. For example, heavier weight = larger items; better handling = longer item duration; more traction = shorter 'stunned' animations. (Or something along these lines.)

I have actually been really liking adult Rosalina, Teddy Buggy, GLA tires and the Paper Glider. I like the usual meta Yoshi combo, but using GLA tires and a heavier character feels so much better to me.

whenever a shortcat video comes out im super super excited :D

It was an honor to race with you last night for a few hours as you almost hit 20k. I had a ton of fun! Hopefully you can get to 30k quickly.

I love the progression from showing off the acceleration to fruntrunning with a little acceleration use to taking back the VR crown from some random Japanese player. Perfect.

Keep up the great work shortcat❤

Haven't watched thia channel and its insane how this chanel is growing

i really enjoyed the more talking centered video, very pleasant to listen to

why is this combo criminally cute

DAMNNN I LOVE YOUR VIDS LIKE FR

another interesting stat that I think would be interesting to see brought back is the item luck stat from mario kart DS, this was a very controversial stat but i think it would be cool, like lets say you have high speed high acceleration/mini turbo, handling but your item luck would be absolute garbage, or maybe your item luck stat could influence what items you are even able to get at a given position like maybe if you have a high item luck stat you may get mushrooms in first place or less of a chance to get coins

i have 2 ideas: -do a blue youself, where you bring a blue shell to 1st and hit yourself. it is required to hit directly you, not from the range -do a mario kart randomicer, it you will get a random character, car, wheels and glider. when you dont get 1st, that character dies, when you get first, you can receive a character. when you get a dead character as character, the video is over

A lot of videos make me laugh, but the argument makes it by far one of THE funniest videos I've seen.🤣

Love your content! i was wondering if you could do a video about brake drifting, im super struggling with it and by watching your videos I see you doing it really well. Thanks for the great content

love your videos!😊

love your content! 😍

I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS PLS UPLOAD MANY MORE

I love shortcat reading the argument in comments! Please do this every time

I love this kart combination, the handling is great too! There are two tracks that I find hard to deal in 200cc Cloudtop cruise and Rainbow road (mk8), but epic in Ice Ice outpost :D

"It shouldn't be too bad" famous last words

It would be cool to see a video/videos comparing the smallest hit box vs the largest hit box. Largest hit box would technically be the highest "get hit" stat no?

So it seems the acceleration stat decreases your hidden luck stat 😅. Nice videos btw, you’re so chill. I usually don’t watch much Mario Kart and I’m a casual player. But I’m enjoying your stuff. Keep it up my man!

Mark Twain had the right of it 150 years ago: “never argue with an idiot, they’ll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience”. Never argue with a living dunning-kruger graph if you value your time and sanity lol.

My fav Channel rn 👀 Greetings from Germany 🤝

My personal favourite is keeping all the stats roughly even. I played DK on pipeframe before the dlc, but I don’t know right now. In 200cc it’s just enough to make the corners, so it’s mainly a fun thing. I’d definitely like to see how something like this stacks up though

When you said " don't laugh" it was already too late.

Congratulations on winning after waiting one lap! This is totally the right video!

Hi! Yet another awesome video! I haven't finished it yet, but I'm already sure! Are you ever gonna do another "Shortcat Vs." format type video? As you said, you never practiced Vancouver Velocity, you could make a video on that!

nintendo was like: "so you have max acceleration right". proceeds to hit you with 675 items in one race lmao.

What Shortcat has taught me: Best stat: Luck and Cute Worst stat: Get hit stat (Lemmy only)

Such a nice vid

You're probably the only person I've watched who makes vine booms really funny

Nothing makes me more happy than seeing Shortcat upload.

I watched all your videos and I really enjoyed it :) I would love to see a video about soft drifting from you I have difficulties to learn this technique properly. Sorry for my Bad english

can you do more of the time trial practice vids? I really enjoyed the one you made. Explaining the tech helped me learn it myself.

The pnut(brain) part of the video got me wondering, how long do you have in the game? I know it's easily checked and given your skill level I would assume you probably have a lot

Is always a good day when shortcat uploads.

This is my favorite loadout. I dont play online but ive gotten first in almost every race in singleplayer with this and i miss having max acceleration when i try other parts for fun

I'd love seeing some time trials from you!

Talked about in the 13 or 14 minute section. The R.O.B. Kart is a huge example of this, and is one of the best Karts in the game besides Dry Bomber and Egg-1, the Mini Turbo Boost I think is 3rd best in the game but the Speed Stat is much better than those other two Karts, I too wish it was like what you were explaining, but still dependent on the weight class and character, but giving some heavier weight classes better Mini Turbos with some vehicles, and same with light weights and mid weights, to further increase the diversity of what is being used in the next Mario Kart game and it's meta.

I completely agree. I wish there were more stat variety.

Its a gud day when shortcat posts

Yes! You beat C!! I was actually getting a little too loud at the end and my parents came into my room to yell at me...

seeing a raceway made out of my city (one that isn't all that popular) ie. Vancouver is so interesting. Like I see places I've literally visited here on the track like the suspension bridge. downtown Vancooter is definitely interesting

You need to do a video where you play with an eye tracker so we can see what,where and when you're looking on the screen!! Great vid btw

18:53 nice dodge! 💥 21:11 Bro that was epic! 💥 22:24 Things explode! 💥

15:05 this is so true, when i first looked into the hidden stats this was ny first thought. Everything is so locked in, despite all the "customization" you can't really customize at all

10:00 I was watching that video like an hour ago or something and read the conversation Also you pinned the comment lmao, you're a legend

i feel like the best argument for accel being whatever is one you kind of said but didn’t; being that having a high acceleration is nice but you don’t want to have to use it as using it would mean being hit by items

shortcats gameplay is so smooth i love it really

My main combo has high acceleration and that is one reason I really like it. There jave been times where I would have lost the race because of getting hit by an iten but because i had the acceleration I was able to get the first. Also I am able to quickly start drifts or do tricks after getting hit which I really like. I feel like acceleration is helpful but isnt necessary

Thanks for giving some love my girl! Toadette + Pipe Frame/Rollers + Peach Umbrella is my jam lol. Driving with that combo feels like balls to the walls on a razor's edge 😅

I love how he calls out that guy, time to cyberbully him /J

This was entertaining omg

Love you shortcat

the comment war section was amazing lol, maybe having short funny story sections in some future videos would be a cool addition :P

best mario kart youtuber

Shortcut threw a whole race to bring up a RU-vid argument True Legend

25:17 “Alright, kid. This means war!” *cut to him in the Koopa clown*

I think the issue is that acceleration is pretty much always tied to mini turbo. I would really like it if they changed a combo to have high speed and MT, but no acceleration and handling, I'd like to see how it fares both in 150 and 200

13:37 a good time to turn off smart steering (or other settings) is while in a mini-turbo or shroom boost because you cant slow down

I tend to run a more mixed setup, but I definitely favor acceleration over top speed. Having a blend feels better than going all in on one or the other.

In Mario Kart Wii, Spear had decent acceleration and the best speed. If a track had no turns, spear would be great, and acceleration is important because on straight aways you have to wheelie a few times. If you dropped your wheelie (didn’t chain it because that’s like a 2 frame window) then Spear goes a LOT faster than Flame Runner

Babe wake up, shortcat posted!

Their argument about acceleration is like saying in the old Mario Kart Wii “Weight” was the most important stat because every good build had a lot of weight. But no, it was the speed. Same with this, mini-turbo is the most important stat, the acceleration just comes with it. It’s still important but mini-turbo still stands on top.

I don’t even play Mario Kart but I just love your personality