The Best Way to Play Mario Kart 8 Deluxe 

The options are overwhelming now for Team VS... What's the best Team VS custom item set up?

If this was online, for the shock only item team, the OP strategy would be for one player to accept last place but constantly spamming items while on a double box the whole race, making their entire team get top 5

Something interesting you missed is that Boo actually beats lightning. Because you get invincibility and you also get to steal the other team's shocks

"...but we _do_ have to worry about getting piped." - TWD98, 2022

A tale of two yellow items! Dodging multiple shocks one by one with multiple stars is beyond intensifying and beyond ultimate! Glad to see your cool-lookin’ neon-green game chair and your background on your screen, Troy!

1:44 The reason for that is because MK8 has a skidding state, where your tires don’t grip the ground and you move forward slowly. This can happen when you hold brake and accelerate at the same time, when you try to accelerate immediately after going into reverse, or if you fail to get a boost from attempting a rocket start (you can even see your tires skid in place before you are released). When you hop, it cancels the skid, causing you to land and accelerate like normal. Using an invincibility star maxes out your acceleration, so you end up shooting forward.

You could make an actually playable blueshell showdown w/ blueshell, shroom, & superhorn

It's crazy how Nintendo managed to give Mario Kart 8 such extraordinary longevity. And even forgetting about the 48 new tracks, this one simple update alone is probably going to extend the game life for a lot of people by 100 hours or more. This game didn't have any challenges I would consider extreme or impossible.....until now.

Hey Troy, just so you know, you can get a crazy 8 of only stars and only red shells like you said, it just doesn’t work with items like the blooper or if it fills in with a mushroom.

Love the video Troy! ⚡ Last night, my friend and I played a few GPs of "Item Draft" versus. We took turns drafting items and battled it out. I picked second, and that is a MAJOR disadvantage in this mode. Because the coin will always be the last item picked, and it is so common in first place, it takes out most significant items you can take. My friend took all the shells and such and I was getting rekt in top spots. My blue team ended up having a ten point lead going into the last race, but his team target shocks us on Mushroom Gorge Lap 3 (shock was his 1st overall)... I get first, but my entire team finishes 7-11, for a 32 point swing in his favor. It was super fun, would love to see you try an Item Draft versus video! 💙

I got so nervous that you would be kicked everytime you stopped to bag for items, until I realized you can't get kicked in an offline match.

10:08 bullet bill jumpscare

An idea for a team race is to have one team be "chasers" and the other be "runners". The chasers have red shell, red shell, piranha plant and blue shell. The runners have mushroom, triple mushroom and golden mushroom. In theory what would end up happening is it plays as one team trying to run ahead and the other trying to bring them down.

1:30 LOL I love how the piranha plant is just like "GO CRAZY GO STUPID" bc of the constant shocks

Here’s my list of challenges you could try in the all-blue-shells tourney (again, I posted this in your last video too) 1. Win without throwing any blue shells 2. Win without getting targeted and hit by a blue shell 3. Complete a race while having 10 coins 4. Win without getting targeted by a blue shell at all (this includes if it’s hovering towards you, so no outrunning) 5. Win without getting hit by a blue shell (like at all) Once again, I ranked them by (assumed) difficulty

I think the game won’t let you pick the crazy 8 only is because it needs items to put into the crazy 8. You saw with the Blooper crazy 8 that it added the blooper + Mushrooms and coins in the empty spots that items should be. So In a mushroom only or shell only game, the crazy 8 is OP, In a power item only game… its very weak

I didn't realize you could have different item settings for different teams!! That makes this update even better

Hi, Troy! My name is Alex! Or you can call me: ATBPF! I subscribed to your channel a few months ago since I watched your other video with Baby Peach! I was just nervous about commenting back then. 😅

My brother and i did only blue shells and triple reds! On Baby Park it was super chaotic and fun! Also i loved the backwards aspect to Peach's Garden, that was a super fun update!

The reason why you cant do only crazy eight is because crazy eight actually just picks random items like from item boxes so if it would allow you to do only crazy eight and you got one, it would crash the game(its hardcoded so you cant get a crazy eight as a crazy eight item)

I honestly thought Blooper+Crazy 8 was going to give 8 Bloopers because in MK7 Shells Only, the Lucky 7 gave 7 Red Shells.

OMG I WAS LITERALLY DOING THIS TODAY, I haven’t watched this yet but lightning won for me

The reason for crazy 8 only not working is probably due to it requiring items in its item meaning it would just be nothing if it was just the crazy 8. If no items other than crazy 8 are selected (or items not normally in the crazy 8) then it defaults to giving a mushroom. (eg: goldens, bullets and blue shells) edit: just saw more of the boo lake race and realised troy already found it out lol

0:46 the bad part is that if you miss one bam shock dodge, you are basically screwed.

The second I saw custom items as an option I already knew the feature was going to be abused 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

*Amazing* video! Love your videos! Excited to see more Mario Kart 8 videos!

Hey Troy, you should do a 24 hour Mkwii charity stream for Christmas 👍👍👍

The Way How You Shocked The Shock Out Of the Shockers Is So Shockingly Shocking That It Shocked The Shock Out Of My Shock

This is a certified hood classic

You could play this like a deck building game, where every team can choose some items before the game starts. To balance things out every item could have a price, good Items like the shock cost a lot but a banana costs almost nothing. The only problem is if you only pick one or two good items and nothing else you only get good items, you could fix that by forcing players to pick at least 5 different items or something idk. - Just an idea that popped into my head

1:30 interesting, lighting hits piranha plant too lol

Day 300 of asking Troy for a collab with Zakziko

Even if it still seems like a Wii U Port to me, the fact customization of the Item Roulette is a thing, makes it more to a Mario Kart 9 honestly than just a straight port with few changes.

@TWD98: the reason the crazy 8 with blooper only give you a mix of blooper mushroom and coins even thought you disable mushroom and coins, they are too many blooper on the screen, if you wait for all cpu to finish, then it can give you 8 bloopers the crazy 8, the reason why Crazy 8 cannot be selected on its own, only one Crazy 8 can be activated at a time, and if you could it would just be a mess of de-sponding each other 4 mushroom and 4 coins, The crazy 8 item count as land item not roullette item so that is why it can go against one you actually pick to be in the roullette same with the boo item on its own, if it can't steal anything it will steal a mushroom from the land(cargo), they could be another reason why in blooper only with crazy 8 you still get mushroom and coins, the crazy 8 is program by default to help you and having only blooper is not helpfull, also Crazy 8 never appear in 1st place.

I'm here before shrek

Well, this video waa quite "Shocking"!!! 😉 (also toadette doing matrix dodges!)

I really like the idea of this, you should play this on a online tournament and have real people play so there’s more strategy!

I think this definitely opens up like, TF2 Prolander style item striking, where both teams take turns banning and enabling one item, either for all racers or just each team.

Imagine If nintendo let you customize the cc

I legit tried one team only having bullets and another team with other items trying to see if a combination of items could beat bullets. Closest I got was the Boo as the bullets are to overwhelming but it was a nice experiment

Wow nice Nintendo doing something good for once

damm the teamwork in lightning vs lightning went crazy. Didnt get shocked once

You editing has increase tramatically over the past few years, glad to see your progressing in both your RU-vid and Mario kart career

I have already done this😊

I have an idea. What if you did red team with horns only and blue team with blue shells only? It's easier than mushrooms, but there are some tracks where you can't get enough horns to defend yourself.

found that Boo is super OP and the Blue Shell hurts more than helps

Call me crazy but I feel like before this update you were able to look back while in a Bullet Bill Seems like an odd change if it was possible

I would love to see him do battle mode one day

It’s me Michael Tucker 11😊❤.

Usually I do Mushrooms, Triple Mushrooms, Super Mushrooms, Super Stars and Lightning for my team and other team gets Coins in team races and in solo races I do Mushrooms, Triple Mushrooms, Super Mushrooms and Super Stars

18:46, This is everyone's favorite track...?

1:38 Yeah, hopping is generally pretty good in mk8dx Must be popular with bunnies

I’ve found one of the most ridiculous ways to play MKWii. My GCN controller kicked the can, so I decided to try playing with WiiMote and Nunchuck; however, I used the COD Rifle attachment for the nunchuck which made it a lot harder.

9:52 c’mon Troy thought you were family friendly

FUN FACT: the crazy 8 only works with the items that you choose. Which is why when you choose only one item and that item can’t be found in an 8 so it puts in a mushroom so it would work. But for items like the blooper which does work with the 8. It would stay that way.

@TWD98: Yesturday I test this in Customize item if I turn nothing off, in the mushroom cup last race, finial lap just before the finish line go hit by a blue-shell, and when the immunatie was gone got hit by another blue shell, so it feel like super frantic mode, and this happen more often by simply removing the coins. Also it is possible in custom to have bullet bill, golden mushroom and star in first place with nothing turn off but very rare, and I'm not talking about you get a bullet bill from 2nd and used it in first, I meant your still in first and the roullette would stop on bullet bill, by removing the coins this will increase the chance that first place get that. the other test that I did, I put single mushroom, tripple mushroom gloden mushroom bullet bill, and star. first place always get does golden mushroom bullet bil and stars, but second to 4th place get single mushroom, so by removing single mushroom, now 2nd and 4th place only get golden mushroom, if you add fire flower that 2nd to 4th place only gets fire flower. I also test the crazy 8 single mushroom with crazy 8 if you get crazy 8 you get 8 single mushroom, Tripple mushoom only with Crazy 8 you have 8 big mushroom does represent 8 tripple mushroom, so using one will behave like you used all 3 in one shot, because the game does not want to used. So if you have single mushroom and tripple mushroom the crazy 8 will default into the 8 tripple mushroom as 8 big mushroom, so that mean if you go into normal item mode and get a crazy 8 people thought the mushroom that shows up was a single mushroom, it is actually a tripple mushroom. Also I do not know if that change is for the custom item only, before when you are first place with a boo item it never steal from the other player because no one is in front of you so it only steal mushroom from cargo, now if your first you can steal item from the players in the back. Lightning will no longer make you give up your glider, only shrink and lose item, other change in non mandatory glider, before if a bullet bill on the glider ramp you will not glide when the bullet bill stop even if you where still in the glide area, now you will still glide when the bullet bill stop, if you are still in the glide area.

18:50 you mean everyone's least favorite track

12:38 who's gonna tell him... *mushrooms don't drop from explosions in this game*

11:32 it’s actually impossible for computer units to get the crazy 8.

Bam! Shock Dodge!

I'd say You can't get crazy 8 because it is 8 roulettes inside of a roulette & you can't have nothing on the roulette, but then again you get coins & mushroom in crazy 8 while those 2 are of so i makes less sense

i just figured out team specific items could be added in custom

Hey there, did you know that by hplding down the use button you can hold the bomb behind you? If anyone touches it it blows up but doesn’t hurt you, but it will flip them

If you turn crazy 8 on with 1 item from the crazy, you will only get that item in the crazy 8 so you could have 8 stars in the crazy 8

Hey Troy! Watching your videos has led me to find a very strong interest in Mario Kart Wii and 8 Deluxe throughout pretty much the entirety of 2022. This year for Christmas, I asked my dad if he would get me a Nintendo Switch Lite (The Pokemon Sword and Shield one) and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. I wanted a switch lite mainly for the convenience of being able to lay on the couch and play it kind of like how I would with a phone, except with buttons instead of fully touch controls and to enjoy some of the newer-released games. The Nintendo Switch Lite will be here right around Christmas (maybe a few days after) and I'm so happy that I'll be able to enjoy some Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. Oh, and he was nice enough to even get me Animal Crossing: New Horizons as well :) Thanks for helping me find a new interest to help pass time by watching your videos ❤️

“But we do have to worry about getting piped” 🗿🗿🗿🗿

This is crazy!

I was playing with some custom item settings with my sister and apparently she got a star crazy 8 with 8 stars which I find funny.

Ngl, the result of the third race was quite... shocking Ok, I'll leave

16:22 Well that went about as poorly as it could’ve.

Not sure if anyone had said this, but computers can't use crazy 8s which is why it can't be the only item

5:52 why'd subtitles capitalise those words

9:52 ayo 🤨

I didn’t know they added this but found it on accident 2 days ago and thought it was always there lol.

I bet the game doesn't allow just crazy 8 because it would overload the game

5:08 Race 3 but it's Race 2 18:29 I love it when you try to spell Mario like a Italian.

Triple mushrooms vs blue shells? I can barely do one mushroom vs blue shells and win.

i like the idea of two teams competing with their chosen item. But maybe it's better to split all items between both teams. For example, the captain of each team gets to pick 1 item, then the other captain picks one, then the first captain picks another and so on. if there is an odd number of items, the last one won't be used at all.

Well, about Crazy 8, even in MK7 it adapted to your item set iirc

5:47 This reminds me of the lightning storm scene from Geostorm (if anyone's ever seen that movie)

if i remember correctly the crazy 8 only looked like that because you had only bloopers, i remember seeing a game where someone had craazy 8 and redshells and when they got the 8 it was 8 redshells

custom items is the best thing to happen to this game

underrated one-liners in here. "we can still get piped" "7 bloopers to the face"

He’s giving his team immunity items so when the other team gets a offense item the other team does nothing

Anybody up for some steamed BAMs?

You should try only boos for one team and the other team can get any item. The only way to get items is to steal them from the enemy. Or you could do it the other way around where at any moment the enemy team can steal your items.

Not being able to look back when your in a bullet might be because logically how can you? Your inside a bullet with the rocket fuel engine behind you, you can see passed that.

CPUs can't get the Crazy 8

Ugly how all the booster courses have little to no antigravity sections

You should try boo vs lightning because you can dodge and possibly steal a lightning for your team.

Blue shells & the horn only is the best combo . Great fun. The only game type I enjoy is triple green shells only

2:03 was that a joke for piranha plant

Someone needs to edit the first part so that everytime he gets a shock dodge, the "bam shock dodge" audio plays

I agree. That is the best and only real way to play Mk8D

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"WOW I'M ON FIRE, TOTAL SKILL"

Question, why did Nintendo put friendly fire on for Team VS? It's kinda annoying, tbh.

Are they gonna add 2 more items?

9:52 ayo troy...

Have a nice retirement Troy.