Comment on Would it be a good idea to brake check someone in Mario Kart?

cattywampas@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• ollie@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  consider a situation where maybe first and second are neck and neck, but with a fair bit of distance between them and the pack - it might be worth it in that case to make it less close, surely?

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  • cattywampas@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • ollie@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      fair enough, it was just something i came up with during my hours online but never dared to risk

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    • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 if 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 alreadys 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.

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