If it happens to be a kart with high acceleration, your only chance of winning is to snake, simply put. This may be because the designated top 3 are given boosts in top speed with the first placer being given the biggest boost. This makes characters that drive karts with already high acceleration, such as Dry Bones, nearly impossible to beat.
are picked as the "champion" racer (which happens if you choose Bowser or Koopa Troopa), you can expect perfect racing lines and cornering coupled with infinite and arbitrary use of the Super Star, allowing them to go at increased speed with no slowing down, plus invincibility. The only thing they can bump into that slows them down are the walls, and that's if you push them hard enough into a wall.įurthermore, the Grand Prix mode will select an order of skill for each of the computer-controlled players, based on your own character selection.
They also outright clip through course obstacles like Thwomps and pipes while you need a Star to smash through the same things yourself. For the items the player can launch, the AI opponent also has the ability to dodge by jumping the kart its own height above the track (basically an infinite supply of jump feathers). Then there's the Mario brothers, who can activate Stars at will, making them nigh-impossible to beat if they're in the lead. In Super Mario Kart, the AI opponents don't just have Rubber-Band A.I., but have infinite stores of super-special weapons and items that in several cases the player is never able to use - namely, the poisoned mushrooms, Yoshi eggs, and meandering fireballs.