@ShroomlessShortcat not sure if you know this already but on wii rainbow road, there is a bullet extension on the turn after the 2 giant circles where it leads up to the glider
DK mountain barrels sometimes contain bananas, so "trapping" the shortcut may have been your own doing by shrooming through the barrel on the prior lap
When I was trying to bag on Mario Circuit 3 earlier today, it actually worked really well for me. The only things you have to do differently is: 1. Never fully stop/slow on boxes. Prepare to slow down ahead of time 2. Grind coins in whatever position you may be in, you’ll fall behind pretty quickly and increases your odds of pulling a stronger item
Shortcat, I have a question, now that bagging is not as good as it was before, would you change your main combo as the higher speed stat is not as important
That's true, bagging being worse = speed stat is also worse. But I don't know how much worse bagging is yet, so I'll make that decision after I try some more bagging!
@@Shortcat321 as far as I know, you can sorta bag, but not as the way it normally is. You are gonna have to not get the item box at all until enough people past you just so you can get the items you would normally get for where you at. Like the first time you get the box, it's normal, the 2nd time you get a box from the line at all, you can get a single banana with a very high chance of getting it and lowered chances of the usual items for your placement.
Yes another ShortCat video! Just found you like a week ago but I've been watching a lot of your videos lately! Thanks for always being so upbeat and happy all the time. Makes my day a little bit better!
Shortcat upload WOO!!! I found you in my recommended around a two weeks ago and since then you've helped me find so much more fun to have in this game :)) I'd previously never played online before, scared that I'd get trounced by everyone and shunned to a very low VR. However, your passion and energy that shines in each video helped me overcome that fear, and now I'm having loads of fun practicing shortcuts demonstrated in your shorts (which are formatted *brilliantly* btw) and also those I've observed in your normal uploads! On top of that I've been practicing the techniques in your beginner tricks video (and trying to practice more advanced ones from Bayesic too!). As of writing this comment, I've got a VR of ~3050, and its steadily creeping up and up (having started from the default 1000VR two weeks ago) Thank you for reading my comment until the end! I wish you good luck in all your future races (whoever you are reading this 🍀) P•S, here's my combo that I built and use based on the optimal build video: Iggy, Landship, Leaf Tires, Bowser Kite Have a great rest of your day!!
I would love to see a new dedicated bagging video! I also think it could be cool to revisit the highest speed combo and see how well that does now with nerfed bagging
6:40 I'm very glad the Mach 8 is good on Wii RR, its probably my favorite track in the entire BCP and I've been using Mach 8 Slim wheels ever since day 1 of MK8 on the wii u, I was destined to main this combo!
hi shortcat, just wanted to say that your video production recently has been a delight to watch. love the editing and commentary you've been doing more recently as well. keep up the great content shortcat!
11:43 I was playing daisy circuit and some other mk8 DLC tracks that are on the Wii like 30 mins before watching this vid :D It was also my first time playing the Wii in about two years, because i have a switch now, and I was placing pretty well, I even won some races! I also don't have online or booster course, so I can't normally play those tracks :(
hey shortcat you may not see this but thanks for making these type of videos you got me loving mario kart 8 and i never wouldve loved the game so much if it wasnt for you so thank you
Hey, if you need to dodge a blue shell when a blooper is obstructing you, the blue shell spins three times, and once it stops, wait a bit and use the shroom.
shortcat, you can double hoop jump through the middle on wii rainbow road. It's a shortcut and it's faster. You can do it shroomless if you get a trick off of the dash pad at the end of the wavy section and hold up on the stick.
The bagging nerf is for cheeseland (and tracks like it) because as you know the bullet bill extension is great and players choose to sit at the first set for a bullet
I started bagging cause I kept on seeing the waluigi wiggler stay in the back and I kept on getting mad so I decided to follow them. That's when I learned that bagging helps
Hey Shortcat! There is a accually a small shortcut on Madrid Drive in the crowd next to the wiggler. There is a small gap between the crowd that you can drive through! I havent seen anyone talk about it so i thought i would tell you! Keep up the great vids!
@@Shortcat321do you have a video on how to do the trick ramps? RR, Waluigi Stadium, DK Summit.., I suck at those and that would make for a great short (if it doesn’t already exist). Thanks mate! Keep up the amazing work!
As far as i can tell, the bagging nerf isn't too bad. You cannot cycle for items at a single item set anymore, you have to move on to the next set. "let me bag real quick because i just git hit" got a lot harder because you have to make do with the items you roll first. (This might also means that a bagging track depends on item set placements.) If you want to bag, you have to commit. So You can still very much hard bag in cheese land.
Hey Shortcat, while playing with my friends, I figured that with a yellow mini-turbo, you can do the final shortcut shroomless on Rosalina Iceway. It's kinda though tho and I'm not sure it's actually faster if you go shroomless haha
From my experience to make non meta builds viable, you have to go out of your way to grab coins. It makes the fast characters outstrip everyone else without items and allows slow characters to keep up with the pack
Hi shortcat love the content will you do a stat breakdown on the wave six update on all the new adjustments made to the kart parts like last time? Really liked that video with all the info explained it was really helpful thank you for that
On daisy’s track, I‘m pretty sure you can throw the bomb against the wooden piranha plant in the shortcut to break it. It‘ll break it from the impact and not explode so you can drive through without needing to bonk. I‘ve done that on another track.
for daisy circuit i think they put the pirana plant there solely bc on wii it was just objectively faster to go through the offroad rather than even just going around
real quick, I just want to say that I really appreciate you taking the time to read our comments. No one ever talks about that but I really appreciate it
Wow, Birdo at the Wii Rainbow Road in first dodged a blue right before starting to hold a coin in hand in first from just after 23:00 all the way to 23:45 then popped the coin and a mushroom back to back to dodge the blue again, twice within a min. What a flex!
About the Rosalina's Ice World shortcut: When you have to turn smart steering back off after doing it, if slowing down because you're releasing A when going into the pause menu is a concern, maybe try auto acceleration to mitigate it? Just a suggestion
You use a visual cue to help you dodge the blue? Cool! That makes me curious what other people use to help them dodge. I actually rely at least as much on the audio in MK8D. Also, I'm excited for you bagging video! Should be fun and fascinating!
Yo, i recently did a bagging only challenge of my own for the memes (and content obviously) and i’d love to rechallenge myself after the wave 6 changes as well! would love to see how you do compared to me ;) I definitely agree with your point on the way bagging makes the game look a lot less enjoyable for your average player, the public perception isn’t always great on the topic of bagging. While i never really had an issue per say with bagging i didn’t really feel disappointed after the new changes because i knew it was meant to happen 😂
For the shortcut on rainbow road wii at the half pipe, I personally just go to the side like you but stay on the blue section and trick off approximately perpendicular to the road. It gives you a mushroom boost and is very consistent but probably slightly slower than yours when you do it poperly. Also for bagging, if you wait very very long at the start of a track the first item set might give you useless items.
One thing about the bagging nerf is that last place is intrinsically supposed to get great items to let worse players catch up. They can't nerf it too hard or it stops being fun for some because they just get outskilled and can't get a good placement. So i think the nerf was about as good as possible without truly completely reworking how mk8 deluxe is balanced.
imo bagging is only slightly weaker. the old strat of sitting on top of an item set for 10 straight seconds isn't going to be as lucrative since you're only going to roll 2 items max, as opposed to the typical 3 or 4, meaning fewer chances to pull shock or bill specifically. frontrunning yoshi circuit might be a little stronger as a result, but i haven't gotten to play on it online yet
I'm so used to trying to judge whether a track is gonna be a bagger or runner when waves used to come out but it doesn't even matter anymore with wave 6 💀 well not as much at least. Also that is a very good combo, super heavies on scooty is usually decent. Lookin forward to the wave 6 content 🔥
@@TheGalaxyWings Yeah true, its generally the GBA tracks that were the best baggers, besides like Boo Lake and Sky Garden. But bagging is somewhat less effective than it was before obviously but still like do-able lol.
@@TheGalaxyWings Well the change affects bagging on all tracks but I dont really know the specifics of how a track is defined as a bagger or light bagger with this new update so I'm just going with what I see
Would really be nice to see you make a Video on all the 150cc staff ghosts and you beating them. There are not much Videos with good commentary on them on this topic.
Enjoying your new channel dude, I didn't realise you had started doing gaming content as well. My first channel is Down Under Cuber and i too slowed down with Cubing content in favour of gaming content, I do GTA cotent.
Shortcat thanks to your videos and tips I’m almost at 10k vr :D I still struggle and make mistakes but you’ve taught me a bunch of things like superbounces and shroomless tricks
Hi shortcat ! Im a big fan and i want to know what contoller do you use ? (Im searching one) i love you so much, you made me buy mariokart, the DLC and online play ❤😂 (rip my money)
Hey shortcat. Do you know if there are any new bullet extensions? Ive learned a bunch of them and now that multiplayer only choses 6th wave tracks I dont know when to use my bullet bill while bagging. Also, you're ALMOST on 200k, good job!
To the new ice skate map where you used a mushroom i fpund a way without a mushroom that actually might be viable. 1: makes sure you're in the middle even before you enter the ice part 2: drift right up to the snow (not on the snow with an orange mini turbo) 3: in the air let go of r and get the miniturbo boost. I got pretty optimal lines without going on the snow at the top
3:19 I've been able to just use an SMT to take that shortcut, no smart steering. I don't know if it's necessarily faster but it feels like it since you spend less time in the air
Just wanted to say, after you poped into my youtube recs, I actually went and redownloaded mario kart 8. One thing I was wondering though, have you thought abut doing a random combo video? i.e. rolling a die after each race for chasis/wheels/glider and adjusting each by the number rolled?
24:46 I love how Shortcat says ‘let’s do shortcuts here!’ and this in-game Mii says ‘yayyy!’
Hi Shortcat, will there be a more advanced guide anytime soon?
Yes! I wanted to wait until after wave 6 because I knew there could be balance/mechanic changes!
@@Shortcat321ok thanks👍. Love the content btw it is very informative!
@ShroomlessShortcat not sure if you know this already but on wii rainbow road, there is a bullet extension on the turn after the 2 giant circles where it leads up to the glider
@@1acym460 that's cool thanks for the info!
PLEASE
17:50 look how happy shortcat is to touch grass in such a long time, so lovely
I dont know why but i find it hilarious that you just abruptly end your videos. There's no outro of any kind and i love it
I'm glad. Most channels have way too long of an outro. Ditto intro. Just get to the point and then get it over with!
DK mountain barrels sometimes contain bananas, so "trapping" the shortcut may have been your own doing by shrooming through the barrel on the prior lap
oh that's crazy i've never seen a banana pop out, maybe because i'm too FAST
@@Shortcat321 You're so cringe that it loops back on itself and is funny, lol, I hope this doesn't sound mean.
@@LighterGreenGamingit's definitely intentional lol
When I was trying to bag on Mario Circuit 3 earlier today, it actually worked really well for me. The only things you have to do differently is:
1. Never fully stop/slow on boxes. Prepare to slow down ahead of time
2. Grind coins in whatever position you may be in, you’ll fall behind pretty quickly and increases your odds of pulling a stronger item
Shortcat, I have a question, now that bagging is not as good as it was before, would you change your main combo as the higher speed stat is not as important
That's true, bagging being worse = speed stat is also worse. But I don't know how much worse bagging is yet, so I'll make that decision after I try some more bagging!
Bagging is still here to stay because it still works. I tested on Riverside Park
@@Shortcat321 as far as I know, you can sorta bag, but not as the way it normally is. You are gonna have to not get the item box at all until enough people past you just so you can get the items you would normally get for where you at. Like the first time you get the box, it's normal, the 2nd time you get a box from the line at all, you can get a single banana with a very high chance of getting it and lowered chances of the usual items for your placement.
@@knowledgeciaran I subscribed to your youtube channel
@@Shortcat321 I subscribed to your youtube channel
0:40 A moment of silence for the gap jump that was NOT added to Snes Bowser Castle 3😔
That might be for the best, it seems like it would be overpowered and not even that hard to do if it was allowed.
Yes another ShortCat video! Just found you like a week ago but I've been watching a lot of your videos lately!
Thanks for always being so upbeat and happy all the time. Makes my day a little bit better!
Shortcat upload WOO!!!
I found you in my recommended around a two weeks ago and since then you've helped me find so much more fun to have in this game :))
I'd previously never played online before, scared that I'd get trounced by everyone and shunned to a very low VR. However, your passion and energy that shines in each video helped me overcome that fear, and now I'm having loads of fun practicing shortcuts demonstrated in your shorts (which are formatted *brilliantly* btw) and also those I've observed in your normal uploads!
On top of that I've been practicing the techniques in your beginner tricks video (and trying to practice more advanced ones from Bayesic too!). As of writing this comment, I've got a VR of ~3050, and its steadily creeping up and up (having started from the default 1000VR two weeks ago)
Thank you for reading my comment until the end! I wish you good luck in all your future races (whoever you are reading this 🍀)
P•S, here's my combo that I built and use based on the optimal build video:
Iggy, Landship, Leaf Tires, Bowser Kite
Have a great rest of your day!!
I would love to see a new dedicated bagging video! I also think it could be cool to revisit the highest speed combo and see how well that does now with nerfed bagging
Free content ^
I cant believe i binged every single one of your videos in like 3 days. Please keep them coming, I need my fix
6:40 I'm very glad the Mach 8 is good on Wii RR, its probably my favorite track in the entire BCP and I've been using Mach 8 Slim wheels ever since day 1 of MK8 on the wii u, I was destined to main this combo!
what
oh i get it now
love your editing and how upbeat you are in your videos! i look forward to them every time i see the notification, cheers :)
hi shortcat, just wanted to say that your video production recently has been a delight to watch. love the editing and commentary you've been doing more recently as well. keep up the great content shortcat!
I've never really watched MK stuff but damn SHortcat's content really made me binge watch the channel what a crazy content
Really digging how you explain your thought process while you play. Learning from that too!
Not gonna lie love when funky kong does that little surf of a wave while tricking off platforms.
I love it when Shortcat uploads.
your videos are always the highlight of my day, thank you :)
11:43
I was playing daisy circuit and some other mk8 DLC tracks that are on the Wii like 30 mins before watching this vid :D
It was also my first time playing the Wii in about two years, because i have a switch now, and I was placing pretty well, I even won some races!
I also don't have online or booster course, so I can't normally play those tracks :(
hey shortcat you may not see this but thanks for making these type of videos you got me loving mario kart 8 and i never wouldve loved the game so much if it wasnt for you so thank you
13:28 boomerang brushed the hairline.
6:46 YES THE BEST TRACK! also good video Shortcat
Love the Mario Kart community banding together in this. Yes, Yoshi Teddy Buggy is still the meta. But Funky Kong... is Funky Kong.
“There’s green shells, but I’m just gunna close my eyes and pretend they’re not there”
Real.
Hey, if you need to dodge a blue shell when a blooper is obstructing you, the blue shell spins three times, and once it stops, wait a bit and use the shroom.
new shortcat !!!!!! best mario kart youtuber around and one of the best youtubers period ! hope you're having a great day everyone !
shortcat, you can double hoop jump through the middle on wii rainbow road. It's a shortcut and it's faster. You can do it shroomless if you get a trick off of the dash pad at the end of the wavy section and hold up on the stick.
The bagging nerf is for cheeseland (and tracks like it) because as you know the bullet bill extension is great and players choose to sit at the first set for a bullet
I would love to see a full video of nothing but bagging in wave 6. I personally don't think the strat is dead, I just think it has to change.
I started bagging cause I kept on seeing the waluigi wiggler stay in the back and I kept on getting mad so I decided to follow them. That's when I learned that bagging helps
Hey Shortcat! There is a accually a small shortcut on Madrid Drive in the crowd next to the wiggler. There is a small gap between the crowd that you can drive through! I havent seen anyone talk about it so i thought i would tell you! Keep up the great vids!
I did this one in the video!
@@Shortcat321do you have a video on how to do the trick ramps? RR, Waluigi Stadium, DK Summit.., I suck at those and that would make for a great short (if it doesn’t already exist). Thanks mate! Keep up the amazing work!
As far as i can tell, the bagging nerf isn't too bad. You cannot cycle for items at a single item set anymore, you have to move on to the next set.
"let me bag real quick because i just git hit" got a lot harder because you have to make do with the items you roll first. (This might also means that a bagging track depends on item set placements.) If you want to bag, you have to commit.
So You can still very much hard bag in cheese land.
Hey Shortcat, while playing with my friends, I figured that with a yellow mini-turbo, you can do the final shortcut shroomless on Rosalina Iceway. It's kinda though tho and I'm not sure it's actually faster if you go shroomless haha
The u-turn shortcut on Madrid drive is possible with a high mini turbo combo
I'm so looking forward to post DLC wave 6 content!! Too bad no piranha cove for now
22:02 banana jumpscare
From my experience to make non meta builds viable, you have to go out of your way to grab coins. It makes the fast characters outstrip everyone else without items and allows slow characters to keep up with the pack
It also allows you to be literally faster than gliding while on the ground, which most people dont know
Hi shortcat love the content will you do a stat breakdown on the wave six update on all the new adjustments made to the kart parts like last time? Really liked that video with all the info explained it was really helpful thank you for that
According to patch notes the only changes to parts/characters was in their invulnerability time, so really nothings changed.
Shortcat posted, today is a good day
On daisy’s track, I‘m pretty sure you can throw the bomb against the wooden piranha plant in the shortcut to break it. It‘ll break it from the impact and not explode so you can drive through without needing to bonk. I‘ve done that on another track.
Da king is back baby he neva miss
for daisy circuit i think they put the pirana plant there solely bc on wii it was just objectively faster to go through the offroad rather than even just going around
1:59 ... And got so far
In the end it doesnt even matter
real quick, I just want to say that I really appreciate you taking the time to read our comments. No one ever talks about that but I really appreciate it
Wow, Birdo at the Wii Rainbow Road in first dodged a blue right before starting to hold a coin in hand in first from just after 23:00 all the way to 23:45 then popped the coin and a mushroom back to back to dodge the blue again, twice within a min. What a flex!
About the Rosalina's Ice World shortcut:
When you have to turn smart steering back off after doing it, if slowing down because you're releasing A when going into the pause menu is a concern, maybe try auto acceleration to mitigate it?
Just a suggestion
You use a visual cue to help you dodge the blue? Cool! That makes me curious what other people use to help them dodge. I actually rely at least as much on the audio in MK8D.
Also, I'm excited for you bagging video! Should be fun and fascinating!
Yo, i recently did a bagging only challenge of my own for the memes (and content obviously) and i’d love to rechallenge myself after the wave 6 changes as well! would love to see how you do compared to me ;)
I definitely agree with your point on the way bagging makes the game look a lot less enjoyable for your average player, the public perception isn’t always great on the topic of bagging.
While i never really had an issue per say with bagging i didn’t really feel disappointed after the new changes because i knew it was meant to happen 😂
Can we just appreciate how many Shortcats he took?
Cool to see the sweaty players in the 20k vr rooms playing with different combos and trying out the new tracks
The boom sound effects when you get hit are hilarious 😂
For the shortcut on rainbow road wii at the half pipe, I personally just go to the side like you but stay on the blue section and trick off approximately perpendicular to the road. It gives you a mushroom boost and is very consistent but probably slightly slower than yours when you do it poperly.
Also for bagging, if you wait very very long at the start of a track the first item set might give you useless items.
One thing about the bagging nerf is that last place is intrinsically supposed to get great items to let worse players catch up. They can't nerf it too hard or it stops being fun for some because they just get outskilled and can't get a good placement. So i think the nerf was about as good as possible without truly completely reworking how mk8 deluxe is balanced.
13:37 they threw the bomb just bc 💀💀
Congrats on 200.000 Subs!
Jperm I am looking forward for you to come back to cubing, but no rush, burn out is a major thing in UA-cam.
The shortcut on Rosalinas Iceworld is passible shroomless. You need to take of at a higher point of the "ramp".
1:08 Shortcat describes every single Super Mariokart track:
The Shortcat Mii with the new mii suits is SO CUTE
When you picked the mii on Rome avanti ypu looked like an oompa loompa
14:23 who remembers in what other video Shortcat got a star and banana?
Mario kart girls, final race! ua-cam.com/video/-wYTzFMgatc/v-deo.html
Hey i really Like your Videos they helped me so much in playing all Tracks and also Fun fact: every new mii suit Has an unique Trick Animation
imo bagging is only slightly weaker. the old strat of sitting on top of an item set for 10 straight seconds isn't going to be as lucrative since you're only going to roll 2 items max, as opposed to the typical 3 or 4, meaning fewer chances to pull shock or bill specifically. frontrunning yoshi circuit might be a little stronger as a result, but i haven't gotten to play on it online yet
As someone who only really played mariokart with, its funny hearing about these tracks beings new
Thanks to your Videos, I was able to play better Online and beat all my friends 😁. Thanks Shortcat
I'm so used to trying to judge whether a track is gonna be a bagger or runner when waves used to come out but it doesn't even matter anymore with wave 6 💀 well not as much at least. Also that is a very good combo, super heavies on scooty is usually decent. Lookin forward to the wave 6 content 🔥
Nah it still matters a lot. Wave 6 tracks are all good runners though
@@TheGalaxyWings Yeah true, its generally the GBA tracks that were the best baggers, besides like Boo Lake and Sky Garden. But bagging is somewhat less effective than it was before obviously but still like do-able lol.
@@SyriakYT the nerf doesn't change which tracks are bagging tracks though, it just changes how bagging works on non-bagging tracks
@@TheGalaxyWings Well the change affects bagging on all tracks but I dont really know the specifics of how a track is defined as a bagger or light bagger with this new update so I'm just going with what I see
You can get on the daisy circuit baby fountain (200cc using glider Shortcat
can't wait for another video showing off all the mii costumes (btw you need an amiibo for the daisy costume)
Would really be nice to see you make a Video on all the 150cc staff ghosts and you beating them. There are not much Videos with good commentary on them on this topic.
Hey shortcat , i bagged earlier today on cheeseland and it was fine just dont wait to long
Enjoying your new channel dude, I didn't realise you had started doing gaming content as well. My first channel is Down Under Cuber and i too slowed down with Cubing content in favour of gaming content, I do GTA cotent.
Shortcat, i have a video idea; showing how to do every shortcut on every track. That would be so cool!
Shortcat thanks to your videos and tips I’m almost at 10k vr :D
I still struggle and make mistakes but you’ve taught me a bunch of things like superbounces and shroomless tricks
I was waiting for this!!!!!! YEAH BOIIIIIII
Finally! Somebody else had my luck with coins in 2nd.
You and TWD are the only mariokart youtubers i ever watch, dont tell TWD, but i like you more
A short cat video lets goo and seeing your video is making me want to get a Nintendo switch
Wake up! Shortact posted!
Hi shortcat ! Im a big fan and i want to know what contoller do you use ? (Im searching one) i love you so much, you made me buy mariokart, the DLC and online play ❤😂 (rip my money)
Hey shortcat. Do you know if there are any new bullet extensions? Ive learned a bunch of them and now that multiplayer only choses 6th wave tracks I dont know when to use my bullet bill while bagging. Also, you're ALMOST on 200k, good job!
"It's just a rectangle with extra steps"
Flashbacks to the puppet cube
That Koopa Clown Car helmet is so trippy omg...
3:07 hydreix made a video about that. im interested to see if you get the same results
The cat with the question block helmet! 😂😂😂
I know a way to still bag and get good items: stay in the back but dont go in reverse or stand still in a item box so you trick the game
Also i found a bill extension on 3ds rosalinas ice world, right when you enter the cave part its maybe not a extension but it is a good bill spot
Ur vids never get old❤
Hi Shortcat, will you do a video of the new best combos IF they are different
I'm french and i love your vidéos you chill is really cool to watch this and you have a good level
Wp continue pls and more vidéos :)
To the new ice skate map where you used a mushroom i fpund a way without a mushroom that actually might be viable.
1: makes sure you're in the middle even before you enter the ice part
2: drift right up to the snow (not on the snow with an orange mini turbo)
3: in the air let go of r and get the miniturbo boost.
I got pretty optimal lines without going on the snow at the top
No one gonna talk about how cute Shortcat mii is with the new mii suits?
Another banger from shortcar
Looking forward to that bagging video
3:19 I've been able to just use an SMT to take that shortcut, no smart steering. I don't know if it's necessarily faster but it feels like it since you spend less time in the air
Just wanted to say, after you poped into my youtube recs, I actually went and redownloaded mario kart 8.
One thing I was wondering though, have you thought abut doing a random combo video?
i.e. rolling a die after each race for chasis/wheels/glider and adjusting each by the number rolled?
28:10 I try and hold my mini turbo to intentionally hit the wall, then speed up typically it works better for control and speed
Shortcat you are my favorite mk UA-camr
2:32 did you know, you can do this shroomless?
Can you actually? That’s cool!
I found out that the blooper doesn't affect your backwards camera. Would looking backwards make it easier to dodge a blue shell while inked?