The importance of hopping

If you have ever watched high-level Mario kart gameplay, you will see a ton of hopping… and this is one of the key mechanics of this game…

Hopping can be used to correct your line after drifts, perform shortcuts, and so much more! (You can hop be pressing the R/ZR buttons)

Alignment

When you hop, your vehicle will turn quickly and sharply, so you can use this to realign after drifts, and counter-hopping (hopping in the opposite direction you want to go and then starting your drift so you have more time to charge your mini turbo) is used by players all the time.

Shortcuts

You can hop off-road to take flashy shortcuts. And sometimes you can even fly over gaps by hopping!

Click here to see me using hops to realign and take a shortcut!

Having fun

Hopping around with friends is so fun!

Click here to see me and some of my friends having a blast!


The “Play with Yoshi Bro!” tournament is still on for tomorrow (Saturday November 7th) 9-11am PST

Responses

  1. I tried hopping but hopped off a cliff. Do any characters hop different or are they all the same? I mean, I know Waluigi hops the best but maybe he only looks the best and doesn’t hop as well?

    1. As far as I know, all the characters hop the same

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