People that claim that Mario Kart Wii doesn't involve skill...

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burgerstein said:

Pineapple said:

burgerstein said:
 There's no benefit to firing a blue shell when you're in tenth place.

People seem to think that you generally get the blue shells in 10th-12th place. According to what I've read, this isn't true at all. According to the Gamefaqs guides (which seem quite good, different guides have rather similar stats), you're most likely to get it in 6th place. You can't even get it in 10th place.

Woudl you say someone in 6th place has no use of it?

It depends. Early on in the race while it's still close maybe. But on the final lap things are a bit too spread out for the blue shell to achieve a noticable advantage from 5 spots back.

Then I don't see the harm of it, really. If a blue shell won't get you knocked down further than from 1st to 4th place (at most), why is there so much complaining about it?

I'd much rather play a game where someone close to me in "skill" could beat me, than having me win near every single time.