You can Mushroom dodge Blue Shells in Mario Kart 8! <(^_^<)

[Lonely_Dolphin]

famousringo said:

Ninricken said:
That's a good thing, not so unfair^^
But I want to be honest: A Mario Kart without blue shells wouldn't be the same. They shouldn't be used for rankings or so but you only have the true Mario Kart experience if there are blue shells.

Blue shells need to be unfair, because being in first place is so unfair.

First place only has to worry about attacks from second place, while somebody in say, sixth place needs to worry about attacks from several players.

First place will rarely get crushed by a giant mushroom, star, or bullet bill, and instead mostly faces easily defended green and red koopa shells.

First place doesn't have to worry about being rammed off the road, and so is always free to race the cleanest lines and get maximum boosts.

First place always gets a question block, while players farther back often find none left to take or need to drive out of their way to get one.

It seems the reason so many players find the blue shell objectionable is that it's one of very few things not stacked in the leader's favour.

QFT!

The one item mechanic also nerfs front running since you can't backspam as much and it's much riskier to do since you'll be completely defenseless until the next item box, and even then you could get the Coin item.