Annoying Mario Kart Items

[2MooglesGaming]

Mario Kart is hands down one of the most enjoyable games out there. Yet in the matter of a few seconds it can quickly turn int one of the most frustrating experiences ever, all thanks to a banana peel or a few annoying shells.

What MK items do you absolutely hate?

 

[Spiritual Mask Salesman]

I'm always slipping on those dang bannanas!

 

[Jirohnagi]

See it's not so much the items i have issue (though Lightning bolts and redshells are the offspring of @Satan) It's how the items are given out. the closer to last place you are the better the items get whereas if you are in first you are more likely to get nothing but crappy Coin items which are useless after a certain point

 

[Stitch]

Basically any item that brings you to a literal stop, they utterly ruin the racing experience.

 

[Fraxinus]

Whatever that one stormcloud item on Mariokart Wii was. That was the worst. Like, it took me forever to realize you were supposed to rub it off on someone else like static, but even after I learned this, whenever I got it, I wasn't near anyone so I couldn't get rid of it. The literal worst.

 

[Moonstone]

I really don't like getting the boomerang or the super horn or whatever it's called. The storm cloud that shrinks you if you don't hit someone else is annoying too. I preferred the blue shells in N64 because if you knew it was coming you could slow down, get 2nd and let someone else get hit by the shell. It's really lame to be hit by a red shell, drop to 2nd or 3rd, and get hit by a blue shell too.

 

[Ghost]

The thunder cloud is definitely the worst since it was very difficult to drive into somebody else in the short amount of time before you git zapped. Spiny shells are also a bit annoying, so if one is headed my way I like to wait until I'm next to the 2nd racer so that it's not just me who gets blown up

 

[InsomniacAttack]

Coins. Coins suck. When you get a coin, almost nothing happens because often you already have 10 coins. Its really lame when you get an item that basically does nothing.

 

[kodachrome]

Whatever that one stormcloud item on Mariokart Wii was. That was the worst. Like, it took me forever to realize you were supposed to rub it off on someone else like static, but even after I learned this, whenever I got it, I wasn't near anyone so I couldn't get rid of it. The literal worst.

Agreed, that was a terrible mechanic... just had to accept your doom there.

I'm not sure if I have any particular item aside from that that really irked me, though. Red shells were annoying as hell when you were flying over jumps, though. There's nothing you can do except drop to your death.

 

[Beauts]

Tbh green shells. Bastards. I haven't played a Mario kart in a while but I am haunted by N64 memories of being hit by my own shells.

 

[Squirrel]

The freaking blooper. It didn't really hinder your ability to drive when you were hit by it. It just pissed you off. And when you got one, it still just pissed you off because you knew it wasn't actually going to do anything.

 

[Cross]

Blue shells are really the only item that annoys me.

 

[Spirit]

Blue Shell
Coins
Bullet Bill

 

[2MooglesGaming]

If we were going to add anything to our list it would totally be the lighting cloud. The speed boot you get is totally not worth being shrunken at the end, and what always happens is you hit someone to pass it off and they hit you back right before the timer ends. Sooooo lame. :/

Also, hitting your own banana peels and green shells totally sucks. Happens way more often than I'd like to admit. lol

 

[misskitten]

Being hit by lightning in MK8, the worst part about it was how it made you lose your item in addition to slowing you down. I'm good with items that hit you, slow you down, because most of those can be protected against if you have the right items, but the lightning's the worst, especially if you luck out and get the 8 items right before...