This kamek player is Liam. Liam is the only
American player in this room, everyone else is Japanese! It's Liam and 11 Japanese players
[laughs] Liam from the max traction video. Oh! Okay, I'm bagging. Um yeah so today I'm playing as
white Yoshi. And uh, this is in honor of my first ever competitive Mario Kart 8 Deluxe teammate, zz
or super neet, my Japanese idol [laughs] and a fan favorite on this channel. The gigachad airport
worshipper [laughs] if that rings a bell. So anyway, um today I've decided that my strategy
going forward for being better at Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, my way to level up in this game, is to
become Japanese. Because clearly it's working for all the amazing Japanese players online,
if you guys have ever played Mario Kart online, you know exactly what I'm talking about. The
Japanese players are literally better. Put me in a room full of 11 other Japanese players,
and I will actually lose way more often, it's so much harder to get first. But, you might
be saying oh that's because like your internet connection and uh you get like hit by laggy items
more often, well, now that I'm Japanese I'm not going to lag! [laughs] we're going to have good
connection! Okay whoa! I'm in fifth already. Okay, this is Liam, Liam probably got lag trailed or
[laughs] something cuz he's the only American here. Okay, so I can't pass this uh female
villager because of their red shell, so I will just have to take this short cut shroomless.
All right let's go! Let's go! Yes! [laughs] they didn't throw it in time. I won my first race as
a Japanese player! Wow! We got 200cc DK Summit I almost never see 200cc now that they change
the way that online works. [Intense silence] okay, what is actually taking so long? Liam
[laughs] you're internet connec– Liam's not connecting well to the country of Japan [laughs]
it's okay! You're going to lose anyway! [laughs] because it's a 11 Japanese players [laughs] um
I have no clue how to play this track by the way on 200cc, but I have seen the world record. I
think you go to the right here, for the boost, okay so we're not getting it [laughs] um and the
double shortcut, I've never done this successfully on 200, it's really different. Oh that is so
fast! Okay okay, whoa! I'm a God [laughs] I just did the easy method for one fif– oh! I autopilot
it for 1 second, and that happened. Okay we might be fine though cuz, on 200cc, if there there's
a red shell it takes way longer to get to me, and I may even be able to hit the next item
set. Oh! There's a blue shell okay. This is just [laughs] thanks that was completely not worth
it. Also, I forgot how long blue shells take to get to you on 200. Yeah um, that was definitely
not worth it. Wait! I got Liam blue shelled and I passed him so actually that might have been worth
it [laughs] we're going for this again! Ooh that was way worse I even missed the item. Okay, at
least I made it without falling off though. Oh I forgot you! Have to do this part differently
[sighs] yeah, this is my base skill level. When you watch me on 150cc, it's me having memorized
everything to do on most of the tracks. On 200cc, it's just me making things up, and you can see
I'm not as good as you might think [laughs] okay, oh! Drifted the wrong way. Great! Took an anti
shortcut there. All right we're going to do this. Aaand smart steering! [laughs] that was so
good! Oh no, okay we're we're just gonna drift, just gonna drift. Oh! Almost got lag trailed but
I did it, because I'm also Japanese! Yeah this is great! This is the best decision I've made
in years! Liam's probably so confused right now [laughs] this is a Japanese player with the
perfect shortcat mii oh he said hello! Oh no, I still have smart steering on. Okay well, I'll
probably turn it off as I go into the water then. Oh yeah! I can feel the smart steering right now,
this is not good! Oh it's everyone passed me in the shortcut anyway, okay that's fine. Um yeah,
so I'm just going to be playing this one from the back, uh there's a lot of shortcuts here though
so it should be fine. Just going to get me some coins, maybe get three here? Come on! You didn't
lag through the coins? It's cuz I'm Japanese, it's cuz [laughs] we have a good internet
connection, the double edged sword! Of good internet connection. Oh there's chaos everywhere
here okay. Oh! My motion glider though, let's go! I just passed the triple bananas. And I trailed
them for it! This is why– like I would have easily gotten hit, I got hit anyway [Music] draft draft,
White Yoshi White Yoshi ally, don't use your star, don't use your star. Okay nice! Wow, it's like
we're teaming here. I've never had people play nice with me, until I became Japanese. No one
cared who I was until I put on the mask! Oooh I just lost all my coins there, I got the crazy
like– I don't even know why that happens I got the crazy like uh change your angle when you land
in a drift. This is bad! This race is over for me! I have two coins [laughs] [Music] all right let's
see what we can do here. If I get the shock or a bullet, nope that's not good enough. Wow! No one
opened the shortcut that's actually good for me, cuz I have mushrooms [Music] all right there goes
the winning streak. Okay I wasn't recording, but that was so funny, Liam just left [laughs] I feel
like I feel like if Liam knew it was me for sure, he might have stayed a little bit longer. Uh but
yeah like I totally get it, I don't know what was the cause of your misfortune Liam. I saw you got
hit a few times on the on the mini map. If it's lag, if if I find him in a very laggy room cuz
everyone's Japanese, I will often just leave too. Cuz like, it's not fun it's fine to lose, but
it's not fun to lose when it's it feels out of your control, you know? And, I feel like, it's not
just uh internet connection speed like this game definitely I've made an entire short about this,
this game definitely could be designed way better, o uh in terms of the way that items interact with
each other when the connection is bad. So yeah, um I totally get it. But Liam, I know you
comment, I know you're watching this, if you, let me know if you knew that was me [laughs] like,
did you think it was me? Did you actually think it was me? Or did you think it was some Japanese
copycat [laughs] who watches Shortcat. Also, to anyone watching, if you are Japanese like if
you live in Japan, let me know. I I want to know if any Japanese people watch my videos. And uh,
don't tell me if this video is offensive, all I did was compliment Japanese people, you can't tell
me this was offensive okay. Japanese players are great at this game, don't get too sensitive
about it. Especially if you're not Japanese, let them speak for themselves. All right, this was
a great time to just talk about whatever because, moon view highway is kind of stupid, if you're in
first place, like there's a red shell, there could be more red shells I'll be fine. Oh! Okay well, I
was going to get more items that's totally fine. And even if I didn't have items, I can get hit on
a boost panel. Okay wait, there's a blue shell, that shy guy is a little close. Oh right between
boost panels, that's unlucky. If I was on a boost panel, I would still win this. What? Huwattt??
[laughs] but there's no way! Okay, I like to give people the benefit of the doubt, but there's no
way. You just ran into that car! [laughs] you have no excuse, fake 57,000 [laughs] okay I don't know
who picks Yoshi's Island twice in three races, it was me! I lied! [laughs] I need redemption.
This is the only track so far since I became Japanese, that I have not gotten first place on,
so I need redemption! Okay, that was bad. Even though you get a speed boost playing as Yoshi
on Yoshi's Island, and I still just lost again, by so much. Oh triple bananas? That's good! That's
so good! I can have protection here. Snipe! Oh, that went for nobody. I'm like a Ness player
in Super Smash Bros, just hitting ghosts. Okay, so this is awesome I'm in first place thanks to
that draft, and first place is awesome here cuz you get so many coins out of it. And uh, second
place is good too, cuz you can just take the the the right side and get coins as well. Oh
coin bomb? Okay we're going to sneak attack! Yeahhh okay that's sooo satisfying. So, oh missed
the trick what? Okay, so if you have coin and then bomb, you want to save that all until you use
the bomb, that way people can't see the bomb in your hand and all they see is a coin, and
this is awesome! Also don't use your coin here, because uh the coin protects you from the
Boo, and then the super horn won't get stolen. Okay really? Great. No blue shell protection
[laughs] ugh wow! I have a huge lead right now, I think that's mainly because of all the coins I
got at the start, and also the bomb sneak attack, yeah! This was like the perfect start to a race.
Okay I'm not going to have protection for a little while again. Okay no red coming at me right
now this might be fine [Music] no shot! That I made I didn't even trick. I don't even know how I
didn't get the trick, and then I made the shortcut anyway, whatever [laughs] my lead just got bigger
that's fine. Oh! Okay, didn't lose my drift, that's fine [laughs] playing a little sloppy right
now. All right blocked it, oh didn't get two items but I got uh protection that's good. Oh that is
so lucky, yes! Okay so people have been commenting about this so much, and I'm finally working on it,
when I have a bomb I always throw it backwards, but this time I didn't. So you need to be going
at full speed, or if you're on a turn, you need to have a mini turbo, to block the red shell. Yep!
There we go! First place again! I just can't seem to lose! Unless it's Yoshi's Island. I can't
believe we just got 200cc again! I will now go for, like a week, without seeing 200cc ever since
they made that change, where they reduced it. But, like yeah, two 200 cc races in like, 10 minutes?
That's crazy! [laughs] that never happens anymore, but now I feel like people in general are
worse at 200 online cuz it rarely shows up. Wow! [laughs] imagine getting one trick on
the eel, that's embarrassing. Okay, I think you can just motion gladder here. Yeah! Oh everyone's
doing it you don't even need motion controls. Wow! 200 cc dolphin trolls is so different [laughs]
on 150, I just get a mushroom in the first set, and hold it all the way until I get to the
end to do motion glider. Just for practice, cuz I've been practicing it a lot lately,
but I rarely get dolphin trolls online, cuz people don't like to pick it. But I like to
pick it now, sorry all you dolphin trolls haters out [laughs] there serves you right for hating
any of the tracks. All the tracks are awesome in this game. Yeah! That's so fun. I'm going to keep
going to the right I need more coins, okay got him! Uh red shell didn't come for me, you have so
much time to react though it doesn't even matter okay. I almost wanted to super horn that blue
shell, just cuz I knew I was going to get hit. Mushroooom oh that saves so much time! Okay,
well we got second place. I'm not going to lie, this is probably the best session
of my life. All right Music Park, or as the non North Americans would say,
Melody Motorway. Honestly that's a better name, and that's also what we call it in Japan [laughs]
Melody Motorway that's what we call it in Japan, cuz we're not in North America! Okay ooh okay so
I consider using this mushroom, but first place didn't have an item. Honestly I think I should
have just used it, and gotten a bigger lead. Come on! Okay yeah see now, it's a break I could
get trailed there. All right, I'm in first though, with the mushroom, okay I was– that was
a fake first. I should have chained this, this was horrible decision-making. And now I'm
getting punished for it, punished hard wow! I'm almost considering going backwards [laughs] for
those coins [Music] all right good items! If I can dodge a shock here ooh okay I didn't get the drift
properly somehow. Um if I can dodge a shock soon, then I could come back, or if I get a bullet
here but probably not [laughs] Hank Hill in front of me got a piranha plant. I'm actually very
lucky right now, I haven't been in bottom four, ninth or worse, but I'm still getting these good
items. Actually, I I don't even know we in a 12 player room, maybe I was guaranteed these items.
But yeah like right now, I don't have a really good path to coming back even with these speed
items. That's what happens sometimes when you make a mistake at the start, and you you can just
never come back but, the right thing to do is just not make that mistake [laughs] at the start. Oh
what?! Oh those were some bad bumps! Oh okay I would have gotten fourth anyway [laughs] that's
fine. I am so glad that people still sometimes pick the wave 6 tracks [laughs] I feel like
after the uh DLC wave 6 hype died down, a lot of people just stopped picking the wave 6 tracks
but, I think they deserve to get picked. Okay, this is not my official opinion, but it's how I'm
feeling right now. Um I think honestly wave 6, might have been the best DLC wave. When it first
came out I said it was probably second best to wave 4, because wave four had some of my all-time
favorite tracks in it. But, I feel like on average wave 6 is better, cuz wave 4 has a few like okay
tracks especially the city tracks, but wave 6, the city tracks are great! Rome and Madrid are
some of my favorite city tracks, and also I could definitely back his fire on the bridge and hit
both of them. But1 I think it's more important to protect my mushroom here, and this defends
against like 10 red shells [laughs] if the 10 red shells come uh close enough that my fire doesn't
expire. And there's a blue shell! There we go. Got to get rid of this. Okay so yeah that was worth
it probably to not use it, to not risk getting booed. Let's take the shortcut again. Oh! Super
horn? Oh I love– wait, that was so good for me, cuz I was like that's another reason to take that
shortcut, and like it sent me so far forward, and now I don't have to break drift here, because
I'm small. I could actually gain time from that shock even though I stayed small the longest.
Okay kind of messing up again, but let's see. Yeah! I'm literally I'm literally further ahead
than before the shock. The shock is a comeback mechanic [gasps] the blooper actually mattered,
that's crazy. Okay now I'm in second, but, there could be another blue shell, so we're fine and I'm
threatening with this red shell. So they have to make a decision to protect against me, or protect
against the blue shell, or just back out a second no! They're protecting against me, they used their
mushroom, they had a super horn? [Music] okay. Oh missed the orange mini turbo! Okay I'm
still ahead, I can still trail them this is pretty good. No no no way! Okay at least I
didn't get blue shelled. Wow! This track is so bad [laughs] do you see how much time I lost to
that? Wow! Top two had like a 5-second breakaway the shock happens at the worst possible time and I
get sixth, the other person got [laughs] seventh. Yes! Another wave 6 track Piranha Plant Cove.
This is honestly like top five favorite tracks in the game for me and, people online don't seem to
agree. So I don't get to play this one very often, but if you don't know why, this is why [laughs]
these water shortcuts are so fun! And uh I'm going to try and take the big rock shortcut with
this mushroom. But what always happens to me is I get hit right before, that and then I can't
do it. So we'll see what happens okay, yeah um I'll do it next time [laughs] it's really tough
though so maybe it's for the best that I lost my mushroom, but here's what it's supposed to look
like, I'll show it on screen. Uh you just go over the rock instead of around it, and it saves a lot
of time, but you have to use a mushroom for it. And I'm going to red shell you right here, uh I
don't trust inward drifters, to okay well there's another red shell right there. But I I don't trust
them not to back me cuz one of their advantages is they have a good drifting angle, for throwing
items backwards [laughs] at other people. Oh okay, this is not a real thing I shouldn't have done
that mini turbo, yeah we're just using that mushroom. Oh dude! Open your eyes [laughs] I I
saw that I just didn't do anything about it. Okay, um yeah I I need to play more focused here. You
know what? Let's test somebody else [Music] loveee this shortcut. Oh did they just fail the shortcut?
No they didn't okay that was lag. I was like, got a piranha plan that should make it easier, also
I'm at zero coins, this is bad. Can you get a coin in fourth? I would love one right now [laughs]
okay, whoa! What? Yes! More coins! Ugh I just lost all my coins. All right two more two more let's
go, fire right behind me I'm so dead [laughs] wow! None of that hit me, I think they're out.
Okay oh I I thought the speed boost would let me cut off more off-road also that red shell didn't–
what?! Red shells are so DUMB in this– they're so smart in this game. Jeez! Okay this is worth
it. Wow! Wow! I somehow [laughs] salvaged sixth place. All my dreams are coming true today. We got
dolphin trolls 200cc already which I didn't want but now we got it on 150, and I can finally go
for motion glider online [laughs] I practiced it and it's really consistent with one mushroom. Okay
we're going to go right here for coins, I like the right path way better the left path is a bit jank.
All right, but I think the left path is faster if you want items. Five tricks that is actually so
good for the GameCube controller [laughs] cuz you can't shake the trick and that part's way harder,
okay. But here's where the GameCube controller has its advantage! MOTION GLIDER! Yes! What? No no
way okay I just messed up. But no way it saves that much time, I think first place probably
messed up. I refuse to believe that saved like 2 seconds [laughs] maybe it did I don't know. Okay
we're going to get coins here. I used to be so bad at that, and then I time trialed this track, and
then now everything is easy. And if you don't want an item, this is the fastest way to go here, take
the right path and do that. Okay only three tricks they're catching up to me, oh super horn! I'm
throwing this away I do not want to give them a reason to super horn me [Music] oh okay! That was
that was so weird, you can have first [laughs] you can have first. So if first place has a super
horn that's actually good yes blue shell cuz uh they won't back out for the blue shell, so you can
pretty reliably just keep driving, instead of like like trying to preemptively back out for their
back out. Okay so I'm going to go left path here cuz I want items. [sighs] you see what I mean
this path is so jank, I basically just kind of got target shocked there, but it's fine give me
mushroom. Yes! [laughs] wasn't actually expecting a mushroom. I feel like I was just far back enough
that the game would give me a mushroom thanks to that horrible shock, so I'm just going to hold
this. Another blue shell, I might just win. Let's go [laughs] let's go I'm so happy about that! Oh
I really like this track now after learning, that broken [laughs] strategy. This is now, without a
doubt, my best session ever that is crazy. All it took was to become Japanese. Oh! What? [laughs]
okay I did not mean to jump over that much grass, but it still worked out, cuz I somehow just
didn't lose speed. I don't know how that even happened. That about sums up my day [laughs]
so far. All I had to do was become Japanese and [laughs] all of a sudden I'm so good at this
game [laughs] okay uh let's get two coins right here. Watch out for first place's banana, oh they
didn't drop it okay right cuz I have a red shell, and uh I could red them at the set, so it's safe
for them to just hold on to it. Stay away from me red Yoshi. Yeah you better back away [laughs] okay
I'm going to keep this trailed, um I I think I saw attack items behind me, so I just want to make
sure nothing clips me [Music] okay I'm not going to use this unless you have a good reason to throw
it, you might as well just hold on to it, cuz someone could throw a red shell at the set, and uh
I would not probably would not be able to defend in time. Oh! Wow this is great. I get [laughs] so
much glider time– wait that's huge! I got coins too? Double item box. Red shell wasn't going for
me [laughs] this is lovely. Can Mario Kart just– okay, I spoke too soon. I was going to say can
Mario Kart just always be like this? [laughs] this game would be so much more fun [laughs] okay so
I have a horn in second, uh blue shell just came but uh if first place backs out for another blue
shell, I could horn it and we're good. Actually, yeah I'll just use it. I have a mushroom
already, so I can dodge blue shell anyway. Ooh a bomb? Triple greens okay we got to watch
out for that go to the side. Shocked in the same spot nice! Okay ooh I didn't get to stay in the
glider quite as long, but this is this is good, I have a breakaway. 10 coins oh that sucks.
All right no no we're good we are good good! Wait? What?! What I don't see any–
I don't see anyone on the mini map. Why am I in second? [laughs] L! It was me who took
the L. You know L, whatever you did last race, congrats I guess, if you just lag me or something
but I'm I'm Japanese you shouldn't be lagging around me anyway. Oh what the bumps! [sighs]
that's the problem on like Big Blue and Mute City, everyone takes that exact same thin path for the
coins, and it's so worth it cuz you get so many coins too. Anyway, let's get to the front. Okay
nice nice! Okay, lag wasn't actually in first. All right get that motion glider, get away
from everyone behind me. 10 coins nice! Okay yep! You got me [laughs] I didn't know if it
was going to be safer to go off or not go off. That was such a well-placed banana [laughs] you
really got me okay everyone's been getting me this race I'm in ninth. This track is impossible
to come back on. Can we get like a bullet or something on this broken item set? Does everyone
move so far away because of the cannon. Okay you know what? That's fine that's fine for eight.
Okay I'm just going to try and stay invincible, someone could definitely have the shock because
of that broken set. Come on give me another star. Okay, so probably no one has shock cuz
they didn't change it into that set, I'm just gonna, no! Come on, someone, just
shock please, yes! [laughs] okay I can still get a good spot here [Music] [laughs] come on
wow I actually made a comeback on big blue, that's pretty rare. You know what? If nothing can
go wrong, I might as well front run Snow Land, it's been a while [laughs] I always bag this track
it is one of the best bagging tracks in the game for sure. Three second shortcut, well it saves
more than 3 seconds, but, I'm just going to front run, see what happens. There's no way this works
[laughs] bet you didn't know about THIS shortcut it's so important to know on Snow Land [laughs]
oh you can see on the mini map now people are taking the shortcut, and they're all coming back
so far. Oh no! Okay well, the blue shell's, coming that probably didn't matter too much. I tried to
hit the penguin, I didn't make it. It did matter ugh. Okay this is officially really really bad, I
should not have front run this, that was just such a bad idea why did I do that? Oh oooh okay!
All things considered, not that bad! Wow! I thought I was getting last. All right so I decided
after last race I'm going to take this this one seriously, and what that means is, everyone stops
at the coins [laughs] let's all share the money, little communism action. Okay so um, I'm in ninth
or worse, grab some items. Most importantly though I want to get coins. Uh so, let's go around
for this. Hey you lagged around the coin, not that one though. Okay nice! Um yeah so
I'm just going to take this gigantic shortcut, and come back. It's just like snowland, except you
need more mushrooms, I don't know how much time it saves, but it's just like Snow Land. Wait! I don't
have enough mushrooms [laughs] I used one. Okay, this should be fine. Okay, that was not ideal but–
[laughs] okay, wow! Triple mushrooms! All right, I was going to almost say like that doesn't
even really matter cuz it was on lap one, and there's probably another shock at some
point. But, I have triple mushrooms, so now I can take the big shortcut. But uh it's a bit
of a tough situation because I can't just brain dead take the shortcut, because then I'm going
to be in first without blue shell protection. Oh! There's the blue sh– everything is working
out today wow! I can just take the shortcut. I can just brain dead take this shortcut. Oh I just
hit my head. All right here we go! Oh I lost my mini turbo [sighs] that was not pretty it was all
cuz I hit my head, but we salvaged it. Look at my breakaway [laughs] this is so funny. I have two
red shell protection, I just need a bank on there not being another blue shell I think this is fine
we just hold these. This is amazing! I don't know if the shortcut is big enough, for people to
actually come back. Okay, if I get hit though, then, it's anyone's game. That is actually so
good for me I'm first one up to this booster and the glider [laughs] I'm actually going to save
time from that shock no way! That's crazy! [Music] all right, I'll chain this right
here. Oh banana! I didn't get the double oh no! That could be bad.
The next item is really soon though, hopefully no one hopefully no one throws
anything at me. All right here we go, here we go! That boulder almost hit me let's do
a little motion glider blue shell can't catch me yes! That was a perfect race! I think I'm going
to stop right here nothing [laughs] can top this.
