You know you can hit yourself with a Blue Shell in it Mario Kart 8 DeluxeSpeedrunners do that, and they do everything they can to blow themselves up with the first place-focused item ASAP.
Skilloz, the current world record holder for the hilariously named “Blue Yourself” category, uploaded a video yesterday (h / t Polygon) showing that it is possible to go from the start of the race to the spinning in a Blue Shell blast in just under 38 seconds. If you’re a fan of Baby Daisy – there must be at least one – you may want to look away.
Here’s how Skilloz did it, according to the man himself
The items you get depend on how far you are from the first place. Knowing this, I sandbag in the beginning to get a good shot at a star. Then I rush to the next set of items and I’m at the point where getting Triple Mushrooms is quite a chance as well. These are not that very difficult to get if you can position yourself correctly.
The hardest part is getting the Blue Shell. There is no real way to manipulate it. You can only get a Blue Shell if you are at least 2000 units behind in first place. Since that is the closest, the probability of receiving a Blue Shell is about 5%. You also cannot get a Blue Shell until 30 seconds have passed in the game.
So if I hesitate for those item boxes, I’ll wait for those two things: the first-place CPU that has at least 2000 units in front of me and 30 seconds of in-game time [to pass]A member in our community, GsFlint, discovered that these two conditions can in principle coincide at the same time [time] in Mario Circuit.
My favorite speed runs are those where players take a small, preferably ridiculous, part of a game and learn very seriously how to do it quickly. It’s hard to say how low people will be able to get in on ‘Blue Yourself’ times Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, but you can be sure that I will watch with bated breath.