I love that kart game so much I decided that I want to do a bunch of posts about kart this is the second in the series. If you want to catchup my first post was right here. @moonkehh/sonic-kart From this post I also provided a way to play if you so choose to. Ok back to the post...... Today I am here to talk about the things that slow you down or lead you to absolute victory in Sonic Kart. There is an assortment of boosts, and deterrents which can get in the way of racing. These mechanics have all different ranges of ability and skill. One way that your used to in one game might be expanded upon in this game. All items are affected by the velocity of the character minus the banana. That stun from slipping will always do the same. You can see them all below. Get ready be square look for the .gif spam

Items

So as you can see there is 16 items here so I am choosing to split up these items in 3 posts.

Ok here is some sheningans to start the post.

Grow

Grow is a interesting item to say the least. It is one of the invincible types other than one item affecting it. You grow a certain amount of height and pick up speed if you are driving straight. If you are drifting with it while it goes faster than a normal speed it is still slower than other boosts aka the sneakers and invincibility. Not only that but if you drive on the side of a map you can be slowed down. If you have it going on while driving next to a person with invincibility you can bump them more because when you grow you become heavier. To the people who do not have items you literally smush them and it takes a little bit of time to come out of it. And if someone has a hit item aka the orbital or jaws (turtle shell and red shell) equivalent of this game it slows you down even more.

Grow clips

Since I am heavier I do not make this first jump which most of the time you do get it but it depends on the velocity of your character

Same race, I jump across a pit and land on someone. I think this was the first and last time I ever did this.

I run over someone screwing them over right at the last second

Jaws

Jaws is the red shell of Kart it seems simple enough throw out and hit someone right. It is a bit stronger then a red shell. Closer to mario kart 64 or dkr or ctr classic. You get stunned for a few seconds and start yourself up. It hits a powerful attack which brings you to a dead stall. If you go into the dirt while you are being chased or bumped into a wall it can be devastating. 1 to 15th in seconds. It can over many different level obstacles. Like you see in my first .gif it can hop that little thing. This though is not always the case. What is cool about Jaws? Sometimes it will follow you for a long time. It slowly catches up to you. If you can boost you can keep on going till you can drive it away or find a jump. That usually destroys it! I usually keep a ban or orb as protection as a way to block from jaws attacks. Also if you do not time the throwing right it can drive itself into a wall making it useless. What is different about this weapon? If you shoot it could even go diagonal and hit someone to the side of you as long as they are slightly ahead of you even if it is like an inch. Example: I threw out a jaws out.... There were two people next to me I latched out on the one towards the side. The Jaws went in front of the guy and looked like it did a circle and hit the second guy. Another thing the jaws is good for is blocking projectiles. Even if you have jaws running beside of you people can still get through and hit you.

Jaws Clips

Normal use of the jaws locks on to enemy destroys them

Someone locked on to me and I guided the hit into them which allowed me to break away.

I get hit by a Jaws in the hit stun someone ran into me pushed me away and the game glitched out and I didnt get hit by the invincibility like usual and it just pushed me into a pit

Shrink

Shrink is the counter act of grow. Instead of shrinking yourself you usually are in last and you get this item. It shrinks everyone that is in front of you minus the people who are invincible. Grow on the other hand it gets rid of the buff and shrinks on top of that. Not only that but when you shrink if you run over people they get smushed. Finally when you use shrink it gets rid of all the items on the stage and whatever item you are holding.

Shrink Clips

Credit goes to callmore on this board https://mb.srb2.org/showthread.php?t=47203

Clearing the road.

Eggmans box

Credit goes to trailblazer on this board
https://mb.srb2.org/showthread.php?t=43795&page=4

Looks very close to the normal item box its hard to tell and it tricks you alot.

The dreaded eggman box is the fake item box of kart. No item can destroy it. Other than the lightning shield. Row 5 item 4. It would be a waste to use it on the item unless you were uncontrollably driving into it. All invincibility items go through it. You pick it up wait 3 seconds and you get blown up. Whats nice about it is even if you get this item you have the potential to affect other players. You can get the item try to catch up or turn around and letgo and boom now others are affected in your messup. You can do two things with it. You can drag it behind you and let it go hoping that the person behind you who picks it up doesn't blow you up. Or you can throw it in front of you. The thing about the eggbox is you cant cancel it unless it glitches out. I think there was one time when I was playing the game where I ran into an eggman box waited and got run over somehow since these two happened at the same time it cancelled out both of these events and I was left unscathed.

Eggbox Clips

I aimed perfectly a shot onto someones head with the eggmans

Sometimes you go so fast in this game that you do not even realize you picked it up!

Ballhog

The ballhog I think is a pretty unique item. It starts off as a line of cannonballs and grows in distance. It bounces quite a few times with the geometry of the map and then fizzles out maybe 5-10 seconds later. The balls are pretty huge and will clear out everyone in front of you. If it hits someone it is used 5 balls become 4 and 3 etc till none of them exist. You can throw at an angle and the balls will go higher into the level and shoot down or they will arc depending on the level design. If you throw behind they will travel slower and not scatter a bit. Ballhogs do not go through any of the invincibility items. They definitely kill off boosts. And they will get rid of orbs bananas and jaws in front of you.

Ballhog Clips

3 out of 5 hit including the player itself.

That concludes part one of the Kart Items post. If you like what you have seen here I will show you the first video of the game I ever saw and I knew Id be hooked. I was like what the hell is this game. I just had to play it. I havent quit since try to play everyday. I hope you enjoy it and till next time.

Credit goes to voteforwaifu on youtube

If you want I will prob be streaming Kart in 20 minutes or so so if you would like to watch I will be live at twitch.com/moonkehh for about an hour and a half.

Finally thank you for taking the time out of your day to read this I greatly appreciate it @moonkehh
goodbye!!