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'''Tricking''' is a speed boost technique in ''[[Mario Kart Wii]]''.

Tricks can be initiated after colliding with trickable road, by pressing any direction on the D-pad (or flicking in any direction with Wii Wheel or Nunchuk). The D-pad input can be pressed up to the 10th frame of airtime leaving the trickable road; additionally, the D-pad input can be buffered up to 13 frames before leaving the trickable surface.

For a trick to actually be triggered, the magnitude of the [[Internal velocity|IV]] vector must be at least 50% of its regular [[IV#Maximum speed |max base speed]]. Additionally, the vehicle must get airtime from the trickable road, and be airborne on the 3rd frame after leaving it. Internally, the game uses a value called '''trickable timer''', which is set to 3 while the vehicle is touching trickable road, and counts down each frame in the air; the trick can only be initiated once the trickable timer is 0, if the vehicle is airborne on the frame the timer hits 0.

 

If bikes are in a [[wheelie]] when the trick animation starts, the wheelie is canceled. As soon as the trick is triggered, the '''trick cooldown''' value is set to 5, and begins counting down. The vehicle receives a trick boost when the trick cooldown value is zero and the vehicle is grounded. All trick boosts increase max speed by 30%, and IV accelerates at a rate of 6 u/f². Trick boosts have priority over all other boost types, including mushrooms which are otherwise stronger. The length of the boost depends on the trick type, as well as the vehicle type. Stunt trick boosts last 45 frames for bikes and 40 frames for karts, single flip trick boosts for 80 and 70 frames respectively, and double flip tricks for 95 and 85 frames respectively.

 

 

When tricking with negative IV, the angle redirection follows the same mechanics as above, but is applied downwards, reducing airtime. This has implications for [[Toad's Factory#UR Flap | Toad's Factor UR flap]]; the lake cut is taken with negative IV, so if the kart tricks, it gets too little air and fails the cut.

It is possible to delay the trick further by leaving the trickable surface for 1 frame, landing for 1 frame, then going airborne again. In this case, the first airtime frame is a necessary condition for tricking; the grounded frame happens while the trickable timer is 1, thus only resets airtime; the first frame of the new airtime coincides trickable timer hitting 0. All conditions for tricking are satisfied, and the trick can be started anywhere between the 1st and 10th frame of the new airtime. This is currently used on [[SNES Ghost Valley 2#No Glitch 3lap | SNES Ghost Valley 2 NG]], on the yellow ramp trick, to simultaneously remove the slow ramp's speed lock and delay the trick to the 11th frame after touching the ramp.

[[Hop |Hopping]] off of a trickable surface counts as leaving it, so it can be used to start a trick early (useful for getting double tricks). A hop trick often leads to increased airtime compared to driving or drifting off a trickable ramp, so it is usually slower unless the extra height is needed or beneficial.

The most notable use of hop tricking is for [[slow ramp]] low tricks. Hopping on the first frame of touching the slow ramp replaces the ramp's vertical speed with the hop's, which is much lower. Hop tricks are the most effective way to reduce slow ramp airtime.

Karts can't use drift tricks to reduce height, because they can't [[EV#Leaning |lean]] like bikes. However, drift tricks are still useful on karts to realign in the air.

Wall tricks are performed on flip trick ramps with bikes. [[Wall clip |Clipping a wall]] during a trick updates the vehicle's movement direction to match its pitch rotation, without any speed loss. For bikes, the animation of down flip tricks causes them to quickly rotate to face downwards. Thus, performing a wall clip during the trick animation causes the bike's vertical speed to be directed down, reducing airtime.

Leaning forwards is known as STA. This corresponds to holding in the direction of the bike's back wheel during the trick. For stunt tricks, hold left for left tricks, and right for right tricks; for flip tricks, hold left for right tricks, and left for right tricks. For double flip tricks specifically, bikes rotate fast enough that they begin facing the other direction before the 20th frame of airtime, so the direction to hold switches along with the bike's orientation.<br>

On bikes only, performing any side stunt trick decreases the amount the player can rotate when taildiving. Internally, this occurs because the game adds 0.4 to the player's vertical (Y-joystick) input represented as a number between -1 and 1. (The output is then clamped again to be within this range.) This effectively means that the player can only input between -0.6 and 1 during side tricks, thus reducing taildiving rotation to 60% of its usual value.

 

Notably, up/down stunt tricks do not reset the "trick type" flag, so any up/down stunt trick performed after a side stunt trick will continue to have this decreased taildiving rotation. (The bike will also rotate to face down more than usual during trick animations.) This state is known as tilt lock. It can be cleared by initiating any flip trick, which resets the trick type flag and sets rotation back to normal.

In most situations, nosediving during up/down stunt tricks is optimal, making tilt lock inconsequential. However, if taildiving is better, tilt lock prevents the bike to face up as much, affecting its rotation upon landing. For example, on [[SNES Ghost Valley 2#No Glitch 3lap|SNES Ghost Valley 2 NG 3lap]], tilt lock causes the bike to not drift as tight upon landing from the trick ramp, so it's better to only perform a side trick on the slow ramp on lap 3, despite it being faster due to STA.

Due to [[Rotation#rotation conversion |rotation conversion]], the pitch rotation upon landing affects how quickly yaw rotation changes upon landing. If the bike needs to drift immediately upon landing, landing while the bike is facing in the opposite direction due to the trick animation causes it to drift more sharply, as the bike quickly corrects to its proper rotation upon landing. As such, it is better to perform a left trick when landing into a left drift, and vice-versa.