Luigi Circuit
Luigi Circuit is the first course of the Mushroom Cup in Mario Kart Wii. It is significant in that it was the first track where supergrinding saved time.
Overview
| Type | Unrestricted | No Ultra | No Glitch |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3lap | 1:02.466 | 1:07.986 | |
| Flap | 15.495 | 18.426 | 21.368 |
Luigi Circuit has a flap-only ultra shortcut, and currently benefits from supergrinding, superhopping, and supersliding in both 3lap and flap categories. Hence, it has two 3lap categories and three flap categories. The Unrestricted 3lap record is also technically the No Ultra 3lap record, since no ultra shortcut is used.
Unrestricted 3lap
The current strategy for UR 3lap is to perform two supergrinds on each lap. The first supergrind takes you down the back straight, and requires a mushroom. Performing the supergrind shroomless loses more than sacrificing the pipe shortcut on the last turn, so the pipe shortcut is never taken on any lap. The second supergrind takes you down the front straight and past the finish line, and can be performed shroomless each lap.
Unrestricted Flap
- Video: 15.495 by Jellopuff (2022)
The current strategy for UR flap is to perform an ultra shortcut. The strategy is dependent on an OOB hop, so requires an outside-drifting bike; in this case the Shooting Star is used. Before entering the lap, you use the 1st mushroom to wallclip the surrounding fence near the second turn (the invisible wall is lowest at this point) and clear the invisible wall. After landing on the seam, you seam ride forwards until the finish line. The second mushroom is used to enter the lap at full speed in the offroad. It runs out in time for you to brake, SSMT to turn around, and use the third mushroom to accelerate again. By hopping to the right and drifting off the seam, you can angle the bike such that upon performing an OOB hop to the left on the solid OOB plane beneath the track, you will have enough sideways momentum to send you into the required checkpoint for respawning. After respawning, you simply SSMT to turn around, drive backwards to hit the last KCP, perform a wall bounce SSMT to turn around again, and finish the lap.
No Ultra Flap
- Video: 18.426 by Monster (2023)
The current strategy for NU flap is to perform WBSS for the entire lap, and as such uses Wario Bike. The setup starts off similarly to the UR flap, by wallclipping over the invisible wall near the second turn. However, instead of seam riding, you get into the WBSS state, and start building EV. After enough EV has been built, you approach the finish line, and then superslide until the last turn, where you leave the WBSS state, and use the 2nd and 3rd mushrooms to wheelie into the finish line. This is marginally faster than continuing to superslide until the finish line.
No Glitch 3lap
- Video: 1:07.986 by Monster (2020)
The current strategy for NG 3lap is to drive 3 laps normally, with every lap using the same strats. Hopping off the curb allows for a trick off the ramp, utilising STA. By spin hopping, and then upon landing on the curb, spin hopping again, you can get a large amount of air into the pipe shortcut. Combined with a wallclip off the fence, you can use your mushroom very far into the offroad. This is one of very few wallclip strategies allowed in the No Glitch category.
No Glitch Flap
- Video: 21.368 by Monster (2020)
The current strategy for NG flap is similar to a single lap of the NG 3lap, except that more turns can be cut with two additional mushrooms. The first mushroom is used on the first turn, to both cut the grass and drift with minimal speed loss. The second mushroom is used to drive directly to the ramp through the offroad, and reach it without losing wheelie speed. The ramp is done with a RFH low trick. The third mushroom is used in the pipe shortcut, however the wallclip strategy is slower from this approach, instead a double hop is used to both progress into the offroad and also start a drift as soon as possible.
History
TODO: History of all strat developements. Section devoted to supergrinding as well as one for the ultra shortcut and all the theories that led to its discovery.
TAS Competitions
Luigi Circuit has featured in two tasks of the MKWii TAS Competition: Task 2 2020 and Task 2 2023.
Future
Known timesaves
- UR 3lap - Monster and Marth have a 19.446 lap 1 using SG and SH. Were a full 3lap run finished, it would bring the TAS under 58 seconds.
- UR flap - Ejay improved the post-respawn section to achieve a 15.341, however the improvement has not been published due to over potential improvements in the lap existing.
- NG 3lap - Monster and Ancient have a 22.730 lap 1 with an outdated start slide, so not only is the BKT improvable, but so is the improvement.
- NG flap - Full input range was not available at the time this TAS was created, so wheel inputs can save time in most places in the air.
Potential timesaves
- UR flap - Better optimisation of the pre-respawn section, as it is from a prelim demonstration from when the ultra was discovered.
- NG 3lap - Ramp trick with held wheelie [1]
References
- ↑ lcRampApproach, strategy and footage by Marth, 2023