Rainbow Road

Rainbow Road is the fourth and final course of the Special Cup, as well as the final new course in Mario Kart Wii.

Overview

* Flap is from a lap of a 3lap

Current BKTs

Type	Unrestricted	No Ultra	No Glitch
3lap	38.695	2:14.984
Flap	8.578	42.167	44.886*

Rainbow Road has a 3lap viable ultra shortcut, which uses wallclips, with the flap variant also using a delayed lap count, barrel rolls, and an OOB bypass. Outside the ultra shortcut, it also currently benefits from the use of superhopping and supersliding in both 3lap and flap categories. Hence, it has three 3lap and three flap categories. However, no TAS exists for a No Ultra 3lap which implements glitches, so the No Glitch 3lap is the No Ultra 3lap record for the time being.

Unrestricted 3lap

Video: 38.695 by Malleo, Monster, Luke, Justin, Kierio, Ejay, César, and Citrinitas (2023)

The current strategy for the UR 3lap is to perform the ultra shortcut on all 3 laps.

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Unrestricted Flap

Video: 8.578 by Mikul and Justin (2023)

The current strategy for the UR flap is to perform the ultra shortcut with a delayed lap count.

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No Ultra Flap

Video: 42.167 by Ejay (2023)

The current strategy for NU flap is to perform supersliding six times during the lap.

No Glitch 3lap

Video: 2:14.984 by RS, Luke, Marth, and Ejay (2020)

The current strategy for NG 3lap is to drive 3 laps normally.

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No Glitch Flap

Video: 44.886 by RS, Marth, and Ejay (2020)

The current strategy for NG flap is to drive 1 lap normally.

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History

TODO: History of all strat developements. Section devoted to the ultra shortcut and its many flap variations, as well as the plethora of no glitch developements (specifically from 2018 to 2020), and also the FWG spot and supersliding.

TAS Competitions

Rainbow Road has featured in three tasks of the MKWii TAS Competition (Task 10 2021, Task 4 2023, Task 11 2023).

Future

Known timesaves

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Potential timesaves

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