Do you ask yourself which driver, kart and glider works best right now and you should spend your Skill-Up Tickets on? Or you ask which ones you should get from the shop?
I have here a tier list with an approach on how useful a driver, kart or glider can be right now and will update this every week so you always know which one is worth it and which one isn’t.
You will find here a weekly updated list of drivers, karts and gliders.
Driver Tier List *Updated Sunset Tour*
First, let me give you some thoughts how I calculate my tier list for the drivers.
Many other lists simply group drivers by their special item. Coin Box top to hearts bottom, but I think this is not the real strength of a driver.
Here are the 4 factors that I take into account:
- Max Points (as they will give you a nice extra, depends on rarity)
- Max Skill (also depends on rarity, but a High-End Skill Level 6 is stronger when it comes to getting Frenzy Mode than a Normal Skill Level 6)
- The Amount of courses this drive is Tier 3 and can get Frenzy Mode
- The driver Special Item strength
Max Points and Skill Level matter like I have described in my article about how points are calculated for combos and everything else in Mario Kart Tour – you can dive deeper into that here.
The amount of Tier 3 courses is obvious, this is how likely it is that this driver will be a driver you can use to get into Frenzy Mode. The more courses a driver is featured Tier 3, the higher the chances.
The Special Item is also important and I will give points based on my Special Item Tier List that you can find here
I translated all of them into a formula that also takes the different weights into account:
- Max Points & Max Skill (Based on Rarity): 20%
- 5 Points for Normal
- 7 Points for Super
- 10 Points for High-End
- Number of T3 Tracks: 30%
- up to 13 points for the amount of T3 courses a driver has
- Special Item Strength: 50%
- Up to 20 as there are 20 special items available
So, here’s an example of how the table looks like:
| King Boo | 30 | 7 | 6 | 17 |
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King Boo be our example here. He is a Super rarity driver with 6x featured as T3 driver and has Lucky Seven as his Special Item which is really strong. This gives him a total score of 30 points in the tier list.
So, here the full list that I updated every week with the new drivers available and the adapted amount of courses they get
Driver that got updated in the current tour are tagged with 
, driver that are new on the list with 
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Kart Tier List (Updated Summer Festival Tour)
Now let’s take a look at the karts.
Similar to the driver tier list we need to take several things into account:
- Max Points (as they will give you a nice extra, depends on rarity)
- Max Skill (also depends on rarity, but a High-End Skill Level 6 is stronger when it comes to getting bonus points than a Normal Skill Level 6)
- The Amount of courses this kart is Tier 3 and Tier 2
- The kart Special Skill strength
I translated all of them into a formula that also takes the different weights into account:
- Max Points & Max Skill (Based on Rarity): 20%
- 7 Points for Normal
- 10 Points for Super
- 15 Points for High-End
- Number of T3 and T2 Tracks: 20%
- up to 13 points for the amount of T3 courses a kart has
- up to 5 points for the amount of T2 courses a kart has
- Special Item Strength: 20%
- Up to 5 points as there are 5 special skills available
- Mini-Turbo Plus (5 Points)
- Jump Boost Plus (4 Points)
- Slipstream Plus (3 Points)
- Dash Panel Plus (2 Points)
- Rocket Start (1 Point)
- Up to 5 points as there are 5 special skills available
So, here the full list that I updated every week with the new karts available and the adapted amount of courses they get
How Does A Tier List Help You?
With every tour reward you can get several Skill Up Tickets that you can use to level up a driver, kart or glider – but here’s what makes this choice hard… What ones should you use them on?
That’s where my Tier List for Mario Kart Tour comes in, you can see that as a blueprint what drivers, karts and glider are the most valuable ones
My Problem With Other Tier Lists
I found that other tier lists I found have been either individual ones, based on Ranked Cup only or used some plain list where the new ones always have been the strongest – that’s why I wanted to make this tier list myself.
