Blue Shell Dodging hints and tips for Mario Kart DS

Blue Shell Dodging

This is a very hard skill to master (the hardest skill to master) and can only be done done in 150cc or 100cc races, though in 100cc (wi-fi speed) it is very difficult to do. I've only ever managed it a few times but I'm still learning.

When you see someone with a blue shell on the lower screen you have to get ready to do a power slide turbo so go to a corner or the edge of the track. Once that blue shell is fired start doing a power slide (unless the person who fired the shell is very far away). What your aiming for is to have orange sparks coming out of the tyres by the time the shell has nearly reached you(you will hear it just before you can see the blue dot on the bottom screen).

This is the hardest bit and the bit I normally mess up on. When the shell is above you it will spin around then rise up. It is at the moment that the shell begins to drop that you realease your turbo and IMMEDIATELY tap the R button to jump.

The way this works is that once the shell is falling it is no longer following you and you can simply turbo out of the blue dome it creates when it explodes. You will also notice if you see someone else hit by a bob-omb or blue spiny shell, that there is a ring on the ground just a bit further out than the dome, this is what you are jumping over.

I find the best place to practice this is the figure 8 circuit and GCN Luigi Circuit, but that's because I don't have an Action Replay thing. If you have an Action Replay thing get infinite blue shells (I've heard that you need a code to get this, but I don't know what it is) and go to N64 Frappe Snowland whic has a lot of curves and is perfect for training. Just select VS under single player and 150CC, get into first and start dodging. Once you can get it right every time, or nearly every time try it on the 100CC races.

Blue shell dodging is impossibble when shrunk by lightning or in the 50CC races.

The best carts for this are oens with high accelaration such as egg1 or dry bomber (I managed it with rob-bls on wi-fi once out of pure luck).

Once you have perfected this skill go on wi-fi and shock everyone with your skill.

P.S. If you don't know how to power slide turbo all you have to do is press and hold R as you turn into a corner and start pressing left, right, left, right to get blue sparks and carry on until you have orange sparks. It should take less than a second to get to orange sparks once your good at it. If you had the read the P.S. Bit to know what a powerslide turbo is, don't even bother tryin to dodge blue shells until you get a lot better, then come back and read this.

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