Nintendo reveals how rare each Mario Kart Tour character and kart is
Gacha-like Pipe mechanic explained
Nintendo has explained how Mario Kart Tour’s gacha-like Pipe mechanic works and revealed the appearance rates for all characters, karts and gliders.
The Pipe is a gacha-style mechanic which unlocks random content every time it’s “launched”. Rubies are required to use the Pipe, which can be earned by completing races or via microtransactions.
UPDATE: This article has been updated to reflect the Halloween tour update.
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Each Pipe contains 100 launches in total, with players guaranteed to receive the time-sensitive Tour ‘Spotlight’ items (such as Pauline) within those 100.
The Pipe can be reset, but players are not guaranteed to receive all unique items within its use. It is possible to obtain duplicate items, which will cause the existing character’s, kart’s or glider’s skill level to increase.
The number of characters, karts and gliders in each Pipe is determined by their rarity. In Mario Kart Tour, Rarity is defined as normal, super, high-end and high-end spotlight (which are items related to the ongoing Tour such as Pauline).
Mario Kart Tour is now available for download for free on iOS and Android.
Mario Kart Tour Pipe Odds
Normal (around 2 – 3% appearance rate)
- Baby Daisy
- Baby Mario
- Baby Luigi
- Baby Peach
- Baby Rosalina
- BBIA Parafoil Glider
- Biddybuggy kart
- Birthday Girl Kart
- Bullet Blaster Kart
- Cheep Charger kart
- Droplet Glider
- Dry Bones
- Koopa Dasher Kart
- Koopa Troopa
- Iggy
- Landship Kart
- Larry
- Lemmy
- Ludwig
- Morton
- Mushmellow Kart
- Paper Glider
- Parachute Glider
- Parafoil Glider
- Pipe Buggy
- Pipe Frame Kart
- Piranha Plant Parafoil Glider
- Roy
- Shy Guy
- Super Glider
- Wendy
- Barrel Train Kart
- Bob-omb Parafoil
- Bowser
- Bowser Jr.
- Cloud 9 Kart
- Daisy
- Daytripper Kart
- DK Jumbo Kart
- Donkey Kong
- Diddy Kong
- Flame Flyer Kart
- Flower Glider
- King Boo
- Koopa Clown Kart
- Lakitu
- Lightning Oilpaper Glider
- Luigi
- Mach 8 Kart
- Mario
- Oilpaper Umbrella Glider
- Peach
- Peach Parasol Glider
- Poltergust 4000
- Rosalina
- Royale Kart
- Shell Parachute Glider
- Soda Jet Kart
- Super Blooper Kart
- Toad
- Toadette
- Turbo Yoshi Kart
- Waluigi
- Waluigi Wing Glider
- Wario
- Wario Wing Glider
- Yoshi
- Badwagon Kart
- Bullet Bill Parachute Glider
- B Dasher Kart
- Blue Badwagon Kart
- Circuit Special Kart
- Cloud Glider
- Dry Bowser
- Full Flight Glider
- Kabuki Dasher
- Gold Glider
- Mario (Hakama)
- Metal Mario
- Musician Mario
- Peachette
- Swooper Glider
High-End Spotlight (around 1% appearance rate)
- Fare Flier (New York tour only)
- Pauline (New York tour only)
- Yellow Taxi (New York tour only)
- Peach (Kimono) (Tokyo tour week one only)
- Purple Oilpaper Umbrella glider (Tokyo tour week one only)
- Quickshaw kart (Tokyo tour week one only)
- Mario (Hakama) (Tokyo tour week two only)
- Kabuki Dasher kart (Tokyo tour week two only)
- Full Flight glider (Tokyo tour week two only)
- Rosalina (Halloween) (Halloween tour only)
- Trickster kart (Halloween tour only)
- Wicked Wings glider (Halloween tour only)
- King Boo (Luigi’s Mansion) (Halloween tour only)
- Ghost Ride kart (Halloween tour only)
- Rainy Balloons glider (Halloween tour only)
