Nintendo reveals how rare each Mario Kart Tour character and kart is – Video Games Chronicle

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.

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’s launch item rarity is as follows:

Normal (around 5% appearance rate)