User blog:FireBro303/My 5 Personal Favorite and Hated Mario Kart Items

Top 5 Hated Mario Kart Items
The Bowser Shell is my favorite Mario Kart item, no questions asked, but now, it's time for the other side.

5th Place
5th Place: The POW Block.

The POW doesn't WOW me. The POW Block is supposed to stun the other racers and knock out their items, but there are two things that ruin it fully affecting you. Now, for the most part, this will affect the computer racers, but on humans, we know how to avoid its stun factor: just keep pressing the tricks button to reduce your spin to almost NOTHING! You'll lose your Item, but you shouldn't lose your place in the race, unless you're airborne, in which case you won't feel a thing! Considering how many ramps and jumps are in Mario Kart Wii, the only game to have the POW Block, you almost never have to worry about getting hit by this item. In fact, it's kind of hard to stay on the ground in Mario Kart Wii! This is why the POW Block disappeared from future installments, and Nintendo really needs to fix it, because it is not a good item at the moment.

4th Place
4th Place: The Blooper.

I wish I knew how this item survived for 4 games. The Blooper is an item meant to obstruct the other players' sight. Sadly, the best players need just a little bit of the road to see, and the ink even comes off if you get a speed boost. This thing usually shows up when I'm going to get hit by the POW Block or Lightning Bolt.

3rd Place
3rd Place: The Thunder Cloud.

Yeah, you knew this one was going to show up: the Cloud! With this in effect, he will give the player a speed boost, but in the end, he shrinks the racer! Every other item waits for you to use it, but with the Cloud, oh no, he uses himself. The good news is that if you bump into another player, you can pass the cloud over to them. The bad news is that they can give him back to you, or worse: if you have nobody around you, you'll go into a panic trying to get rid of him. Your other best options for getting rid of him are getting shot out of a cannon or picking up a Starman off the ground as you can't get another item until this one is gone. He may sound like a great idea on paper, but he is so bad that Nintendo dropped him from all future games, just like the POW Block.