Allright my friend, we already master the Kart and the engine, so we already get the most of the speed. Let's continue our journey to learn about the tire. For your information, beside the kart that having most overall stats, there is tire that can boost your handling points for better control and cornering on the track. Handling is important for everyone to make a smooth turn, especially on the track where there is a thight turn that can be a chance for you to take over the enemies position. And not only the handle points, tire can also improved your speed and acceleration.
Today, we will continue the tire discussion and it's time for the rare one ! Let's see if the rare tire can compete with the higher rarity tire in terms of the handling, speed, and acceleration ? 😏
Based on the moonkart stats spreadsheet at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1D2pspkqvfs6pn1lzI9iOyyWcTftdfpKBSWhNXEjTOSE/edit?gid=445032180#gid=445032180 , the rare tire is started with 31.5 handling points. You can upgrade the rare tire to improved it's handling by 3 points up to 8th level. The speed points is started at 10.9 and will improved by 0.1 points for each upgrade. And for the acceleration, it started with 2.1 points and can get improved by 0.2 points for each upgrade.
If we compare this rare tire with the epic one, you need to upgrade the rare tire into 7th level only to beat the 1st level of epic tire ! And for the legendary ? You can do nothing with rare tire ! Just like the common, there is huge gap between them with the epic and legendary tire. For this reason, I don't recommend you to get the common and rare tire.
Okay, now let's see how much it cost on the market. 👀
If we take a look at the official market on https://arcadecolony.com/mkmarket, the regular rare tire is available at $0.24, and for the gold foil, it's available at $3.49 (but only 1 copy, the next one is doubled price).
My suggestion is, if you look for buying bulk with counted price, you should take a look at the buy-sell channel on the arcadecolony discord, because people sell their stuff there as well, and we can negotiate with them 👌
In the end, not like the kart and engine where it's rare can still compete with the epic and legendary, rare tire is far behind the epic and legendary tire. Even the max level can't beat them (only 1st level of epic you could beat with the 7th and 8th level of rare tire , so you better try getting the higher tier of the tire to stay competitive !