Mario Kart Tour Tier List: The Best Drivers, Karts, and Gliders (Updated for Mario Bros. Tour!)

Updated with the new Drivers, Karts, and Gliders from the Vancouver Tour!

Mario Kart Tour Tier List will help you decide which Drivers, Karts, and Glliders are the best to pick in Nintendo’s mobile kart racer. We’ll walk you through who we consider to be the best drivers, and then take a look at our favourite karts and gliders to combo them with.

Without further ado, let’s take a look at the best drivers, karts, and gliders organised by tier in Mario Kart Tour on iPhone and Android.

Looking for more Mario Kart Tour content? Check out everything else we’ve written in our Complete Guide.

A Note on Bonuses:

Before we move onto our tier list, we wanted to provide a quick note on bonuses. Each track boosts the score and combo bonus for certain drivers, karts, and gliders, and picking those can provide you with a serious advantage in the race ahead.

While our tier list focuses on the categorical best drivers, karts, and gliders, it might well be that the best for a particular race is those that receive a bonus.

Best Drivers

A Tier

The A Tier includes drivers with Special Skills that are great at taking out multiple drivers at once, providing you with a huge advantage. They include the incredibly powerful Bowser’s Shell, lead-holding Big Banana, and Lucky Seven, which is great for getting ahead of the pack.

New! – Luigi (Classic)

Daisy (Holiday Cheer)

King Boo

Bowser Jr.

Morton

Dry Bowser

Pauline

Bowser

Donkey Kong

B Tier:

Our B Tier includes Drivers with Special Skills that are offensive in nature, but a little less reliable or more situational than those in our A Tier. They include Fire Flower, Yoshi’s Egg, Boomerang Flower, and Triple Green Shells.

Rosalina (Aurora)

Birdo (Light Blue)

Penguin Luigi

Ice Mario

Red Yoshi

Yoshi (Reindeer)

Birdo

Red Koopa (Freerunning)

Mario (Santa)

Yoshi

Toad (Pit Crew)

Luigi

Baby Luigi

Lakitu

Iggy

Larry

Metal Mario

Mario

Baby Mario

Dry Bones

Koopa Troopa

C Tier:

Our C Tier includes drivers with Special Skills that are defensive or self-empowering in nature, and are great for beginners.

New! – Mario (Classic)

Baby Peach (Cherub)

Pink Shy Guy

Wendy

Toad

Toadette

Peach

Daisy

Baby Rosalina

Lemmy

Baby Peach

Baby Daisy

D Tier:

Our D Tier includes drivers with Special Skills that provide both benefits to you and other racers, or provide effects that don’t particularly provide any racing benefit but are harmful. This includes Dash Ring, Coin Box, and Mushroom Cannon.

Peach (Wintertime)

Gold Koopa (Freerunning)

Toad (Party Time)

Pauline (Party Time)

Rose Gold Peach

Rosalina (Halloween)

Rosalina

Ludwig

Shy Guy (Pastry Chef)

Peach Vacation

Mario (Hakama)

Peach (Kimono)

Peachette:

E Tier

We’ve included a new E Tier as while we were balancing the rest of the list, we felt like there needed to be a space for items that were an absolute liability. We were unfairly lumping those items with those that are simply not helpful or can help your opponents.

Items in the E Tier include Double Bob-ombs, Bob-omb Cannon, and Banana Barrels.

New! – Wario (Hiker)

Mario (Happi)

Waluigi (Bus Driver)

Black Shy Guy

Diddy Kong

King Boo (Luigi’s Mansion)

Mario (Musician)

Shy Guy

Roy

Wario

Waluigi

Karts

A Tier

P-Wing

Platinum Taxi

Turbo Birdo

Ribbon Rider

Zucchini

Carrot Kart

Dark Clown

Warship

Koopa Clown

Landship

Blue Badwagon

Badwagon

Gold Blooper

Super Blooper

Soda Jet

B Tier

New! – Super 1

Snow Skimmer

Apple Kart

Gilded Prancer

Bruiser

Para-Wing

Wildfire Flyer

Green Cheep Charger

Macharon

Chrome DK Jumbo

DK Jumbo

Cloud 9

Cheep Charger

Yellow Taxi

Turbo Yoshi

Mushmellow

C Tier

New! – Dasher II

New! – Red Kiddie Kart

Comet Tail

Ice-blue Poltergust

Glam Bruiser

Jingle Bells

Red Streamliner

Swift Jack

Double-Decker

Birthday Girl Rosalina

Radish Rider

Wild Wing

Streamliner

Pink Mushmellow

Trickster

Queen Bee

Bumble V

Poltergust 4000

Pipe Buggy

Black Circuit

Circuit Special

Kabuki Dasher

Royale

Biddybuggy

Blue Biddybuggy

Black B Dasher

B Dasher

Daytripper

Birthday Girl

Mach 8

Pipe Frame

D Tier

Light-blue Turbo Birdo

Green Kiddie Kart

Blue Seven

Red Turbo Yoshi

Red B Dasher

Cheermellow

Gold Train

White Royale

Ghost Ride

Quickshaw

Barrel Train

Bull’s-Eye Banzai

Bullet Blaster

Koopa Dasher

Flame Flyer

Gliders

A Tier

New! – 8-Bit Jumping Mario

Yoshi’s Egg Hanafuda

Luma Parafoil

Rainbow Starchute

Heart Balloons

Blizzard Balloons

Blizzard Parasol

Crimson Crane

Pink Flower Glider

Glitter Glider

Royal Parachute

Strawberry Crêpe

Wicked Wings

Rainy Balloons

Waluigi Wing

Cloud Glider

Wario Wing

Lightning Oilpaper

Oilpaper Umbrella

Bullet Bill Parachute

Fare Flier

Peach Parasol

B Tier

Sweetheart Glider

Baby Mario Hanafuda

New Year’s 2020

Soaring Jack

Piston Glider

Le Tricolore

BaNaNa Parafoil

Purple Oilpaper Umbrella

BBIA Parafoil

Paper Glider

Super Glider

Shell Parachute

Parafoil

C Tier

Fireworks Parachute

Piranha Plant Parafoil

Full Flight

Swooper

Bob-omb Parafoil

Flower Glider

D Tier

New! – ? Block

Blue Flower Glider

Gold Swooper

New Year’s Kite

Gift Glider

Starchute

Minion Paper Glider

Droplet Glider

Gold Glider

Parachute