Glass Cannon

A Glass Cannon is a character who is fast and has good offense, but has poor defense. In terms of kart racing, it is a character or vehicle that has good speed, drift, and/or mini-turbo, but has poor weight, acceleration, handling, and/or off-road. Anyone whose element is fire is almost guaranteed to be a Glass Cannon.
As mentioned above, being a Glass Cannon has its downsides; while the user is fast and powerful, he/she is frail. It is difficult to effectively use the strength against foes. As such, the user has to strategize a game plan in order to avoid getting hit to begin with, and if he/she does take a hit, he/she will almost instantly go down.
Because Glass Cannons have low defensive capabilities, they may use their speed to gain an advantage over slower opponents. They tend to attack at a really fast rate and deal tons of damage.
This is similar to the Fragile Speedster, an archetype which sacrifices both offense and defense for speed, contrasting the Mighty Glacier (trades speed for offense and defense). Its polar opposite is the Stone Wall, which sacrifices speed and offense for defense.
== Examples of Glass Cannons ==
* Greed and Charity are Drifter class racers in Seven Deadly Sins Racing, having the best drift in the game and decent speed, but poor mini-turbo in addition to mediocre weight, acceleration, handling, and off-road.
* Incinera, the fire Elemental Ghost, can move fast and stun or kill her victims in one hit, but easily goes down if she gets hit.
* Barracudas are able to catch fast moving prey and one-shot most of them. However, their bodies don't have much defense, allowing sharks and dolphins to attack them. Barracudas sometimes travel in groups.
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