Pods

## IL Meta Pods

### Ben Quadinaros

Ben Quadinaros is the king of Full Track Max Upgrade ILs having every WR but Grabvine Gateway and Fire Mountain Rally due to having the strongest booster in the game, plus the longest boost duration outside of Mars Guo. In No Upgrades, he is the second fastest pod after Boles Roor while being significantly easier to control than Boles. He is almost certainly going to be one of if not the last pod you will unlock in the game when the track he is favorite on in Inferno is the last track you will unlock in the game for certain.

### Boles Roor

Boles Roor is the meta pod for Full Track No Upgrade ILs on every track when he is the fastest No Upgrade pod by a wide margin. However, he is supremely difficult to control, and especially at lower framerates. Max Upgrades he is the second fastest pod after Ben.

### 'Bullseye' Navior

'Bullseye' Navoir is the most agile pod in the game and also one of the fastest. He is the fastest pod on Max Upgrades Grabvine Gateway and Fire Mountain Rally where agility is more important than boost duration on those two tracks. He is also the safest pod to learn the game with, and can be unlocked immeidately upon completing the first track of the Semi-Pro Circuit in Sunken City.

### Wan Sandage

Wan Sandage has the worst booster in the game, but is one of the most reliable and fastest at pulling off the The Boonta Training Course, Dug Derby, and Abyss Skips. He is the fastest pod for the Dug Derby Skip Lap and 3 Lap, and the Abyss Skip 3 Lap.

### Mars Guo

Mars Guo blends the longest boost duration in the game with near Bullseye like handling despite being the widest pod in the game. He is the best pod for the 100% Upgrade run, and is the glitch master of the game by being able to pull off almost all of the skips in the game with greater reliability than other pods. Mars Guo also holds the world records for the Boonta Training Course and Inferno Skips, and the Sunken City AI Skip.

### Elan Mak

Elan Mak's asymmetric pod is the fourth fastest pod fully upgraded with the same boost thrust as third place Aldar Beedo. He currently holds a world record for Sunken City regular skip, but is not known for sure to be the fastest pod on it yet. Just the most reliable on it. He is though the fastest pod available for Andobi Mountain Run in the Upgrades. Any%/Galactic Run. Mawhonic though is almost even to Elan Mak in practically every level. Elan Mak's rotten heat to cool ratio where he only barely cools down faster than he heats up with max cooling is why Beedo is faster than him fully upgraded, and why Mawhonic is usually faster for the Any%/Galactic Run with upgrades.

## RTA Meta Pods

These are pods that arent (often) used in ILs, but due to the limited pod select at the start of the game they become viable options to use before finishing the cateogry, or unlocking a better meta pod

### Toy Dampner

Toy Dampner is used for the Any% No Upgrade Run where he is by far the fastest and most reliable pod for the run. He is unlocked on Executioner that is the first track of the run, so once you unlock him there is no need to switch for the remainder of the run.

### Aldar Beedo

Aldar Beedo is the fastest pod for the Amatuer Circuit run with and without upgrades once unlocked, and the forth fastest pod without upgrades and third fastest pod fully upgraded overall. However, his low traction makes him extremely difficult to control, and especially at low framerates and on Vengeance regardless of framerate. You also cannot afford to take bonks and brake with him when he has the worst acceleration in the game tied with Ratts Tyerell.

### Ebe Endocott

Ebe Endocott is the best pod out of all the pods playable from the start, and used at the start of every single RTA run with and without upgrades of the Any%/Galactic, Semi-Pro, Amateur, and 100% Runs.

### Mawhonic

Mawhonic is the fifth fastest pod fully upgraded almost even to Elan Mak. Compared to Elan Mak, he has slightly higher traction, slightly lower boost thrust, better handling, and significantly better cooling with a much higher heat rate. Once unlocking him on Andobi Mountain Run, he is by far the fastest pod for the Any%/Galactic Upgrades run when Elan Mak struggles more on Fire Mountain Rally than Mawhonic, and practically even on Dethro's Revenge and Boonta Classic.

## Off-Meta Pods

These are pods that have value and can be used, but are eclipsed in almost every aspect by another meta pod

### Sebulba

Sebulba is only used No Upgrades where he is the third fastest pod after Boles and Ben. He has the highest raw top speed without upgrades, but has the worst booster in the game after Wan Sandage. Fully upgraded, he is the slowest and worst pod in the game being terrible in practically every stat.

### Neva Kee

Neva Kee is the fastest accelerating pod tied with Ark Bumpy Roose. He is basically a worse Bullseye Navoir, with the dubious honor of still heating up faster than he cools down even fully upgraded. He is used mainly on Grabvine Gateway and Fire Mountain Rally after Bullseye is banned in the annual tourneys, and also the most reliable at pulling off the Old Bumpy's Breakers skip without upgrades.

### Anakin Skywalker

Anakin is close to evenly matched with Ebe Endocott with and without upgrades. Compared to Ebe, Anakin has much better brakes, a slightly stronger and longer lasting booster, higher max turn rate, slightly lower traction, and significantly slower acceleration. This puts Ebe ahead of Anakin overall.

### Clegg Holdfast

Clegg Holdfast is used in the Amatuer Circuit run with and without upgrades as a faster alternative to Ebe Endocott once unlocked while being much more controlable than Aldar Beedo, especially at low framerates and on Vengeance regardless of framerate.

### Ratts Tyerell

Ratts Tyerell has the same boost thrust as Bullseye Navoir with the fifth highest raw top speed without upgrades after Sebulba, Boles, Ben, and Mars. However, he is difficult to control, has an atrocious cooling ratio, and has strong brakes despite having the worst acceleration in the game tied with Aldar Beedo. This makes Bullseye Navoir faster than him both with and without upgrades in practice when Bullseye is one of the fastest accelerating pods with one the best cooling ratios in the game. Like Aldar Beedo, you cannot afford to bonk or brake with Ratts Tyerell.

### Ark 'Bumpy' Roose

Bumpy is the only pod in this section to hold a WR, which is The Boonta Training Course, 3 Laps, No Upgrades, Skips. This is due to his high base acceleration and hoverheight which are perfect conditions for the very specific skip performed. However, it is likely that Bumpy is not the meta pick, he is just easy to use, that title would perhaps belong to Mars, who has much higher top speed and the same hoverheight advantage.

As mentioned above, Bumpy has very high acceleration, infact he has the highest base acceleration in the game (tied with Neva Kee). However, due to the fact that he also has the worst turn response of any pod, nearly the worst turn rate and the lowest damage immunity, gameplay usually goes as follows: Charge full speed into a wall because no turning, die, respawn and accelerate at such a rate as to gain enough speed for Death Speed Drop to activate as you hit the next wall, which will either kill you (due to DSD) or serve critical engine damage (due to low damage immunity). If its any consolation, Bumpy is the second best pod to use without the using boost and he has access to the best repair in the game, which you'll so badly need.

## Joke Pods

These pods have absolutely no value whatsoever and are never used in any scenario

### Slide Paramita

Silde Paraminta lives up to his name in that he slides due to a terrifying tendancy to oversteer and smash into walls from fairly low traction and extremely high max turn rate and turn response. He is the most fragile pod in the game, and what can be a light scrape for any other pod can kill Slide.

### Teemto Pagalies

Teemto Pagalies has nothing going for him outside of the second best acceleration after Neva Kee and Ark Bumpy Roose. Max upgrades, his cool and heat rate only equalizes, and has one of the worst boosters in the game.

### Gasgano

Gasgano has a raft of bad stats topped off by the worst cooling in the game. He still heats up much faster than he cools down even fully upgraded, with basically non-existent cooling without upgrades.

### Ody Mandrell

Ody Mandrell is nothing more then a bulky and mediocre pod.

### Dud Bolt

Dud Bolt lives up to his name in that his pod is a total dud. High traction pared with atrocious max turn rate and turn response makes him extremely stiff to use, and especially at higher framerates.

### Fud Sang

Fud Sang maybe serving four life sentences on Oovoo IV, but that hasn't stopped him from racing across the galaxy in this game. His pod is mediocre in everything, probably the result of relying only on prison alowed parts to build his pod.

### Bozzie Baranta

The prize for winning the torturous Abyss track is this super rotten pod in Bozzie Baranta. He is absolutely terrible on the key stats you need for Abyss in Traction, Braking, and Handling, and has the dubious honor of heating up faster than he cools down even fully upgraded.