Mario Strikers Battle League Football: Everything You Need To Know About Items
Mario Strikers Battle League Football is a chaotic, fast-paced sports game by design: the small pitches force players close together, and emphasis is placed on hitting hard with your tackles and firing as many shots at goal as possible. This becomes all the more ridiculous when you add items into the mix.
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Mastering items in Mario Strikers Battle League is essential for successful players. They can be used both offensively and defensively and a single well-timed item can turn the tide on your opponent when you are on the back foot. Here, we're going to go through everything you need to know to use these powerful, frenetic forces to your advantage.
Just as in the mainline Mario titles, you can collect items by picking up item boxes from around the pitch. There are two types of item boxes: rainbow item boxes can be collected by both teams, whereas team-coloured item boxes can only be picked up by the team of the same colour - so, for example, the red team will be able to pick up both rainbow and red item boxes.
Items are stored per team, not per individual player. This means that, if you're playing multiplayer with some teammates, the items you collect will be useable by them and vice versa. It is important to communicate with your teammates about when you're going to use items: you may in some circumstances be able to coordinate your item usage, throwing out two items at once with devastating effect.
Each team can carry up to two items at a time. You will be able to see at the top of the screen which items your team has collected, and the items that you're going to use next will be closer to the centre of the screen and pulsing blue. If you run into an item box while already
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