Battle Tour
| Battle Tour | |
|---|---|
| |
| Start date | See § Occurrence Tour |
| End date | See § Occurrence Tour |
| Number of cups | 15 |
| Ranked cups | Peach Cup (week 1) Mario Cup (week 2) |
| Coin Rush course | SNES Choco Island 1 |
| << (2022) << (2023-2025) List of tours >> | |
The Battle Tour was a tour in Mario Kart Tour. It originally occurred from October 5, 2022 through October 18, 2022 as the game's eightieth tour, being rerun in subsequent years during a hiatus of new in-game drivers, kart parts, and courses. It was also the first tour to run during this hiatus.
As the tour's name indicates, it introduced Battle Mode as a new playable mode in both single-player and multiplayer, specifically Balloon Battle, with Battle Course 1 from Mario Kart: Super Circuit and Cookie Land from Mario Kart: Double Dash!! being the first battle courses. However, due to a glitch that caused multiplayer levels to get lowered, multiplayer was unplayable throughout the tour's initial run in 2022. The tour was also heavily food-themed, introducing Luigi in a chef outfit and several food-themed karts and gliders. In addition to the new Battle Mode content, a new remix course based on the Donut Plains courses from Super Mario Kart known as RMX Donut Plains 1 debuted in this tour.
The Autumn Celebration event began in this tour. Like the Winter Celebration in the Wario vs. Waluigi, 2022 Los Angeles, and Sky Tours, the event lasted for three tours, ending in the 2022 Autumn Tour. This marked the first time a new event began immediately after a previous one had ended. In addition, players could earn the newly introduced Green Speeder and Red Toad (Pit Crew) as a reward for placing high in the ranked cups.
Starting from this tour, the maximum player level has been increased to level 400, the maximum tier has been increased to 99, the maximum grade has been increased to S+9, the base-point cap for drivers, karts, and gliders has been increased, many items were added to the Daily Selects, and tour gifts now mainly contain free pipe launches. Premium Challenges++ have also been added to the game. The number of cups in each tour has also been raised to fifteen (making this the first tour since the Mario Bros. Tour sixty-eight tours prior to have more than twelve). Due to this, every race course in the tour had all four variants appear, making this the first tour to feature all four variants of every race course that appeared in it.
This was the first tour to not have the regular weekly pipes that could be fired by rubies and contained spotlight items, which were replaced by the Spotlight Shop introduced in this tour, including the removal of the spotlight items in the regular weekly pipe being raised to a higher shelf in the second or third course of cups during their featured tour, making Mii Racing Suits the only ones that can be raised to a higher shelf. Due to the major changes, the tutorial for new players was also altered.
The eleventh set of Expert Challenges was made available at the start of this tour in 2022 and lasted until the end of the 2022 Holiday Tour.
A new bonus challenge called Precision Gliding debuted in this tour in 2022, in which the player glides through targets to earn points towards a larger target worth more points.
This tour's Coin Rush course was SNES Choco Island 1, which was reused from the Peach vs. Daisy Tour. The menu's background featured the Yoshi Cookies from Cookie Land as the landmark for this tour.
As of this tour's debut, a large number of drivers, karts, and gliders, including Kamek, Tanooki Mario, Birdo (White), the Tropical Truck, the Goo-Goo Buggy, the Luigi Parafoil, and the Rose Parasol, are available in regular tour pipes, including the All-Clear Pipe.
Occurrences[edit]
Tour[edit]
The tour ran during the following periods:
- October 4, 2022, 11:00 p.m. PT – October 18, 2022, 10:59 p.m. PT[1] (as the 80th tour)
- October 3, 2023, 11:00 p.m. PT – October 17, 2023, 10:59 p.m. PT[2] (as the 106th tour)
- October 1, 2024, 11:00 p.m. PT – October 15, 2024, 10:59 p.m. PT[3] (as the 132nd tour)
- September 30, 2025, 11:00 p.m. PT – October 14, 2025, 10:59 p.m. PT[4] (as the 158th tour)
Week 1[edit]
The first week ran during the following periods:
- October 4, 2022, 11:00 p.m. PT – October 11, 2022, 10:59 p.m. PT
- October 3, 2023, 11:00 p.m. PT – October 10, 2023, 10:59 p.m. PT
- October 1, 2024, 11:00 p.m. PT – October 8, 2024, 10:59 p.m. PT
- September 30, 2025, 11:00 p.m. PT – October 7, 2025, 10:59 p.m. PT
Week 2[edit]
The second week ran during the following periods:
- October 11, 2022, 11:00 p.m. PT – October 18, 2022, 10:59 p.m. PT
- October 10, 2023, 11:00 p.m. PT – October 17, 2023, 10:59 p.m. PT
- October 8, 2024, 11:00 p.m. PT – October 15, 2024, 10:59 p.m. PT
- October 7, 2025, 11:00 p.m. PT – October 14, 2025, 10:59 p.m. PT
Spotlight Shop[edit]
| Week 1 banner items See § Occurrence Week 1 | ||||
| Item type | Name | Cost | Contents | Banner image |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Driver | Mario (Chef) | 105  rubies for first purchase (starting 2023); 150 rubies for all other purchases; Amount: 3 |
 Mario (Chef) ×1 |
|
| Glider | Chocolate Pretzel | 70 rubies for first purchase (starting 2023); 100 rubies for all other purchases; Amount: 3 |
 Chocolate Pretzel ×1 |
|
| Week 2 banner items See § Occurrence Week 2 | ||||
| Item type | Name | Cost | Contents | Banner image |
| Driver | Luigi (Chef) | 105 rubies for first purchase (starting 2023); 150 rubies for all other purchases; Amount: 3 |
 Luigi (Chef) ×1 |
|
| Glider | Para-Panini | 70 rubies for first purchase (starting 2023); 100 rubies for all other purchases; Amount: 3 |
 Para-Panini ×1 |
|
Daily Spotlight[edit]
The Daily Spotlight contains a mixture of items themed around the tour, items that have ranked tracks as favorites, and gold items. The rates listed are specific for that type of item; drivers, karts, and gliders are selected separately. Items marked with an asterisk (*) do not appear in the Daily Spotlight during the week they are available as Spotlight Shop banner items.
Initial Run (2022)[edit]
Reruns (2023-2025)[edit]
Cups[edit]
 Peach Cup Ranked cup (week 1) |
 RMX Donut Plains 1 |
 1,100
|
 GCN Cookie Land (Balloon Battle) |
1,400
|
 3DS Wario Shipyard R/T |
1,500
|
Ring Race | |
| 1,600
|
2,100
|
2,200
|
 SNES Choco Island 1 |
Toadette | ||||
| 1,900
|
2,400
|
2,600
|
10
| |||||
| 2,100
|
2,800
|
3,000
|
15
| |||||
| 2,400
|
3,100
|
3,300
|
25
| |||||
 Mii Cup |
 SNES Choco Island 2R |
900
|
 SNES Donut Plains 1T |
900
|
 RMX Ghost Valley 1R/T |
1,500
|
Precision Gliding | |
| 1,400
|
1,400
|
2,300
|
 RMX Donut Plains 1 |
Mario | ||||
| 1,700
|
1,600
|
2,700
|
100
| |||||
| 1,900
|
1,900
|
3,100
|
250
| |||||
| 2,200
|
2,200
|
3,700
|
400
| |||||
 Mario Cup Ranked cup (week 2) |
 N64 Choco Mountain R/T |
1,700
|
 RMX Donut Plains 1R/T |
1,700
|
 GBA Battle Course 1 (Balloon Battle) |
1,700
|
Goomba Takedown | |
| 2,700
|
2,700
|
2,700
|
 SNES Choco Island 2 |
Baby Daisy | ||||
| 3,100
|
3,100
|
3,100
|
10
| |||||
| 3,600
|
3,600
|
3,600
|
||||||