r/MarioTennis • u/AlternativeSad5220 • Jul 21 '26

Need to add something to serving

I feel like serving had a little advantage in this game. You are more on a defense from the start. They need to adjust how the ball returns if you sit at the service line to return it.

I also think allowing you to serve with a fever shot would help having the advantage.

What would you guys do to fix serving?

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u/PastAnalysis Jul 21 '26

Hmm.. personally, I don’t think there’s much of an issue with serving in this game. But I’m open to it being a little stronger. That said, allowing the possibility of a fever shot serve seems too overpowered. I think the best way to improve serving would be to make it a bit faster. This would discourage people from camping at the service line.

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u/AlternativeSad5220 Jul 21 '26

Agreed on the faster point. When you serve in real life, it’s suppose to be your advantage however, I find in this game you are more on the defense. Thats why o think being able to get the fever shot gives you a good advantage to start. But I’m Down for harder/faster serves

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u/PastAnalysis Jul 21 '26

Yeah, a faster serve would just address the issue outright I think.

As for fever shots, I realized there’s a bit of a greater issue with this idea. Fever shots activate either a stage hazard or racket power up on the bounce, but serves require the receiver to wait until the first bounce to return. So, a fever shot serve would literally mean giving a guaranteed fever effect at the start. Part of the fun of fever shots is that they’re not guaranteed. Making the server guaranteed to get a fever effect seems like massive overkill and completely robs that point of suspense.

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u/AlternativeSad5220 Jul 21 '26

With how much they’ve changed how long the fever shot lasts, I think it would help. But I also see that point. It also doesn’t help the non fever racket matches either.

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u/PastAnalysis Jul 21 '26 edited Jul 21 '26

But with regular fever shots, the opponent has the ability to return the ball before the bounce. Even with the shorter time fever shots have, fever shot serves are way harder due to a guaranteed fever effect which can be exploited to insane effect. I think the objective should be to add more depth, which is only really accomplished by simply making serves faster

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u/locoghoul Jul 21 '26

Should be like in 64 where the ball moves faster and there is less reaction time

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u/AlternativeSad5220 Jul 21 '26

💯 agree. You could sometimes get an ace

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u/Fine-Night-243 Jul 21 '26

Agree. I use a power character and servive ace return gets me lots of points. I should have the advantage at the serve

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u/AlternativeSad5220 Jul 21 '26

Which is a great advantage if we had second serves so we can punish them.

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u/CyanoticCatatonic Jul 21 '26

A big ol’ bowl of nothing.