YMMV / Crash Arena Turbo Stars

• Anti-Metagame Character: Weapon, to be exact. Some cars in the Championship League use one rotary Blade weapon to counter the Lifter.
• Complacent Gaming Syndrome:
  • High-level Championship League tends to be dominated by Rocket and Minigun weapons with lots of damage toolboxes, since they, being ranged weapons, can hit the opposing cars first.
  • In Ultimate League, Santa's Sleigh (which is basically Whale chassis in Ultimate) is one of the most often used chassis, due to its stability, at least until Zeptolab buffed some old chassis.
  • As of February 2021, the most popular bodies are the Golem (which has all the strengths of the Glacial Menace chassis, but covers up its weakness of being flipped easily with its gadget and unique wheels), Apocatlypse Bus (usually better than the Fire Hazard, as it's very stable because of tread wheels and can flip other machines due to a similar wedge) and the Paws Rover.
  • Skull Goblet is very popular, because of its sheer versatility. It gives your machine passive regen, drags it towards the opposing machine with ridiculous speed even if it doesn't have wheels (Which bypasses the weakness of tread wheels, their slow speed).
• Difficulty Spike: On prestige 1, you fight others who has prestige 1 or higher, and some of them has the Lifter. Before that, you only fight non-prestigers.
• Game-Breaker:
  • In the Championship league, the Lifter gadget, since it allows you to lift an opponent's car at range.
  • The Tranquilizer Gun is often seen as the best gadget, because it fires a dart that COMPLETELY stuns the opposing machine for awhile. The main problem if that the Tranquilizer Gun activates faster compared to other gadgets; it fires pretty much immediately when the match starts, which beats the Lifter. The only way to counter it is to use Drill-type weapons or Miniguns, which can destroy (or shoot down) the dart on contact. The gadget has since been nerfed, with its base stun duration reduced and multiple darts no longer stacking.
  • The Lucky Horseshoe (and its variant the Firecracker), which removes your opponent's frontal wheel and lifts them on the front. Also, it costs only 5 energy (the lowest amount of energy in the Ultimate League).
  • The Flue, which disables your opponent's movement, and it also costs 5 energy.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Zeptolap buffed some underused Ultimate Parts (as well as giving them a new appearance), making them viable again.