itt: let's whine about chocobo race balance

[Mikagaru]

ChocoMeteor can not be reflected, The Hero Tonic completely negates it and the Stamina pill will cancel any stamina drain from it. Choco esuna can cure the lame status.
Bars water can be a game changing item ver been hit by 3 in a row? It increases the rate at wich your Stamina depletes because of the Heavy lathered state.
Gravity ball, is not powerfull but, it will determine a win for you at the later Ratings 100+
the NPC's are insane, raced Speed Racer yet? Before your even close to his stats it is 1 of the only ways to beat him.
Choco Ease will literally restore 50 stamina not sure how the value is determined but Choco ease II will restore 100 and Choco Ease III will Restore 150, It is a very situational Abillity because of the requirment that your hit by a Gravity Ball. The later ratings Suck cause it feels to me like the NPC's learn your habbits and abillitys.
1 of the best things to do if your first Place is to leave briars in the chest for the rear field to wipe each other out (unless there right on you), if there is a gravity ball or a bars water before the briars take them and just waste em. take Sprint shoes and Stamina pills always same with hero tonics. Sometimes it is actually better to get hit by a gravity ball/Bars Water then taking it and letting the person behind you have the sprint shoes, stamina pill or anything else that could give them an adventage on you.
I am on my 6th generation Chocobo atm And I have done a lot of races.

[Gallus]

Not always you can dodge briar. When you are clustered, I've been occasionally brutally comboed by the one behind me casting heavy and another one sprinting to my ass with briars, you are heavied, blocked and briared, absolutely nothing you can do when this happens, do not claim the opposite lol. The only solution to this is:

1 - Not have horrible luck like me.
2 - Avoid getting clustered.

The second one however isn't much of a solution, because if you slow down at the beginning to prevent getting clustered with the other chocobos, there are always the 1-2 chocobos with head start + choco dash that just get too far and then they are practically unreachable, so slowing down at the beginning is an almost guarantee you won't even smell the first spots.

[Honourlessichi]

Bars water can be a game changing item ver been hit by 3 in a row? It increases the rate at wich your Stamina depletes because of the Heavy lathered state.
Gravity ball, is not powerfull but, it will determine a win for you at the later Ratings 100+
the NPC's are insane, raced Speed Racer yet? Before your even close to his stats it is 1 of the only ways to beat him.

I guess i could be biased,my chocobos are in their lowest possible tier they can race in until forced into the next and are pretty good breeds,so both the water and gravity ball have never ever cost me a race,despite being hit by them multiple times.

[RobinRethiel]

Choco Ease will literally restore 50 stamina not sure how the value is determined but Choco ease II will restore 100 and Choco Ease III will Restore 150, It is a very situational Abillity because of the requirment that your hit by a Gravity Ball.

You can use those Slow Trap to use Choco Ease, too.