Gacha Chat

[little glen]

1 win is all i needed to escape

thank goodness cancer 2.0 didn't happen

...yet on this cup

was quite lucky for this ticket this time, with little to no manhattan cafes

tho needed to struggle against the usual golshis

now that i secured the final time to grind for the next one

[naive hawk]

dont ask me how

6.7% cafe haha funny number

[viscid elm]

https://youtu.be/cFawbORFr20

[dawn valve]

Peta is just.... yeah.

[little glen]

managed to survive group A round 2 with one race

like it's 1/20 total lmao

[little glen]

Runs: 45 (Trashed: 3)
Early Long Inspo: 7 (A: 0)
Long A Inspo: 3 (S: 1)
Beat Arima Kinen: 14
Clear Unity Cup + Ura Finale while at Long A: 1```

The project is on hold for now...

[hazy seal]

Hah...

Gonna start fishing for groundwork for the next cm

[past ibex]

https://youtu.be/SVeam_lliG0?si=Zfi42HQkldYW4VCP

[simple iron]

Runaways here are meant to be lategame blockers and to push up the pace for PC or front. Saw some people do really well with Runaway+Daiwa or Runaway+1kWitPaces

And i think they just reuse the Suzuka from last CM

[dawn valve]

Yeah, I know. It's just pretty funny and most definitely didn't work

Suzuka just dies too early this CM

[simple iron]

Dunno, the ones i saw died perfectly to give Daiwa or Paces NSM right when last leg started ^^

[dawn valve]

I guess it's more that pacers still don't win more than, like, 1 outta 20 games that's the problem

(source: my Tachyon )

I suppose hitting NSM doesn't really help much if the Ends hit it as well

[little glen]

NSM kinda less effective on Kyoto as far as I learned

the next Scorpio one apperantly don't require both uphill nor downhill skills

[hazy seal]

I have no idea what i am doing next cm as usual

But I am now fishing for groundwork with angling lmao

[little glen]

I don't think i would try to go for front runner main this time

since it isn't my expertise

[dawn valve]

It's less about expertise and more about being even remotely prepared for it

Hell, I know the stuff I need and it's still hard building fronts

It will be a lot easier once my borrow slot is free though

[little glen]

you would always gonna expect it would be harder to build front runner but yes it is 💀

[hazy seal]

Front doesnt use the unity cup gold skills right?

[dawn valve]

Not really

I guess cooldown if you wanna run front in long, but that's silly anyway

[hazy seal]

Oh i meant next cm

[dawn valve]

Well, the statement works in general

The only use case for any of the unity gold skills I can see is Cooldown in long tracks, which isn't optimal either

In particular because no Front has enough SP to buy 2 gold recoveries

[hazy seal]

Ill prolly run Smaru and Digitan next cm

And maybe wedding groove

[dawn valve]

All viable choices

[hazy seal]

Or maybe Hween Creek

Just playing for fancy alts

[dawn valve]

Definitely not downhill, but uphill should be fine since you have one mid race and one directly before last spurt in late

Could be rather helpful

But yeah, don't get straight descent

[hazy seal]

I read that its not that useful as the sole accel skill

[dawn valve]

Not as the sole one, no. But it shouldn't be anyway

[hazy seal]

Believe in the rushing gale

I should do something stupid and play corner connoisseur with rushing gale

[dawn valve]

Even on this track connoisseur isn't great, honestly

But it doesn't hurt to play around with it

Most important thing is still that straightway spurt doesn't work on this track

So no ends

[little glen]

arrows weren't kind to me this run

[hazy seal]

Oh?

[dreamy trout]

https://www.eeinstagram.com/p/DSUotwzEr8W/

Certified Nikke cosplay moment

[dawn valve]

That outfit is definitely something

[dreamy trout]

Best winter skin fr fr

If you look hot you feel hot or something

[dawn valve]

They're Nikke, they don't freeze

[dreamy trout]

:P

[little glen]

hot immunity

[dawn valve]

That's the opposite

The term you're looking for is cold resistance

[little glen]

ah right

[simple iron]

3/2/3/0 today ^^
Still happy cause Teio finally got her first round 2 win

[naive hawk]

just did this run for fun

maybe i should start playing front

not enough greens tho 😭

[dawn valve]

Skill issue

(Get it? Cause it's....)

Also that Stam is a bit too low, you'd need a gold rec with that unless no Nature

[naive hawk]

yupp

i did NOOT hit any stam spark

[dawn valve]

@naive hawk behold, I'm actually already done

She's perfect

Slightly lower stam, so I got the gold rec

She has Unrestrained and the Groundwork

I even got the lane movement combo in

If I had 5 SPs more I could've picked Sparkling instead of Up Tempo

That's the only thing that bugs me

[little glen]

Very clean

[little glen]

yep capricorn is ready

[dawn valve]

It's a sprint, you absolutely MUST have max speed

1.1k ain't gonna cut it

Also no Sprint S (and yeah, I know getting that is hard. Essentially requires a borrow)

[naive hawk]

wait fire

[dawn valve]

I switched from Suzuka Stam to Suzuka Spd and she was like "There, there, NOW you get it. Here, have all the skills you need."

[simple iron]

Funnily enough you also don't need Stam at all, since the course is so much downhill you could borderline survive with like 200 Stam and Guts even ^^

[dawn valve]

Which means you can cut Riko as well, do something silly like 3 spd 3 Wit or whatever depending on the runner

But you shouldn't actually cut Guts completely cause of dueling

Runaway Suzuka will be a monster on there

[little glen]

Going to be very interesting for Capricorn

[dawn valve]

FInally time for your Curren to shine

.. once you get her stats up more

[little glen]

yep

it is finally time

oh right

kitasan black incident 2 is in 2 days

-# aka the fabled kitasan black rerun

[dawn valve]

Well... it's tomorrow, so less than that

It is pretty funny that Cygames quickly introduced their own webshop beforehands so people could swipe there and bypass Steam taking a cut right before that banner drops btw

[hazy seal]

Well well well

What are the numbers on getting both med and groundworks

[dawn valve]

Just be lucky, easy

You can technically force the groundwork, but that blocks a slot in your deck

So this one was actually inherited

[dawn valve]

Doing some practice runs and it's really interesting how well you can actually see SMaru utilize the lane movement skills

Moving out and back in

[hazy seal]

Nimbly navigating

[dawn valve]

This'll do for 3rd ace for Scorpio

Also fulfils the "bring at least 1x Lone Wolf or you'll be screwed" requirement

Although wit might be too low, but it's gambling

[hazy seal]

I found a pair of parents that give like 7 groundwork and 10 med sparks

But the run rolled S mile om

[dawn valve]

Happens

Gotta persist until it does what you wants

Or be like me and do 30 Golshi runs with 12+ Long sparks and not get a single Long S on a non-glue run

And then end up just using a random Taishin that wasn't even made with borrows

[hazy seal]

Almost had a vibe run, the entire classic year went by without using the rest button

[dawn valve]

That's always nice, sometimes things just work out nicely

Gotta balance out the ragebait runs

[hazy seal]

Back to back onsen run lmao

[naive hawk]

got unlucky on some wit and speed trainings

kitasan i need you to lock in

but i might be using creek this cm since ive never used her in one

• the wit bonus is awesome

needed some bursts

might gotta run mcqueen just to maybe have one of the mcqueen runs not shoot out 1 star wit

lowkey maybe this is the cm i actually make a runaway

[little glen]

Doubt i would won the final race anyways

[simple iron]

Time to pick up my 1200 Carats ^^

Nvm...

[naive hawk]

gg 3rd place my taishin got late started and boxed in

[simple iron]

I didn't even watch the race, just skipped through it

[naive hawk]

my tach hit everything just couldnt be gold ship

my tach even hit nsm

now to use these 4 tickets on these festivals.. or save

[simple iron]

I guess i'm saving them for Dober, think she's soonish?

[naive hawk]

it was so winnable if my taishin wasnt in a box

[simple iron]

On 28th ^^

[naive hawk]

unlucky

[dawn valve]

Unlucky

Got Ship'd

Click rolled a better Lobby it seems

[simple iron]

Surely one of these CM's won't be a Golshi cup

[dawn valve]

I mean, next one shouldn't be

And the Sprint one

But yeah.. the whole lobby was unlucky, My Tachyon was literally the only Pace, the rest was all End or Late

there even was an Evil Nature ffs

Like, what was she doing there

[little glen]

seemed i got a good lobby there

Unless one

Teio wasn't supposed to be this good

but I guess I got Long S'd

[dawn valve]

Just a bit sad Cafe couldn't crown herself, but alas, Arima Kinen CM it is for her, surely

[little glen]

If you drink cofveve enough, sure it is

[dawn valve]

Now to use the trainee tickets to get a Goldship, right guys? Haha

Cause it won't give me Gold City

Not even that, smh

[naive hawk]

ill have enough for dober but not enough for oguri xmas

im just gonna skip dober and use everyone elses

idc how cute she is

[dawn valve]

I have enough carats for pity on Kitasan banner, luck be with me

[naive hawk]

xmas oguri and BIWA…

is calling

ill just buy the selector at new years and buy dober if i want

or GAOOOO

[dawn valve]

Can always just do anniversary ticket for Dober I guess. Or, yeah, just borrow

[naive hawk]

yeah i think the next thing ill dump on is oguri and then matikane speed

matikanetannhauser dreams crushed

[dawn valve]

Just gonna get really annoying for anyone playing late that the mandatory parents afterwards are Ryan and Dober and you can't use anything else, lmao

[naive hawk]

yeah luckily i do have ryan

[dawn valve]

I mean, who doesn't

[naive hawk]

it was so bad when i didnt have ryan 3

[dawn valve]

But is it a good one though

[naive hawk]

3ing everyone was soo tough but that was like before cm was dropping statues everywhere

i can almost 4 star golshi

right and brian since i got that dupe lmao

[dawn valve]

I still love my fronts tbh, they're just so annoying to build and not competitive half the time

Just run Golshi on everything yolo gaming is just bleh

[naive hawk]

lmaooo

[dawn valve]

#nerfgolshi

[naive hawk]

people are gonna bring late golshi aswell

for this cm

also mcqueen might hate me

she just likes to triple mood down and riko doesnt wanna showup

and when i do get a mood down i have so much stam

so theres no point to recreation

[dawn valve]

It's time to bring back my Leo Cup hero, Smaru will show em

Crawl in the mud, peasants

Losing the finals aside this was a profitable CM though with the gold round turnout

[naive hawk]

yupp

[little glen]

finally got the best digichan run for scorpio yet

[dawn valve]

Doing random things

[dawn valve]

She's actually competitive for Scorpio, lmao

[little glen]

No idea what to work next but I am considering dual debuffers strat this time

but if i want to insert another ace, that would be vodka

or golshi... bc y'know, she's been neighing back in Leo Cup

[dawn valve]

My plan is mostly to improve my TT roster to S ranks once I have Kitasan, but until then I'm sorta just doing random shit like raising a Medium Taiki

[hazy seal]

Got the thing but run is hot garbo

[little glen]

trying to up more oomph to nice nature but lost the hot spring run in semifinals, it doesn't matter anyways when hints doesn't occur more oftem

also lowkey wish more wits

-# bought those recovery skills after the scenario anyways to empt out my sps

[dawn valve]

Nature doesn't need oomph, just wit

Just run 6 with cards

[little glen]

just ran a silly guts one

[dawn valve]

Ok game, very funny

Me doing a Haru grandparent run to get some dirt parent and having a bunch of excellent skills on her to inherit and then...

Like pls, lmao

Not a single white skills is just wild

Troll parent

[little glen]

happened to me one time, instant glue tho

soon it's going to be a hellish time tho

[hazy seal]

Hmm...

I can get kita from the anniversary ticket

And then a crystal as well

So i technically only need 3 more copies?

[little glen]

yep

getting 2 more copies is at least good enough to use

3LB is minimum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXC76x8EGoQ

[viscid elm]

https://tenor.com/view/ro635-robella-gfl2-girls-frontline-2-gfl-gif-2460169393146119198

[naive hawk]

mariya go double debuffer GAOOOO

https://tenor.com/view/uma-musume-umamusume-uma-musume-uma-picmix-gif-1536643255420878235

[little glen]

TRUE

screw everything, go my oshi

(well in this case digichan is my 2nd oshi)

[naive hawk]

just had a generational suzuka run

but i missed taking the lead

😭

medium s tho and groundwork easy

[dawn valve]

What are the stats though

[naive hawk]

might be too low on power

could’ve done less stam clicks

useable tho ill forsure keep making ace suzuka

[dawn valve]

Just stay in the lead, won't need power there

[naive hawk]

TRUTHNUKE

think i might also do mcqueen since her ability is BROOOKEN here

could front mcqueen

im triple aceing no matter what tho

[dawn valve]

This is not an ace Suzuka though, it's a blocker, right? Cause a runaway Suzuka as an Ace for sure needs recovery

[naive hawk]

im aceing i think 800 + the guts and greens i live forsure

i could take a white

but shes so sp heavy

ill room match and see if she lives

[dawn valve]

There's zero chance she wins without recovery

Maybe if you had 1k Stam or whatever

But blocker is good to have

You problem aiming for a medium win is evil in nature

[simple iron]

Tbf i think Runaways usually get out of range for most debuffs

Forget which are actually global ^^

[dawn valve]

Murmur is global and that's enough to instantly kill a no-margin runaway

[little glen]

Murmur + Dazzling Deorientation is literal death sentence for late surgers

[naive hawk]

okay shes lowkey bowling ball

ill grab a white or something if i get 800 agakn

and no taking the lead feels badge

[dawn valve]

btw, did you see my medium Taiki? She's actually surprisingly competitive according to my practice runs

[naive hawk]

godly

[dawn valve]

Thanks to the high wit she triggers most of the skills in most races and that always triggers tails and for the final spurt she has, like, 5 skills that can hit, actually kinda mental

[simple iron]

I'm still doing parent runs, but the plan is still to run Teio/Taiki again, the issue is with so many probable Fronts and PCs triggering SfV might get painful

[dawn valve]

See, that's why you bring Red Shift

Gets you into position

[simple iron]

So the presumed last spot would go to Grass Wonder with Dominator again, but i'm not even sure i'd put Iron on her ^^

[simple iron]

Red Shift is a bit unreliable too, can trigger too fast (or too late)

[dawn valve]

On this track at least it will pretty much always get you into position to trigger SfV (unless your Taiki is already dead of course)

Now if that will be enough to win is a different question

After all other umas hit their uniques, too

[simple iron]

I mean, it can trigger 110m before accel actually does anything ^^

[dawn valve]

Now we're getting a but too sweaty tbh. That's such a short time frame out of the activation window

I guess you could bring Duty instead, but I see Red Shift as the better option

[little glen]

t os to,e

[dawn valve]

It's time

Good luck, everyone

[little glen]

first ticket pull

[simple iron]

I'm not sure if i should start with tickets or do 180 pulls first :-I

110 pulls in and all i got was a Falco SSR

170

So much for all my FineMo SSR hopes, gonna have to waste a crystal on Kita now i guess

Wait, nvm i guess i actually missed one at some point

Got 3 with pity ^^

[dawn valve]

These were the new ones I got, + 1 Biko which is nice and 2 Pasas

Only 2 Kitasans, so with pity I'm at MLB 3

And the crystal

[little glen]

yep nada

told ya the kitasan black incident would happening

[dawn valve]

First draw after pity

With crystal that's MLB, so I can actually stop

[simple iron]

Spend 30k 27k to get 200 back

[dawn valve]

Hey, it's something

But man, the other random new SSRs I got are all pretty much useless, lmao. DO appreciate the Biko though.

[simple iron]

I'm considering whether to now use crystal+selector on Biko or FineMo to bring it to 2LB...

Regretting not doing 100 pulls on Biko, but that would be a pretty optimistic venture back then...

[dawn valve]

Well, from now on my resources aren't hell bent on absolutely having to pull on mandatory support rerun banner, so I'll wait and see with my voucher

No point in spending it on a LB0 FineMo

[simple iron]

The idea spending it on FineMo is that i would MLB it in February

[dawn valve]

Biko actually seems pretty usable at LB1 though

[simple iron]

This is what i'm actually comparing (0LB curent state / 2LB uncap / MLB borrow) ^^

[dawn valve]

Really the only relevant thing Biko gains after LB1 is priority

Everything else is negligible

Good, but neglible

So if I use the LB1 I can go borrow a FineMo or, like, a Halo for Uma Stan (not for scorpio, but generally speaking)

[little glen]

I guess I decided to forfeit and go ticket + crystal route, heh

I have Fine Motion LB1 but I think that's enough to use

Might go for Super Creek since I haven't got her and probably use the crystal asap too

Biko is already at LB2 so it's more than enough

yea I guess I'll go for Super Creek now

[hazy seal]

Spent my 22 tickets

Got the final copy of ssr Riko

[dawn valve]

Neat

[hazy seal]

No kitasan

10k carats, prolly saving for Oguri idk

[little glen]

good thing i have alot of currens transferred on the go thanks to the long curren chan project

[little glen]

aighty

[simple iron]

Teio trial run, biggest issue was failing 4 trainings at ~10% (3 of which were early on) and then failing the Kikuka for triple crown

[little glen]

damn, i wish the inspo drops another med spark but whatever, she's gonna be useful for a dazzling disorientation

-# another excuse for me to run oshi in cm

[hazy seal]

Finally?

[dawn valve]

You kinda ruined it by taking Dodging without its counterpart

You either take 2 early movement skills or none

with just 1 you actually lose momentum

[hazy seal]

Probably dead without any more stam

[dawn valve]

Also you depend on the wit trigger for focus

[hazy seal]

Of all the sparks, I got groundwork from a random spirit thingy lmao

[dawn valve]

So for future reference, if you have a choice, take a green over that that 100% triggers (or both if you can )

[hazy seal]

Bro this deck has no greens outside of lucky 7

[dawn valve]

None in the parents either?

Gotta get lucky and get them from races then I guess

[hazy seal]

Yeah

Just pushing for med and groundwork spark

I keep doing a few more runs to fish left handed from suzuka

[dawn valve]

Just don't take Dodging without Prudent is the main thing there, really. Besides green skill farming. The rest is gambling for wit checks

[little glen]

did decent amount of non-practice test runs, and for the first time ever i am quite impressed by my digichan this time

few losing due to usual blockings and suzuka being suzuka, but it's still good enough

[dawn valve]

Your Digi is good, just the wit is a bit low, so full on gambling

[little glen]

yea

honestly i'll take it

[dawn valve]

And the way you built her she's a pacer

So keep that in mind and don't put her into late or something

[little glen]

i put her on end and still work lmao

[dawn valve]

End sucks on this track. Just go pace, trust me.

[little glen]

noted, would try that again in next testings

also noticed that suzuka can't be debuffed if she's a runaway

so that's another plus

[dawn valve]

Red Ace is completely useless as Late/End as well btw

But realistically speaking if you run into a Front runner lobby that won't trigger regardless for you

[little glen]

yea I just wanted to know if end would work there but honestly, if putting her in End gave me some wins, changing to pace would be even better

but we'll see in the next testings

also at one point in those tests somehow my curren is at first place after long corner before the finish line lmao

so maybe she has a little bit potential there but she's just there for emo support (and oshi), i'll let her pass

[simple iron]

Changed Dober for Tachyon for Medium skill but she didn't give any and not much changed overall ^^
At least Medium S is 2/2, so i'll count it as consistent

[little glen]

https://youtu.be/24BlekqVVgQ

[dawn valve]

Now that power is definitely too low, sadly. So yeah, about the same overall.

[little glen]

A nice quick glimpse of upcoming scenario (and why it's longer than two previous scenarios)
https://youtu.be/WLzHo1VleT4

[naive hawk]

@dawn valve see i need to remember to hit stam like two extra times near the end

i thought this was glue

time to see if it performs at all

flopped too much witmaxxing TEAM TRIALS YOU GO!

NAW SOMETHING CRAZIER HAPPENED

BIWA!!!

[dawn valve]

Random big head win

[naive hawk]

shes so powerful

i saw her ult go off and i went wait.

and then shooting+speed star went off im like NAW...

[little glen]

update: i've tested many times for other styles but i never won any

then i switched to end closer style again and suddenly got wins

well I guess my digichan is better this way

[rigid island]

i'm so behind on zzz, just finished the 2.3 story and ye shunguang looks cool

[dawn valve]

@simple iron look at this troll Teio

Girl was like "what even is speed training"

[simple iron]

The thing with Teio is you can usually get away with 2 Spd cards, but if that fails towards late game...

[dawn valve]

This one has 3, because RNG already hates me

And two of those are Kita and Biko

but lol

[simple iron]

Oof

[dawn valve]

Instead I get 45+ stam trainings every turn

[little glen]

I swear this was for funsies

why always in the time where it was so unserious bro 🥀

[little glen]

Trying to improve Digichan
Got a great early run
The game think your uma is too good so they decided to throw you stupid random losings bc "Not Enough Skills"
Lose Unity Cup bc you're too good
The run is bricked, wonderful 👍

[simple iron]

Welp, just started another Pasa parent run, but using the deck i had for Teio ace

Not sure how to salvage this

[little glen]

consider it another grind run for event pts

[simple iron]

The fact i used 2x on it is pretty much the only reason i'm not straight up abandoning it ^^

Even using Riko in URA

[little glen]

lol

[dreamy trout]

Kjoot

[viscid elm]

It earns less than 3M/month but it's MY less than 3M/month gacha game

[little glen]

For my gacha games experience

I played Final Fantasy Brave Exvius, Crash Fever, Kingdom Hearts Union Cross, Epic 7, and a little bit of Blue Archive but that one got me uninterested in less than a month

Cookie Run Ovenbreak used to be a gacha game too but now it became a geometry dash for some reasons

[dawn valve]

I've done that before. It's not terrible, she basically does the same thing, just less stats overall

[little glen]

i haven't used her in URA before

does it still allow you to date her in URA?

or is she just gonna occasionally appear to boost small stamina?

[simple iron]

Yes, like Grumpy said, it's all the same, but she's just not the scenario link ^^

[little glen]

hmm interesting

you know what, i'll attempt to do 3 pals one run and see how it goes lol

[dawn valve]

That's just generally true for pal cards btw

They still work outside their scenarios, just not as well

[simple iron]

It's not quite 3, but i've been running Tazuna/Riko on mile&sprint runs when i'm updating my TT team

Riko just out of habit really and Tazuna for Concentration

[dawn valve]

Wouldn't it just always be better to run the stam Suzuka for that

[little glen]

i already got scorpio team setup

so I guess im gonna do this for the sake of challenge

and the subject of experiment is.. OG El Condor

[simple iron]

The issue then is that she 'pollutes' the SSR pool, have to go through the SSR chain which can hold off other events, while on Tazuna it's just through her dates which replace resting

[dawn valve]

Yeah, but you already have Riko dates to go through and 12 dates is definitely too much

[dawn valve]

I'm done with that, if I grind more for CM rn I'll go insane

I will just try to actually achieve S ranks for TT umas

Which is easier said than done

[simple iron]

10 dates, and it literally just means almost never resting

[dawn valve]

eh. but to each their own tactic, whatever works in the end

But who do you even want concentration for though, cause if it's fronts you'd definitely always run Suzuka over Tazuna 100% of cases

Unless it's a Suzuka run

[hazy seal]

Run over tazuna

[dawn valve]

Listen man, her advice might be god awful, but she doesn't deserve that

She's just not good at the game, it's fine

[simple iron]

Everyone in TT cause it's a very cheap gold ^^

[dawn valve]

Fair I guess

[hazy seal]

The doors she open just ain't eclipsing

Meanwhile I did a 10 pull the moment new banner drop in the jp server for Stay Gold

Akikawa showed up with the decorated door just like that

[little glen]

the first attempt was a success

...too successful to say lmfao

The strat here was to get all 3 pals at bar 3 friendship meter before classic year begins and I did it first try
The following is a beautiful chain of bonuses slapped at your uma

Next, all I had to do was to do 3 dates per 6 months, meaning I had to be all focused on finding the correct timing to do so while upping their friendship meters, growing up and pop the balloons efficiently altogether.
The only better chance to train is during the summer trainings and/or your facilities at level 5.
Somehow this run was a very lucky one to have both S Med and Long and Charming passive, so it was a really easy walk from here.
I ended up winning the Unity Cup by luck and won the Ura Finale with all facilities at lvl 5.
This is what happened after:

overall, it was a great challenge

[dawn valve]

Oh hey

This is actually even usable for Scorpio

She just kinda dumb

[little glen]

bring it to cm for a real gambler experience

[naive hawk]

just hit medium s turf s

guess what i didnt hit tho..

i need to borrow falcon for a failsafe

[dawn valve]

Life of training fronts be like

[hazy seal]

Groundworks is stronger than Take the lead huh

[dawn valve]

Groundwork is the MUST have skill for every ace front runner

[dawn valve]

No Mile S only downside of this one

[naive hawk]

okay i hit 797 stam

im crying

this might be a very useable suzu

a couple better trainings and it was 800 wit 800 speed BUt!

FOR NOW THIS IS IT..

[little glen]

https://twitter.com/Nebooler/status/2003323933828006018

Neb (@Nebooler)

WORLDS ONLY 1MILLION BEFORE MANT ACROSS EVERY SERVER LFG

X · Dec 23, 2025, 4:37 AM

omegapog

this was deemed impossible pre-MANT where stat caps increased, but this guy did the miracle

[little glen]

Perhaps an important PSA:
Doing Legend Races actively now can earn you LB shards

for this cycle, you need to run 21 Legend Races to get 2 gold shards and 1 rainbow shard

a very nice little boost for stocking up LB shards

[hazy seal]

Id suppose this is an improvement

[dawn valve]

Why cut and drive though

Really nothing better in the hints?

[hazy seal]

Was sparkling better?

[dawn valve]

Well, cut and drive pretty much can't trigger if she does her job of being a front property, so.... anything is better.

Sparkly Fandom is actually pretty damn good for what it's worth. Easiest trigger ever.

[hazy seal]

Oops I meant flashy landing

Its pretty sparkly

[dawn valve]

Flashy at least works, so yeah, it's better

[hazy seal]

Huh

I read break out and assumed it didn't but I also rmb Mayano works in every strategy

[dawn valve]

Yeah, the text is misleading on a lot of these

https://gametora.com/umamusume/skills

Just check here when in doubt

For reference on these two in question:

[hazy seal]

I am only on the site for secret races and planning races lmao

[dawn valve]

Flashy is order<=3
Cut is order>=3

[hazy seal]

Let's just say they'll be 4 runaway suzuka

[dawn valve]

Well, 3 and one of them would be yours ,

[hazy seal]

How easy is it to get destroyed by a front runner debuff

[dawn valve]

Eh, if you die you die

But Leo is still my only Cm win, despite debuffer hell

[hazy seal]

The idea of 3 front is interesting

[dawn valve]

And Smaru hard carried that

The problem with 3 front is that they all die if one blocker happens

[hazy seal]

I dont rmb but Smaru prolly carried as usual

[dawn valve]

2 front + a backup in whatever position is sorta optimal

[hazy seal]

Ace nature

[dawn valve]

Preferably pace for Scorpio

Ace Nature is a great meme

[hazy seal]

I heard Hcreek is better as parent

[dawn valve]

Unfortunate that her Unique is so useless

[hazy seal]

Hcreek inherit for wedding Groove?

[dawn valve]

Depends on what you run Groove as

Late Groove has more important skills to inherit though, as in Ryan and (soon) Dober

[hazy seal]

Most likely pace

I rarely switch out their default strat

[little glen]

https://twitter.com/Nebooler/status/2003489950080418017

Neb (@Nebooler)

!!Don’t forget to do legend races guys, you can only miss 2 days to still get a ssr shard!!

X · Dec 23, 2025, 3:36 PM

[simple iron]

Oh, looks like Valentine's will be the pinpoint where we're actually aligned with the original timeline before we start overtaking it, since that's when we're supposed to get the Valentine banner with Bourbon (and Flash) ^^

[dawn valve]

Niceu

[little glen]

oh wow

atp i'll enjoy whatever it is

[simple iron]

Trial run on Taiki and it was my highest by far, first S and i never even got over 14k before
Unfortunately it's still a complete fail, no medium S, didn't get a single SSR event done and somehow lost Unity with the strongest team i had in a while
Still decided to change the guest parent, even if this new one seems to have around 148-149 affinity total only ^^

[dawn valve]

How is that an S.... I will never understand these calculations

[simple iron]

I think Wit has a bonus multiplier of some sort, why most people hit it with maxed Wit/Spd in the first place and then the bonus skill points from running like 5 extra races

[little glen]

skill selections also important there

bc there's certain skills that has more pts contributed to the final score than others

speaking of, she's useful at least to push my pasa and digichan onward1!

(unfortunate that this run don't trigger maestro final event for some reasons)

but that's not important anyways, she's here for the trickery!!

[little glen]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ns899Yr_N1A

All she do is eat, eat, and eat

[simple iron]

Looking at the overview of this showtime mode it seems kinda awkward for any ace or parent runs

Started with level 1 and immediately lost debut race with 230+ speed

[little glen]

well this is interesting mode

[simple iron]

And then lost a G2 which she needs for her secret event

Like i know these are things that can happen in a completely regular run too, but just knowing the enemies are even 'very slightly' harder is a bit annoying now ^^

[little glen]

it looks like it is meant for challenge runs

the harder the difficulty the more goodies you will get when clearing it

and the more you will get it the faster you will complete all of them

[dawn valve]

It's fine for parents on lower difficulty

At higher you probably gotta do semi-parents since you need more stats

Gotta gamble more

Definitely ass for ace runs though

[simple iron]

I mean, this was an ace run and it failed at that g2 point

What mostly annoys me is that the stats are so random, like that debut race Taiki lost she still had double the stats of the winner

Can't even tell how much the event actually changed things, just the feeling of it ^^

[dawn valve]

Well, debut race losses are not due to anything else but "lol, you got boxed in, fuck you" RNG

Just happens

From what I've heard at highest difficulty this mode adds, lile, ~200 stats to opponents

So basically it's a "buy your skills during the run or die" mode

Can't wait for after ura finale

[little glen]

lvl 1 already makes me giggle a little bit bc wdym low speed

as balatro enjoyer this is like playing at higher stakes

lvl 5 being black/gold stake, scary

also cleared once again

[naive hawk]

i didnt get the last crystal lowkey

i might try to just farm runs while doing fuji showtime

[little glen]

lvl 2 looks interesting

i may gonna try it later

[little glen]

https://twitter.com/umamusume_eng/status/2004009202151203011

Umamusume: Pretty Derby (@umamusume_eng)

Seasons Eatings!

The Umamusume: Pretty Derby Team wishes you and your loved ones a happy holiday season! 🎁

#Umamusume

X · Dec 25, 2025, 2:00 AM

[little glen]

interesting

[dawn valve]

tl;dr, if someone catches your runaway she can be spot struggled, cause duuuuuuh

[hazy seal]

Uma is a guts game

[dawn valve]

Just don't get caught

[little glen]

hmm

i'm free for the rest of the 2025

so i guess i will try to attempt the second "stake" of the new event

and see how far i can go up to stage 5

this feels like balatro all of sudden lmfao

[dawn valve]

Beating that event is a non-issue even for the most clueless F2P

Put Bakushin, hit speed button, yolo

It's really more of an energy management hassle for sweaty dipshits like us who have fit this in somehow

[simple iron]

Yeah, i'm just gonna spam Bakushin runs in URA now that we no longer get to use 2x energy

Will still need about 13 'speedruns' at level 5 to get all rewards, unless i get lucky with the important ones earlier

[dawn valve]

Hey, maybe we get a lucky ace out of it

Who knows

Or parent

Hence why I'll be doing them in Unity still

[hazy seal]

I'll hope to make something out of Suzuka

[dawn valve]

I still don't have her, can't do anything there

I guess I'll have to wait for her swimsuit version or something

[simple iron]

Oh, on level 5 you don't even get retries ^^

[dawn valve]

Bakushiiiiiin doesn't need retries, duh

[simple iron]

Yup, new scenario record from level 5

[dawn valve]

Oh, the silly mode has its own records, huh

[simple iron]

Nah, you can view scenario records top right ^^

Hence why the previous ones are older URA aces

[dawn valve]

https://tenor.com/view/sakura-bakushin-o-umamusume-uma-musume-pretty-derby-laugh-sakura-bakushin-gif-18336211972009531387

Oh, that's URA, yeah ok

That makes more sense now

I was like "this is pretty damn low"

[naive hawk]

anyone know if shatterproof is worth it?

[dawn valve]

It's not

[naive hawk]

yeah its kinda damn expensive

[dawn valve]

Pace chaser skill for Late surger position

[naive hawk]

didnt hit medium s or turf s but these stats for mcqueen are sick

[dawn valve]

Like honestly, before you pick shatterproof you'd better just go for Rushing Gale

[naive hawk]

dont think i buy speed star aswell but…

have you been buying speed star because even at 3 hint its still mad expensive

[dawn valve]

I mean... I have only been getting that as an option very recently since my borrow slot opened up and I thing she only gave it to me, like, once

Prepared to pass is decent, but idk if you need that as gold

[naive hawk]

like regardless i dont got enough greens on this mcqueen i literally only hit fall runner

[dawn valve]

Oh, you're doing frontqueen?

[naive hawk]

naw this is pace queen

im just a green fiend

i might go for the triangle strat

mayano pissing me off and daiwa uhh idk

naw she lowkey a BUM!

[dawn valve]

Yeah, that's not enough skills

[naive hawk]

needed to hit wit a bit more

i ran three speed here

why did i just realize my other potential suzu ace i forgot to pick up unrestrained

i think the one with like 1k wit im using for tt 657 stam IS NOT IT

also did a little air groove tt run fun as hell

[dawn valve]

It's always fun to just do random uma runs

Gets you out of the CM grind

[simple iron]

Tactical Tweak has the same issue as Shatterproof, even if you might trigger it this CM with so many front/pace it still only gives accel at the point in the game where you don't need it at all since position keep is going and and uma's speeds are set

Like you'd have to get extremely (un)lucky that it doesn't trigger through most of the midgame and only hits right before it ends and umas switch to higher speed for the lategame

[simple iron]

First time i hit rank D before the first unity, everything lined up with multiples (even if i only got speed to 338 with 365 wit)

[little glen]

https://twitter.com/vodkalover52/status/2004302473268482096

Vodkalover52 (@vodkalover52)

Is this a viable deck for the next champions meet?

X · Dec 25, 2025, 9:25 PM

was really too busy with the holiday trip, can't have spare time to do one run today

[hazy seal]

Bro missing pot of greed smh

[little glen]

Oh hey, first hot spring ticket since the release of the aoharu somehow

and that also during the lvl 2 run

almost worried i would fail winning ura finale bc i won the unity cup

[hazy seal]

Bricked acc

I forgor to do legend race

[simple iron]

Think as long as you do the rest of them now you should still be able to get the final shard though ^^

[dawn valve]

Yeah, you can miss a day

[hazy seal]

I did 2 careers, proceeds to forget dailies

[past ibex]

https://youtu.be/FdffHfVLbGY?si=9q91SqiGYVq6JiNV merry chrimas

[little glen]

https://fxtwitter.com/T_WONDER_H/status/2004830330730250496

田中ワンダー＠冬コミ1日目_東7_F45b (@T_WONDER_H)

For today's race and tomorrow's Arima Kinen, the voice actors for Uma Musume will be giving presenters to the winning horse's camp.
︀︀And for tomorrow's Arima Kinen, the presenters will be the voice actors for Oguri Cap, Tamamo Cross and Super Creek.
︀︀Isn't that Umazing!

Quoting ウマ娘プロジェクト公式アカウント (@uma_musu)
︀
【中山競馬場ウィナーズレディ1日目完走！】
︀︀ウマ娘 プリティーダービー×ウィナーズレディコラボ in 中山競馬場にご来場いただいたトレーナーの皆さま、ありがとうございました。
︀︀
︀︀次回は12月28日(日)に出走予定です！
︀︀お楽しみに♪
︀︀
︀︀#ウマ娘 #中山競馬場 #中山馬主協会

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FxTwitter · Dec 27, 2025, 8:22 AM

oh, this is very cool

very umazing indeed

[dawn valve]

Now do that once and then never again and just run lvl 4s instead

[simple iron]

Seems mostly fine still though, i only failed twice, got 2 rewards at 9/11 goals and 4 reward when failing finale

But i guess as long as i keep doing 2 runs per day i could switch to 4 at this point and easily complete the event too ^^

[dawn valve]

Yeah, its just that saw I was at 56 points left and then decided that running lvl 4s just makes more sense

[simple iron]

The only difference is completing level 5s lets you stop doing these runs faster

Finally got my first Carat hit earlier

[dawn valve]

It really is mostly a pointless time grind. I hope they don't repeat this one

[simple iron]

From what i heard someone say, they do

But apparently the clock restriction is gone then ^^

[dawn valve]

That's something at least

[little glen]

lvl 5 is truly something

one lose and it's over

it's like gold stake in balatro but you're only have 0 discard chance

[dawn valve]

Well, that's inaccurate. You just can't miss a goal

You can lose as much as you want besides that

[simple iron]

Got solid Taiki finally so now i can go back to Teio until tomorrow when it gets decided if i run Dober or not

Still not sure how much to even hazard on her pulls, kinda want to up it to 5x10 but dunno about any more

[dawn valve]

I'll do one 10x on her

[simple iron]

Thinking if i should just use a Power deck on Teio instead of Wit, always ends up so low compared to Taiki somehow

[dawn valve]

Teio is go full power sparks, Riko + Creek + 3x Speed + either a Power or Wit

Wit is kinda less important on her, really

Exact same deck for McQueen btw

[simple iron]

3 Spd is kinda overkill on 20%, last i checked at least there were no good guest parents with power

Looks like there's 1 McQueen now, was still hoping to replace her with Opera though ^^

[dawn valve]

To the Friend Searcher!

[simple iron]

Still think i just go full power for trial, borrow Rice instead of using Creek, just need to find one more good power card other than Biwa then ^^

[dawn valve]

Depends what TT slot you want her for

Med or Long

For the latter Creek is mandatory

[simple iron]

Scorpio

[dawn valve]

That's not TT, smh

[simple iron]

Sorry, meant trial as in trial run ^^

[dawn valve]

For Scorpio you still kinda need Creek though

I doubt you get enough stam with just power cards

[simple iron]

Teio has 10% Sta bonus too and that's also part of the trial

[dawn valve]

I feel like you need 20% to draw enough stam from power cards. Unless you play, like, 3 of them, which is definitely not optimal. (not counting random RNG blue bubbles, those can't be trusted)

[simple iron]

3 seem more optimal than 1 though ^^

Cause playing a 2/1 split with Tachyon just seems awkward then

Just wonder if she still even hits 450 Wit with that, but guess i'll find out tomorrow

Ryan SR actually seems pretty good

Or maybe today after all, just realised i haven't started a post-reset borrow run yet

[dawn valve]

POV: You're running 3 spd, but...

Hot springs runs are always cursed like this for some reason

[dawn valve]

There we go

Stam is, like, 20 too low, but I got Hydrate to compensate

[little glen]

nice

[dawn valve]

And yes, I know Kyoto is the wrong course

[little glen]

https://fxtwitter.com/riceshowerfan12/status/2004964738598678791

czeko (@riceshowerfan12)

pause to see what rice shower you get!

**💬 346 🔁 1.1K ❤️ 11.4K 👁️ 139.2K **

FxTwitter · Dec 27, 2025, 5:16 PM

will do the lvl 5 run, wish me luck

[dawn valve]

Oh hey

Now to go and try to do that with McQueen as well

[simple iron]

Finally doing that trial run, it's shaping up to be pretty silly

[simple iron]

You were right, ended up quite a bit too low ^^
Funnily enough she still simmed as 89% survival rate with Maestro&PrefPosition, but that was also before i even bothered adding most of the speed skills
Think the deck could work though, will do another run tomorrow with the old parent and see how that goes

I would still much rather have an 800+ish Power/Wit statline, maybe for that i should go to the other extreme and look if there's an Opera Wit parent out there

[dawn valve]

Honestly, she seems quite useless still from my set of test practice runs, I think she lacks skills, really. Or my Maru is just too strong

I even made it realistic by putting two evil Natures in the lineup

Somehow my silly 600 stam uber-glass cannon Taiki still does better than Teio

[dawn valve]

There is not a single 9* wit parent out there

Probably because that's pretty much the least optimal choice

[simple iron]

Well, there's 80, the question is if any of them is actually good ^^

[dawn valve]

Oh, I still had McQueen selected

[simple iron]

Unless you also meant specifically Operas, but i so rarely see them at all i'm kinda giving up hope of finding one

[dawn valve]

Opera isn't the most popular horse, despite being a good compability parent

Or rather grand parent

[simple iron]

And her unique is supposedly one of the best for pace in this ^^

[dawn valve]

Well, Duty & Shooting still clear that, easily

And you can only get so many uniques

[simple iron]

I'm taking Duty, but the issue is if there's a Runaway in the lobby it can get pretty messy

And a lot of people seem to really like running Runaways...

[dawn valve]

If there's a runaway the best you can hope for is a good other front contesting that

Well actually best case scenario is two runaways killing each other

[simple iron]

The issue is more being within 30% of her, with the &distance_diff_rate<=30 check

[little glen]

damn, i was almost there

head even

had no time to train wits, really

losing finale in lvl 5 got me 3 slots of rewards so i guess that wasn't worth to go

back to lvl 4 we go

[little glen]

honestly idk which umas that i could send for cm

curren chan has potential (yet again) so i'll put her in
the rest could be el condor, air groove, digichan or golshi

golshi doesn't work in this cm unfortunately

[little glen]

For those who wants to watch Arima Kinen
https://fxtwitter.com/T_WONDER_H/status/1976686694218023334

田中ワンダー＠冬コミ1日目_東7_F45b (@T_WONDER_H)

For those interested in Japanese horse racing, here's how to watch JRA-sponsored Japanese horse races. 🖥️
︀︀
︀︀We've mentioned this before, but we'll explain it again.
︀︀
︀︀1️⃣ Step1
︀︀Please access the link below.
︀︀If the link below does not connect, just type "JRA" into a search engine.
︀︀This site should probably be the one that comes up at the top.
︀︀
︀︀www.jra.go.jp/
︀︀
︀︀2️⃣ Step2
︀︀Please look at the first image.
︀︀Then click on the icon indicated by the red arrow.
︀︀It lists the races and horses taking place that week.
︀︀
︀︀3️⃣ Step3
︀︀Clicking on the icon explained above will take you to the page shown in the second image.
︀︀This is the page where you can specify the date and racecourse where the race will be held.
︀︀…

FxTwitter · Oct 10, 2025, 4:30 PM

-# Requires Japan VPN to watch it live, or you can watch later 10 minutes after the race ended

-# for this case of Arima Kinen, after following the step 2, choose the December 28th date and pick the left one. from there you'll be leaded to this page, arima kinen is the 11th race (the time is in JST)

[little glen]

https://x.com/AUTOMATON_ENG/status/2005195470046683268?s=20

AUTOMATON WEST (@AUTOMATON_ENG)

Cygames’s beloved JRPG Granblue Fantasy getting global Steam release, 12 years after Japan launch
https://t.co/T2FanFWW6A

X · Dec 28, 2025, 8:33 AM

[little glen]

https://fxtwitter.com/umaposting/status/2005334308199022851

ryder 🍔 (@umaposting)

fun fact about digitan’s legend race! the track AND conditions are identical to the famous 2001 tenno sho, where agnes digital beat tm opera o in his first turf win! that’s why opera and doto are also in the race! :3

Quoting Umamusume: Pretty Derby (@umamusume_eng)
︀
Event Underway! 🥕
︀︀
︀︀You can now take on Agnes Digital in her Legend Race!
︀︀
︀︀Challenge her and win to get Star Pieces for [Full-Color Fangirling] Agnes Digital!
︀︀
︀︀#Umamusume

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FxTwitter · Dec 28, 2025, 5:45 PM

actually, nice details

[dawn valve]

The lore runs deep

[simple iron]

Guess i have a Rudolf now, haven't even looked into the festival banner when it came out to know how good her ult is ^^

Got her from the 2nd 10 pull and now at 49 total i'm not sure i want to try the 5th

[simple iron]

She actually looks pretty good with Pot5 but it feels kinda wild to run 3xPace in this CM

No Dominator like regular Rudolf though

[naive hawk]

any dober pullers

fuck it im listening to charles #LETSRIDE

[simple iron]

https://x.com/umamusume_eng/status/2005404691413500038 'Late January' Thanks for the info

Umamusume: Pretty Derby (@umamusume_eng)

Heads up, Trainers—a new Champions Meeting event is on the horizon!

🏹 Sagittarius Cup 🏹
When: Late January
Race Conditions: Nakayama / Turf / 2,500m (Long) / Right-Handed / Inner / Winter / Sunny / Firm

(Details are subject to change.)

#Umamusume

X · Dec 28, 2025, 10:25 PM

[naive hawk]

ALWAYS PULL WHAAAT

[dawn valve]

Well, you can't exactly complain atp

[naive hawk]

ANOTHER ONE IS HERE

i have enough to spark dober so

[dawn valve]

Googoobaby time

[naive hawk]

SYMBOLI HAHAHA

me who have been built fronts for the last couple weeks I THINK I MIIIGHT GAMBLE!!!

[dawn valve]

The issue is to fit Falco into the deck, really. For cutting edge it's kinda hard

Which is the medium CM decks

[simple iron]

Just gamble on randomly having Falco event pop up instead

[dawn valve]

For Mile it's very doable

[dawn valve]

That actually has happened a number of times
Only once on a front though

[naive hawk]

and i got dober in the next one OKAY

[dawn valve]

Bruh

[naive hawk]

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

[dawn valve]

Damien using up all our luck here again

[naive hawk]

and i got another oguri dupe

okay man

in 135 i got
mummy creek falco 2 oguri caps fantasy grass and dober

im gonna 4 star everyone

at this rate

[dawn valve]

Regular Oguri will be power crept within 8 days, sorry man

[naive hawk]

hey when they drop another patch its gonna be funny

wait i might run falco over daiwa as my front

[dawn valve]

Well, do you have the required turf parents

[naive hawk]

i totally forgot you need that..

let me check lowkey

[little glen]

damien stealing all my luck today wtf

[dawn valve]

You can borrow a 8-9* Sky

[little glen]

damien gib it back to ME

[naive hawk]

link me the sky lowkey

I can get to a just no uh good acutally skills on this

[dawn valve]

I'll log in in a few minutes, will do then

[naive hawk]

just turf and long

falco

[naive hawk]

digitan

imma do a dober career tho if i get a good enough one i dont know what my team comp is gonna be

cuz right now it was triangle with daiwa+mcqueen

[little glen]

battle of the cutest

also just did lvl 4 run, i almost lost the digichan run bc of wrong support card and alot of misfortunes

[naive hawk]

im only doing lvl 4

[little glen]

but barely managed to win

[naive hawk]

5 just seems too dumb to use atleast a borrow run on

[little glen]

yea

lvl 5 is just one goal miss = death

[naive hawk]

im saving until finemo rerun

i COULD pull for bourbon/flash when it comes but

miiight skip that aswell

and just beat the bourbons by simply being better

[little glen]

my carats already gone in a... flash hehe

[naive hawk]

germany

[little glen]

but yea idk what else i would plan to save for rn

beside the MANT

which considering how cygames treated to us they may do something bizzare on 1st anni patch

[dawn valve]

996956143514

[naive hawk]

ty boss man

[dawn valve]

Also has decent amount of groundwork

[naive hawk]

i will forsure do a falco run after this dober one

[dawn valve]

You still need Turf of your own though, but I assume you have some

[naive hawk]

do you take center stage?

yeah i get get her to A

[dawn valve]

Only if you also get Dodging Danger

[naive hawk]

intresting

[dawn valve]

Never only get one movement skill, that's a net loss of speed

[naive hawk]

damn this changed up my whole comp

and i get the charming event DOBER….

I KNEW WE WERE MEANT TO BE BESTIE

[dawn valve]

Speaking of, time to gamble

[naive hawk]

the next long is gonna be funny

im gonna run healer grass dober and idk mummy creek who knows

[little glen]

Hmm, I was thinking if Prepare to Pass and DD is good then

thanks grumps

[naive hawk]

wait surely i just run THREE MEJIROD

[dawn valve]

Nooooo, director-chan, don't give me the DOOR and then just a McQueen

[dawn valve]

Prepare to Pass is NOT a movement skill

[naive hawk]

okay but its MCQUEEN!

[little glen]

you mean...

https://tenor.com/view/max-verstappen-knock-gif-10051311673425820263

this guy

[dawn valve]

Pain. Pity.

And the only other new thing I got was a Festival Rudolph

[simple iron]

Only 2 Carat and 1 Gold crystal hit left ^^

[naive hawk]

okay my falcon run was uh good not max speed and like 2 stam off the minimum

why does she have the best career ever

is she the goat?!?

[dawn valve]

She is stupidly strong in career

Make sure do do the fan promise

[simple iron]

Dunno how necessary it really is? Unless it got buffed in the patch, i haven't ran Falco much since that first mile CM

[dawn valve]

Dober career is one of those "yeah, you're not getting undefeated epiteth" Arima Kinen race things

[dawn valve]

It's a nice boost and you will need that one extra race anyway

[simple iron]

I just remember having an issue of often getting Fan Promise condition which required summer races

And it didn't seem all that worth it cause you're not taking that racetrack skill anyway

[dawn valve]

None of the secret events are necessary after all

[simple iron]

Oh sure, i just mean compared to getting Head-On/All I've Got i remember the Secret Promise being really underwhelming and easily skippable

Like probably a good idea to keep an eye out for the Promise races but i think i would only take them if i had a really bad training that day ^^

[dawn valve]

Sure, but that requires you to run what, 5 races extra? Fan promise is just "mark all the days with race in promised place in schedule and pick whichever fits best"

Neat

Completely pointless Pace S

But whatever

2 spd is kinda rough on her btw, basically requires Kita + a good lvl 50 SSR

@naive hawk Look at her go

[naive hawk]

omg

i gotta borrow the deck fr

[dawn valve]

Power sparks

Got a bunch of Ramp Up hints so I gave her It's On

Cause why not, it's decent enough

Especially with Tail

[simple iron]

Biko's 20% can be pretty broken ^^

[little glen]

thanks game, you ruined my S Med run

i hate when all good streak of wins and this random bs happened and lose the 3 wins mission forcefully ending the run

[little glen]

when you have dober ult activated:
https://d.fxtwitter.com/Sploots/status/2005439319725793422?s=20

[simple iron]

https://x.com/umamusume_eng/status/2005459012113043956 Oh right, i think i heard about this, she has different lines based on the gender you chose ^^

Umamusume: Pretty Derby (@umamusume_eng)

🗂️ #TracenStudentFiles, Vol. 44:

Meet Mejiro Dober! Though easily embarrassed and uncertain around men, she'll let those she's opened up to see her at her most vulnerable.

Voice: Hikari Kubota

#Umamusume

X · Dec 29, 2025, 2:01 AM

[dawn valve]

She hates men, ye

[past ibex]

https://x.com/i/status/2005583210760036757

【公式】勝利の女神：NIKKE (@NIKKE_japan)

【PickUp募集予告】
新しい武装を背負った純白の巡礼者、SSRニケ スノーホワイト：ヘビーアームズ(CV：#M・A・O)がPickUp募集に近日登場予定❄

指揮官の皆さま、募集の開始をお見逃しなく👀

◆開始時間
2026年1月1日00:00～

※終了時間は後日、本アカウントより...

X · Dec 29, 2025, 10:14 AM

https://x.com/i/status/2005588291513630774

あるかな (@arcana0993)

CDKまとめ！

2026LETSDANCE
2026EATBETTER
2026WORKHARDER
2026KEEPTACTICAL
#NIKKE #ニケ #NIKKE2026NewYear #NIKKE2026新年

X · Dec 29, 2025, 10:34 AM

[dawn valve]

Smartest Bakushin for real

[past ibex]

https://x.com/i/status/2005590629821362557

GODDESS OF VICTORY: NIKKE (@NIKKE_en)

【Alice Costume Introduction】

Let's go on a trip to a fantasy world!

Alice special costume 「Märchen Dream」 is coming soon via [Costume Gacha]!

Event Period
📅 1/1 00:00:00 ~ 1/22 4:59:59 (UTC+9)

Stay tuned!

#NIKKE
#Alice
#NIKKE2026NewYear

X · Dec 29, 2025, 10:44 AM

Good food

[dawn valve]

That's 100% a 60€ skin

[past ibex]

As they do be

[rigid island]

booba

need to pray to the ysg gods tomorrow, i didnt do all the 2.4 events in time

[dreamy trout]

[past ibex]

ysg will be up the whole patch so you got time

6 weeks

[rigid island]

yeah but that means playing the whole patch without her

and thats no fun

[past ibex]

tru

[little glen]

maybe soon umamusume will have competitor...?

[hazy seal]

Usable?

[little glen]

if only it's ura finale sparks than unity cup, that would have been more better

[simple iron]

On a Front parent i'd figure Unity is actually better, since you'll generally have Spd/Sta covered

[hazy seal]

It was from a cooked run

Back to Smaru

[little glen]

idk but i can feel like getting hot spring ticket is more rarer this update

[simple iron]

It's just RNG, like 2% chance iirc, most of the times you won't get it ^^

[hazy seal]

I got it back to back a couple days ago

[dawn valve]

Atp I actually feel like generally Unity is a better spark, cause you want sparks to cover off stats. You always train speed anyway and will always have spd cards if you're not already bringing spd sparks

[naive hawk]

aura

compared to falcon 1

yeah i missed ground on the top one 😭😭

think im gonna use my 1k wit ahh suzuka and just pray for an overtake

by my epic front

but #ITSGETTINGTHERE

why is falco op

[naive hawk]

HOOOLD THISRUN MIGHT BE #THEONE

i needed like one rainbow speed

• a rainbow wit hit

almost s rank lol

highest rating so far

[naive hawk]

just remembered i think i took right handed

#OOPS

[dawn valve]

It is kinda funny how you basically always have Turf S on on turf Falcos

[simple iron]

Yeah, since you're stacking so many Turf sparks one of them is bound to hit ^^

[simple iron]

Kinda crazy people are getting UG already ^^

[dawn valve]

High roll run

On whale deck, obviously

[simple iron]

Probaly both even ^^

Apparently 2,5k SP and fast learner ^^

[little glen]

oh wow

that's the first ever in global, right

getting that many in aoharu is almost impossible

yea it's definitely whale one

[dawn valve]

Yeah, that's what I figured

[dawn valve]

Also this

Bro just happens to have all 3 of those wit cards MLBd

Isn't even using Kitasan either, that's for plebs

[little glen]

I guess uma ranks are already existed before MANT

but wow, global players are indeed on higher level

wonder how many attempts it took

[hazy seal]

That takes into account my 3* stam?

Yeah this

[dawn valve]

I mean, realistically that's not something that you can just actively try to do in current scenario. It's a 0.0000001% scenario that can just happen with RNG

Notably in MANT those would be 3x 1200 for that matter

[little glen]

yea

the record itself is the fastest than any servers pre-MANT

[dawn valve]

Can't really compare that cause we got the anniversary update at half

[little glen]

yea

[dawn valve]

It's just a different game, essentially. Expect different outcomes

We profit from Cygames learning from past mistakes

[little glen]

powercreep is a whole new level here

[dawn valve]

Eh, it's just a whale. Whale gonna whale.

Long since have learned to accept that

[stray skiff]

my beautiful wife has come home

[past ibex]

https://tenor.com/view/ye-shunguang-zzz-mihoyo-agent-void-hunter-gif-3798851164716445416

[hazy seal]

I lost at 30+ to Grace

[viscid elm]

ZZZ Hu Tao

[rigid island]

koleda at 40 reeeeeee

[past ibex]

Everyone is getting early at least

[rigid island]

nice of them to let you claim the jane skin even when you dont have her

what happened to the engine recycling stuff? wasn't it meant to be retroactive in that they'd send you the materials to mail?

[past ibex]

In the mail?

[stray skiff]

yeowch

rahhh

[little glen]

kinda last push while doing the showtime grinf

[dreamy trout]

https://youtu.be/MD1XbIUPQTw

https://www.kkinstagram.com/reel/DS3u3ncER9A/

https://www.eeinstagram.com/p/DS3ucefEYYb/

[viscid elm]

[past ibex]

god damnit lost at 20

30 LATER NVM

[dreamy trout]

https://www.kkinstagram.com/reel/DS3qnYvEiTL/

[simple iron]

Zenno card feels like such a scam, sure you get a recovery on a speed card but it always ends up so expensive. Think she'd need like 5 more races and Fast Learner to get the gamble skills
And then struggling to max speed with 20% and 3 Spd cards since the parents were heavy Sta/Pow ^^
Think i might just cut Riko for Creek and borrow Biko instead

[dawn valve]

I've used the Mejiro Arden wit SR for my Bakushin runs a bunch and I honestly quite like it for Pace

The skill hints on it are very, very good

Obviously only relevant for pace, but still

[little glen]

my strat for lvl 5 showcase was trying to intentionally lose the unity cup so that i wouldn't face them duo

but somehow in a way with quad triangles and one circle i won it 😭

bruh, this game is scripted for me to win it no matter what lmao

ofc the result was obvious lmao

[simple iron]

If you actually want to lose it you can rearrange the teams so nobody has the correct aptitudes, like putting long runners on sprint etc ^^

[dawn valve]

Genuinely though, there's just no good reason to run lvl 5 more than once

[little glen]

Meanwhile in JP
https://fxtwitter.com/epsilon_nature/status/2006034800411640158/en

いぷしろん (@epsilon_nature)

📑 Translated from Japanese

274 days late See you next year👋

Original text
274日遅れ
︀︀また来年👋

**💬 31 🔁 609 ❤️ 6.5K 👁️ 280.8K **

FxTwitter · Dec 30, 2025, 4:09 PM

[stray skiff]

i must buy pretty things for my wife

[rigid island]

6 pulls away from pity

i know its gonna fail me

[past ibex]

SLAY

[little glen]

huh i didn't even remember i picked levelheaded before

i swear i didn't- oh well... it is what it is

37 items left, no sight of lb crystal shards yet

almost usable, if only maestro came in

[hazy seal]

Hmm

My Runaway Suzuka won against the S med Smaru in my practice

[past ibex]

niceu, took me a couple of elysions theat were not her

[shrewd orbit]

early shunguang

[dreamy trout]

I'll take those Rapi's thank you

[dawn valve]

It do all be RNG. You need to do quite a few practice runs to get a better statistical feel from it

[hazy seal]

Sample size of 1 is good enuf

[simple iron]

Yup, i joined 1 streamer room and my Taiki won so i'm now 100% confident i'm winning the finals

[hazy seal]

W

[little glen]

defeating Rednu would be such a great achievement lol

[dawn valve]

Nah, he's not exactly the sweatiest bro out there and for 5 gift subs he'll run a Haru against you

[simple iron]

https://fixupx.com/umamusume_eng/status/2006546043341836590

Umamusume: Pretty Derby (@umamusume_eng)

📅 January's Release Schedule is here, Trainers! Here's what you can look forward to this month.
︀︀
︀︀#Umamusume

**💬 1 🔁 11 ❤️ 68 👁️ 415 **

FixupX · Jan 1, 2026, 2:00 AM

[little glen]

xmas oguri approaching fast...

kinda silly that New Beginning event is not lined up to new year we're in today

but rather for Lunar New Year instead

which is funny enough, also falls under year of the horse

[dawn valve]

Too much stuff I'd want. Nature Wit seems almost mandatory for MANT with her 15% race bonus total. Xmas Oguri is a given, I kinda want both FineMo and Cross, but will probably skip them, maybe throw a 10x at em, idk. And Matikane also looks very desirable...

Just spend 500 bucks on it, easy. Be the whale instead of fearing the whales.

[hazy seal]

Oguri is next week

[dawn valve]

She is, yes

Luckily we get club carats tomorrow, so I have at least some pulls in me after this Dober pity

[little glen]

An umamusume is spotted running in this new years greetings post from KAI (Indonesian Train Railways).
original art:
https://twitter.com/KAI121/status/2006410026957889618
original artist: @gazega (IG)
-# Happy Year of the Umamusume!

-# there's also Kim VVUP too

[dawn valve]

Fake news, no tails

[little glen]

but there's honse ears tho

[dawn valve]

That could just be cat ears

[little glen]

just realized the scenario double drops event will end by next month

[dawn valve]

In b4 MANT starts after lunar new year

[simple iron]

It does, it's in like March iirc

At least projected, doubt they'd move it much though

[little glen]

around that time the stat cap is also increased too

[dawn valve]

More room for whales to whale

[little glen]

all stats except wit: 1300
wits: 1800

but at the same time 1st anniversary is around too

so we really don't expect anything rather than surprises atp

[dawn valve]

How does one get to 1.8k wit

[little glen]

no idea lol

[simple iron]

6 Wit spam

[little glen]

okay

i need your suggestion for my first uma run of the year

[dawn valve]

You do you

[little glen]

which uma should i do run

okay lol

i guess i'll do winning ticket

[dawn valve]

Well, if you want your year to be lucky you should obviously run Matikane

[little glen]

oh right