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If you’re brand new toUmamusume: Pretty Derby, it’s a lot to take in. From trainees to support cards, career mode, and more, the game throws a ton at you upfront that can be quite confusing to maneuver around.
With several banners available, you’ll want to know where to begin, what to save your Carats for, and which trainees to work on. Behind the scenes, there’s a lot to invest in and decide on when playing through a career and building up your trainees. If you want to make the best racer, here’s where to start your derby racing career in this gacha game.
Save Your Carats For Support Cards
While you might originally be tempted to spend your Carats on getting new trainees to train with, your best bet as a beginner is toinvest in Support cards. Most of what you will be doing revolves aroundcreating new trainees with inherited skillsand running through their careers to create better versions of them. To boost this, you’ll need stats and bonuses from Support cards.
Your support cards play a huge role in this. Not only will they help youget new skills and specific increases to certain stats, but thefriendship bonuseswill also help with your training.
You’ll want tofocus on pulling for SSR cards to create the best racersinstead of pulling for actual trainees that you don’t have the best resources to level up, at least in the beginning.
If you really want a specific racer, you’re able to and should pull for them on their banner, but most of your effort should go into getting and enhancing support cards as they have the most impact.
Understand Every Stat So You Know Where To Invest
Don’t blindly choose what to increase in career mode. Alwaysfactor in what your trainee needswhen considering what to increase. There are, however, stats that are just overall worth investing in. Here’s every stat and what they do.
Description
Speed
This determineshow fast your trainee will run. This is one of the most important stats overall.
Stamina
Yourstamina depletes the longer and faster you run. This determines how long you can run, with certain race modes and types depleting it faster.
Power
This stat determineshow quickly your speed can increase. It also determineshow well your trainee can handle difficult terrain, such as uphill courses.
Guts
This stat will helplower your stamina consumptionwhen racing. It helps when your trainee is doingspeed spurtsto break out from the pack.
Wits
This increases theprobability of your skills activatingwhile racing.
Your trainees will already have stats that determine each of these. When leveling them through your career and when picking Legacy trainees,consider what your trainee is good atand increase that. Also,consider what your trainee lacksand whether increasing these stats is worth it or not.
You shouldn’t always just increase the lowest stat. Depending on the type of race and your stats, you should consider which stat you need most, or just invest in Speed if you’re unsure.
View Career Info Before Starting Your Career
One of the best things to do before you start dropping stats and choosing legacy trainees is to check what your selected trainee will need to do in their career. Here, you can seewhich races they’ll need to compete inand the conditions needed to meet those goals. Compare them to what stats you need to increase and which support cards will work best.
This includes needing fans as a goal. You’ll need to do races in between the big career races to garner more fans. Check out the parameters of what those races need to be won to help you decide on stat increases.
Before your career, you can check these stats upfront when selecting your Legacy trainees. You’ll see the Career Info and Details button next to your racer’s name. Click there to access this information before you select anything else.
You’ll learn whattype of terrainyou’ll be dealing with (Dirt or Turf), the type of race (Sprint or Mile),the length, the season, and more. You’ll also knowwhat rank you need to placefor each, helping determine what factors to choose for the best success.
Check Your Sparks For The Best Proficiencies
When you begin your career,don’t ignore the sparkssection. The skills you inherit and what you can do with them are all there, and they will help you decide which trainees to choose as legacies. The skills will help you with different options when leveling up, but first, you should understand what these stats mean.
Blue Legacy 1 Stats
This represents the stat boosts you’ll receive for yourSpeed, Stamina, Power, Guts, and Wit. These come from your first legacy choice.
Pink Legacy 2 Stats
These represent the boosts you’ll receive in yourProficiencies (Track, Distance, and Style). They come from your second legacy choice.
Green Sparks
Skills you have a chance of learning through Inspiration during your career run.
Grey Sparks
These are hints you may obtain to learn these skills through your career run.
Whenchoosing your legacies, be sure tocheck the Sparks tab. Here, you’ll see not only what blue and pink legacy stats your trainee will attain but also any green skills they can learn or grey skills they can discover.
When checking this, you want the star rankings to have at least two stars, if possible. When you begin, most will have one, but if you can find two-star-rated stats and sparks, you can borrow guests' Legacy Umamusume to help with this.
Use Wit To Help Recover Energy
Not only does Wit increase the Wit stat, but it alsoincreases your energywhen used. While it doesn’t work to increase it by much, it can helpwhen you’re right before a race and low on energyand not sure what to do. If youdon’t want to waste a turn on resting, you can always increase your Wit until the next session.
When Summer rolls around, you’ll be able to rest and gain recreation points simultaneously, which will increase your mood and give you energy.
While Wit isn’t the most optimal skill to increase, it’s helpful, as the more skills you gain from Support Cards, the higher Wit you have to activate those skills during a race.
You’ll also usually gain additional Skill points when choosing Wit.
Don’t Forget To Use Your Skill Points
A big factor that can seem minor and easy to forget is to use your skill points. One of the best ways toensure that you’re doing your best in a race, or tohelp yourself if you’ve lost a race, is to actually use your skill points.
The game warns you thatthey will go to waste,and it’s true, so they should beused before the career is over. There’s really no reason to stack your Skill points and not use them.
These skillswill carry over to your trainee when their career is done, andcan be inherited by a new traineein the next career. Importantly, some skills can be the difference between winning and losing. You’ll be able to learn skills that not only affect yourself, but also options that can be a detriment to other racers as well.
Look out for skills that help increase your endurance and decrease fatigue when racing, as they are good options when you may’t decide on which skills to purchase with your skill points.
Check Your Race Styles And Predictions
Before entering a race, there are a few factors to consider. You can see thetype of racebefore you commit to it, and certain trainees are good at one of the four styles: Front, pace, Late, and End. These styles represent how your racer will run and the strategy they will employ.
Late and End racers, for example, save their energy for a late burst to the finish line, while Front racers are intent on getting and keeping their lead throughout the race. When selecting a race and sending your trainee, you canchoose what type of strategy they will employwhen racing. This means choosing between their race styles.
While the game will default to their best race style, it’s not always the best strategy. There are skills that will enhance your abilities depending on the number of racers who have also chosen this style. If you lose a race, consider changing your race style based on the track and what other racers are using.
Also,check race predictions beforehand. If you need to do a race to increase followers, ensure you’reselecting one you’re sure to winor at least be a top contender for. You’ll also learn what your trainee is lacking for that specific race, helping you determine what to increase while training if necessary.
Use Guest Legacy Characters And Support Cards When Starting Your Career
When starting a career at the beginning of the game, you won’t have much to work with. To get a good start, you’ll want touse guest Legacy characters with a higher rating than your own.
This will allow you to inherit a ton more skills from higher-ranked trainees. Giving you more winning options and more skills to take back for your next career attempt.
Some Legacy trainees from friends who are ranked B or higher have at least ten skills you can inherit.
You’ll want todo the same for Support Cards.This is your chance to grab a good SSRSupport Card from others that will complement what you’re looking to learn.
Remember that you canuse training with multiple friend Support Cards during your career, boosting your stats, providing more bonuses, and triggering special events while also passing down even more traits.
