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Special Week is a powerful SSR racer inUmamusume: Pretty Derby, and she is also easier to learn for beginners. She doesn’t require much investment, and by only focusing on her Pace build, you can leave most front-runners behind.
Focusing on Stamina is the key to building Special Week, as that will maintain her speed for a major part of the race. Using her Shooting Star skill, she can easily come on top, even if you are lagging behind. Relying on a few stats and essential skills will take her far in the tournament.
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Special Week is an easier character to learn, especially for beginners who are having a hard time understanding how stats work. You primarily only need to focus ontwo to three stats for her best build, and she will easily top all races in career mode.Maintain her speed through stamina, and then her wit stats will likelytrigger her unique skill, leaving her opponents in the dust.
Running her as a Pace racer is much easier, although she does a great job as a Late racer as well. For the latter, you will need towork on your power a lot more,and that can cause you to get confused among other stats.
She can also perform as a Front Racer despite having a bad aptitude. You will need to focus more onSpeed and Stamina stats to place well. You may want to run her inMedium Turf races the most.
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500-570
6
650-700
3
350-400
300-350
Special Week has abetter growth rate in Stamina and Wit stats, and those are essential for a Pace racer. Yourhigh stamina will keep you near the Front racers, and will eventuallyovertake them when they exhaust their stamina. This is why you need to increase your Stamina as much as possible.
Increasing your Wits is also essential, as Special Week’s unique skillcan increase her velocity, which can take you far in the final spurt. Increasing your speed stat is also important so that you won’t fall behind. If more racers chose the Pace position, you will needpower to break through them.
You will want to keep thesame ratio of stats throughout the career modefor consistency. This will also help you adjust your stats accordingly if need be. You won’t have much time to train before the finals, so you may decide on the one stat you need to increase the most. All stats are important, but if you are confident, you canslightly compromise on Speed, Guts, and Power.
You should also focus on these statswhile getting additional stats from the legacy mechanic.
Special Week Best Skills
Special Week’s best skills will bringout her velocity, which you will need to pass through the front runners and other pacers. Focus on also preserving your stamina as much as you may. Her build doesn’t rely on Guts, so having a good stamina reserve is important. Thefinal moments of the race are decisive, so you need to ensure that you will have the upper hand by then.
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Shooting Star
This is Special Week’s unique skill that willincrease her speed when the race is about to end,which is crucial in winning.
Homestretch Haste
Itincreases your speed in the final moments of the racewhen you are trying to overtake the front runners.
Hydrate
This skill is helpful for Pace racers, as youcan recover some of their stamina in the middle of the race.
Steadfast
You have a better chance ofregaining your positionif a racer overtakes you during the final spurt.
Stamina To Spare
This will prevent Special Week fromlosing stamina early during the race.
Special Week Best Support Cards
You want support cards that will help her attain the most suitable stats quickly. Focus the moston Stamina and Speed Support cards. Get as manypossible boosts from friendship trainingwhenever you see them in the training menu. You will also want totrigger eventsthat will give you additional stats.
Gold Ship
It causesmore hint events to occur and helps you increase your stamina.
Seiun Sky
You will getgood stat boosts from training together, and your overall speed stats will be higher.
Sakura Bakushi
This card helps you attainmore initial speed, which increases further during friendship training.
You will getmore fans and better statsafter training together.
