As a trainer inUmamusume: Pretty Derby, it’s your job to motivate, take care of, and help direct an Umamusume’s training and ensure she can achieve her racing dreams. She’ll need to do a lot of training during her career, but it isn’t quite as simple as just making sure her stats are high.

An Umamusume can be affected by her Training and what’s going on around her, in both good and bad ways. These are known as Conditions, and while some help an Umamusume out, a large portion of them have negative effects, and if you leave them be, it’ll hurt an Umamusume in the long run.

Close up of the Trainee menu with the background blurred and a blue text box talking about the Night Owl Condition in Umamusume: Pretty Derby.

What Are Conditions?

As variousevents unfold during Career Mode, your traineemay become affectedby astatus effect known as a Condition.

These Conditions willoccur at random,such as after completing a Training Routine,after Support Card events or a Race, or, in thecase of Negative Conditions, have ahigher chance of occurringwhen yourUmamusume has low Energy.

Air Groove talking to another Umamusume during a Trainee Event in Umamusume: Pretty Derby,

Conditions aredivided into two categories:Positive and Negative, and theyprimarily affect the outcome of Training. They canboost stats gained, reduce the chance of failing, or, with Negative ones,whether you need to skip Trainingin favor ofhaving your Umamusume Restor seekingcare in the Infirmary.

It’spossible to have multiple Conditions at one time, especially Negative ones, if you ignore or fail to remove the one that your Umamusume currently has​​​​​​, so it’s best to take care of them as soon as possible.

Rice Shower being affected by the Practice Poor Condition and getting negative stats for it in Umamusume: Pretty Derby.

WithPositive Conditions, they’ll continue toprovide bonuses until the Condition runs its courseand disappears, or anevent happens that causes a different Conditionof either category to replace it.

All Positive Conditions

There areseveral Positive Conditionsan Umamusume can get, and they provide differenttemporary bonuses towards her Training and its outcome.

Random chance after Training or a Support Card event.

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All Negative Conditions

There are several different Negative Conditions, and you’ll find themajority of them during the Training portionof Career Mode. Amajority of them are caused by failing Training, which becomes increasinglymore likely the lower your Umamusume’s Energyis.

Whenever yougo to do Training, you can check the Failure Chance when selecting the type of training routine you want and decide whether you want to risk it.

Most of the time, aNegative Condition can be healedjust by having anUmamusume Rest or visiting the Infirmary once, but it’s possible that a Condition cantake multiple Rests or Infirmary visitsto recover from.

Random chance after Training or a Race.