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While you will spend most of your time in the career mode ofUmamusume: Pretty Derby, it’s not the real endgame. Once you train your characters, you’ll get all the major rewards by using them in PvP modes like the Team Trials. However, these modes aren’t particularly easy to beat.
In this game mode, you challenge another player’s characters in different types of races while competing with some bot characters as well. The difficulty of these races is much higher than your career races, and it’ll take some good characters to beat them.
How Team Trials Work
Team Trials is a specific game mode that you can find through theRace tab at the bottom of your screen when you’re not in any other mode. After selecting it, you’ll have two options: Team Race and Edit Team. The first option takes you to a screen where you can select one out of three opponents and race their characters.
Umamusume: Pretty Derby generally has races divided into four distances: Sprint, Mile, Medium, and Long. In Team Trials, you have toface the opponent’s characters in all of these distances and a standalone one for the Dirt track, where the distance is randomized. This means that you’ll at least need five characters to get started.
Team Trials races aren’t real-time, which means that youropponent isn’t present on the other sidemaking any decisions.
This gives you an upper edge and a higher chance of winning.
Once you select an opponent,you’ll race their characters in all the race types one at a time. You can either view each race to see how your characters perform or simply view the results to see their placements. Here’s how victory is determined in these races:
After each race, you can get a certain number of points depending on the placements of all your characters, and this numbergets a percentage boost with each win you get in that specific Team Trial. The final result is decidedbased on the number of victories you and your opponenthave achieved, but the result doesn’t matter as much as the points.
Every player in the Team Trials are divided based on class, and each class has acertain number of points that you need for promotion, retention, and demotion. The results are tabulated weekly and you can get rewards based on the changes to your class in the following manner:
The endgame goal with this game mode is to achieveClass six as soon as possible and then stay in the Retention range every week. However, this will get tougher as more players reach this class. It’ll also take you at least five weeks after you start playing to reach Class six for the first time.
How To Build Your Team For Team Trials
In the beginning, you’ll only have five character slots for Team Trials, one for each type of race. However,as you reach Classes two and three, you’ll unlock one more slot for each race. This will make your total character slots to 15. Unfortunately,you may’t use the same characterin multiple races, even if it’s a different career run.
This means that youfirst need at least 15 good characters for Team Trials. Each character needs to have at least anA rating or above in their respective race typesif you want to have a chance of winning. Once you have met these conditions, you may build your characters for Team Trials in the career mode.
While doing career mode to create characters for Team Trials, your rank isn’t the highest priority sinceA-rank characters can easily lose to B-rankcharacters if not done well.
To make a character ready for Team Trials, you have to keep a few things in mind:
