You Are Failing Your Trainee If You Aren't Using These Support Cards In Umamusume: Pretty Derby

The colorful cast ofUmamusume: Pretty Derbyhas a character for just about everyone. From serious racers such as Silence Suzuka or Tokai Teio to the wacky entities such as Gold Ship and Sakura Bakushin O, there arecountless Umasto choose from to help train and achieve their goals.

Once you have picked your favorite, it’s time to pick the most important part of any Career playthrough: the Support Cards. These can be obtained through events or gacha and are essential to making your Trainee successful. With a range of skill hints and stat boosts, good Support Cards can save even the most dire of Trainees.

Support cards vary in their mileage depending on the type of Trainee you are using. However, we have picked the ones that will work on most types, as well as having a mix of SSR and SR rarity cards.

Card Effects And Bonuses At Level 30

Specialty:Speed

Skill Hints:(All level two) Cloudy Days O, Corner Recovery O, Firm Conditions O, Gap Closer, Outer Post Proficiency O, Wait-and-See, Homestretch Hast

Initial Bonuses:+21 Friendship

Career Bonuses:+16% stats when Friendship Training, +30% chance to appear in Speed Training, +42% Hint frequency, +23% Mood Bonus, +5% Training effectiveness

King Halo may be one of thetoughest Trainees to win with,but this SR card of hers is one of the easiest to use. Being a Speed-focused card with a high starting friendship means that you will quickly see your Umas Speed skyrocket. However, this card’s specialty lies in skill hint drops.

With a massive 42 percent chance of giving you a skill hint, this card will shower you with some incredible skills, such as Gap Closer and Corner Recovery O, which can help both sprinters and mile runners. The best part is, all of these hints come at level two right off the bat, giving you huge discounts for them. This lets you get them in earlier races.

Specialty:Wit

Skill Hints:Competitive Spirit O, Preferred Position, Prepared to Pass, Rosy Outlook, Shifting Gears, Up-Tempo, Stamina to Spare, Tactical Tweak

Career Bonuses:+5% Race stat gains, +11% Fans, +26% stats when Friendship Training, +38% chance to appear in Wit Training, +20% Hint frequency, +32% Mood Bonus, +3 Wit Recovery

Daiwa Scarlet is putting in her all to study, making for one of the best cards that works with a wide range of running styles. While most Support Cards only work with specific running aptitudes and lengths, this one can be used for a multitude of Umas. Specializing in Wit, this card can easily boost one of the most valuable stats with ease.

Wit may seem like a useless stat at first, but it is actually one of the most important. Training Wit gives you energy back, and it is heavily tied to your skills. With high Wit, your Trainee will be able to use her skills more frequently and effectively. With this card, bolstering the stat even further, you will get more recovered energy to give you even more free turns without having to let your Trainee rest.

Skill Hints:Hesitant Front Runners, Hesitant Pace Chasers, Ramp Up, Straightaway Adept, Tail Held High, Hanshin Racecourse O

Initial Bonuses:+16 Wit, +21 Friendship

Career Bonuses:+6% Race stat gains, +16% Fans, +16% stats when Friendship Training, +38% chance to appear in Wit Training, +20% Hint frequency, +32% Mood Bonus, +3 Wit Recovery

This wise card featuring the lively Marvelous Sunday has skills and effects that make it one of the best SR cards, with the potential to even rival SSR cards with ease. With a great starting buff of Wit and good Wit training priority as well as skills such as Straightaway Adept and Tail Held High, this card can get your Uma to the URA Finale with ease.

Do not underestimate SR cards. Since they are much more common, they are also easier to uncap. This can lead to them being much more powerful than any under-leveled SSRs you have, and this one is a great example. Many of the best cards require you to uncap them at least twice to get their true strength, but this can be a grind compared to building a simple but effective SR card that does the job.

Skill Hints:Prudent Positioning, Trick (Front), Trick (Rear), Murmur, I Can See Right Through You, After-School Stroll, Slipstream, Lone Wolf, Levelheaded, Lucky Seven, Maverick O

Career Bonuses:+5% Race stat gains, +11% Fans, +26% stats when Friendship Training, +1% Training effectiveness, +38% chance to appear in Speed training, +32% Mood Bonus

If you need a card to boost your Trainee’s Speed growth early, then this SR Sweep Tosho will help your Uma blossom. Focusing all on Speed already makes this card viable for many decks, but with initial and Career bonuses that are outstanding, this card is one that can be excellent for any position.

During a Career playthrough, your main goal is to get friendships maxed out as soon as possible to take advantage of the Friendship Training boosts. Meaning that if you start off with some initial friendship like this card does, you will be able to max it sooner. This card is one of the best SRs with 25 initial points at level 50, and it means that you may get to making use of its wild Speed training buffs sooner than most other cards.

Specialty:Power

Skill Hints:Homestretch Haste, Medium Straightaways O, Mile Straightaway O, Slick Surge, Straightaway Acceleration, Straightaway Adept, Straightaway Recovery, Tokyo Racecourse O, Updrafters, Breath of Fresh Air, Nible Navigator

Initial Bonuses:+20 Friendship

Career Bonuses:+5% Race stat gains, +10% Fans, +25% stats when Friendship Training, +10% Training effectiveness, +50% chance to appear in Power training, +30% Mood Bonus

Being one of the few Power-focused cards that will change the way your Uma’s races, this SSR Vodka card has powerful skills and improves your Power training substantially. Power helps with your Trainee’s acceleration, so it is a must-have for any late surgers. This card makes raising it a breeze.

This card is wonderful for Umas, just likeVodka herself,who run mile races, as it gives them skills that benefit the long stretches of track they have, such as Straightaway Acceleration and Straightaway Adept. It also works incredibly well for late surgers, as skills such as Homestretch Haste and Nimble Navigator are key to making that last spurt be all that matters.

Skill Hints:Concentration, Focus, Tail Held High, Watchful Eye

Initial Bonuses:+25 Friendship

Career Bonuses:+40% Event Recovery, +20% Failure Protection, +15% Energy Cost Reduction, Condition curing, Mood boosts

A strange concept for new players is how impactful the Pal Support Cards are and whether they are worth including in your limited six-deck slots, but trust us when we say this SSR Tazuna Hayakawa [Tracen Reception] is worth it. This Pal card has many abilities that make it great, and they all come from events with Tazuna Hayakawa.

While many Support Cards have RNG, Pal cards have an aspect that makes them controllable. After raising your friendship with the character, you’re able to go on recreation dates with them instead of your Uma, and instead of being random, they will progress through a linear set of events. If you know what each event does, you can use them at the right time to guarantee effects, such as curing a condition or recovering energy.

Event One:+35 Energy, +6 Speed, Mood up, +5 Bond.

Event Two:Energy +35, +5 Bond, Heal a negative condition.

Event Three:+35 Energy, +6 Stamina, Mood up, +5 Bond / +12 Stamina, +12 Guts, Mood up, +5 Bond.

Event Four:+49 Energy, +6 Wit, Mood up, +5 Bond, Heal a negative condition.

Event Five:+49 Energy, +37 Skill points, Mood up (Two stages), +5 Bond, Focus or Concentration skill hint.

Skill Hints:Sprinting Gear, Frenzied Front Runners, Flustered Front Runners, Sprint Straightaways O, Sprint Corners O, Huge Lead, Countermeasure, Intimidate, Gap Closer, Turbo Sprint

Initial Bonuses:+15 Speed, +20 Friendship

Career Bonuses:+5% Race stat gains, +15% Fans, +15% stats when Friendship Training, +30% Mood Boost

It’s no surprise that the student obsessed with speed has one of the best Speed-focused Support Cards in the game. Sakura Bakushin O is here to help you push your Trainee’s Speed stat to un-Bakushin-able levels. This card is almost perfect for sprint-focused racers, but it can also be great for any front-runner or just about any Trainee, with some of the skills hints being very useful for any kind of race.

In general, Speed cards are the most useful ones you can have in your deck because of how valuable the Speed stat is for nearly every kind of Trainee build. No matter if you are training a pace chaser or an end closer, time and time again, speed will show itself to be key to winning any of your races. Just make sure to make a balanced deck unless you want to do a ‘Bakushin’ only run.

Specialty:Stamina

Skill Hints:Corner Recovery O, Firm Conditions O, Hesitant Pace Chasers, Homestretch Haste, Ramp Up, Deep Breaths, Swinging Maestro

Initial Bonuses:+25 Stamina

Career Bonuses:+5% Race stat gains, +15% Fans, +20% stats when Friendship Training, +10% Training effectiveness, +20% chance to appear in Stamina training

Stamina is an often overlooked stat that you may forget about when training your Uma, but with this SSR Super Creek card, you won’t have to ever stop your Speed training. It specializes in Stamina with skills and training boosts, making it easy to train any mile-distance runner, such asTaiki Shuttleand Vodka.

With not only an initial increase of 25 Stamina right out of the gate, but also a much higher chance of appearing during Stamina training, this card makes it so you don’t have to waste more than a couple of turns on Stamina. This, along with the chance to get hints for the Swinging Maestro skill, allows you to focus on other stats while knowing well thatSuper Creekhas got your back when it comes to the longer races.

Skill Hints:Fall Runner O, Nimble Navigator, Outer Post Proficiency O, Right-Handed O, Straightaway Acceleration, Corner Adept O, Prepared to Pass, Speed Star

Initial Bonuses:+25 Wit

Career Bonuses:+5% Race stat gains, +15% Fans, +20% stats when Friendship Training, +20% Hint frequency, +3 Wit Recovery, Practice Perfect O condition

While many of the best SSRs require multiple wallet-draining copies of the same card to uncap their level limit and make them actually decent, this Fine Motion one is one that only requires you to pull it once. This card focuses on Wit, making it great as it has some powerful skills that you will want to invest in if you get the hints.

This card shows its worth early on with the very first chain event, giving you the powerful Practice Perfect O condition if you choose the right dialogue option. It doesn’t stop there with the excellent benefits: you can also receive hints for two amazing skills in Corner Adept O and Speed Star, both of which are some of the best corner skills in the game.

Skill Hints:Corner Adept O, Corner Recovery O, Straightaway Recovery, Focus, Extra Tank, Long Corners O, Front Runner Straightaways O, Dodging Danger, Straightaway Adept, Professor of Curvature

Initial Bonuses:+15 Speed, +25 Friendship

Career Bonuses:+5% Race stat gains, +10% Fans, +20% stats when Friendship Training, +20% Hint frequency, +20% Mood Boost, Practice Perfect O condition

One of the most hyped cards shortly after launch that everyone and their Trainee’s parents were trying to get. This Speed-focused card is almost like two cards in one thanks to how strong it can be, having ridiculous rates for Friendship training triggers in the Speed training.

This is not all, though, as this card also has widely applicable skill hints that any Trainee can make use of, such as Corner Adept O and even a random event that can grant you Practice Perfect O. Even over on the JP servers, this card is still used frequently and has only recently begun getting outclassed despite the card being over four years old.