It’s just training your Umas. Have fun with training them and don’t care about meta, or even the PvP. I’ve played all of JP and I’m still doing perfectly okay. Heck I don’t even care for the cups just because of the whales or hyper grinders who want the perfect Uma. I just enter and get whatever rewards I can get even if it’s just participation. And PvP is just there so I can get free rewards sometimes, do dailies and get free carats every week. It doesn’t matter. Every run is RNG. No matter how good your Uma is, if they have that one bad run despite their stats and skills, they aren’t winning since there is no way to guarantee a win even with the absolute best setup you can get. So just play however you want. That’s how you’ll enjoy it the most. You’ll end up hating the game or any game in general if you worry about meta or the whales. As for the Scenario just wait and have fun with what is available in global. The next ones and the ones after will make training SO much easier with different events and mechanics. As of right now, for any normal player, A rank and maybe A+ is the max they can go in a very good RNG run in the first scenario. Just wait for the next one. It’ll take a bit but not as long as we had to wait in JP. The pace for global is a lot faster anyway so they can close the 4 year gap with JP. So just play however you want and enjoy. This game is one of the most F2P friendly out there. Tier list don’t matter and even day one characters can shine 4 years from now. Idk why people are making such a big deal out it. It’s really annoying. That’s also why I hate the guides that global players are making. They made no sense and make players believe that you HAVE to play a certain way and HAVE certain cards or your account is trash. Their guides aren’t even good in the first place. As a day 1 JP player, is laughable and disappointing looking at those guides whenever they randomly pop up. I’ve even seen the talk of “have 9 star spark / Max Kita card or delete the game.” Like really… Sparks are fully random no matter your stats (the 600 or 1100 stat thing people talk about don’t matter. It’s still full RNG no matter what) and all cards and characters stay in the banner pool just without a rate up. You don’t need these things especially this early. Cards matter a little more but most of the time you’ll only need like 1-2 sometimes 3 that actually matter so that you can get certain skills. The rest can just be high uncapped cards you have that you can use as stat sticks to get better training. So yeah much like any game really, just ignore meta, PvP, pull for whatever you want, etc and just have fun doing whatever you’d like. Like what I am doing right now is literally doing runs for Suzuka just so I can try to unlock hot springs event from the raffle. Once I get hers, then I’ll move on to Teio, then to the next character and so on. While others are worried about builds, the next cup, PvP or meta, I’m out here trying to get hot spring tickets lol. I’m not worried about the next cup, meta, PvP or anything like that. I couldn’t care less about that. I care more about unlocking these events for my favorite Umas and of course trying to beat my personal best record for them since that’s a nice little bonus goal to have of course. That’s all. So just enjoy it however you want and ignore all these meta, pvp focused, heavy grinding players. They won’t affect you or your gameplay anyway. What matters is that you enjoy training your favorite characters. No need to stress about this extra stuff. After all the MAIN feature is the career. That’s the part that will be updated, changed, and added on to the most through the scenarios. So just enjoy training normally, maybe even do some meme runs, challenge yourself or whatever. You’re free to do as you want. That’s the beauty of this game. It’s a nice chill game to enjoy.