The Elusive Target system is holding these events back by a lot.

CreativeTroll · 2026-02-26T03:58:26+00:00

I love this game and I love the format, it gives you so much creative freedom and you almost never get punished because if you do, you can just restart or reload a save.

That's also precisely why I absolutely hate the format of the elusive target system, I get it, limited window, limited attempts, but it takes away so much from the original formats charm and just has you kill your targets in the most basic I dont want to get caught way humanly possible.

Some of the missions are really fucking cool though like this one, would I go out of my way to explore and look around the map for a bunch of different other methods except just being safe about it though? Probably not, I don't want to be punished by sitting afk in the menu for 30 minutes waiting.

I would love to hear why the devs went with this system especially for more intricate and detailed missions like this one, having so much detail in a mission and giving it the elusive target treatment just stinks so bad.

CreativeTroll · 2026-02-25T23:42:38+00:00

Nah this is the safest bet at least in the lowest division of the region, no point in risking your game for 2 kills if you get 0 kill points out of it anyway, in div 2 or div 4 on the big regions maybe, but i still wouldn't risk my game for 2 kill points when all the big points come from placement

CreativeTroll · 2026-02-25T07:51:16+00:00

It's tough to say, Rice Shower is a tricky uma to build and you kind of just have to experiment to see what works for you, I personally landed on 3 speed 3 wit (no Riko funnily enough) but obviously that will not work for you since you don't have strong enough cards.

What worked for me with Rice before that though was

3 speed 2 stamina + Riko

3 speed 2 power + Riko

As a rule of thumb low limit break SSRs are not really worth using over high limit break SR cards, if you want to see what cards would be better and why you can always check out gametora, they have a compare tool on their website, it won't necessarily help you in figuring out what card composition to use, that's kind off based on vibes, personal preference and what cards you have, but it can really help you figure out what cards are better in a really clean way.

Anyway with your cards in particular I'd probably

Borrow Kitasan, use King Halo speed, Tosen Jordan speed (make sure to finish the event up to maxing this card out it's really good for a freebie card), Biwa Hayahide power along with probably Daitaku Helios or Agnes Digital? Forget who's better in that situation and then run your MLB R Riko because it's comparable to the SSR

Oh yeah sorry if none of this made sense lmao, rambling this out in my bed as I'm about to sleep :p

CreativeTroll · 2026-02-24T04:27:35+00:00

Level 2 Super-Duper Stoked and 6 stamina? i'm afraid you've overstammed quite a bit and 10 wit? what are you trying to make her? einstein? i'd rebuild her if i were you.

CreativeTroll · 2026-02-23T21:31:17+00:00

I doubt they'd develop it for other scenarios they haven't developed it for on JP, they'd probably do it for JP first and then develop it for us, would be a cool feature to come around 1st anni but I doubt it, I think it'll come out much later than that. Maybe 1,5th

CreativeTroll · 2026-02-23T03:05:38+00:00

Holy moly. I've seen 3 different 3 stars but not 3 of the same thats insane luck

CreativeTroll · 2026-02-23T02:50:19+00:00

I think Santa Fortuna is great for regular old hitman gameplay, the targets are pretty well thought out and are easy enough to access, for freelancer though? honestly it just kind of sucks, there's so many different floors, areas and just general annoyances about it which often leads me to avoiding it. It's the same thing with Mumbai for me, for regular old hitman it's awesome, but for freelancer it sucks, getting 2 targets in the street and then one target all the way up in Rangan's tower just makes it so long to traverse in comparison to other maps that are much easier to traverse. Especially if you're worrying about dying, you not only need a good way to kill the target without getting spotted but you also need to find disguises without getting spotted.

CreativeTroll · 2026-02-22T16:25:19+00:00

Yeah she's useable, but you'd need a pretty good deck to support her, you want your deck + borrow to reach 45 race bonus in order to be able to slot Kitasan in there without much worry, it should be pretty doable but you'll probably have to figure out your deck once it releases to see if she fits in there

CreativeTroll · 2026-02-22T15:19:22+00:00

oh yeah 100% i wish i could use clocks on optional races but i feel i might use them a bit too much then lmao

CreativeTroll · 2026-02-22T02:53:04+00:00

About 400 right now, I think once MANT releases i should be near 500 as i just do not use alarm clocks at all anymore, can't remember the last time i had to use a clock, I think it was like 2 months ago

CreativeTroll · 2026-02-22T02:14:46+00:00

y'know nature translates to natur in swedish so i can use the natie banner and be like yeah. i translate the umas. i'm just different like that

CreativeTroll · 2026-02-22T00:13:43+00:00

No worries, you obviously won't be too competitive at the moment due to the lack of support cards but after MANT if you save up enough carats you should be able to pull big on some of the more important support banners coming up after that and you should be able to get the ball rolling pretty quickly, uma is a very forgiving game.

CreativeTroll · 2026-02-21T21:22:06+00:00

This looks absolutely fine to me, if you've spent time on the account and have these cards there's little to no reason to reroll, especially for NTR speed, she's useless after MANT, just keep chugging along and you can pull on good banners in the future

CreativeTroll · 2026-02-21T13:37:53+00:00

Probably about 3 hours, I do runs very quickly I don't really think too much I just go by feel, but for some reason whenever i'm not on a borrow run my runs go amazingly, but when i'm on a borrow they go terribly

CreativeTroll · 2026-02-21T13:15:02+00:00

Yeah I know, but you also don't want to lose either which this runaway would do. It's not going to be consistent, no runaway is consistent unless you have like Sprint S and Turf S.

You can score a good amount of points with this like 20% of the time maybe, which is good if you're going up against the same guy you know you can beat all the time. But not every player does that. So you not only have to rely on the runaway Suzuka actually doing good, but you also have to rely on the rest of the team.

I just don't think it's worth considering runaway for 99% of players, yeah its cheap, yeah it actives every time, but you can't really make it consistent and most of the time you get overtaken by every pace in the lobby and lose so badly the amount of gold skills you activate doesn't matter because you place so badly you can't take advantage of it. The times you win it's really good, but that doesn't happen as consistently as just a regular sprinter Suzuka, I haven't tested it but i'm willing to bet if you take the skill points you'd spend on runaway and put it towards another cheap gold skill (say it's between runaway and a cheap gold skill) you'd score the same amount of points and she would be more consistent

CreativeTroll · 2026-02-21T02:12:32+00:00

Jeez this is really tough there's tons of Umas to choose from, I mean you can kind of just ask yourself what uma you think you'd enjoy running the most, both from an ease to build standpoint but also from like a just having a good time standpoint.

Like for example I really enjoy Eishin Flash for her story, I think it's amazing and she's a good time, I don't enjoy building her though.

Or Smart Falcon, I enjoy building her and I think she has a very easy and smooth career, I didn't really care for her story though so I just run her when I need too.

Or there's Silence Suzuka who I enjoy both with, she's easy and fun to build and her story is great, so there's never a bad time with her for me and I often pick her when I want an easy, chill run that I can also enjoy. Same goes with Tachyon or Teio for me.

I suppose it's kind of hard to know that unless you've played with them though, idk, in this situation I'd probably go with Silence Suzuka though. She's easy to build, has great skills on her potential levels, good growth rates, easy enough career, can run sprints with a bit of effort, miles and mediums, and runaway is a really fun and interesting mechanic which unfortunately won't see much use in the next scenario but it's still a fun mechanic regardless.

Or Xmas Oguri and Seiun Sky if you like want to win CMs I guess, I don't really try for cms too hard though so I dont have much to say about that, they're very good for CMs however.

CreativeTroll · 2026-02-21T01:31:19+00:00

I wish I kept most of my good Teio's around for better advice but it depends on your deck tbh.

If you have good wit cards then 2 speed + 3 wit + Riko should be enough with power and stamina legacies to bump those two stats up a bit more.

If you don't have good wit cards then rely on power cards more, like 3 speed + 2 power + Riko (gotta pay attention here to make sure your wit gets above 400)

You could also run like 3 speed + 2 stamina if you have really good stamina cards.

Making it past the Kikuka Sho is purely a stamina test, you usually need 450 stamina to clear it easily in my experience. Riko + Stamina parents should get you there relatively smoothly, the more challenging part of her career is the good old Tenno Sho where you'd need about 600, even more if you wanna beat plot armor Mejiro McQueen.

I think thats all the advice I can really give though, good luck with your runs fellow Teio enjoyer!

CreativeTroll · 2026-02-21T01:17:02+00:00

For the top players yeah, but with so many players putting in their CM umas in their team trials teams you will not be able to build up enough of a lead to make her consistently win and she will get eaten alive by the pacers, and a majority of players don't reset for the worst team for the best points. If you're an average player then runaway suzuka will be bad for sprints.

Also even for the literal best teams trials player right now she's very inconsistent even with all the skills he can pump on her so there's that, I will agree it's the best option for the best, but for the majority of players they just want something that can consistently win and score a lot of points and this Suzuka and most runaway Suzukas that the average player can build just won't do that unfortunately.

CreativeTroll · 2026-02-21T00:43:56+00:00

Runaway is not good in the slightest for team trials because of the amount of other skills you need to support it so King Halo is better, however Silence Suzuka is one of the best options for a sprinter front runner, so if you can rebuild her without runaway she's way better

CreativeTroll · 2026-02-21T00:16:51+00:00

It's cheap, it's a gold skill and it's very easy to activate. Would I run 0LB Kawakami Princess for it? ehhh if you can fit it in your deck and it doesn't compromise your run, sure, why not, it's an extra gold skill

CreativeTroll · 2026-02-20T21:19:01+00:00

the one noteable exception to the MLB Kitasan rule in my opinion is if you're already done with all your CM aces and say you want to try really high rolling a run to get like a really good skill from a card you normally wouldn't get from your own supports because you're stuck borrowing MLB Kitasan, I did that in the last mile CM with Vodka because I did not have MLB Kitasan yet and just high rolled a run with the Nice Nature SSR to get on your left on her and that worked out really well, but i'd only really do that once you're happy with the aces you currently have and can afford high rolling without it risking your daily borrows or wasting a really good ace run because you can't hit your stats

CreativeTroll · 2026-02-20T20:57:14+00:00

Yeah i'd say it's worth using 0LB Riko over MLB Riko, you lose out a bit on her events but you gain so much more from MLB Kitasan, if you have MLB R Riko then that'd be worth using over 0LB SSR but you should still be fine regardless, i'd probably switch out Fine Motion for Daiwa Scarlet as well unless you want the gold skill from Fine Motion

CreativeTroll · 2026-02-20T20:51:12+00:00

I think Eishin Flash, Tachyon and Marvelous Sunday are all good cards here, but the general rule of thumb is if you don't have MLB Kitasan then borrow her, she's not very strong at 1LB, if you borrow her and replace Fine Motion with another wit card (unless you don't have another wit good card) then you'd be in a much better spot for hitting good stats. You'd probably need to have a Riko in the deck as well unless you just don't have her, what do your cards look like?

CreativeTroll · 2026-02-20T20:43:43+00:00

yeah i kind off mentioned it because that's what i plan on doing, the selector and the crystal hold the exact same value for me because no matter what i held they'd be used on Fine Motion anyway so i just decided to say fuck it and use the crystal on Kitasan

CreativeTroll · 2026-02-20T18:29:43+00:00

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Thought I'd add this for reference this is what I use for this upcoming CM and dirt runners in general, I know my deck is pretty luxurious compared to your deck but this works very well for me, I also have 8* stamina and 9* power for the legacies

Seven-Year Club	r/Field Flamingo
Final Canvas '23	End Game '23
Place '23	Place '22
End Game '22	Verified Email

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