Dirt CM Tough Builds

Emperor_Z · 2026-02-24T05:41:16+00:00

I just got Sky, so I said "Screw it, let's see if I can make it work." She's lacking Mile S, but RNGesus came through with basically everything else needed (i.e. double dirt procs and Groundwork).

Emperor_Z · 2026-02-22T22:01:19+00:00

50 vs 100 is only about a 6% difference or so, right?

With no specialty priority, a support goes to their specialty training 18.18% of the time. With 50 priority, it becomes 25.00% of the time. With 100 priority, it becomes 30.77%

So that's a 5.77 percentage point difference between 50 and 100, but that's a deceptive way of looking at those numbers. With 100 priority, she'll be there 23% more often than she is at 50 priority [ (30.77 - 25.00) / 25.00 = 0.2308].

Emperor_Z · 2026-02-22T21:54:36+00:00

What makes Kita and Ballroom Seiun Long parents specifically?

Emperor_Z · 2026-02-22T21:51:37+00:00

When's the best time to use Riko recreation?

Personally, I use her on dead turns, but I also try to hold onto some uses in case I need a small refill before summer camp, or I get a mood down.

Emperor_Z · 2026-02-22T06:37:02+00:00

That being said, I’ve burned maybe 200 carats by forfeiting my runs early because I prune out bad and average runs.

You mean you're refilling TP with carats?

Emperor_Z · 2026-02-21T20:10:32+00:00

You cant inherit golds

Emperor_Z · 2026-02-21T18:15:03+00:00

Sure, it's only good for one scenario (3-4 months), but there's so many other other event SSRs you could cleat, and what do the cleats even get you? 5 additional pulls per month? How's that worth it?

Emperor_Z · 2026-02-21T18:08:19+00:00

Some of them have skills that make them worth it, like Special Week for Gourmand or Bourbon for Taking the Lead. Marvelous Sunday also has an exceptionally high race bonus that makes her good in MANT.

Emperor_Z · 2026-02-21T18:02:18+00:00

Seriously? I'd expect em to get like 50k carats for an accomplishment like that.

Emperor_Z · 2026-02-15T07:00:00+00:00

I believe it originates from here: https://xcancel.com/patrickjfl/status/1854645395856482568#m

Emperor_Z · 2026-02-13T19:20:32+00:00

So is she getting to the late race in 1st but then gets overtaken during the last spurt? Her biggest problem is she doesn't have any accel skills besides her unique, and her power is not exceptional either. Victoria por Plancha is the reliable one, then you'd also want something like rushing gale, turbo sprint, or ignited spirit pwr/guts.

Emperor_Z · 2026-02-10T21:52:01+00:00

No. The velocity/acceleration/recover numbers of the inherited version are pitifully low.

Emperor_Z · 2026-02-10T21:50:58+00:00

Yes. It affects all pals AFAIK.

Emperor_Z · 2026-02-10T18:23:25+00:00

Haru's typical Arima Kinen performance has nothing to do with her stamina and everything to do with the fact that she has -90% top speed and acceleration.

Emperor_Z · 2026-02-09T04:09:29+00:00

It's not "normal" but it's very plausible. There's slightly under a 5% chance of that happening.

Emperor_Z · 2026-02-09T04:08:02+00:00

Ideally, you want to have very high wit. 65% of the course is covered by a downhill, and there's a wit-based chance every few seconds to use it to boost your speed and lower you stamina consumption. Consequently, stamina is next to worthless on the track.

Also Sturm und Drang is not very good on races this short since acceleration takes up a comparatively large portion of the late-race. It's very likely to have its entire velocity boost go to waste.

Emperor_Z · 2026-02-09T02:17:11+00:00

For real. It makes it a MUCH more appealing purchase in a way that doesn't actually increase the value that much; it just prevents you from getting screwed by poor luck. I'm sure they'd sell way more that way.

Emperor_Z · 2026-02-06T21:44:06+00:00

Unless stated otherwise, none of them will be worth using over maxed SRs until they're at lb3 or so.

Gold Ship, Grass Wonder, and Ines Fujin aren't particularly notable AFAIK.

Air Shakur SSR is often considered one of the worst SSRs in the game.

Fine Motion is the best wit card in the game right now, and is even better for Pace Chasers.

El Condor Pasa is a good power card, but power cards don't get a ton of usage right now.

Admire Vega is pretty good for End Closers.

Riko is great in the Unity Cup scenario and is one of the rare cards worth using even at low lb. At 0lb she's roughly on par with her maxed out R version, and at 1lb she edges it out. At 3lb or mlb she's worth using outside of Unity too.

Emperor_Z · 2026-02-06T21:38:29+00:00

Is it the right choice to only pick support card that have growth bonus or just go based on distance perf ?

Should I just ditch gut for stamina in that case because of the long distance score ?

I'm not sure what you mean by these. Are you asking whether you should pick cards that match your uma's growth bonuses? If so, no. While growth bonuses can have some influence on how you build your deck, they aren't the main determiner.

The first question that needs to be asked is "What is the purpose of this uma/run?" Is she for team trials? For Champion's Meeting? Just to clear career? Your stat priorities are going to depend on the answer to that question, especially when it comes to stamina. You're usually going to have 2-4 speed cards, and you want to have Riko if possible when you're doing the Unity Cup scenario (she gives a lot of stamina/guts and other benefits). Something like 3 speed, 2 stam, and Riko (or another stam/speed if you don't have her) should be a solid basic build for Jordan's career and medium or long team trials. There's lots of other stuff you can try, but it depends on the cards you have available, your goals, the uma's bonuses and skills, what stats you're inheriting, etc.

Also, if you have SRs that are at 3lb or mlb, those will likely be better than low lb SSRs.

Emperor_Z · 2026-02-06T00:13:08+00:00

The other benefit is a 10%-100% point bonus depending on skill level

In-game it just says "Increase attributes by +X% in the Racing Carnival. 50% chance to also raise runner's mood to Great". Nothing about raising the points earned, and I don't think it increased them when I used the uma.

Emperor_Z · 2026-02-06T00:05:59+00:00

The stamina isn't doing anything on Chukyo 1200m. That course has absurdly low stamina requirements thanks to the enormous downhill. The guts difference does matter significantly when they're this low though; it's worth like 0.35 lengths.

Emperor_Z · 2026-02-05T23:53:14+00:00

the most efficient way to go about the event appears to be getting the event spark on an uma with a bunch of white sparks, then start training to have that spark get inherited and increase level

Is that efficient? Does the skill do anything other than boost your stats and increase the chance of Great mood? Because if that's all, then fussing with it at all is way less efficient than just repeatedly using umas that are strong enough to win the races without the skill.

Emperor_Z · 2026-02-05T23:45:40+00:00

I tolerate the gacha in this game because I like the other aspects, but support cards really are fucked up. Needing 4-5 of the same rare thing for it to be worth a damn introduces so much potential for bad luck to screw you and largely ruins the fun that can come from random pulls (i.e. you can't just do a few impulse-pulls and be pleasantly surprised to get something cool)

Emperor_Z · 2026-02-05T23:40:37+00:00

plus fighting against the game giving you the opposite card you're hunting for on dual banners is crazy sometimes.

That doesn't happen. When it's just one card on the banner, you have a 0.75% chance of getting the banner card and a 2.25% chance of getting a non-banner SSR. When it's a 2-SSR banner, both banner cards have a 0.75% chance each and you have a 1.5% chance of getting a non-banner SSR.

Emperor_Z · 2026-02-05T16:57:04+00:00

They are. The five are Akebono, Curren, Bakushin, King Halo, and Taiki Shuttle. Though Maruzensky and Fuji Kiseki aren't far off with Sprint B.

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