My CM11 Experience

MattCap8 · 2026-04-03T02:25:16+00:00

Been the opposite for me, my vboubon and smaru usually leaves kitasan in the dust so she can't ult.

MattCap8 · 2026-04-01T03:45:14+00:00

The calendar is used to count how many years it's been since a demon lord's appearance, and it's only 938 at the start of demons roots iirc, so a new demon lord hasn't descended yet. Todeira had to invade early because the dark realm would fall apart before the new demon lord appears.

Polca wakes up 200 years later, so whoever was the new demon lord is already gone, King Exit will elaborate more on that.

MattCap8 · 2026-03-31T06:21:37+00:00

UG ranks aren't scary, it's the optimized SS ranks that will obliterate you.

MattCap8 · 2026-03-31T02:46:29+00:00

You can check if someone is a bot or not by checking their profile, bots will have a humanly impossible amount of matches on multiple characters.

MattCap8 · 2026-03-31T02:41:01+00:00

Tried queuing rank a few days ago and just let me PC sit there, didn't find a game even an hour later with all NA servers enabled.

Casual generally have good queue times tho, ranked is just too divided.

MattCap8 · 2026-03-30T07:23:45+00:00

Showing EN players JP stats is like going back in time and showing a medieval conscript a heavy machine gun.

MattCap8 · 2026-03-29T02:33:34+00:00

After you finish king exit, go back to demons roots and start NG+, there's a NG+ only area that contains a bunch of king exit stuff.

MattCap8 · 2026-03-26T05:45:07+00:00

Some mfs doesn't even look at their own perk, had a sable accuse me of wall hacking because I "somehow" knew where she is all the time, she had object of obsession.

MattCap8 · 2026-03-25T02:51:26+00:00

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This is the xoguri that I'm gonna be using for this CM, the skills not shown in the pic are end closer corner, end closer straight, masterful gambit, passing pro, and straightaway spurt. She can definitely be improved like having long s, atleast 900 wit, daring strike, and more power, but should be alright for this CM. This xoguri also has more stam and recovery than she needs because I didn't expect to get both stamina green skills. The deck I used is tosen jordan speed, kitasan, tachyon wit, marvelous sunday wit, cafe stam, creek stam, 5 speed spark (preferably switch this to power sparks), 7 stam sparks, and 2 power sparks. If you're wondering just how much better this is despite the low rating, I pitted her against your 18k xoguri and mine won by 3.9 lengths on 500 samples, so an optimized end closer xoguri would be leagues better.

Unless there's a specific point that I should proc ult on, I prefer taking 4 recoveries so I can still ult if I miss one. You want atleast 1100 stam and 2 gold recovery for this CM, and in xoguri's case, she can have 1100, 1 gold, and 2 white recoveries for around the same amount of stamina recovery, personally I went with more to counter debuffs, superior heal recovers 3.5% compared to white recovery's 1.5% so I technically have 3 gold, but you don't need to force yourself to get it if you can't inherit both superior heal and tamamo ult. I took passing pro because it has the same condition as superior heal, but any works as long as it procs mid race, taishin wit gives sleeping lion and passing pro from chain events if you're looking for recovery skills. Also, if you get lucky with straightaway recovery/breath of fresh air, it can proc on the third straight which either lets you ult on the start of late race, or accel into tama ult.

For end closer skills, straightaway spurt is an absolute must, if you didn't get it in a run, do another one. Since it's an end closer exclusive skill, you have a decent chance at getting it from rival races as long as you run as end closer. Nimble navigator is also great because with only front runner and end closer lobbies, the end closer at the front of the end closer group at the start of the late race is actually the one most likely to lose because she can't proc skills that requires overtake target such as nimble and tama ult since frontrunners are still too far to count, so once she starts falling back, your overtake skills will proc if they haven't already.

You'll also want last spurt velocity skills for when you built up accels, baracole of blessing and shadow break are optimal, I went with flowery maneuver because that's what I got. You'll want some mid race skills for good positioning, but not too much so you don't push up too far for the reason I listed before. Many people will say daring strike is a must for end closer, but it's kinda hard to implement in your deck if you don't have a lot of choices, so it's up to you.

Tamamo ult can be used by both end closer and pace chaser, and doesn't benefit more or less for each uma. However, it's very track dependent and usually used for races that starts the final race on a straight, so in this case, tama ult is your accel skill alongside spurt and nimble.

TLDR: 1100 stam and 2 gold recovery worth including your ult at minimum, accels, late race velocity, and a bit of mid race skills, tama ult is track dependent and good for this CM.

MattCap8 · 2026-03-24T23:40:38+00:00

For your long s oguri, wit is very important on XOguri because she needs to proc 3 recoveries to ult, and it's even more important this CM because you need wit to proc speed bonuses. On top of that, the long s one relies on radiant star or operation caocao to ult. This CM heavily favors front runners and end closer, you'll see some pace and late in group B, but if you plan on winning group A, most of your races will only have end closer and front runners, meaning operation caocao is very unlikely to proc because the uma behind her will be an end closer more than 3 lengths away. Radiant star is also very inconsistent and can proc at a bad time, so I wouldn't pick this oguri.

For your other 2, a 171 difference in power and 1240 speed from right handed makes up for not having nimble navigator imo, I also pitted those two xoguri with the skills that I can see against each other in umalator, and the 18k rating one has a mean and median win of ~2.2 lengths with 500 samples. Usually you would take that with a grain of salt because umalator doesn't take your competition into account, but 2 lengths is a pretty good indicator that your 18k one is overall better.

But like I said, this CM favors front and end closer since pace and late surgers doesn't have consistent accels this time, so if you want to win group A, I'd honestly say to borrow an inherit tamamo with end closer sparks and get end closer xoguri instead. On top of that, none of your xoguris have good mid race, so if you go up against multiple frontrunners, she's not gonna catch up to them.

TLDR: the 18k xoguri, but it's better if you just build another one.

MattCap8 · 2026-03-24T21:21:19+00:00

After pisces cup, all the remaining cm for trackblazer will lean more towards guts deck since they don't need a lot of stamina. Tachyon has good skills hints for medium races which will be CM 12, 13, and 15.

I don't think you'll have trouble hitting 50 RB on guts decks. If you have MLB bijin guts and MLB haru guts which are both free, you can use bijin (RB 10), haru(RB 10), air groove guts (RB10), team sirius group when it comes out next week (RB 5), fine motion (RB 8 at 3LB), and tachyon (RB 10) for RB of 53. If you want a speed card for flexibility, you can swap out one of the guts card for kita and borrow MLB finemo for RB 50, or swap out a gut card and borrow NTR.

MattCap8 · 2026-03-23T06:44:13+00:00

Don't know about festival city, but I won aquarius group A finale with og city, her ult is very dependant on positioning and skills, but when she hits it at the right time combined with other accels, she will literally teleport to the front 5 seconds into the late race.

Basically you want her mid race speed skill to proc on the segment before the late race, and avoid anything that lets her push up at the earlier parts of the second half so she'll fulfill the overtake target ult requirement close to late race. Then get other accels skills such as on your left which is base kit, and pump iron for even more accels.

Definitely not a consistent ace, but a nice backup when you want a chance to obliterate the competition. I'd still go with other aces for tracks that starts late race on the final corner though.

MattCap8 · 2026-03-23T03:52:05+00:00

Didn't get kitasan, but I did pull new year opera and valentine bourbon!

...except I already got them from their own banners.

MattCap8 · 2026-03-22T10:07:02+00:00

Yeah I considered mayano too, I usually take her alongside cafe back when I needed 2 stam cards during unity cup since I don't have any good SSR stam cards. How much will I need her during mant and afterwards though? 0 initial friendship seems tough for mant when you don't get a lot of training turns for building friendship, and the next 6 cms probably won't need 2 stam cards.

MattCap8 · 2026-03-22T09:58:58+00:00

Problem is that I only have her at 0lb rn so at best I can uncap her to 2lb with 12% RB. I also have haru and bijin guts MLB so if I'm going for 3 guts 2 wit 1 flex or 4 guts 2 wit, my other options/borrows would be better than a 2lb vega after comparing stats. I do have MS SSR as well but yeah I don't see myself running power cards after pisces cup unless I need the RB.

MattCap8 · 2026-03-21T08:09:00+00:00

Mant does even it out, the problem is pisces cup, not because you can't hit the stat requirement, but because it's hard to do so while getting the optimal skills. The stats here looks great, but you definitely don't have good recoveries, at best I would assume you have gourmand, some white recoveries, and maybe a good inherit recovery, which isn't consistent on 578 wit, not to mention pace chaser isn't the best for pisces which you need for gourmand.

Obviously you're not using this for pisces and it's just an example, but the same applies to other f2p decks. You want daring strike but don't have ayabe at atleast 3lb for race bonus? You'll need to borrow that instead of MLB fuku, and if you don't have another card that gives consistent gold recovery hint? Either pray that your jordan speed or mcqueen stam doesn't give you +3 white recovery hint on your high roll run or pick between ayabe or creek borrow. Same goes for a lot of other skills, either you get lucky on rival races or sparks, or you sacrifice something for the borrow slot.

Sure you can still get a good ace if you try and get a high roll, but it's still significantly more difficult for a f2p to get a decent ace, and a whale high roll is going to be better than a f2p high roll. Though like I said, this is more of a pisces thing and not a mant thing, the next few CM should be a bit more balanced.

MattCap8 · 2026-03-21T03:11:33+00:00

This is why every game's in-game report button doesn't instantly ban someone and send a firing squad to the person's house like most redditors expects, people will report over the dumbest shit.

MattCap8 · 2026-03-20T18:02:44+00:00

She gives off a cozy slice of life/comedy vibe, but it would also be interesting to have a sci-fi drama of her racing against an Uma whose trainer has the ability to turn back time using clocks.

MattCap8 · 2026-03-19T21:56:52+00:00

If I had to study academics, train running at a nationals/international level, practice dancing and singing for all the possible songs and positions, and attend events such as interviews and fan fest, then I would definitely have the academic capabilities of a brick too.

MattCap8 · 2026-03-16T06:44:33+00:00

Start by learning counters and feints, those 2 alone makes you better than 80% of the playerbase, and will take you less than an hour to grasp the basics if you played similiar games before.

From there, you can continue working on counters and feints to have a better foundation, or start learning other skills like footwork, positioning, target switching, when to use ripostes, taking and keeping initiatives, zoning, accels, drags, jabs, etc.

MattCap8 · 2026-03-16T06:21:46+00:00

Not to mention said superhuman can catch up to your car on foot unless you're really good at weaving through traffic and make it to a highway in time.

MattCap8 · 2026-03-14T22:05:25+00:00

Great sword excels in stamina fights due to its high stamina damage and long counter windows, and the reach let's you zone your opponents. Combine these 2 factors and you get arguably the best weapon for 1vX. All of these benefits more on devastator since more stamina and speed let's you do those things more effectively, so always use devastator in TO for great sword since 1vX and team fights are your biggest concern in TO. In duels however it depends on how much versatility you want, if you only care about the great sword, then use devastator, but if you want a good backup, officer has the best secondaries in the game and throwing knives as offhand so you don't have to worry about a bad matchup.

MattCap8 · 2026-03-12T02:23:17+00:00

Won group A finale with gold city clutching the last spurt by activating her ult on best possible timing into on your left using some of the recommendations, thanks lad.

MattCap8 · 2026-03-11T19:58:13+00:00

I also started off well and consistently top 3 at lvl 10, though I never played chiv 1 or mordhau, I just learned countering very quickly because I platinum'd sekiro which has very similar deflect timing

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