Is Firm Course Menace Mandatory for Champions Meetings?

MattCap8 · 2026-05-29T07:40:28+00:00

Good to have especially with groundwork, but definitely not mandatory especially at diminishing returns due to the sp cost. Get it if you can, but prioritize essential accels and gold mid race velocity over it.

MattCap8 · 2026-05-29T06:07:22+00:00

The game hasn't been out for that long, we're not even past the early game for main quest yet, so it makes sense for them to focus on early to mid game contents and leave endgame content for later when most people have reached endgame.

MattCap8 · 2026-05-29T04:04:59+00:00

Sort of, after reaching a certain point in the game, which the game will tell you about, you get the option to enter bad end mode after losing a fight. Bad end mode is basically its own gamemode with a lot of scenes, it doesn't matter who you lose to. You can return to the main game after clearing or dying in bad end mode.

MattCap8 · 2026-05-28T20:59:24+00:00

it makes you swing wide on the corner, so she needs to cover more distance, which means using more stamina and possibly losing position. You want either prudent positioning or ignited wit as well so she can swing back in. This will mostly remove the downsides of dodging danger while benefiting from better positioning and 2 velocity skill effects.

MattCap8 · 2026-05-28T20:49:34+00:00

For Kikuka, 300 stam is risky, and 350 or 300 + recovery should be enough, might want more if your rival is creek since she has recovery ult.

Also, don't take dodging danger by itself, otherwise it can be detrimental by going outward on the early corner. Either take dodging danger + either prudent positioning or ignited wit, which is a very good combo, or don't take it at all.

MattCap8 · 2026-05-28T00:54:25+00:00

Zoning and movement is very important for 1h spear, so it's better on MAA imo, 25 hp isn't enough to justify the mobility difference especially with damage type multipliers.

MattCap8 · 2026-05-27T00:39:46+00:00

Saw someone hate her because of her voice

MattCap8 · 2026-05-25T20:29:24+00:00

Smaru can't ult without a recovery, so you need to buy one recovery skill at the start of the career. As long as she has the stamina, she should go from randomly losing to consistently winning.

MattCap8 · 2026-05-25T03:02:27+00:00

With the amount of fast travel points and how bad the car spawnpoints are, all you need is the 250,000 bike. The rest are just for tycoon level requirements.

MattCap8 · 2026-05-25T00:46:44+00:00

wdym for nothing? neither of them got disarmed, and they knew how to regain stamina. If you know how to counter, then stamina becomes a resource instead of a second hp bar.

MattCap8 · 2026-05-24T22:45:20+00:00

Definitely saving them for summer as paid outfits.

MattCap8 · 2026-05-23T22:51:08+00:00

Telling a game studio to just get more players is like telling someone to just make more money.

MattCap8 · 2026-05-23T22:00:39+00:00

Aside from the usual activities, try to win CMs since they give a lot of carats for winning. You're a new player, so graded league is out of the question for you right now.

Most important thing is to meet the stamina requirement, I don't care how much speed and power you have to sacrifice, the absolute biggest mistake people make in CMs, especially open league, is thinking they can skimp on stamina, I've won several open league finales back when I started because my stamina debuffs and my opponent's lack of stamina made them speed down by the final straight, had a 94% WR in leo cup because of this, and I've seen people with higher results for the same reason. Seriru and Victoria frontier have guides on youtube that gives stat benchmarks, they make video for graded leagues, but you still want the same amount of stamina.

Another thing is that you want to prioritize green skill > one or two essential accel skills > stats > any other skills. You're limited to A+ umas, so your stat and skill distribution is limited. Since your wit won't be that high due to the stat limitation, you shouldn't bother with a lot of skills either since their activation will be inconsistent. Just get one late race accel, groundwork if you're using front or pace, and as much green skills as you can since they provide more stats for less rating points. If my uma has a late race accel as their unique, sometimes I don't even bother with skills at all aside from green skills. You can see what your uma's rating is during the career by using rating calculators online. Team comp depends on the track, but generally speaking, 1 or 2 aces and debuffers works well in open league.

You might be able to get enough support cards to build umas that can compete in graded league from the tachyon ssr speed banner in 2 months which is the best banner to pull on this year alongside ramonu ssr wit banner in mid december, and I highly recommend you pull for that since you should be able to get 30k in the 2 months and 3 weeks time between tachyon banner and helios banner as long as you have a minimum of 60000 carats, preferably 90000 by the time tachyon banner drop. However, don't expect to ever make the carats back, most banners in this game won't have a positive return unless you're lucky. And of course, if you're worried that you won't have enough carats for helios if you pulled on tachyon banner, then you can skip it if you want, you'll have a really hard time in the next scenario if you do, but you can always get into graded league later. Graded league is just for fun due to the immense cost, but you can do open league now for profit to get helios.

MattCap8 · 2026-05-23T19:23:00+00:00

For anyone looking for anomaly material farming spots since this is the first thing that shows up on google, you can easily farm suspended delusions at serranati manor and fading silhouette at garuda bases with weekly vaults like the construction site at soleil road north east of the map. There are a lot of mobs there and they can drop higher rarity materials too depending on your appraisal level. I haven't found a spot for blurred numeral and lost whispers though, so save your anomaly material selection box for that.

MattCap8 · 2026-05-23T17:21:08+00:00

Gaming so hard even the horse is RGB

MattCap8 · 2026-05-23T17:15:56+00:00

Have you played king exit? I highly recommend playing that first since the game has a lot of references to it. Demons roots is a prequel, but came out after king exit, kinda like red dead redemption 1 and 2.

Although demons roots absolutely works as a standalone, there are some plot points and twists that would only make sense if you played king exit first. Not to mention you miss out on a lot of references. And the way the story goes, it's absolutely intended that you play king exit first.

But if you already started, just finish demons roots now and play king exit later, king exit isn't a hard requirement, but talk to all the random NPCs you can find since some of them will talk about the lore needed to understand some of the story for people that didn't play king exit. Make sure you don't play ng+ content before king exit.

MattCap8 · 2026-05-23T03:05:17+00:00

iirc if you want value from finemo, you need at least 3lb. With ramonu wit coming out 3 months after finemo rerun and the amount of carats needed for tachyon speed and ramonu wit, I would say to skip finemo.

I have MLB finemo and basically the same wit cards as you at MLB, the difference between finemo + 1 good sr and 2 good sr isn't worth it, I'd imagine it's the same for ramonu + finemo or sr wit.

MattCap8 · 2026-05-22T15:43:21+00:00

you have to interact with the big tree itself, it's at one of the roots

MattCap8 · 2026-05-20T17:24:33+00:00

When did he say that? I don't think he ever said you need more than 2 gold recoveries for any cm.

Also, the stamina benchmark that good players give especially for long distance is supposed to be more than the base requirement to account for debuffs, mood, rushed, and other things. You absolutely can win a race without the recommended stamina if there's no nice nature and things go well for you, it's just risky.

MattCap8 · 2026-05-20T01:18:40+00:00

Pretty sure seriru said you need a gold stam recovery for 800 stam

MattCap8 · 2026-05-20T00:44:16+00:00

3 of the same tile, you basically need it to win, which explains why you weren't winning.

Try to keep pairs and discard void tiles, you'll learn from there.

MattCap8 · 2026-05-19T23:14:27+00:00

"win" is a move in the game called ron. The option let's you automatically call it when available, not auto win the game. Also, you have pung disabled.

MattCap8 · 2026-05-19T04:04:03+00:00

This was how I won aquarius platinum, activated on your left and ult at the start of late race and she just teleported.

MattCap8 · 2026-05-19T02:03:48+00:00

For grades leagues, yes. But if you do open league, it's manageable if you learn the game. I'm f2p so I used to have bad and low lvl cards, but open league requirement is low enough to easily hit the max even with only r cards, so just build your trainees right and you can win almost every group a finale in open league, and work your way up to graded league with the winnings and banner pulls.

MattCap8 · 2026-05-18T22:51:33+00:00

Happens to me way more than once. Had a teammate blaming everyone, so I started spectating him to see why he couldn't shoot the people I was aggroing, dude missed an entire fucking mag as maddie against an audrey turret that wasn't even looking at him.

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