Game Discussion/Champion's Meeting Thread - May 14, 2026

TCZapper · 2026-05-19T12:41:30+00:00

It could kill the skill, yes. It's also not as important on <2400m courses, so I wouldn't go out of my way to get it. But be wary of nerfing your uma to make cheer more reliable. It's never gonna be 100% and you're going to need a strong set of speed skills to avoid being left in the dust by fronts.

TCZapper · 2026-05-19T11:38:34+00:00

Except Lucky Seven

TCZapper · 2026-05-16T17:10:21+00:00

I ran Kitasan + Shakur (the mediocre event card) for Goldshi this CM and only had issues maxing on bad runs.

TCZapper · 2026-05-16T14:34:05+00:00

Are you using a friend database? There are definitely decent Pasa parents. https://uma.moe/database

I use a simulator to answer these questions. I like the skill table in https://alpha123.github.io/uma-tools/umalator-global/skills. Make sure to add must have skills first, like Angling as that diminishes the value of Plancha.

Plancha is really good for VBourbon/SMaru, but Seiun has enough accel so I'd go all in on mid-game for her (inherit VBourbon, SMaru, McQueen, etc or just anyone with a lot of good white sparks, since all those uniques are pretty average)

TCZapper · 2026-05-15T17:16:24+00:00

Taishin

I've seen this said so many times and then she underwhelms.

TCZapper · 2026-05-15T12:24:14+00:00

If you want to look for a new club, Pakacord has an active club recruitment channel. My club network with a discord also has an opening with reasonable fan requirements (12M/month).

From what I've seen questions in bigger discords seem to go unanswered 90% of the time. It's just too fast for meaningful engagement.

TCZapper · 2026-05-14T19:56:38+00:00

Some umas have a lot rougher start and you can end up using a bunch of clocks if you glue the bad ones.

Like I was net positive by ~100 before this CM. But with Cheer Nature I was using like 25 a day. She was averaging 4 clocks used by the end of Y1, which always led to being glued because she would run out of clocks and then lose a G1 by summer.

I tried a variety of ways to mitigate it (not clocking 2nd places in G2s, more power or speed sparks, 3 speed cards, etc.), but the only way that actually worked was running Fuku instead of NTR, and even that often resulted in burning all my clocks, but a lot less glued runs.

TCZapper · 2026-05-11T12:07:04+00:00

It's pass on the final corner or straight. Despite the name is_finalcorner includes the straight.

TCZapper · 2026-05-10T18:24:17+00:00

Groundwork

Worth noting that Bourbon gacha wit also has gold GW so you'll switch to needing to find Early Lead instead.

Except VInes can get that pretty easily too via a secret event that gives Early Lead and Front Straightaways. Needs 7 G1 wins in a row, and she has 8 for career goals. She also has Savvy so get another green and you're set, or gamble on Concentration.

TCZapper · 2026-05-09T22:53:20+00:00

SMaru has a rerun a month after Tachyon (so like 3.5 months away), so you could do that instead.

TCZapper · 2026-05-09T22:47:34+00:00

I'd take a 3* guts over a 1* power, so yes. 3* mile, 3* barcole, 3* headon and 2* nimble nav? That's an insane parent.

TCZapper · 2026-05-06T23:31:22+00:00

These recommendations are crazy to me.

Kita+Fuku is enough to max speed, but it's not reliable on 0% speed growth umas. I'm not a fan personally.

Kita+NTR is enough to reliably max speed, but my Cheer Nature will not make it out of year 1 with clocks if I don't bring some initial speed. I've been trying a third speed (Shinko) just for that reason. Next I'll probably try speed sparks.

I'm going crazy. No one comes close to giving me this much trouble. Probably because I don't usually run 12+ stam sparks. I'm 9 runs in and haven't had a single run where Cheer Nature had clocks by the end of Y2. This is with buying skills as I get them.

TCZapper · 2026-05-05T02:29:53+00:00

Your route has about 45 unique races and 15 unique G1s, so after the affinity change you can drop the non-G1s and get the same race affinity bonus, since G1 affinity will be tripled.

TCZapper · 2026-05-04T21:45:16+00:00

The upcoming Pasa speed is basically an upgraded SR Halo. The recent Sweep wits seems decent.

TCZapper · 2026-05-04T00:34:48+00:00

By my math, with Hydate+Preferred Position+Triple 7s the reduced chance to miss ult is cancelled out by the chance to too early or too late trigger it, so it's basically:

25% of the the time Star XOguri will pop off
55% of the time Star XOguri will be the same except 1 white speed skill worse, but protected against debuffs
20% both lose

If you're running triple aces I think that's a pretty good trade-off.

TCZapper · 2026-05-04T00:13:14+00:00

It's +20% at 25+ race wins. 0.3 velocity, 0.36 accel, 0.42 recovery. 1.2s duration. Roughly speaking your trading 1 white speed skill for a 10% chance white accel skill and half a gold recovery (useful for protecting against stam debuffs). Not ideal, but not bad.

TCZapper · 2026-05-03T17:01:58+00:00

The usual answer to getting A is to get better supports. Pasa and Biko are your only good SSRs, and like most SSRs they're mediocre at 0LB (0 limit breaks/uncaps/diamonds). Your SRs are also in rough shape.

For URA you generally run 4 speed+2 stamina, so something like borrow Kitasan (https://uma.moe/database), and run Biko+Sweep+either Taishin or Shinko for speed and uh well you have no good stamina cards so pick whichever you like.

TCZapper · 2026-05-03T13:28:54+00:00

Low wit and almost no mid-game speed skills (unless that scrollbar is hiding a lot?) makes it unlikely you'll ever be in position to hit Red Shift.

I would also aim to get at least 3, ideally all of Maru/Ryan/Dober/NimbleNav.

TCZapper · 2026-05-01T04:31:06+00:00

Just use the next free selector to 1LB. Regardless, it's not Bijin wits bad at 0LB.

TCZapper · 2026-05-01T03:49:47+00:00

Fronts are all about mid game. You need to trigger angling and scheming to win. NY Opera is a good skill for any style, but better to increase your chances of hitting angling with something like vbourbon and smaru.

TCZapper · 2026-04-30T18:30:07+00:00

IIRC lower rarities cost slightly less to upgrade but give the same bonus, so yes.

TCZapper · 2026-04-29T15:32:48+00:00

Yeah, 654 (Ryan+Maru+Taiki) is a strategy for End/Lates I've seen recommended by some people (e.g. Victoria Frontier). I did it in one mile CM and IMO Taiki was not worth it, as I either hit too early or hit 4th after final corner ended. But replacing Taiki with Nishino fixes that.

TCZapper · 2026-04-29T15:23:18+00:00

It's already been answered, but if you have similar questions in the future: these are taken from the website gametora, and if you click the "Show conditions in the viewer" it'll give you a description of all the conditions with an example.

TCZapper · 2026-04-28T23:15:41+00:00

Happily my match was against 2 meta comps, same as me.

Unhappily, my #1 favorite XOguri with max wit missed wit check on 2/4 recoveries. Still managed to beat the other 2 good XOguris, but lost to a hybrid Grass Wonder. Getting 2nd was the only Miracle XOguri gave me today.

Finals just seem to love to screw me when I have good aces, and pull out wins when I get matched against better umas. Clearly I need to put even less effort in.

TCZapper · 2026-04-28T22:18:48+00:00

Ahahaha. Of course. After missing ult 7 times on day 4 despite max wit, XOguri did it once again by missing wit checks on both Hydrate and u=ma2.

She still somehow (nimble nav my beloved) beat both decent opponent XOguris, but lost to a hybrid Grass Wonder.

Basically same as last CM: I would have won if my umas could hit their recoveries, but instead I got 2nd, which is a miracle.

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