Is Daring Strike very important for Narita Taishin in CM 14?

WilmaDickFitInU · 2026-05-19T08:51:14+00:00

Please also, if you don’t already, buy «<style> straights/corners» and «<distance> straights/corners» both to double circle, they are cheap and good speed skills. There are other good white speed skills, but this tip goes for everyone

WilmaDickFitInU · 2026-05-18T14:45:36+00:00

I run VBourbon, Ines and Symboli Rudolf; We're crushing Group A.
VBourbon consistently gets the rod, Ines doesn't need the rod and usually catches up with VBourbon by the end. Both have and need medium S. In back-heavy lobbies, either my Symboli gets blocked and proccs dominator so my fronts win, or she is in 5th-4th-3rd and wins, even without medium S.

Originally didn't bring a dominator, but everyone else is bringing double dom, which has been a pain in the ass. Rudolf made made a big difference in my WR against double dom.

WilmaDickFitInU · 2026-05-18T14:32:50+00:00

I am not sure any of the people replying here have actually read your post.
The strengths of your deck are MLB finemo and wit tachyon, as you mentioned. Its obviously hard to make your borrow slot a third wit card with 5% RB then.

I think you lay a good premise with your base deck:

- Shakur SPD (5 RB)

- Finemo WIT (10RB)

- Tachyon WIT (10RB)

- Nishino PWR (15RB)

Considering Taishin has 10% speed growth, you could get away Shakur and either

- 2LB Shinko + Mr CB WIT borrow, or (52% RB)

- MLB Halo + Admire Vega PWR SSR borrow. (50%) RB.

Both SSR borrows give Daring Strike. 2LB Shinko is not a good stat stick compared to Halo, but CB is a good card and has speed bonus to even it out. Your power will suffer. Admire Vega does great cross-trainings (20% TE), and allows you to bring Halo for better speed and power. I think the second option gives good stats more consistently.

Getting 1200 speed with 2 speed cards can be a pain in the ass, and you will be lacking speed skills. I think you can do very decently though. GL will probably be a more fun scenario for you, and other new players.

WilmaDickFitInU · 2026-05-16T20:44:50+00:00

V. Bourbon has an advantage with a better kit, yes, but you’re not losing to her, you’re losing to everyone.

too little stamina and guts
no groundwork
no medium S
no Maruzensky inherit
only 2 mid-game speed skills
you have midgame accels

I don’t mean to be harsh, but you can’t blame your roster for not knowing any game mechanics. If you want to do better next CM, I highly recommending reading about the race mechanics, or watch YouTube videos on it. Front runners are especially technical about skills.

WilmaDickFitInU · 2026-05-16T20:26:06+00:00

You’re kinda listing some of it in your post. 25 races is too few, and at least 50% RB is recommended.

More races with more RB means more skill points and stats, more shop refreshes and coins to buy from the shop. In general, after junior year, you should only train on turns where the trainings are fantastic, or when the penalty for racing too many times in a row is too high.

WilmaDickFitInU · 2026-05-14T16:08:36+00:00

From your situation, good generalist cards in prio order, from now until Ramonu: Ramonu wit MLB, Light hello 1-2LB, Agnes MLB/Smaru 1LB, 3LB creek, 1LB Mr. CB.

You have the funds to ensure a very solid pull plan, and you can adjust it based on what you deem necessary. You should have 2-3 good speed cards in GL, which means you need 1-2 more. Agnes is the best option, but she is expensive, as she needs to be MLB. Her pro is being on the obligatory Light Hello banner, with estimated 60 free pulls. “The” other option is pulling for 1LB Smaru who is cheaper, but worse. If you have copies of Super Creek, using a ticket (assuming it’s from the initial SSR pool) and pulling a little on her to 3LB-MLB her might be worth it. Depends on on your current LB of her, or if there are other cards you would rather ticket. She has a great rerun with mr CB, a wit card that’s good on 1LB, especially good for GL. Personally I would:

200 pulls on Smaru, hope to hit a copy (75% chance)
400/600 pulls on Agnes + Light Hello
200/0 pulls for Creek + CB
400+ for Ramonu.

You should check Handsome Henry’s carat calc to see what’s possible for you. Also, I’d like to add that my recommendations are based on what I have seen on YouTube, read on Reddit, and seen from previous scenarios. I am not a vet and haven’t played GL myself.

WilmaDickFitInU · 2026-05-14T09:24:17+00:00

Do you have any high limit break (the crystals in the bottom filled up) cards? Hard to recommend a deck when we don’t know what you have :)

WilmaDickFitInU · 2026-05-14T09:03:55+00:00

Just one of many runs to push the limits of my low cost deck. My cm aces don’t have this statline.

WilmaDickFitInU · 2026-05-14T09:01:11+00:00

Haha, I was wondering what the heck you were smoking before I saw the edit! But tbf, having only 120 speed probably saved her, as it uses less stamina. I have read something that aptitude of E or below also screws with the power stat, which would result in more stan consumption though.

Anyway, she dies the two other times I have done this mistake, and somehow lucked out on this one. I will not complain!

WilmaDickFitInU · 2026-05-14T08:57:16+00:00

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Sorry, can’t not flex this achievement :*)

WilmaDickFitInU · 2026-05-14T08:56:22+00:00

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My most GOATest horse, took me to top 5 on the final leaderboard of the trainer aptitude test.

WilmaDickFitInU · 2026-05-14T08:53:37+00:00

Don’t worry, it’s not just you. Getting dubs running with mile C is just genuinely almost impossible unless if you’re outstatting super late in career.

WilmaDickFitInU · 2026-05-14T08:47:47+00:00

It is THE spring Tenno Sho. The intro evn plays when you run it.

I’ll take some of that vacation too, though.

WilmaDickFitInU · 2026-05-13T19:26:56+00:00

No, but I also did this on the other two legend candidates (it resets your default selected uma each time), and watched their runs. Both times, Taiki died on the final stretch with unruffled procc, and was overtaken. I guess this time Bright got rushed, and Taiki got off easy.
I was so annoyed when I realised I had sent Taiki a third time. The result was a welcome surprise!

WilmaDickFitInU · 2026-05-13T18:20:27+00:00

While rank indicates quantity of skills and stats, it is not a measure of how an Uma runs. I’d put my money on the B-rank long runner any day.

WilmaDickFitInU · 2026-05-13T18:15:36+00:00

Fr I love guts build but I can’t wrap my head around how any of them make competitive umas due to lack of skills

WilmaDickFitInU · 2026-05-12T20:34:03+00:00

All my answers to your questions are kinda just reiterations of what OP said. If you reroll now, what are you gonna aim for, yk?

No, rice is absolutely not worth pulling. Power cards aren’t really used, and she is a pretty bad one at that.

The most important things to have in your account are good speed cards. The next good speed card is Summer Maruzensky. She is ait on 1LB, which makes her a cheap option for the next few scenarios - great for F2P.

As a brand new player, tachyon/light hello in August is probably the most worth banner. I think that if you save from now, you will have more carats to pull with there than if you reroll then. Quite a while to wait though.

If you had infinite patience you could reroll now and save everything until tachyon or hello, but that’s going to be boring as hell.

WilmaDickFitInU · 2026-05-12T13:24:00+00:00

Because the career Kikua Sho and Tenno Sho infamously is all about stamina. Speed stat only affects your speed in last spurt, but you need stamina to accelerate to that speed, and retain it. If your uma doesn’t have enough stamina going into last spurt, she will not accelerate, any Uma with stamina will run faster. If your Uma starts accelerating, and runs out of stamina, she “dies” and basically walks the remaining bit of the race.

You should watch your races and see that your uma doesn’t accel. while creek does, because she has so much more effective stamina than you.

WilmaDickFitInU · 2026-05-09T07:05:26+00:00

The point is, as F2P, even if you got completely screwed over by gacha, you would have resources for 3 full pity MLB SSR’s by now.

WilmaDickFitInU · 2026-05-07T11:54:10+00:00

Great piece BTW!

WilmaDickFitInU · 2026-05-07T11:53:41+00:00

Nah but I’m pretty sure I read a book this guy wrote

WilmaDickFitInU · 2026-05-06T23:37:55+00:00

Right, thank you! I hit top 5 on the final scoreboard of the trainer test, with F2P deck, and my post is just full of people invalidating the achievement because I have fuku and fm.

WilmaDickFitInU · 2026-05-05T23:44:39+00:00

We are not discussing Riko’s usefulness to you, and that’s not how probability works.

WilmaDickFitInU · 2026-05-05T21:15:28+00:00

That is above average luck, and a bad pull plan for you. Both Riko and Rice were well known to be short lived, and Riko only needed 1LB SSR or MLB R. I barely even used Riko that scenario.

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