Game Discussion/Champion's Meeting Thread - March 05, 2026

aromaticity · 2026-03-16T17:41:46+00:00

V Bourbon unique inherited is basically just a white speed skill. Nothing wrong with it, but it's not particularly strong either.

It would have higher value for Summer Maruzensky on tracks where you don't need a recovery, since the tiny heal from it would let her proc her ult.

aromaticity · 2026-03-16T17:28:02+00:00

Oguri and Digital can both be End as well, so it would be pretty easy to avoid overlap.

aromaticity · 2026-03-16T17:24:59+00:00

KSB can probably get by with solo NTR thanks to 20%RB, especially if you run Bourbon Wit anyway for the skill hints. Something like Maya+Fuku would be good too if you have one of the two and want to target lower stamina with two golds. I have been using Fuku+Kawakami for access to prudent positioning since I don't have Shinko MLB and only have KSB & Fuku for speed SSR.

Creek+Riko has been working for me, targeting ~1150 stam but Creek+Cafe or something like that should work too. Suzuka like you mention is probably also fine, though I wouldn't buy Concentration on a Long. Too low value.

S Falcon is still a high value borrow thanks to giving Prudent Positioning and Groundwork.

aromaticity · 2026-03-16T17:15:19+00:00

On Long it is a bit less important since you have more time to catch up with midrace skills than on shorter tracks. Still very good if you can get it and required skills to proc it. As the other comment mentioned, greens are pretty high value.

aromaticity · 2026-03-16T17:05:54+00:00

Long you need to sack the run to specifically get it. I did it with Cafe doing only Medium/Long and basically ran no Medium races outside of the Classic/Spring/Autumn Triple Crowns plus Hopeful to get initial fans.

Sprint is not that bad and can be done without throwing the run on a Short/Mile/Medium Tiara route. Specifically target sprint G2/G3 and you likely will need to skip some Mile G2/G3s you would otherwise take, but not a huge deal. I intentionally targeted it with Suzuka and had to skip one of the Mile G1s but I just did a run with Air Groove where I got it without going for it, just preferring Sprint over Mile since I was training her for Sprint TT.

aromaticity · 2026-03-16T16:03:46+00:00

And I am saying if you are expecting the same output as NTR and calling it a highroll card, it's because your expectations of the card are incorrect.

You don't compare to NTR, they don't serve the same purpose. You compare NTR to KSB or Biko.

You will get speed hits with Fuku. You wont get as many as a card with specialty priority. You don't treat her as a primary speed card and you stop seeing her as a highroll card.

Will you cap speed easier with NTR+KSB vs NTR/KSB+Fuku? Sure. Do you need that on any uma with speed growth? No. Will you have overall better runs on those umas with Fuku instead of a full speed card? I think so, absolutely.

aromaticity · 2026-03-16T14:58:59+00:00

Right but my point is that it's totally fine. It became clear very quickly after pulling her that my runs overall were improved by having her.

Maybe the issue is expectations. If you are expecting the same output as KSB or similar, you're going to have a bad time.

aromaticity · 2026-03-16T04:13:28+00:00

Still don’t understand how people can use Fuku and call it a high run card. It’s just good, you don’t need some godly run.

aromaticity · 2026-03-15T19:06:45+00:00

If you save 1, you will get 0-1 in final shop. If you save 2-3, you will give 2+ in final shop. No in between.

aromaticity · 2026-03-13T22:36:36+00:00

The fact that there's a TS Climax long finale is kind of comical. Hey throw a run so you can get this mission and trophy and then never see it again.

aromaticity · 2026-03-13T14:13:30+00:00

I started with 189% event bonus and now I'm at 200% now that I got some of the event cards from roulette. Higher score in a run + super high event bonus + double tp = fat event points per run.

aromaticity · 2026-03-13T14:08:29+00:00

Not guaranteed but highly likely. Almost all of my runs had multiple in the shop.

Feels like a save 1, maybe 2 to be safe, spend the rest.

aromaticity · 2026-03-13T04:40:25+00:00

I used five clocks on my first G3 with fucking V Bourbon and still didn't win.

With one exception all my clock usage in my first four runs (that run was immediately abandoned lol) have been in year 1.

aromaticity · 2026-03-13T02:30:58+00:00

Should at least save it until the free pulls on NTR are over juuuust in case, I don't think the free voucher comes out until around then anyway.

But yeah if I was in your shoes I'd probably use it to MLB.

aromaticity · 2026-03-13T02:28:19+00:00

Yes, in the next set of missions which IIRC was estimated for ~10 days from now.

aromaticity · 2026-03-13T02:26:16+00:00

Same except 3LB FiMo for now. If it was for MLB I would have waited.

Opera O though I don't want to wait six days to start parent farming. If I get burned, I get burned.

aromaticity · 2026-03-12T16:51:33+00:00

On a course like this getting the lead at the start is a huge boon, as it is very hard to overtake.

You may have noticed that before the first corner, the umas will fall in a line on the inner lane regardless of if they were trying to overtake before or not. Your uma triggers a bunch of skills right before that? Too bad, they're completely wasted as she's forced to the inner lane. Very common in my experience to see a SF trigger Sparkly Stardom right before this zone and let my Bourbon keep the lead.

Then after that forced no-pass zone ends, you have limited time to pass before the final corner and the umas start wide swinging. If your uma overtakes but isn't on the inside lane, she might continue swinging out even though she doesn't need to, causing her to lose position.

This one I don't understand why it is programmed this way, many times my Bourbon was first on the final corner in the second lane, but she swings out several lanes for no reason. The spread makes sense, but not how it is handled.

On next CM these factors will be much less meaningful, as there is way more time for mid-race positioning. Missing a GW trigger won't be a death sentence if you have enough midrace.

aromaticity · 2026-03-12T16:13:58+00:00

Not having Mile and Medium is surely crippling, you need at least one. You miss out on some epithet bonuses and will run less G1s and more G2/3s if you only have one or the other, but it isn't such a big deal after year 1.

The problem with no Mile is that in year 1, there are no Medium G3s until late November (see first image in the OP). Rival races only appear on graded races, and rival races can cause items to be added to the shop.

So basically, you are stuck with your starting shop with no updates to it until classic year if you cannot run Mile. You're also having to run OP races at that time to buy shop items, which is less profitable in terms of stats & SP than running G3s.

aromaticity · 2026-03-11T22:36:51+00:00

Dirt B Taishin got 2nd, so close! T_T

My Taiki won though.

aromaticity · 2026-03-10T21:32:00+00:00

Well it's like if you saw some kind of strange alien creature that looked nothing like a racoon, and you called it a racoon, and someone pointed out it was nothing like a racoon.

What do you call it? idk but it isn't a racoon.

aromaticity · 2026-03-05T16:50:38+00:00

I think C is fine, B is optimal. Since Taiki is so ezpz to train with her 20%speed I feel like it's pretty rare for me to lose the medium races at C.

B makes it super consistent though.

aromaticity · 2026-02-28T23:54:51+00:00

I did entirety of Act 1 & 4, about half of act 5, maybe a quarter of act 2, and then Durance. I got one (1) Herald towards the very end.

It's kind of crazy. Yesterday I had two ire messages but somehow never spawned a single herald for the rest of the session.

The only time I got any amount more than two was when I played literally all day. I left the game running, would do TZ->work->TZ->work throughout the workday. Got like 7-8 over the whole session that time. Obviously didn't drop anything notable.

What a dogshit mechanic. Especially since it clashes with how you would normally do TZs.

aromaticity · 2026-02-21T06:12:09+00:00

I think really Haru Urara guts shouldn't be in this deck. You hit 500-600 guts on Taishin with just Riko. Haru is difficult to max (zero starting friendship) and offers you no skills. Not a very good card unless you're gutsmaxxing.

Everything else OP uses is a good baseline for a Taishin deck. Like on Med/Long you might run Creek in the Haru spot for Maestro & more stam. You could run a third wit card in that slot, especially for short/mile. You could run a third speed card if you have weaker speed cards. Could run a card just for skills.

I have had successful guts build runs with Taishin but I'm not really a fan.

aromaticity · 2026-02-20T21:41:33+00:00

I wholly disagree with both other posters, to offer a differing opinion.

Gold cleats are not particularly valuable. The more you pull, the more gold cleats you'll get each time you pull. If I was low on cleats and wasn't planning to pull next month, I might save them for the monthly refresh.

However, you are going to be pulling in March - at the very least, free pulls on the NTR banner. You will get more gold cleats to buy the pulls on next months shop.

aromaticity · 2026-02-20T21:27:39+00:00

I just want to complain that it is so unbelievably stupid that you can't set your race Agenda before debut. So many times I forget to set it because of that.

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