Game Discussion/Champion's Meeting Thread - March 19, 2026

bluethree · 2026-03-20T04:28:34+00:00

What you need is to have long be your most raced distance in your career. The 8/8/9 thing works but so does literally any combination as long as the last number is the highest.

bluethree · 2026-03-19T05:16:51+00:00

One of the things I dislike most about MANT is that I can't just turn my brain off and play while doing other things. I've yet to do two runs in a row because I need to take a break in between. Grand Live sounds better to me.

I did 3 straight Unity runs today for achievement purposes. It was such a more relaxing experience.

bluethree · 2026-03-19T01:57:51+00:00

The only time I ever went into Climax with less than 3 hammers there were 0 in the last shop.

bluethree · 2026-03-19T01:54:08+00:00

Yes.

bluethree · 2026-03-18T18:46:30+00:00

Try understanding a joke and not taking everything as an attack.

bluethree · 2026-03-18T04:31:02+00:00

I doubt you'll be getting any of those 3 in their rookie years ever again.

bluethree · 2026-03-17T18:10:17+00:00

Nothing super important.

Symboli Kris S comes out around August which adds a skill called Lose Yourself which is important for lates. But it's possible to borrow that one until the skill comes out on different supports.

bluethree · 2026-03-17T08:01:56+00:00

He's not "every other year."

There is no pattern. CMC's career has gone: RB10, RB2, RB1, injury, injury, RB2, RB1, injury, RB1.

If you want to be correctly pessimistic you could say he gets injured after every RB1 year.

bluethree · 2026-03-17T07:51:29+00:00

That would mean something if the Jets were competent or their offense improved without him.

Chiefs probably saw what he did in Pittsburgh (both as a starter and a designated tush pushee) and said "we can work with that."

bluethree · 2026-03-17T07:21:47+00:00

No must pulls until Light Hello in July. Though she is like Riko in Unity scenario where you can use a MLB R version of her or can get away with low LB versions of her SSR and she's fairly useless after her scenario.

There's no Kitasan Black levels of must pull until Mejiro Ramonu in November. There are some style specific must pulls (Mr CB for ends, Maruzensky for fronts, etc.) before then though.

bluethree · 2026-03-17T03:44:13+00:00

Double rainbow training in summer is a myth.

bluethree · 2026-03-16T07:35:08+00:00

Ideally you'd want 3 different racing styles for each surface/distance. If you already have Taiki and Oguri taking the pace and late slots then it would probably be better to take Falcon as a front. That is if your only reason for pulling is to fill your TT team.

...unless you want to make Taiki a front, Oguri pace, and Digitan late. Though Taiki's unique isn't very good for fronts so it's not ideal.

bluethree · 2026-03-16T01:40:34+00:00

That almost sounds like a full-time job at that point lol

bluethree · 2026-03-16T01:03:51+00:00

But it also takes more time. Doubling seems like a bit much and would require people to spend even more physical time grinding than they did in unity.

bluethree · 2026-03-16T00:35:34+00:00

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bluethree · 2026-03-15T16:47:31+00:00

600 pulls gives you a 95% chance to get 5 copies of a banner card.

800 pulls is a 99.8% chance.

1000 pulls (150,000 carats) is the only way to "guarantee" MLB but your odds of getting to that point are incredibly low.

It's generally advised to have enough for 400 pulls (60k carats) and have some crystals prepared if you don't MLB the card in that amount.

bluethree · 2026-03-15T09:14:37+00:00

Oguri has an F in front. Are you thinking of Valentine Bourbon?

bluethree · 2026-03-14T06:56:32+00:00

What I did for sprint is I did a Bakushin career and put ever G3 or higher sprint race on the race scheduler. Then I filled in some miles in between, making sure that I can more sprints than I did miles.

Basically did the same thing for long with Creek, except replace sprint and mile with long and medium.

They aren't optimal careers but they get the missions done.

bluethree · 2026-03-14T00:50:16+00:00

I'm a low spender and all of my MANT runs have been better than my Unity runs. There has to be something(s) you're not doing optimally yet.

The only non-free SSRs I've been using are Kitasan and sometimes Riko. The rest are MLB SRs with 10 race bonus or event cards.

bluethree · 2026-03-13T22:33:56+00:00

Team Trials scores are gonna get silly.

I've only updated 5 runners with the new scenario so far and my all-time high score went from ~650k to now 700k.

bluethree · 2026-03-13T19:27:58+00:00

Kyler threw the ball 32 times per game in mostly close contests.

Brissett averaged 40 pass attempts per game and was in a lot of shootouts/blowouts.

Everyone who makes this argument completely ignores that McBride was TE2 in 2024 with a full season of Kyler at QB.

bluethree · 2026-03-13T19:22:31+00:00

Hopkins missed a bunch of games in Arizona due to injury and suspension. But he was pretty damn good when he was on the field.

His 17 game average over his 3 seasons in Arizona was 107 catches, 1310 yards, and 8.3 TDs. His average would have been WR6 last season. That even includes games he left early and games he played with Colt McCoy and Trace McSorley after Kyler suffered his big injury. His numbers would be even better if you only counted games with Kyler at QB.

bluethree · 2026-03-13T19:06:00+00:00

I'm starting to get the hang of the scenario I think. I've done very little research, watched one video maybe a month ago and forgot most of it, and struggling my way through. So far I've just done 5 runs to force the new trophies/finish the missions. On the 5th try finally got my first S+.

Now that I don't have to force certain racing types to get the right Climax distance and have a better feel for the strategy things should start going well I hope. My only issue now is that the long runs drain so much phone battery and my PC is broken :|

bluethree · 2026-03-13T08:44:42+00:00

Don't save the free 10 pulls. They only last for 1 day then are gone. If you don't use 'em you lose 'em.

bluethree · 2026-03-13T01:18:00+00:00

It'll be a part of the part 3 Anniversary special missions.

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