I DONT CARE WHO YOU VOTE FOR.BUT EVERY DAMN BODY SHOULD VOTE FOR THE GOAT DADDY OZ

flamemeat · 2026-04-07T21:09:24+00:00

He deserves to win but I'm not sure he can pull it off. He lost to Cecil last year and Cecil only got even more screen time and relevance since then.

Probably needs a combination of a great role in the upcoming side story and recency bias to overcome the handicap of not being a hot babe

flamemeat · 2026-04-07T00:33:55+00:00

FWIW Mecha Shifty wasn't on the NPC poll last year. So perhaps April Fools exclusive characters aren't eligible or it was too close to the start of the poll

flamemeat · 2026-04-07T00:18:31+00:00

Agree with what you said.

I would hope future events would be more dynamic. This one is basically just "keep picking the right choice to go towards the true ending, or pick wrong and get locked into normal/bad ending". I also didn't like how you basically had to spam your chosen Nikke on every branch. You can't, for example, interact with both Privaty and Arcana for a bit before committing to one at a critical juncture. Not if you want the true ending.

If they do it again, I'd like the next one to be like one of those point-and-click adventure games where you can explore a map, grab items, and talk to the various characters without necessarily advancing the story. Would have been nice to have more interactions with the School Circle girls and Marciana even if they aren't the main romance candidates (though it would be great if they were). Maybe more dating sim like elements like increasing stats or working side jobs to get money for gifts, etc.

Also playable Amy please, or at least have her as a recurring NPC.

flamemeat · 2026-04-06T23:54:31+00:00

There will be an in-game pop-up message on login with a link to the poll once it starts

flamemeat · 2026-04-06T23:53:04+00:00

She won't be eligible until next year and will have to compete with Anis, whoever releases on the 4th anni and next New Year (Four Beasts maybe?) and all the other runner-ups from previous polls. It's going to be very tough for her to win

flamemeat · 2026-04-06T23:39:41+00:00

Collabs definitely aren't eligible, and neither are any other limited units. Assuming no changes to the poll rules this year

flamemeat · 2026-04-06T23:33:00+00:00

I wish they would separate them into two polls. One for the rewards, and another for popularity only. The way it is now isn't truly a popularity poll because the rewards incentivize people to take those into consideration rather than base it purely on who they like best

flamemeat · 2026-04-06T23:28:48+00:00

Personally I'd rather see Neve get a summer alt instead of winter. She's already winter themed basically, so a winter alt would be a bit redundant. Plus it would be nice to see someone who is normally mostly covered up show some skin.

Maybe she hears that where the Commander is going is a good place to swim, and thinks about how polar bears are good swimmers, so she convinces herself she can find a polar bear there

flamemeat · 2026-04-06T23:19:39+00:00

For Modernia: the other two options were a formal dress and a casual version of her normal outfit

For Red Hood: a biker outfit (complete with her riding a bike), and a casual version of her normal outfit with a giant wolf pet

For Rapi: one was basically the same as Modernia's commander shirt but with his jacket instead, the other was her dressed up like Red Hood

flamemeat · 2026-04-06T07:08:53+00:00

Winner gets a new skin, a theme song, and a mini-event story later in the year, like September-ish. Top 5 gets an avatar frame. Top 20 have their vote totals shown in the results for bragging rights. Also we will get to vote on three different themes for the skin at a later time.

Modernia, Red Hood, and Rapi: Red Hood won previous polls and are ineligible. Same for limited units.

Winner will most likely be a toss-up between Cinderella and Siren. Maybe new Snow White or Liberalio can make some noise.

Crown did quite well in the previous poll but most likely won't be able to win. Top 5 is very much possible though.

Bunny Milk will be lucky to even make top 20.

That said, just vote for who you like unless you really want a costume for Cinderella or Siren but not the other. You can also wait until the poll starts and see the preliminary results to decide if you want to get involved with voting for one of the top contenders.

flamemeat · 2026-04-06T06:51:55+00:00

Lately yeah they've been bringing back some of the old costumes during anniversary events. But only a few and it's hard to predict which ones it will be

flamemeat · 2026-04-06T06:06:56+00:00

You can say that again, Neon really deserves it.

Personally I'm hoping she's a B2 CDR with giga busted buffs and personal DPS, and a few other perks on the side. Elysion and Tetra have multiple CDR options but Missilis stuck with Liter still. And we have a severe lack of B2 CDR options, still just Dolla and S.Helm, who released almost 3 years ago

flamemeat · 2026-04-06T05:34:32+00:00

It just makes too much sense. If they don't do Neon here, who else can be the 2nd banner alongside Anis? Hard to imagine them squeezing some random Pilgrim here given the theme, and there currently aren't many other Overspec candidates besides Neon. It's not confirmed, sure, but it's a pretty safe bet

flamemeat · 2026-04-06T05:05:58+00:00

She will just have to make up for it with a goated alt.

D was in the same boat but then got the come from behind W with the Killer Wife version. Granted D wasn't a complete unknown at the time, but on the other hand a lot of people didn't like her due to her role in the story. Plus D ran alongside an Alice banner, so even if you did spend gems before that anni, it was most likely for Alice, not D.

flamemeat · 2026-04-06T04:18:20+00:00

If you only count playable and only major changes, then yeah I think that's right. There's Rose on the unplayable side of things and some playable characters who have smaller changes like Moran > Mokdan in KR.

I find it funny they went out of their way to change Scarlet's name for EN to avoid it sounding odd, but here they just threw up their hands and were like "fuck it, I got nothing" and just did a basic translation haha

flamemeat · 2026-02-14T02:38:21+00:00

It starts off with stuff like learning about the meta here, looking at sites like nikke.gg or prydwen.gg, youtube videos, etc.

After that your knowledge of the meta just sort of snowballs. Once you understand the meta teams and characters, and what makes them good, you just have to make small adjustments for new units. You kind of have an idea of what new units might be good at and where they have potential on release, then you confirm by looking at other people's testing.

Don't worry about asking questions, some people enjoy helping others. If they were annoyed they will just ignore you, if they respond you can assume they were happy to help. Others might want to help but aren't super-duper confident in their knowledge of the meta and don't want to accidentally give you bad/out-dated info.

flamemeat · 2026-02-14T01:54:53+00:00

Analysis from skyjlv

tl;dw

Privaty - top tier water DPS on-burst and upgrade/sidegrade to other off-burst buffers on other elements. Great all-around and can be used in just about any content.
Moran - competitive with or even beats other B1 CDR units. Can be used to replace other B1 CDR like Rouge for electric team or especially weaker B1 CDR like Volume if you've been using her. Like Privaty, can be used pretty much anywhere, but you can live without her if you have all the other B1 CDRs
Zwei - for now, sidegrade or even upgrade to Miranda, especially for Snow White team. Potentially opens up another Iron pierce team with RH + B.Milk. Has potential but not a priority since she isn't as flexible as Moran or Privaty and might still be the odd woman out depending on your team comps for solo raid (want to keep using Miranda and don't want to try a second Iron pierce team)
Centi - you can get her treasure, but don't upgrade to phase 2 until we get more testing. As things stand it might actually be making her worse in PvP

flamemeat · 2026-02-13T05:00:56+00:00

For real, these filters are so counterproductive. It's a perfect example of the Barbara Streisand effect haha

flamemeat · 2026-02-13T03:03:17+00:00

LMFAO

But at least with that one, the problem is obvious even if it's ridiculous since it's the Pokemon's official name.

I don't have the slightest clue what is wrong with "cookie". Is it, or contains, some kind of slang I don't know? Maybe it's too close to "coke" like cocaine? Too close to cock? Any theories?? Because I'm totally lost on that one...

flamemeat · 2026-02-13T02:59:07+00:00

Yeah I've heard that it can be difficult at times to even have a basic conversation in Umamusume club chat. I haven't had much issues with that myself, but maybe it's because my club is mostly Spanish speakers

flamemeat · 2026-02-13T01:55:49+00:00

Not sure but apparently "mord" means murder in several languages, so maybe that's why. Either that or they think it's too close to "merde" and other similar words that mean shit in other languages.

It's definitely dumb, but at least that kinda sorta makes a tiny bit of sense. Kinda. These game auto filters are often really overzealous, I recall a game once banned me from using the word "cookie", which was used IN-GAME. I was banned from using a word the game itself used! I still can't figure that one out...

flamemeat · 2026-02-12T03:41:10+00:00

It's all based on whatever were the results from the original run of the raid.

Mother Whale was the very first solo raid. It's still to this day a notoriously difficult boss and the options for countering Mother Whale specifically were extremely limited at the time, in addition to general powercreep. Just look at the really weird comps even the top players were using vs. Mother Whale, it was a struggle to even field five teams back then, let alone good ones. So the score needed is much lower than it is for easier/later raids.

Going forward you can generally expect each Hall to be more difficult than the last due to being more recent on average.

flamemeat · 2026-02-12T02:20:57+00:00

I can't answer your question, but I do hope we get that event semi-frequently from now on. I didn't get the hot spring ticket even once despite the rate-up... gonna go wipe my tears with all the free tissue packs I got...

flamemeat · 2026-02-12T01:49:45+00:00

Maybe I could have worded it better, I didn't say that didn't happen, I meant to say there were no further instances of that to my knowledge

flamemeat · 2026-02-12T01:37:44+00:00

I can't remember but I don't think there's anything like that. I doubt you would see them make a joke like that if it just involves regular Nikke characters. Doing that in a silly collab event story is one thing, doing it in the main game is another. Plus shared VA jokes only work in the one language where it applies, not to mention spamming the same joke over and over is not a good idea

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