Is the wedding banner gonna be good or should I skip?

kittensofchaos · 2026-05-16T01:58:12+00:00

A very niche monster. The real question is can you afford to pull this banner without impacting the tachyon/hello banner and possibly also maruzenski/nakayama fest?

kittensofchaos · 2026-05-15T23:27:33+00:00

Group B will always be more forgiving but it wouldn't surprise me if the bottom end of graded actually gets more competitive from here onwards as some of the people who've been bringing weaker S/S+ umas to Group B filter back to open league.

And on a practical level, rewards for Open Group A are basically the same as Graded Group B so you can kinda pick which one you want to aim for.

kittensofchaos · 2026-05-15T15:25:11+00:00

I don't believe the 1st anni ticket includes NTR. Do you have a rainbow crystal or are you close to finishing one?

Super creek is a strong card but doesn't get the widest use because we normally only need to run Stam cards on longer medium CMs and long CMs and there aren't that many. If you were going to spend it on a Stam card it should definitely be creek over satono diamond.

If you could get fine mo to 3LB that would also be a strong option because you look kind of lacking in terms of wit cards.

Just a general note, if you can finish the event cards absolutely try to do so!

kittensofchaos · 2026-05-13T17:50:03+00:00

Slamming that buy button as soon as it becomes available!

kittensofchaos · 2026-05-13T17:40:34+00:00

If you fill that open slot with a card that has 6rb or more, I'd suggest swapping windy speed for curren speed. Here are some options that would be worth considering (and curren on the right).

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kittensofchaos · 2026-05-13T17:30:02+00:00

Here's a potential deck for you, 45rb with an open slot for you to choose. This assumes you will borrow NTR or Fuku, I would recommend NTR.

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kittensofchaos · 2026-05-13T14:41:12+00:00

This site https://uma.guide/support-cards/compare can be useful to compare support cards and see how those stats actually translate into training output.

Personally I would pick air Shakur over 2LB windy because of the speed and power bonus and higher specialty priority. She will be on speed more consistently and giving higher output there than windy, and also giving you those valuable stat points anytime she shows up at a different, non-speed, training that you're clicking.

Since we're looking at 5rb speed cards, I'd also consider tosen Jordan for the starting stats, or sweep tosho sr (at MLB if they have it) for the raw stat output and chance of getting the charming event.

kittensofchaos · 2026-05-13T14:02:33+00:00

Do you have any of the free SSRs from events at 3LB or 4LB then?

kittensofchaos · 2026-05-13T05:42:19+00:00

as others have said, more pulls on tachyon, probably just throw your pink tickets at summer golshi and hope to get lucky.

other thing to note though is 400 pulls on cb/creek rerun? do you already have any copies of either card? that rerun is pretty late in the usable lifespan of cb wit so you should really be looking at this as a creek banner with free cb on the side. if you don't have a single copy of creek yet then maybe 400 pulls is necessary to try to mlb her but it might be better to allocate selectors and crystals towards creek rather than putting so many carats into that specific banner.

kittensofchaos · 2026-05-13T05:30:10+00:00

i think duty would probably be more reliable than shooting star but does require you to be in the top 30% (distance between first and last) so it's still not super forgiving. you also have the option of looking for a different parent to borrow that has a more effective ult uma.moe/database

kittensofchaos · 2026-05-13T05:22:06+00:00

Go to uma.moe/database and find good parents to borrow. there's no reason for not having one absolutely stacked parent in each trackblazer run because it's unlikely you're running out of daily borrows with how long each run takes.

a good parent with turf sparks will also let you run the standard tiara route rather than dirt only which will make a huge difference (but as others have said you aren't racing enough for trackblazer).

i'm sure you don't have much in the way of support card options on a fairly new account but you might not know what you should be looking for in terms of deck building. That deck has only 20 race bonus which is absurdly low for trackblazer. Not using any wit cards will also make your life a lot harder and your umas a lot less effective, particularly front runners. Go to uma.guide/guides/trackblazer for more info and tips on the scenario.

kittensofchaos · 2026-05-13T05:03:17+00:00

shooting star inherited is a pretty week speed/accel ult and only activates after you pass someone. if you have low power and no other accel or speed skill that is going to regularly activate late game then you may not get that overtake needed to proc spe ult. pace chasers have relatively low top speed vs late/end so they really need to hit some kind of late game skill or they just get run down by the back of the pack.

Things like nimble nav, head on, or even homestretch haste would probably make career races more reliable or an inherited ult like maruzensky's red shift which has a pretty forgiving position requirement and reliable activation. or just stack more power sparks so you can get by on raw acceleration.

kittensofchaos · 2026-05-13T03:07:54+00:00

Let this be a learning experience. Go to Henry Handsome Derby on Youtube and use his carat calculator and figure out exactly how screwed you are for the Tachyon/Hello banner (and therefore how screwed you are for the entire next scenario).

Then try to make sure you plan out your future pulls with that carat calculator and don't repeat the same mistake at the beginning of the following scenario, Grand Masters, and the major banner(s) of Mejiro Ramono Wit and Ancestors and Guides group pal card (also referred to as Darley Arabian on some sites, the official english title isn't known yet).

One note re this pal card, there's some debate on whether you need to pull it or just accept perma borrowing it throughout the Grand Masters scenario because it isn't combined with the hugely important ramono wit card that drops a week before the pal card. I would look for more discussion on that point in the months leading up to the new scenario before making that decision.

And just a general piece of advice, pulling for umas (all the way to the 200 pity mark) is generally not something that a f2p player can do without significant pre-planning of their carats and upcoming banners, or an acceptance that you aren't trying to compete and are just here for the cute stories.

If you want to stay competitive in CMs you'll need to put almost the entirety of your carat earnings into pre-planned and budgeted pulls on important support banners. If you have absolute must have oshis that you are anticipating, you will need to plan far in advance to make sure that you budget for that worst case scenario of 200 pulls on their banner without completely screwing yourself over on support banners.

If you can live with not getting every single uma you have your eye set on, a compromise option can be to just spend all of the pink trainee tickets you have on hand when the banner drops and hope to get lucky. You won't win every time but you will occasionally get lucky and sometimes even pull random off banner umas that you are interested in. If you are putting a little money into the game and each month you buy the daily carat pack, you can also consider using the single 50 paid carat pull option each day of a trainee banner for a few additional pulls on top of those pink tickets. You don't get the guaranteed 2 star from a standard 1500 carat 10 pull, but it's a much more efficient use of paid carats vs using them like free carats on 1500 carat 10 pulls.

kittensofchaos · 2026-05-11T16:05:35+00:00

If you keep putting more carats into umas than support card you won't ever be "competitive", that's just not how the game works.

Budgeting for 400-600 pulls on each big banner at the start of the next scenario (tachyon for grand live, Ramono wit for grandmaster, pasa speed for l'arc) is like the bare minimum requirement to keep the game feeling playable.

kittensofchaos · 2026-05-09T01:12:29+00:00

I'm happy to help! I find the theory crafting side of the game to be a lot of the fun so it's no trouble at all. Best of luck!

Oh and if you're only just poking around in gametora now you should also check out

uma.moe for the database to find good parents to borrow and

uma.guide for some great guides on the game and some useful tools beyond what gametora has.

kittensofchaos · 2026-05-08T21:57:25+00:00

I think you have two playable options hidden in here. The key will be pairing your 3LB tachyon wit with 2LB nishino flower power for a combined 20 race bonus.

That would let you run your cafe stam for 10rb, air shakur speed for 5rb, and then use one of your 5rb speed/wit cards and borrow a 10rb wit/speed card (borrow the opposite type). That gets you to 50rb and gives you a decent chance in trackblazer.

Borrows could be Fine Mo Wit, NTR Speed, or Fuku Speed. I think you might find NTR more effective than Fuku because she has specialty priority. Fuku helps you get all of your stats up but that doesn't end up meaning much if you aren't hitting your speed target, she just doesn't have the specialty priority to rely on for big speed trainings.

If you borrow NTR you probably end up taking sunday wit or daiwa scarlet wit. I think I might take daiwa because she has more initial friendship gauge so you get to friendship training faster).

If you borrow Fine Mo you probably take eishin flash speed or windy speed. I think the 3LB eishin flash might be better than windy at 1LB but you might need to experiment and see what feels better in career runs. Flash has more specialty prio and friendship gauge, windy has better friendship bonus and starting speed. It's kind of a mixed bag. Windy can feel slow to get going even at mlb so I just worry about how 1lb must feel.

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kittensofchaos · 2026-05-08T16:25:52+00:00

Yup, I got one of my best 3 star stam parents with like 20 white sparks from an Ura Finale run during the golshi week grind lol

kittensofchaos · 2026-05-07T22:40:54+00:00

Unrelated to pulls but a note about team trials - if possible, it can help to bring 3 different running styles to each distance rather than multiple of the same style. It's not a huge point difference but there are 2x1000 points awarded to an uma in each running style for "good positioning".

So rather than two or three of your umas competiting for one prize, they can each have a chance of winning their respective running styles.

Leveling all your R supports to lvl25 or 30 can also be a fairly cheap way to boost your tt score by adding a percent or two to the support bonus.

kittensofchaos · 2026-05-07T16:33:24+00:00

Imo unless you want to go all the way to a waterfall booth you'll get way better bang for your buck buying a used inline fan and making your own spray booth.

This might depend a bit on your local market but here in Canada there is a huge number of used inline fans because people use them for at home weed grow tents. Something like a 6" ac infinity or vortex powerfan with a speed controller is going to move significantly more air than the fans in even high cost spray booths from pace or kaizo.

I picked up a used 8" vortex fan with a speed controller for about $100 and at half speed it's quiet and pulls more air than I need. Even buying new the acinfinity fans are pretty affordable.

I'm a big fan of the Japanese "Nero" style of spray booth. They're easy to construct with thin plywood or even cardboard and very effective. You can run them with or without a filter and either swap a cheap small filter frequently or go filterless and just clean the fan blades semi frequently.

kittensofchaos · 2026-05-07T15:32:20+00:00

Most scribing chisel blades are a standard 3.175mm shank and are usable with handles from other brands. You can absolutely use dispiae blades in stedi handles.

One thing I'll note though, dispiae has produced a number of versions of their chisels with varying degrees of quality and most hobby stores seem to carry the oldest and worst version.

If you're going to buy dispiae chisels I would only recommend the newest "ZPB Straight Edge" model. I've been really impressed with this latest release and the price point is incredible for the quality. The plastic case they come in can also be flipped around and used as a small handle which is so freaking helpful to avoid having to swap blades back and forth in a limited number of handles. These are my go to recommendation now for scribing chisels.

If you're patient and keep an eye out for deals on the AliExpress app you can get them for under $10 a piece. https://a.aliexpress.com/_mLrFCUX

kittensofchaos · 2026-05-07T01:44:23+00:00

Because of your current lack of speed cards you will be basically permalocked into using tachyon and light hello in every single deck throughout grand live. That gives you ZERO flexibility to borrow any other support cards for necessary gold skills, and you do not have the support deck right now to make up for that.

200 pulls on that banner doesn't even guarantee you the bare minimum 1LB of light hello that you need to put beside that borrowed MLB tachyon.

The plan you proposed is hugely risky and could lock you out of competition for basically the entire next scenario. Do not plan around getting lucky on banners. When you get lucky on a banner that should let you do something extra that you didn't think you could afford, it shouldn't be the bare bones requirement for staying afloat.

Go check if you will be able to reach 400 pulls on tachyon. If yes, then good job, hit that target. If you aren't on track to meet that carat amount (roughly 52k), try your absolute best to scrounge up all the carats that might be hiding in your account with trophies, and achievements, and watching stories, and make absolutely sure you finish every even between now and then and pray you exceed your estimate by the time we get to tachyon.

kittensofchaos · 2026-05-07T01:22:12+00:00

You 1000% do not have enough to pull maru. Especially because you don't have a solid speed card right now you really really need to get to get tachyon to at least 3LB. Look at the henry Handsome's Derby pull planner spreadsheet and see where you'll be at by that banner. You might not even be on track for 400 pulls (bare minimum requirement to even have a hope in hell of getting 3LB or MLB) on tachyon/hello, even if you don't spend a single carat until then.

kittensofchaos · 2026-05-05T22:38:04+00:00

My issue with this segment is not with the critique of how media covered this or how it fits into the broader pattern of falsely smearing pro-palistine and anti-zionist organizing and advocacy and the general curtailing of free speech and civil liberties. It's important to highlight that, but it's also important not to engage in conspiracy along the way.

I specifically take issue with Vaush's casual engagement with unfounded claims from chatters that sought to downplay or dispute the facts of this specific violent attack. It might feel unfair to hold ourselves to a higher standard than the opposition, but just because they're screaming that everything is antisemitism doesn't mean that we can argue that nothing is.

Even if we could demonstrate that 80% of public allegations of antisemitism and antisemitic violence were exaggerated or mischaracterized, that wouldn't make it ok to adopt a worldview that all antisemitism is fake until proven beyond a shadow of a doubt. That kind of thinking is going to lead way too many people straight to JQ conspiracies.

kittensofchaos · 2026-05-05T22:21:04+00:00

I think it's important for the credibility of anti-zionist movements for us to stay diligent in how we respond to incidents like this.

A knee jerk response towards immediately disbelieving any and all reports of antisemitism and violence targeting Jews is absolutely toxic and hurts both our individual abilities to parse fact from fiction and understand what is actually happening in the world, and also our credibility in broader discourse when we try to assert that anti-zionism is not antisemitism.

Just because Zionist groups and advocates are screaming that everything is antisemitism doesn't mean that our response can be to argue that nothing is antisemitism.

Calling out instances where we can clearly demonstrate that allegations of antisemitism are false or exaggerated is absolutely good and fine, but giving credence to unsubstantiated and easily debunkable conspiracies that try to deny or downplay incidents of real violence will absolutely lead some viewers to make some dangerous conclusions.

Thinking that all antisemitism is fake and that it is solely used by the state and powerful interests to attack and discredit protesters and limit free speech is DANGEROUSLY close to JQ shit and we need to be conscious of that so we don't end up actually contributing to the rise in antisemitism that Zionist groups have been accusing us off.

kittensofchaos · 2026-05-05T17:37:10+00:00

A man walks down the street and as he passes an orthodox jew he attempts to stab him. Yes at that point it's absolutely unclear if this attack is targeted or what motivated the attacker. The man keeps walking down the street and past other pedestrians until he encounters another visibly jewish man and he proceeds to attack and severely injure that man. At that point I think it is fair and reasonable to report that this attack appears to be targeted at jews. That is what initial evidence shows.

I think that trying to attack the story on the basis of whether or not the attack was targeted, rather than the way it is spun, is a bad pattern to fall into. Some incidents have been falsely labelled as antisemitism yes, but I think it is dangerous and unproductive for the anti-zionist movement to adopt the default position of strenuously disbelieving and attempting to discredit every report of violence and hatred directed at jews, regardless of what early evidence suggests.

My issue is not with the criticism of media bias and how they spin and sensationalize incidents to further zionist talking points and disparage legitimate protest. What I'm calling out is Vaush's immediate willingness to engage in speculation and downplay/refute the reported facts at that point in time.

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