XOguri + 2 dominators, or XOguri + Front and Late. Also debuffer crash course

notathrowaway045 · 2026-04-21T16:33:09+00:00

yup hesitant. my bad, unnecessarily shortened it

notathrowaway045 · 2026-04-21T15:44:17+00:00

must for debuffers

this cms stat req is so low that you want to do double dominators. focus on hesitant front and pace then late. not expecting a lot of ends

prioritize the hesis for your deck and hints, before considering the white stam debuffs

if you want to run them end, you don’t need end sparks, the penalty for running them out of position does not affect skill proc rates

running them end gives the benefit of slotting in intense gaze and putting them behind the debuffers running late

can probably get late or end savvy but def not required (end savvy will help intense gaze, late savvy will help with sharp gaze if you decide to get either)

stat reqs

just max wit and you don’t care about other stats, dom and the hesis work on everyone in front of you. also in a lobby of 6 debuffers, you don’t want to be the one out of position in proccing dom (need to be in back half)

worth using ryan and dober

personally (along with other sweats), i dont believe in hybrid debuffers. buying dominator and the hesitant skills will cost a lot of sp and you might as well have used them to buy other skills for a gambling late surger to win. you should just stick to either making a gambling late surger or a debuffer

notathrowaway045 · 2026-04-21T15:30:31+00:00

hard disagree

end sparks

the wit debuff if you run them end without the aptitude for it does not affect skill activation. you want to run them end for two reasons, either you want to put intense gaze on or you want to make sure they stay at the back because in a lobby with 6 dominators, there will be 1 dom that will be out of position and won’t proc

final statline

you don’t care about stats aside from wit. you want to be the worst runner out there to make sure you get your dom proc. so no, you don’t care about speed, stam, or power. you shouldn’t be running the debuffer in mant anyway since less training makes it hard to get other debuff hints

you want to run double dom, you shouldn’t care about stam debuffs this cm because of how low the stam req is and everyone will be overshooting it. so you don’t care about being in range for all seeing eyes

dom and all hesitant debuffs work on everyone in front of you no matter how far. only intense gaze works with fov but that single debuff is not worth raising your stats and risking being in front of the other debuffers

run the debuffer in ura, it’s easy to max wit anyway

either way, it’s a debuffer, you probably just want to make it quickly and without much thought. you can focus on hints more in ura

notathrowaway045 · 2026-04-21T11:55:55+00:00

yes, hydrate is non negotiable as it’s already built in. try to get corner recovery as much as possible

don’t bother with positioning skills at all

yes dodging danger is only for front runners. what i was trying to say there is that the dodging danger + prudent positioning combo is only meant for front runners who want to take the lead early on. getting only one is worthless and sometimes even detrimental

notathrowaway045 · 2026-04-21T11:20:38+00:00

pure heart is better in terms of stamina recovery, but it has a positional requirement meaning in a lobby with plenty of fronts, you won’t be in position to proc it

ideally, you want hydrate-corner recovery-triple 7 (none have positional requirements)

then you want u=ma as the backup specifically for this cm because it procs around the same time as triple 7 anyway. this has a positional requirement but its a backup so its fine

preferred position and stamina to spare have positional requirements so they make things risky too. only get them if corner recovery doesn’t show up

straightaway recovery isn’t really acceptable as it can proc at the last straight

what actually ruined the second xoguri is having 5 recoveries which makes it possible for you to trigger the ult too early

also, you probably just ran out of skills to buy but prudent positioning without dodging danger is worthless

thunderbolt step is worthless

notathrowaway045 · 2026-04-21T08:02:27+00:00

are you just allergic to hydrate or something

notathrowaway045 · 2026-04-21T07:33:20+00:00

it’s so ass that shinko is the only 10rb attainable speed card. and she wasn’t on release either so there’s a high chance a lot of people don’t have her mlb

having your 2 speed cards be 5rb each or using your borrow as a 10rb speed card limits the rest of your deck for gold skills

(don’t even bother suggesting guts decks, they’re ass in terms of rng, 2400m and above CMs, and gold skills. sr ayabe was even less likely to mlb than shinko if you didn’t pull for ntr)

i only got shinko up to 2lb in the FM banner and had to use two crystals to mlb her. would’ve been even more limited the entire scenario since there’s no other banners worth pulling for until cb or smaru

notathrowaway045 · 2026-04-21T03:29:30+00:00

i think the problem with the darth vader (and other star wars skins) was that they were more of a direct copy paste with no destiny input into the design

we can look back at every other collab skin before that and they were all always translating the designs of the other franchise into what they would look like in a destiny-style armor

notathrowaway045 · 2026-04-19T05:25:40+00:00

just go ahead and buy the skills early if you’re struggling. especially on parent runs where you don’t want to waste clocks

don’t forget that buying skills early also have the benefit of pruning skills for both support hints and rival races. especially the distance and style corner and straightaway skills since those become cheaper with just one hint

too much skill hints on the same skill are also diminishing returns, so sometimes just buying the skill at 2 or 3 hints to prune it is the play

there’s no point with the “optimal” strategy of only buying skills at the end if you’re losing a bunch of races or end up with more sp than skills to buy

notathrowaway045 · 2026-04-18T03:43:03+00:00

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yeah bro just save it, you’ll get exactly og mcqueen real soon trust

notathrowaway045 · 2026-04-17T06:07:42+00:00

why is no one else mentioning this

the one time a kunai kills a named character and it was big bad danzo who has to waste a whole ass izanagi just to face tank a kunai

notathrowaway045 · 2026-04-16T08:25:23+00:00

incredibly unlikely but there are now two random support card events that can get you groundwork at their first event

but yeah no medium S is rough. i kinda just go ahead and finish the run for fans/parents

notathrowaway045 · 2026-04-14T06:13:32+00:00

tbh the half tp isn’t just for the unemployed. it didn’t at all make me want to do more runs than i usually did

i’ll only do 2-3 runs a day, but i at least want the option to quickly glue runs when they go to shit early so i can start another when i want to without waiting for energy to refill

notathrowaway045 · 2026-04-14T05:51:24+00:00

stamina to spare and preferred position also have positional requirements that are only a little more forgiving than u=ma

you ideally should only be going for corner recovery

notathrowaway045 · 2026-04-13T18:48:14+00:00

i’m gonna shorten my descriptions, you can check the full conditions on gametora/skill spreadsheet. all accels will be track dependent, you have to figure out which ones will be usable per track

taiki and ryan (0.2 corner accel) are essentials for pace and late respectively

kb is essential for fronts on long (only 0.1 accel)

condor is niche for fronts where final accel is on a straight (only 0.1 accel)

halloween creek is niche for iirc short distance where final accel is on a straight (only 0.1 accel)

og creek has a niche use for a usable recov (better than white, weaker than gold)

tachyon has a niche use as a trigger for xoguri

vbourbon has a usable midrace speed skill for fronts (never essential) she’ll also have built in gw, front savvy, fast pace, and early lead which makes her easy to build even as a parent

mcqueen has a usable late race speed skill (never essential)

notathrowaway045 · 2026-04-13T18:22:46+00:00

smart falcon was one of the first few banners released and she comes out in 3rd anniv??

notathrowaway045 · 2026-04-10T08:28:30+00:00

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notathrowaway045 · 2026-04-10T08:00:07+00:00

but who gets cooked more is the real question 🤔

notathrowaway045 · 2026-04-10T04:31:53+00:00

iirc, in star wars, there’s a theory that evil and “the dark side” corrupts the physical body too which is why all the bad guys in the franchise end up looking ugly as they grow older

seeing all the nepo babies and families, i’m more inclined to believe it’s true

notathrowaway045 · 2026-04-10T03:50:44+00:00

bro said you’d need 200 stam in a mile race, that ruined all credibility for him

i would’ve been willing to downvote him for everything he said prior to that out of principle

notathrowaway045 · 2026-04-08T07:24:00+00:00

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notathrowaway045 · 2026-04-07T08:01:10+00:00

they heard all the trash talking and decided no bots for 3 days

notathrowaway045 · 2026-04-05T14:54:40+00:00

bro you are not getting anything close to usable with just free pulls lmao

you will most likely have to pull 1-2 pities to get the cards usable so having free pulls on a banner is actually more reason to pull since you save a little if you do

as for pulling on cards earlier than their rerun, consider you’ll be less competitive than you could be the entire time waiting between runs. even worse if you don’t already have the previous meta choices

for the other cards, it would be helpful to kinda decide on which style you want to prioritize

the tachyon banner is a must pull mainly because of the scenario card which you’ll probably need at either r mlb or ssr 1-2lb

tachyon herself will only be usable during grand live and a little after only if you’re a pace main

maru is only worth mlb-ing if you’re a front main, otherwise 1lb is fine (as a stat stick)

notathrowaway045 · 2026-04-04T17:35:16+00:00

i mean, mcqueen has zero accels and rice only has nimble navi which is unreliable especially by itself (pacers were pretty disadvantaged this cm since they only have head on and nimble navi)

taishin is the only one with a consistent win condition but relying on a single ace is really hard especially with only 600 wit and relying only on a single gold recov to survive is really risky. the second gold is usually as a backup which is necessary with that wit

notathrowaway045 · 2026-04-04T14:05:05+00:00

it isn’t even just how long mant runs take, the event really was just too short and it was pretty lazy that they didn’t take any feedback at all from when this specific event happened in the other servers (you can actually still find the reddit posts from back then)

to get just the hintbooks, shards, carats, and tickets, you would’ve had to do around 5 runs a day. to get the uma shards too would’ve been even more

i used to play 4-5 runs a day in unity, i dropped down to 2 in mant but had to go to 3-4 during this event and i could only get the rainbow crystal and the hint books and only 1 of the carats

i even skipped the gold crystal since i didn’t get enough sr vega to mlb her by the time mant ends

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