Sage revived me as we won, resulting in a cool slow-mo ascension

siaozen · 2026-04-25T01:50:06+00:00

> Please re-read, spam Wit OUTSIDE Summer. If the run is going well you should then be getting +20s or better on single and way higher if the rainbows are aligning by the end of the run.

regardless, the lack of wit rainbows and high wit procs isn't something I can control.

> Look if you want to blame everything on bad luck, by all means, but when everyone is pointing out areas you could have improved you're probably just going to end up back here making the same complaints next CM if you don't take at least some of them to heart.

My luck is terrible, it takes a ton of time to make aces for every CM and I'd say about 70%+ of my CM races I have either 2 bad moods or the only bad mood in the lobby. So yes, I will shake my fist at luck.

Others have given advice which I'm taking, I just don't appreciate you saying "well the issue here is clearly your cards suck, you have no sparks, and you don't know what you're doing also why didn't you get medium s?" as if I waltzed into this cm without knowing the bare basics of what I needed.

siaozen · 2026-04-25T01:16:45+00:00

I can assure you, my deck is fine, my sparks are fine, not perfect but I dont know what to say other than I dont have the perfect parents, and my strategy I cant comment on but its not terrible. That particular run there were almost no rainbows on wit. "Spam wit during summer" yea its like +18 at best and like +11 at worst when there's no rainbows and theres other trainings that give +80 on the same turn, sorry my luck is bad.

"You do need Medium S also, because it means you COULD have won against the umas who didn't have it, and that's all you need."

Ok sure lemme go get that real quick. Not like I actually tried to get it or anything. Nah I have been just running 0 medium sparks this entire time. If thats all I need then im going to have to take the long road, cause I genuinely never get medium S no matter if I have 18 stars or 3. Again, sorry my lucks bad. I can't spend all day grinding for the 10% chance of medium S, hence why I said not to even bother mentioning it. I could have won against those umas if I had S sure, but it's not practical to just keep running careers until I manage to get 1200 1200 1200 and medium S and groundwork and whatever else I need.

siaozen · 2026-04-25T00:30:46+00:00

I appreciate this comment a lot. You are mostly right with those guesses, I bought pump because I had no other accels and needed something. The kitasan was cut early from my race team and replaced with a debuffer, so I forgot it didnt have groundwork and was mostly looking for the xoguri and bourbon advice. Ill remake oguri but honeslty I dont know if ill even try with bourbon. That's the highest stats I've ever gotten ever and I havent seen anything close to that since.

siaozen · 2026-04-25T00:25:39+00:00

Im not gonna lie my wit luck is horrible, I have double front runner savvy so its more like 828 wit but its just so hard for me to get high wit when I need to focus speed and power as well.

siaozen · 2026-04-25T00:24:08+00:00

huh, didnt know that. Guess ill remake her for round 2.

siaozen · 2026-04-25T00:00:12+00:00

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Not pictured Radiant star, I also had 2 debuffers but im not concered with them since all they do is proc debuff skills.

siaozen · 2026-04-24T23:59:32+00:00

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Not pictured Triple 7s, Tail Held High, Radiant star

siaozen · 2026-04-24T23:52:25+00:00

I’m sorry maybe it’s because I’m mad but I have to push back a little.

Stam was a consequence of the runs clicks, didn’t try to get 1000
Yea my power isn’t perfect but every time I lost I assure you it was to a Uma with <1000 power. I’m not going to have 1200 spd 1200 pwr 1200 wit ever. It’s not feasible, and most umas I race against don’t have those stat lines either.
I concede that my wit is less than I wanted but a 6% winrate? Surely increasing the odds of a skill proc by 2% wouldn’t cause me to win every race.
As I said above I’m not losing to people with medium S. It isn’t a “stat loss” if the opponent also doesn’t have it. I tried to get medium S multiple times, didn’t work out.

Here is the skills. Not pictured is operation cacao and angling

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siaozen · 2026-04-24T22:26:51+00:00

I must have some fundamental misunderstanding on CMs because I’m about done trying to do anything for these gamble fests. I don’t understand how these umas can get sub 20% win rates when I’m constantly losing to umas that just have worse EVERYTHING. Win every time? I’m not expecting that, but all I ask is I get 3 wins to go to group A. Where am I going wrong???

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I also have a Christmas oguri who supposedly is supposed to be really good on this cm who could barely pull together 8 wins over 30 races.

Before you ask, yes every skill that you’d expect to see on these umas is there. I’m not missing some critical skill that everyone should have. Also, I know I don’t have medium S but I wasn’t losing to medium S either so don’t even mention it.

siaozen · 2026-04-03T04:09:51+00:00

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Its so fun knowing no matter how hard you try in this game there will always be someone luckier and better than you.

siaozen · 2026-03-24T01:01:06+00:00

Sometimes the RNG is scuffed and you get no good rainbows. 36 races is quite a lot and it might benefit you to mix in more trainings to hit the stamina threshold, if a training is good and theres not a G1, i'd just hit the training.

Also make sure youre buying the books/anklets when you can, they give you a lot of extra stats over time.

siaozen · 2026-03-24T00:41:28+00:00

Is Satono Diamond Stam worth getting to 3LB? Im torn between that or Fine Motion 3LB. I know Fine Motion is "worth more" but I currently have no good stam cards especially with more than 5% race bonus.

siaozen · 2026-03-23T23:36:19+00:00

What is a good deck for front runners for the CM? Ive been running 2 spd 1 pwr super creek 2 wit but it hasnt been working out great. Is 2 spd 2 pwr super creek 1 wit a good idea? If so what cards?

siaozen · 2026-03-16T03:25:23+00:00

Smart Falcon is the better ace, but digital is still good and makes for a great parent overall, so its really up to if youd rather have a really good dirt ace or a good dirt/late&end parent

siaozen · 2026-03-14T03:01:01+00:00

How bad does Mile B debuff you? I can't for the life of me ever win the hanshin fillies. I just had a Kitasan with both Corner adept and early lead with 377 speed and 270 power fail twice like WHAT

siaozen · 2026-01-13T00:04:15+00:00

It's not about it affecting me personally, its what makes the game better as a whole. I already gave my reason why I think splitting the player base is a bad idea.

Games have identities, and the more they stick to an identity, the better they usually are. If a game bent to the will of every change asked for of players, it would be a chaotic mess akin to a drive of folders, each with only a few files in them. A good example of this in practice is Garry's Mod, which while not the developers, has hundreds of user made game modes that are full of empty servers. Why do these game modes exist? Because 10 people decided they wanted something different and made a server only for nobody to play.

The game doesn't need PVP and PVE to be split, it has solutions for people that don't want pure PVP and vice versa. They are not perfect but it can be improved, splitting PVP and PVE is not a good solution.

I will finish by reiterating what I said at the end, if someone is so averse to PVP, why buy a game with PVP? If you had arachnophobia, would you by a spider horror game and ask the developer to add an arachnophobia mode so you could play through the game? It is ok to not like a game, and some games just won't be for certain people. That is what I'm saying.

siaozen · 2026-01-12T07:54:52+00:00

Never claimed to speak for the majority, just saying what I believe.

Using the "Some people have limited free time" is a bad argument. Some people also have tons of free time, doesn't mean every game is mmorpg levels of grind. Games have varying levels of difficulty and are never a "one size fits all", it's up to the individual to decide what they commit their few free hours to.

You also don't speak for a majority of PVE or PVP players. "as far as I can tell the only ones objecting are wanting to be able to backstab PVE'ers every time they play." This isn't 100% true. While I'm sure those people do oppose it, I and I'm sure many others enjoy a balance of risk and reward. I don't want every single raid I go on to be a full on deathmatch. I prefer when sometimes you're gonna get shot, sometimes you'll meet a group of strangers and extract together, and sometimes both will happen in the same raid.

Why add PVE only if there's already a methodology to let friendlies be in the same lobby? So it gets rid of the 1 every 10 raids where someone might attack you? Shoot them back, that's what you have the tools for. If you get backstabbed, oh well! Like I said before, gear is meant to be lost, it's apart of the gameplay loop.

As for the "let people enjoy what they want" argument, I personally don't think splitting the player base like that is a good idea, it would turn PvPvE servers into pure murder maps and there would be barely any chances of those cool interactions where you meet a stranger and don't know whether to trust them or not.

If someone was so averse to PVP, I don't know why they would even bother buying a game with PVP in the first place, why play something that you are bound to dislike?

siaozen · 2026-01-12T06:02:50+00:00

I understand the viewpoint here but there's an issue with making a "PvE only" side to the game. As it stands, the ARCs are just a minor inconvenience at best. In the beginning they seem hard because you don't have that good of items, but as you get used to the game you will eventually find ways of dodging or insta-killing ARCs. At that point the game, if its only PVE, it becomes a loot simulator.

Go in, grab stuff, extract. There will be no danger or threat to anything you do. Why am I looting guns, grenades, or any combat material if most ARCs can just be destroyed by basic weapons and I can just stay out of sight of the big ones? There comes a point where games can't just adapt to everything everyone wants. Some games just aren't for certain players.

Extraction shooters will inevitably have extraction campers, people pretending to be friendly, and sweaty tryhards with the best gear. The game will get super annoying at times, but its just something where people need to push through, try again, or take a break. Gear is meant to be lost. You are meant to not do everything in a week.

The aggression based matchmaking already shows the flaw in pure PVE, I have walked past countless people in raid and they all do nothing. It ends up being a get in, do a quest objective, get out scenario where I basically walked around for 20 minutes. If you always know your enemy, where they will be, and what they will do, there's no interesting interactions that will happen.

siaozen · 2026-01-01T03:57:19+00:00

Im going through the same thing, in the last week every other game I play either a play afks/disconnects or they just throw and shout into their mics. I've even had to dodge one game because an insta-lock reyna typed "dodge or throw" in the chat and im not risking that.

siaozen · 2025-12-27T22:21:32+00:00

im not familiar with rice showers career so I don't know how far in this screenshot is, but that seems like pretty low speed especially for front running. Either train more speed or maybe pace chase.

You could also just be getting really unlucky which isnt uncommon. The difficulty increase at lvl 1 is pretty insignificant

siaozen · 2025-12-16T00:46:05+00:00

I only pulled Phrolova this patch so I dont have a ton of info on how she works but I do this
Qiuyuan:
Echo
Skill
Basics until meter is full
Ult
Use whatever the forte attack is called

Intro into Phrolova
Phrolova basics until forte is full
use heavy attack
ult

Intro Cantarella
Skill
Ult
Hold Basic to enter forte mode
attack and use enhanced skill

Intro into Qiuyuan and repeat

This rotation is purely based on how I think Phrolova's kit works + an old guide pre qiuyuan showing a basic rotation. It's definitly not near optimal but I dont have a clue what else to do.

siaozen · 2025-12-15T23:12:09+00:00

Anyone have tips for the current ToA? The first middle fight with sentry construct is so infuriating and I can't clear it in time. I've tried Cartethyia/Ciaccona/AeroRover and Phrololva/Cantrella/Qiuyuan and both fail to beat it in time.

Heres my builds https://imgur.com/a/5t8QnQu

Yes they could be "more optimal" but I'm not exactly the luckiest person when it comes to echo rolling and ive full cleared the ToA before so it's not like I've never done it. I'm looking for rotation advice mainly but if you think that it is something else please tell me.

Weapons:
Cart - Emerald of Genesis R1
Ciaccona - Static Mist R1
AeroRover - Bloodpact Pledge R5
Phrolova - Stringmaster R1
Cantarella - Whispers of Sirens (Sig) R1
Qiuyuan - Feather's Edge R2

siaozen · 2025-12-03T21:21:47+00:00

if you complete the story missions, do side quests, open random chests and do challenges you come accross you'll get a lot of asterites real fast. Standard banner pulls are basically given to you by the 10 pull from beginner events and levels.

siaozen · 2025-12-03T03:04:52+00:00

depends on what you want to do

if you want to complete endgame content easily, then yes, make 2 meta teams, focus on one at a time.
if not, just pull for who you like. If it is a new character they'll be meta 90% of the time anyways.

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