u/servantphoenix

The general perception before was that anyone who didn't take building aces seriously in Graded gets filtered in round 1 and possibly lands in group B or just loses CM in round 1. However, not only did group A had plenty of Independent Trained aces, but some even made it into the finals.

I know people said that room matches don't represent CM lobbies, but this is like light and day. Room matches had perfectly built UF XOguris, meanwhile the finals had UG rank Independent Trained aces.

Has Global given up on competitive gameplay outside a small minority and treats Uma Musume as essentially an Idle Idol Game?

(Note: I'm not judging, just surprised. Everyone is free to enjoy Uma Musume however they wish. We are all here to be made happy by our cute horse girls. :) )

I legit couldn't believe my eyes when my character that has already cleared Pandemonium had to retreat from a single Sylmdra. They heal back the damage you do, thanks to the heads growing giving +30hp per head. With 10+ heads they can delete a third of the healthbar of a 40 AC 300hp rCorr character in a single turn. They can gain heads before even engaging with you in combat by absorbing other slimes.

Even at lvl27, with artefact gear and artefact slashing non-flaming weapons, you will die if you don't have an alternative way of fighting them.

Concent Creators were saying we should be aiming to defend against a minimum of 2 stam debuffers, maybe even 4. Yet, in my actual rooms, more than half the rooms had 0 stam debuffers, some had a single one, and the most I have seen is 2 stamina debuffers, 2 out of 20 races.

It seems those that built "glass cannon" 601 stam XOguris and maximised other stats were in the right...

(Probably a lot of people also don't have Wedding Mayano or Mummy Creek to even be able to field 2 stam debuffers. )

While I know room matches aren't representative, it's still scary how UFx looks like the new "norm" now for competitive players who I might meet in Round 2 and the finals. The best uma I ever made is Ug8, and I was so proud of her. 😭

And they aren't even using whale decks. Having one 1 SR (usually Daiwa Wit) alongside a 1LB SMaru is pretty common.

Junior Year: 3 songs with Friendship Bonus +5%

Classic First Half: +2SP bonus

Classic Second Half: +3SP bonus

That's it. None of the other songs matter, you basically only buy them to reduce the song pool and fill the bar for the concert. Don't try to chase those +1/2 speed or wit bonus garbage, those do basically nothing because none of your usual multipliers (training bonus / friendship bonus / support present bonus) apply to them, and basically just give you like 15/30 of their stat in the whole run. Just pick whatever song is the cheapest and keep rolling.

Then in Senior Year start, you go all in as suddenly there are four new +5% Friendship Bonus songs, and even two +10% ones. Hunt them all down, especially the 10% ones.

Put on "Life Will Change" from Persona 5, CTRL+G D:1, and enjoy your victory lap. A single ice devil, Panlord, or orb guardian is barely a speed bump when you've cleared Pandemonium and Hell.

I keep hearing conflicting info on Blaze Narita Brian. Some people say she dominates long races as a pace chaser for years, even today in JP, while others say fronts are usually too far ahead for Beast Mode/Monster to activate in Long races, and even if it does, you can just get the white version of the skill past 07/01 chances through parents ("My True Strength"), so no need to get Blaze Narita Brian specifically to be able to play Pace Chasers competitively on Longs.

You have these dwarf units that are slow AF, but at least they excel in mountains and caves. So the campaign plays in... forests, open fields, and basically everywhere except where dwarves are good at. But you might say "okay, they're slow and easy to hit, but at least can hold the line with their tankiness", except you cannot recruit healers to keep them alive, so the wounded units have to walk with their awful movement back to one of the very few villages, while enemy superfast units just run around you and kill them anyway. Eventually you get the loremaster to lvl3 which gives you your first and only healer in the campaign, and even he is only a heal+4.

I just got to the Forbidden Forest, and legit considering just giving up. I'm really not enjoying this. :(

Now botting is legal and built into the game. 10/10

Minotaur wearing heavy armor, shield and an axe, occasionally using thrown weapons. Is there a point where increasing Dex on level-up becomes better than Str, or should I just keep pumping Str till the end of the game?

Every guide I found online (if I even bothered to look) said I should pull. It is also coming with 60-100 free pulls so it will be super cheap to pull on and I can easily pity even if only started saving for the last month. It's the scenario banner with the mandatory scenario card accompanied by a really strong generalist card. There are also 70 posts already on this subreddit asking the exact same question with various circumstances and clear the answer is always a resounding "yes", unless you will be in rural Thailand with 0 internet for 90% of the next scenario's duration for some reason.

But guys, should I pull on the Light Hello + Tachyon banner? I really needed to make the 71th post.

Wit cards either have no Speciality Priority, lack good boosts to stat gain, or both. About 1/5th of the turns, there are 0/6 wit cards in the wit room. Even on the turns when it's 1/6, the training output is so damn low it feels bad to even click it, unless it's Fine Motion or the facility level is 4+. If Fine Motion ever graces the wit room...

Ramonu Wit SSR can't come sooner.

It's Wednesday only, and it's on 840k already.

I heard Gentildonna is a meta-defining pace chaser, but she is not in the game for another 1.5 years, so I was wondering if there was any pace chaser Uma I should aim for before that.

Note: I'm highly competitive, with eight graded A final wins, so I absolutely do want every edge I can get and am willing to spend carats on it.