r/UmamusumeOpenLeague

I won group A open league for the first time!

Started playing in April on Nishino Flower's banner. Managed to make these umas with what I got =D

Can’t win ‘em all. This was still fun though! Building runners in Unity for CM has really got me back into the game, after I almost quit playing altogether due to MANT. So I totally intend to keep running Unity aces until GL.

But Hishiama sure tried to make it close there at the end!

Rare four-front lobby (featuring a Seiun Sky, another Vourbon, and Turf S Falco), but she held first from the gate to the finish and hit just about everything she could hit along the way.

Triple Pace win! Didn't see too many end closers in Open League. Curren was oshi and super sarisfying, Lucky Pace Chiyo was the carry, and Wedding Fine-mo was decent and helped duel consistently but T-Pulse Snipes were too much fun, so I swapped around between each of them.

I tracked the data of my opponents in Gemini, there are different graphs for rounds 1 and 2, and I also included Round 2 of Taurus for comparison. I'm doing this to gauge the strength of the league after its recent change to A+ and below.

First data point is the rating of the opponent horses, Round 2 results are similar for Taurus and Gemini but in Round 1, Gemini had about 15% more above 13500 rating. What this tells me is that overall people are getting more comfortable running Trackblazer and getting the stats and skills they want.

Next is Distance Aptitude and I thought it was a fluke that in Taurus round 2 horses had Distance S less often than in round 1 but it happened again in Gemini. I did notice a good number of horses that were not great but still had Distance S in round 1 so what might be happening is that casual trainers are overvaluing Distance S while more experienced trainers are more focused on stats and skills.

Next is the track-specific bonus of extra speed for hitting thresholds of Stamina and Guts. I didn't track Stamina since I assumed everyone would be going for 601 anyway, but 601 Guts is not something casual trainers would stumble on by accident so I thought that was a decent stat to track as a knowledge check. In Taurus we had Red Shift which was a good universal knowledge check, 601 guts in Gemini is not as universal but still something. Many more trainers had 601 Guts than had Red Shift in Taurus, make whatever conclusion you want from that. I didn't track it but I did keep an eye out for true Guts builds, I saw fewer than 10.

Next are Scenario Run and Date Trained, the biggest difference in the former was that URA-trained horses went way down. Maybe the most shocking finding is that 40% of horses entered in Gemini were trained over a month ago, all the way back in April before Taurus happened, even *before Aries*. This is way higher than the number of "old" horses entered in Taurus and I am struggling to come up with an explanation. Perhaps more trainers are burnt-out and mailing it in. Perhaps more Graded trainers tried Open for the first time and were wondering how well they could do without trying.

Next is wins* of URA/Unity-trained horses VS MANT-trained horses. The asterix is there because I am not counting myself. Wins for URA/Unity went down but they are still viable and I am beginning to think a rating of 13500 is good enough to beat almost anyone with some luck. As long as you have a decent stat line and the necessary skills, you can win even if you have 1000 less rating points.

Finally is the number of Fronts and those with Groundwork and those that were Runaway. No change from the B and below era but Open trainers are generally staying away from Fronts and they are rarely building them "correctly" with Groundwork. Compared to what I am hearing from Graded trainers, they went very heavy on Fronts which pushed Paces out of the conversation, but with the low-ish number of Fronts in Open, Paces could and did shine.

So that's it for Gemini, I'll track Cancer in the same way but with a focus on Xmas Oguri, should be interesting.

I’m building my aces in Unity because I utterly despise Trackblazer. My other ace XOguri so far is similar build to this Machitan. Am I at a significant disadvantage using them for CM15 when Trackblazer exists, or do y’all think this is okay?

I only play pace chasers, which cards should i aim for other than these and I am open to uma recommendations as well.

Me again! So, I did get around to trying to get another viable Hishi Amazon today, wondering which of these 3 you guys think I should go with. The 3rd one has mile S and End S, and CB even gave me spurt (the only run I got it on in all this prep!) but I didn’t get daring strike, heartbreaker. Power is also slightly lower than the other 2.

Hi all! I have once again decided to run Unity aces in open. This is what I have! Couple notes

-I know Taishin is the strongest backliner for this CM but sadly, I don’t have her. So wasn’t an option.

-Mr CB just would. Not. Give me straightaway spurt. Literally not a single run. So I had to give up and just have Digitan and Hishi Amazon go without it. Maybe I’ll give it a last ditch effort tomorrow but idk if I’ll have time.

- My parents are kinda bad so I had to use a Tamamo I had to get Agnes Digital up to End A, so that’s why she has no pump, unfortunately. And I realized I forgot to buy pump on Hishi… oops. (I do these runs at work instead of working so prob wasn’t paying close attention) May try to remake her tomorrow, we’ll see.

Anyway, it’s gonna be around this for me. We’ll see how it goes this time.

Overall Conditions:

• Hanshin, Turf, Right, 2200m
• Good, Summer, Cloudy

Stats:

• Stat Threshold: Speed
• Required Stamina for >= 95% spurt rate(assuming 1200/X/1000/500/600):
  • Front: 850 (struggle not included)
  • Pace: 900
  • Late: 830
  • End: 850

Featured Trainees:

• Effective Unique Skills:
  • Xoguri
  • Seiun Sky
  • Mejiro Dober
  • Mejiro Ryan
• Notable Skills:
  • Rice Shower/Fine Motion/Nishino Flower (Determined Descent)
  • Satono Diamond (Right Hand Demon)
  • Kawakami Princess/Mayano Top Gun/Cheerleader Nature (No Stopping Me!)
  • Sweep Tosho (Petrifying Gaze)
  • Agnes Tachyon/Symboli Rudolf/Grass Wonder (Dominator)
• Miscellaneous:
  • Vodka (Easy to build)
  • Daiwa Scarlet (Daiwa Rocket)
  • Meisho Doto (Turbo-gamba Rocket)
  • Summer Maruzensky/Valentine Bourbon (Front meta)
• Green Skills (cards that hold those skills, either hints or chains):
  • Right-Handed (Finemo, Brian, Bright, Fuku SR, Rob Roy SSR)
  • Summer Runner (Fuji Kiseki)
  • Non-standard distance (NTR, Doto, Top Gun, Cafe)
  • Hanshin Racecourse (Flower, Hayahide, Palmer, Festa, Gold Ship, Marvelous)
  • Wet Conditions (Special Week, Mcqueen, Ryan, Smart Falcon, Cafe, Sirius, Festa, Windy, Digital, Palmer, Hayahide, Halloween Tamamo Cross SSR)
  • Cloudy Days (Winning Ticket, Smart Falcon, Oguri Cap, Fuji Kiseki, Biwa Hayahide, King Halo)

Inherits for Frontliners (Front, Pace):

• Angling and Scheming (3.4L)
• Red Shift (1.3L),

Inherits for Backliners (Late, End):

• Red Shift (1.3L)
• Let's Pump Some Iron! (3L)
• Moving Past and Beyond (3L)
• I Never Goof Up! (gamba)

Generic Acceleration skills that work:

• Straight/Determined Descent (gambling, pace chasers)
• Head-On/Neck and Neck (gambling, pace chasers)
• Nimble Navigator/No Stopping Me! (Last corner is an infamous traffic jam)
• Corner Acceleration/Connoisseur (turbo gambling)
• Fearless/Hard Worker/Keep it real (Nakayama Festa-tier of gambling)
• Take the Chance/From the Brink (gambling, backliners)
• Slick Surge/On Your Left! (gambling, late surgers)