Uma Banners

Pull if you like the uma, rather than if they’re good. Very few umas are worth pulling solely for strength, the meta shifting often, so having the ones you like is more valuable. If you have to pity a meta uma, it’s not going to pay back those 30,000 Carats you spent. Most will only be useful on two CMs a year or so, there are very few generalist meta umas. A meta longevity of 2 years doesn’t mean the uma will be the best in every CM for 2 years, just that it takes that long for someone to usurp her in her specialty.

There are lots of ways to get umas for free later on, like Daily Legend Races and various pick tickets, so don’t feel too much pressure to pull umas early on. Of course, you can get them as off-rates from later pulls, too. This means pulling on uma banners is better the fewer umas you own, since you have a higher chance of getting new ones off-rate.

For details on the umas, check the reviews here. What will follow is a quick description of the uma so you can get an idea of what the month has in store.

(Nov 24) Halloween Creek - Her unique is very similar to OG Pasa’s, and so, she becomes the second parent option for Fronts and Paces on those tracks, which are Short and Mile. But, she has G in those, so she’s not really used as a racer unless you’re going through a lot of effort. Can also be a Stamina Debuffer. Meta Longevity: Good parent (though very annoying to get with a Sprint Pink), stamina debuffers fall off in a few scenarios

(Nov 24) Halloween Rice - Another debuffer type, but runs as Pace or Front instead of Late or End like other debuffers do. Front users will sometimes have her as a second Front to give their ace someone to compete with while incidentally debuffing. Her unique is also, technically, a very small stamina debuff if you want to inherit it. Meta Longevity: Never meta

(Dec 1) Kawakami Princess - Similar to Mayano Top Gun, but less flexible and generally worse. Gambling on No Stopping Me is always okay. Meta Longevity: Never meta

(Dec 8) Manhattan Cafe - Like Gold Ship, but better. 30% Stamina bonus can be a blessing or a curse. Meta Longevity: Okay, not dominant. A lot of good Long umas release soonish

(Dec 14) Festival Rudolf - One of the only umas to get actually worse later on, as the second anni updates weaken her. She’s strong when her unique can carry over into the final leg, which is mostly Mile, but in second anni they remove the ability for her to do that. Meta Longevity: Good on Mile until Global gets the second anni updates (which might be early too??)

(Dec 14) Festival City - Once Summer Gold Ship releases, becomes an Acceleration Debuffer. This can be extremely potent in Sprint. As a racer, doesn’t have much going for her. Meta Longevity: Not dominant herself, but gambling on the debuff in Sprint can be fun

(Dec 18) Tosen Jordan - Terrible until the Evolutions update. She has one Late Surger gold and one Pace Chaser gold, then evolutions make both work as both. Can be used as a gambler in a pinch, but you can just use Grass Wonder for now. Meta Longevity: After evolutions, can be used anywhere as a gambler

(Dec 28) Mejiro Dober - New mandatory Late Surger / End Closer parent on Final Corner tracks, but everywhere she’s good, Ryan is also used, so you can use your own Ryan parent and borrow a Dober. She can gamble on her own unique, or be a Stamina Debuffer. Meta Longevity: Still sometimes used as a parent on JP ![][image2]

It’s perhaps worth noting that the next banner after these is Christmas Oguri Cap. I have a video about her here, deciding whether or not you’ll pull her is a very big decision: All About Christmas Oguri - Umamusume Pretty Derby

(Jan X) Christmas Oguri - The strongest racing uma for the next year or so. She will be the best choice or top of the meta for the majority of CMs. If you like having the best, you should pull her. The only uma that’s a better pull meta-wise is the upcoming Valentine Bourbon. Viewed objectively, she won’t return a 30k Carat investment, so if you can endure not having the best uma constantly for a while, or just like using suboptimal characters, you can skip and save your gems for the upcoming card banners. Meta Longevity: Very dominant for the next year, then starts disappearing, but still sees use now and then.