Legacies

After selecting an uma, you’ll be presented with the legacy screen. Here, you’ll select umas to, as the game puts it, “send feelings” to the uma you’re raising. Most people simply refer to these as the uma’s parents.

Whenever you finish a run with an uma, that uma will receive sparks roughly related to her own abilities. The uma’s actual stats and skills don’t matter at all for inheritance, only these sparks.

You can also borrow umas from people you follow to use as parents.

If you press and hold on a trained uma, it will bring up their stats page. On the second tab, you can see the sparks they and their parents have. All of these can be passed down to the uma you’re training.

As an example, let’s look at the sparks one of my umas has. It’s an Oguri Cap, who had Symboli Rudolf and Mayano Top Gun as her parents.

Blue sparks are stats. The Mayano and Oguri both have 3 star Speed sparks. The Symboli Rudolf has a 3 star Stamina spark. A 1 star spark gives +5 to that stat, a 2 star factor gives +12, and a 3 star gives +21. So, this uma will give +42 Speed and +21 Stamina. We’d refer to her as a 6* Speed 3* Stamina uma.

Pink sparks are for aptitudes. They’ll raise the letter grade of the related aptitudes, in this case, Turf and Medium Distance. You can’t raise them above A at the start, but during the two inspiration events, they might get upgraded to S if there’s a related pink spark in the legacy.

The green and gray sparks are for skills and races. Skill sparks will give hints for the skill of the same name, while race sparks will give bonus stats. For example, the URA Finale spark can give +10 Speed/Stamina for each star if it activates during an inspiration event. If this Rudolph’s triggered, then our uma in training could get +30 extra Speed and Stamina.

Let’s see how putting this Oguri as a parent changes things. As expected, it added 42 Speed and 21 Stamina. Mayano’s Medium Distance pink spark raised the distance from G to F. This uma already has an A in Turf, so Oguri’s Turf pink spark doesn’t do anything, but if it gets triggered during an inspiration event, the Turf aptitude will be raised to S.

The stats of the parent umas don’t matter at all at this point. An A rank uma and a C rank uma with the same sparks will both give exactly the same inheritance. Though, the higher the rank, the better the chance of getting good sparks, generally.

One other thing to look out for when selecting inheritance is the affinity, shown in the top right. A triangle means there’s bad affinity. A circle means there’s good affinity. Two circles means there’s great affinity. Don’t pick worse parents for better affinity, but if you’re indecisive between two of them, affinity can be the tie breaker.