Lessons from the Future

As we’ve played the Japanese server for many years, we can look back and think about what we would have done

Support Cards There are very few must-pull support cards early in the game. Kitasan Black, Fine Motion, Super Creek are the earliest ones - and Fine Motion doesn’t even get a banner. A bit later, Maruzensky and Fuku Speed, Nice Nature and CB Wits are good though style-specific. The card quality really starts going up around the fifth scenario, Grandmasters. So, you have a lot of leeway to pull on umas you like early on.

Friend and Group cards are an interesting thing. They are usually the most powerful cards in their scenario. In scenarios 2 (Aoharu) and 4 (Grand Live), the Rare version of them is perfectly serviceable, but after that, the SSRs start becoming mandatory. You can either pull them yourself, or borrow them for 4 months. Having them yourself means you can borrow other things so is generally advised starting in scenario 5, Grandmasters. The initial banners for scenarios also usually have a lot of free pulls to help you reach the pity.

Throne is a Group card that released about 2 weeks before the end of scenario 3. She was extremely meta defining for those two weeks, but then disappeared off the face of the earth. If they release her near the start of scenario 3 this time around, maybe you want her.

Umas Don’t chase the meta racing umas. Even if you pull the uma with the longest streak of dominance, Christmas Oguri, winning a Champions Meeting event is only +1500 Carats over coming in last. With a pity costing 30,000 Carats, it takes far too many wins to offset the potential investment. Most of them are only good on a few tracks, too. And with the accelerated Global pace, they’ll probably have even less places to shine. Chasing meta umas is for whales.

So, pull the umas you like. I (Erzzy) built Mejiro Dober for every single Champions Meeting after her release, and I know people who did the same for Haru Urara. Though, Christmas Oguri is a unique and fun uma to build…

You can also aim for the good parent umas, to strengthen the umas you like. Ones with acceleration ultimates tend to be best early on, such as Seiun Sky, Mejiro Dober, and so on. There are often two+ ultimates you want to inherit, so having them yourself is good, and they last longer than racing-focused umas. Many of them are added as Daily Legend Races though, so you can get them from that instead of pulling for them.