Recommendations for Cancer Cup

Minimum Stamina	Front	Pace	Late	End
0 Golds	580	660	620	620

You can get 600 Stamina, I believe in you. You don’t need recoveries.

This track has stat thresholds on Stamina and Guts. You’ll want at least 601 Stamina 301 Guts for the speed increase, or 627 and 314 to account for mood.

Recommended Team: If you have Taishin, I’d use her. Front + Taishin + Grass If you don’t, I’d probably replace her in that team with another gambler or Gold Ship.

Traditionally on the Japanese server, Front Runner strategies have had the highest winrates, but they’re also the highest effort. It’s also rather difficult right now for real Front Runners to overcome ones built to deny them, and I’m not sure how many people will be bringing such deniers. In the next scenario with the rise of Wit builds, regular Fronts can more easily get strong enough to beat those.

Front Runner: Seiun Sky, El Condor Pasa, any Front denier (eg Bakushin, McQueen, Falcon) Inherit: Seiun Sky, El Condor Pasa, Mejiro McQueen This is Seiun’s one chance to be good as a Front. By the next CM, Summer Maru will be in the game to ruin Seiun’s day. Pasa is also quite strong, but her low Front aptitude makes her hard to raise if you don’t have the perfect parents for her. Any Front with both uniques inherited will do great, as long as they’re strong enough to be first at the start of the final leg.

Or you can make high Wit, high Power umas to try to deny any Fronts from taking first. Pasa can use her unique in second though, so she’s a bit resilient.

Remember, when building Fronts, you want to get Groundwork and three greens that activate on the track. Here’s a video going over the Front Runner meta, or you can read the start of How to Win: The New Front Runner Meta - Umamusume Pretty Derby

Pace Chaser: El Condor Pasa, Curren Chan Inherit: Mejiro McQueen, Taiki Shuttle, Seiun Sky (in case of 0 Front rooms, but unlikely) Pace Chasers really don’t have much going for them on this track. You could run Pasa and hope you run into rooms with zero or one Front. Theoretically if you get passed late you could fall to third and activate Taiki’s unique at a good time.

Late Surger: Grass Wonder, Gold City > Mejiro Ryan, Vodka, Fantasy Pasa, Wedding Mayano Inherit: Mejiro Ryan, Wedding Mayano, Fantasy Pasa, Maruzensky, Taiki I’m not actually sure if Gold City will be out in time for this CM. She might release during it.

Anyway, Gold City and Grass Wonder have “On Your Left!” This gambling skill can be combined with Furious Feat from the Oguri Cap Power card to give you some good chances at a strong performance. Stack on Ryan and Wedding Mayano’s uniques for even more chances.

Vodka and Fantasy Pasa have Furious Feat, but to get On Your Left! they would need to use the Winning Ticket Guts card. A Power card is obviously better than a Guts card in Mile, so they fall below Grass and City in the ranking. And Ryan is just really strong if she hits exactly 6th, a higher risk gamble.

Here’s a video going over gambling umas: Gambling Umas, the Late Surger Meta - Umamusume Pretty Derby

End Closer: Narita Taishin > Wedding Mayano, Gold Ship Inherit: Mejiro Ryan, Wedding Mayano, Fantasy Pasa Taishin’s Encroaching Shadow is a little late, but still extremely powerful. You can also consider getting Furious Feat from the Oguri Cap Power card, or the white from somewhere, for the high roll potential.

The other Ends can get Straightaway Spurt like in Gemini along with Furious Feat. They’ll be stronger than Late Surgers in the average case, but lack the dominant high rolls of someone like Grass Wonder.