Orange Skills

![][image101] The first two icons here are for Speed and Acceleration, respectively. The best are the ones with good activation times and long durations. For example, compare these two skills: ![][image102] ![][image103] They both increase Speed, and both by the same amount. However, Beeline Burst only increases your Speed for 0.9 seconds, while Professor of Curvature increases it for 1.8 seconds.

Speed skills won’t do anything if you’re not at top Speed, and Acceleration skills won’t do anything if you are at top Speed.

The third type of skill is a lane change skill, which increases the speed at which the uma changes lanes. Lane changes are outward in the last leg, and inward otherwise.

The fourth type improves your starts. The white version isn’t very impactful, but the golden version is very good and used very often, especially for Front Runners. There’s also a purple version that makes your starts worse, which Gold Ship can get access to by winning Takarazuka Kinen twice.

The fifth type affects Vision, which doesn’t actually do anything (unless you’ve had your vision debuffed) due to the hard cap on vision being set at the same distance as the default.

Unity Skills

The skills you get from the Unity scenario have effectiveness based on your team’s total stats. Unless you’re in a mode where you race alone or low in the Stadium rankings, you will usually have three umas on your team. The skill you get is picked from your team’s highest ranked stats, but you can also inherit them. And, yes, they do work outside of the Unity scenario.

Green/Purple skills don’t count towards the stat total, but motivation does.

Total Stat	<1200	<1800	<2600	<3600	>=3600
Average Stat	<400	<600	<867	<1200	>=1200
Multiplier	0.8	0.9	1.0	1.1	1.2