This Month’s Reviews

Super Creek (Halloween) Ratings: Pace Chaser 2, Team Trials 3, Parent 5, Stamina Debuffer (-3%)

Mummy Creek is a mandatory parent for Fronts and Paces whenever Pasa also is. However, all of those tracks are Short and Mile, which Creek has G in. So, she’s not good as a racer herself. On Sprint tracks where Seiun doesn’t work, Pasa and H.Creek are the mandatory parents. She can be used as a second Stamina Debuffer if you don’t have Mayano Bride.

Rice Shower (Halloween) Ratings: Pace Chaser 3, Team Trials 4, Stamina Debuffer (-3%, usually only one enemy), Parent 2

Halloween Rice is a bit different from usual Stamina Debuffers, who are backliners. She instead goes Pace or Front. Typically if she’s being used, it’s to give your Front someone to compete with while also having debuffs. Her kit is good but not special, and her debuff isn’t consistent in Team Trials since someone needs to become rushed.

Kawakami Princess (Original) Ratings: Late Surger 3, Team Trials 3, Parent 2

Aside from coming with No Stopping Me, Kawakami doesn’t have anything special. She’s basically a less flexible Mayano Top Gun. NSM is also not consistent enough for Team Trials and Rising Dragon isn’t fully consistent either. But, an uma with NSM will always have a chance to win.

Manhattan Cafe (Original) Ratings: End Closer 4, Team Trials 5 (Long Late Surger), Parent 2, Stamina Debuffer (-1%)

Cafe is basically an upgrade to Gold Ship. She has a mid leg speed unique and a gold heal. She used to go Chaser, but once the Kris S card exists, she goes Betweener and gets to actually use her heal. There’s a slight concern that her unique will make her run too far forward to trigger Lose Yourself. She’s also incredibly difficult to train due to her aptitudes and 30% Stamina bonus. Her unique can be inherited on Debuffers for an extremely minor speed debuff.

Gold City (Autumn Festival) Ratings: Late Surger 2, Team Trials 3, Parent 2, Acceleration Debuffer (-0.3)

Fes City is the only acceleration debuffer in the game currently, but doesn’t come into relevance until the Gold Ship Summer alt. Outside of Mile, you can 564 her debuff and sometimes hit people as they’re entering spurt, causing a massive decrease in their speed. This is extremely potent, but doesn’t work every race. Still, you can bring her along if you want to gamble some wins. As a racer, she’s not very good. Her unique is a final corner “blocked_side” unique, which is very difficult to trigger after the first anni change to make umas spread on the final corner. Also, note that every race you do after Tennosho Haru on Gold City will give you all stats and extra SP. This can let you get SP counts above 5000, allowing you to buy a ton of skills for Team Trials.

Symboli Rudolf (Autumn Festival) Ratings: Pace Chaser 2, Team Trials 2, Parent 2

(Written after 2nd anni changes) Fes Rudolf is just… not very good. The gold green she has already gives speed as a white and it’s very inconsistent in stadium, while her unique is a speed unique that triggers during or after final leg, which is not what you want. She actually used to be better before the 2nd anni changes, which added the phase>=2 condition to her unique.

Tosen Jordan (Original) Ratings: Pace Chaser 4, Late Surger 4, Stadium 5, Parent 2

Without evolutions, Tosen Jordan is terrible. With them, she’s great. She’s not top tier, but she gets a consistent gambling accel and a gold heal, both of which work either as Pace Chaser or Late Surger. You can use her anywhere you’re willing to raise her aptitudes for.

Mejiro Dober (Original) Ratings: Late Surger 4, Team Trials 1, Parent 5, Stamina Debuffer (-3%)

Dober’s unique is mandatory on Late Surgers and End Closers on many tracks. Ryan’s requires 6th, while Dober’s requires 5th or 6th, making it much more consistent. She herself can be used as either a gambler or a Stamina Debuffer with a chance to win. Her evolved debuff gives her Current Speed which is quite potent if it triggers early, but she has to be 6th or below to trigger it, so it’s not consistent. Her gold green is good for her signature track, Queen Elizabeth Cup. None of her kit is consistent for Team Trials. She’s my favourite uma so let’s just say she’s a 5.