Umamusume: Fairly Derby has been a shock hit on Steam, as PC avid gamers flock to its horse women and surprisingly in-depth administration sim techniques. Whereas it seems all enjoyable and cutesy on the surface, there are some vital nuances the sport would not essentially inform you which might make or break your profession runs with every racer.
I have been doing rather a lot of analysis as I have been taking part in the sport and making an attempt to get higher myself, and I’ve managed to place collectively some helpful Umamusume: Fairly Derby ideas and tips to up your coaching sport and get your women the trophies they deserve.
Umamusume: Fairly Derby ideas and tips

Ignore the Guts stat… for now
Umamusume: Fairly Derby has 5 stats to degree up: Pace, Stamina, Energy, Guts, and Wit. Crucial are the primary three—Pace is important, whilst you’ll want an excellent heaping of Stamina and Energy relying on which size and place your horse lady specialises in. Wit determines how usually you proc the talents you’ve got unlocked, so it is all the time value placing a bit little bit of time into levelling that up.
Guts, nonetheless, may be very a lot a nothing stat proper now. It is basically one thing the sport pulls from once you run out of stamina, moderately than contributing actively to a racer’s construct. Proper now it is a lot better to place just a few additional factors into stamina or seize some stamina-recovering expertise. Do not hearken to Tazuna’s yapping: You didn’t lose that race as a result of your Guts stat was too low.
The way in which Guts works will change sooner or later (which we all know because of the sport being out in Japan for 4 years already) and it’ll grow to be extra worthwhile. For now, nonetheless, you’ll be able to safely ignore it.
Make wealthy pals
Okay, I am solely joking right here. Properly, kinda.
You may be prompted to construct a deck earlier than beginning a profession run, and assist playing cards are by far probably the most integral part of your entire sport. Whilst you can largely get away with utilizing any horse lady you want, assist playing cards could make or break your builds.
Some playing cards—just like the coveted Kitasan Black—are straight-up damaged when you may have a number of copies. That may get a wee bit costly in case you’re not blessed with unbelievable luck, and that is the place the buddy listing turns out to be useful. Since one in every of your playing cards in every deck is borrowed from a buddy, try to be sure to’re befriending gamers who’re rocking some souped-up helps.
Having a buddy with a maxed out Kitasan Black or Tremendous Creek may give you an enormous enhance early on once you’re nonetheless constructing sturdy, dependable horse women to behave as your legacy foundations. You are playing the potential of them switching to a distinct card once you want them probably the most, however it nonetheless beats swiping your bank card half a dozen occasions.
Construct your friendships early

You may need observed throughout coaching that every stat often options a number of women within the prime proper nook, every with a meter beneath them. These are the assist playing cards you selected earlier than beginning the run, and so they’re integral to success in Umamusume: Fairly Derby.
The meter beneath them is your friendship gauge, and it’s best to completely prioritise elevating them early on. That is as a result of as soon as the bar turns orange, you get an opportunity of a rainbow coaching session which provides an enormous stat enhance in comparison with common ones.
In your early turns every profession, attempt to elevate stats the place quite a lot of women are grouped up collectively. The quicker you degree them up, the extra shortly you unlock rainbow coaching and may get these candy mega boosts. It is in the end right down to RNG the place your assist playing cards will group up, although, so hold your go-to stats in thoughts as nicely in case your luck is like mine and so they all hold bunching up in Guts.
Choose energy-regenerating dialogue
Power is an important foreign money in careers: The much less you may have, the extra doubtless you’re to fail a coaching session. Resting provides between 30 and 70 Power again, however it additionally takes a complete flip away from vital issues like stat will increase and racing.
Minimising the variety of turns spent resting is vital, and that is the place assist card and trainee occasions are available. They usually include dialogue choices with completely different outcomes—one may give a small pace enhance, whereas the opposite will grant a touch degree in the direction of a ability.
Quite a few these occasions also can restore Power, and I would suggest deciding on these choices each time they seem. The sport will not inform you what every possibility does, however you’ll be able to often guess fairly simply which of them will restore Power. They usually reference issues comparable to consuming meals, taking a break, going dwelling for the day, or not partaking in an exercise.
Preserve your women completely satisfied

Pleased horse women are profitable horse women. Subsequent to your power bar is a temper icon—there are 5 completely different moods: Nice, Good, Regular, Unhealthy, and Terrible. All careers will begin out with a traditional temper, fluctuating up or down throughout sure random occasions.
The happier your horse lady is, the higher her coaching outcomes and total stats are. A Nice temper, for instance, sees 20% higher coaching outcomes and a 4% improve to attributes whereas operating. On the flip aspect, an Terrible temper lowers coaching outcomes and attributes by the identical quantity.
In case your Uma is trying notably glum, make use of the Recreation perform. It will enhance her temper by one or two tiers relying on the occasion, and also you may even get a small Power enhance off the again of it, too.
Preserve a watch out for purple exclamation factors
One other vital component to any horse lady’s construct is their unlocked expertise. Whilst you’ll begin a profession with solely a handful to spend ability factors on, you’ll be able to seize extra by way of random occasions or coaching with a assist card when she has a purple exclamation level icon subsequent to her.
Should you’re gunning for sure expertise, watching out for these exclamations is important. Not solely will it unlock the ability so that you can purchase, it’s going to additionally provide you with a touch degree in the direction of it. The extra trace ranges you may have, the cheaper a ability’s value, so scooping these up will be actually useful.
Every assist card has a set listing of expertise it may well unlock. Lengthy press on a assist card to see these: the listing within the Abilities tab are ones you get by way of the exclamation level coaching, whereas clicking on the ‘i’ icon within the Profession Occasions tab will inform you which ability hints come from the random occasions.
Put together for summer season trip

By now you may need observed that every ability coaching ranges up the extra you utilize it—all 5 expertise begin at degree one, ultimately capping out at degree 5. The upper degree a ability coaching is, the extra it will increase that stat.
Summer season trip is an occasion that lasts for 4 turns, beginning in early July on an Umamusume’s Basic and Senior years. It briefly boosts every little thing to the max coaching degree, making this an important time to get some much-needed stat will increase in.
You may get a two-turn warning from Tazuna earlier than summer season trip begins, so I like to recommend prepping forward of time by ensuring your power is as near max as attainable earlier than it begins. You do not wish to waste too many turns resting throughout summer season trip—it comes with the good thing about growing your horse lady’s temper, however you are additionally locked to a flat 40 Power improve—so plan accordingly to maximise your summer season coaching arc.
