Champions Meeting - Virgo Cup Guide

Track is above - we’ll be using the global Umalator tool to help visualize the track and what skills are good on it. The tool can be found here.

• Hanshin 1600m Mile Turf
• Clockwise - Firm - Autumn - Sunny
• There is a hidden
  

  Power
  threshold, where you will gain a 10%
  

  Speed
  increase (5% if there are 2 stat thresholds) per 300
  

  Power
  .
• This caps out at 901+ and is actually quite a significant boost. (only factors in the number on stat page + mood, so green skills don't count).
• Here’s the hidden stat threshold table, by hitting those, you gain that % of
  

  Speed
  bonus as a multiplier.
• This track only has one stat for the threshold, so the value is doubled. If you have 901
  

  Power
  you’ll gain a 1.4x
  

  Speed
  multiplier.

• Final Leg begins on a corner, meaning
  

  Angling and Scheming
  and
  

  Let's Pump Some Iron!
  will be some of the best acceleration tools.
• Final Corner is a fair distance (117m) before the start of Final leg, meaning
  

  Red Shift/LP1211-M
  and
  

  Shooting for Victory!
  will not be useful -
  

  Flowery☆Maneuver
  and
  

  Condor's Fury
  are usable.
• There’s no downhill so don’t learn any skill associated with that.
• Front Runners are quite dominant on Hanshin 1600m, but Late Surgers can steal some wins as they have access to 2 random acceleration gold skills.
• The shorter the distance, the more powerful random acceleration skills are. This is due to the fact that the Umas have to spend most of Final Leg accelerating to top speed.
• Rough ranking for each style is as such: Front Runner > Late Surger >> End Closer >>> Pace Chaser.
• Pace Chasers have no good acceleration tools to rely on, making them very weak.

Front Runner

The strongest style on the track by a decent margin, Front Runners are the most frustrating and time consuming to make if you want to be competitive, be warned.

Inherit

from

Seiun Sky:

• This is basically mandatory. Without that skill, Front runners essentially have no win condition.
• Due to this, competing for first place in Mid Leg is everything for Front Runners, every skill you learn should assist you with this.

Inherit

and learn any 3 of the following skills:

• 

  Right-Handed ○
• Autumn Runner ○
• 

  Hanshin Racecourse ○
• 

  Standard Distance ○
• 

  Firm Conditions ○
• 

  Sunny Days ○
• 

  Front Runner Savvy ○
• 

  Focus
  /
  

  Concentration

has 3 of these green skills as hints, you should use her for a Front Runner deck.

• Do note that relying on
  

  Focus
  /
  

  Concentration
  means your
  

  Groundwork
  will require 2 activation checks (with
  

  Wit
  ) to activate.
• If your
  

  Wit
  is only 600, you’ll only have a 72% chance to trigger it which is not ideal.
• 

  The Duty of Dignity Calls
  (
  
  Mejiro McQueen unique skill) is a strong secondary inherit for Front Runners here, as it activates in Mid Leg.
• Front runners without
  

  Groundwork
  will almost always lose to ones with it. We’d advise against using them if you don’t want to invest the time or don't have a good parent available.

Pace Chaser

Worst style, the only way to win is to fight Front Runners for 1st so you can activate

.

Late surger

Second strongest style, most Umas will be using this style optimally.

Inherit

,

Triumphant Pulse

(

Oguri Cap unique) is a good secondary inherit option. Grab

On Your Left!

and

Furious Feat

if possible - you will need at least one of them.

End Closer

Decent style, competes with Late Surger for 6th but doesn’t have access to

.

Inherit

. Grab

Furious Feat

.

Umas are roughly ordered within tiers, with left being strongest.

*Asterisk added for Falcon as she is harder than all the other Umas to train.

Ratings explanations

• 
  Summer Maruzensky: The best Uma on the track, has an inbuilt gold recovery skill, so you can easily build her to survive a Nice Nature or two.
• Learn the essentials mentioned in the Front Runner section and learn
  

  Moxie
  /
  

  Restless
  +
  

  Corner Recovery ○
  /
  

  Swinging Maestro
  , 2 heal skills should give you a good activation rate on her unique skill.
• At least take 1 gold recovery, ideally take 2 so she’s as resilient vs stamina debuffs as possible
• She is the best Uma currently when it comes to consistently activating
  

  Angling and Scheming
  .
• 
  Seiun Sky: She’s mostly tied with
  
  Smart Falcon, if there are a lot of Late Surgers she’s better, but if there are a lot of other Front Runners she is worse.
• Not good at taking lead and will struggle to activate her unique skill against most other competent Front Runners, but when she does, she’s very hard to beat.
• Inherit
  

  Groundwork
  and grab some suitable green skills.
• 
  Smart Falcon: Strong Front Runner option with a good Mid Leg unique.
• Starts with Turf E, so she requires 10* Turf to get to A. This alongside her requiring
  

  Groundwork
  and all the suitable greens makes her very difficult to raise, it is arguable whether she’s worth the effort.
• Learn the essentials mentioned in the Front Runner section.
• 
  Sakura Bakushin O: Good Free-to-play Front Runner option with a good Mid Leg unique, quite good at fighting for first.
• Doesn’t start with any useful skills or
  

  Groundwork
  triggers so she can be difficult to train.
• Learn the essentials mentioned in the Front Runner section.
• 
  Vodka: Arguably the best training bonuses for Mile, 10%
  

  Speed
  and 20%
  

  Power
  .
• Inbuilt
  

  Furious Feat
  ,
  

  Slick Surge
  and a fairly consistent Final Leg speed unique skill.
• Inherit
  

  Let's Pump Some Iron!
  .
• Use
  

  Winning Ticket [BNWinner!]
  if possible, to acquire
  

  On Your Left!
  .
• 
  Grass Wonder: Grass Wonder is similar to Vodka, but she has inbuilt
  

  On Your Left!
  and her unique won’t activate as consistently as Vodka’s.
• Inherit
  

  Let's Pump Some Iron!
  .
• Use
  

  Oguri Cap [Get Lots of Hugs for Me]
  if possible, to acquire
  

  Furious Feat
  .
• 
  Mejiro Ryan: Very strong when she’s exactly 6th when entering Final Leg.
• Inherit
  

  Triumphant Pulse
  (
  
  Oguri Cap unique).
• Use
  

  Oguri Cap [Get Lots of Hugs for Me]
  (Ideally) or
  

  Grass Wonder [Fairest Fleur]
  for
  

  Furious Feat
  , grab
  

  Slick Surge
  or
  

  On Your Left!
  too if possible.
• 
  Oguri Cap: Late with very strong Final Leg speed unique.
• The problem is that she doesn’t start with either gold acceleration skill like
  
  Grass Wonder or
  
  Vodka.
• The best card that gives
  

  Furious Feat
  is
  

  Oguri Cap [Get Lots of Hugs for Me]
  , meaning she can’t use it.
• In order to get both gold acceleration skills she would have to use 2
  

  Guts
  cards (
  

  Winning Ticket [BNWinner!]
  for
  

  On Your Left!
  and
  

  Grass Wonder [Fairest Fleur]
  for
  

  Furious Feat
  ), which takes a toll on her stats, hence why she’s ranked below the others.
• Inherit
  

  Let's Pump Some Iron!
  and grab at least one of
  

  Furious Feat
  or
  

  On Your Left!
  (
  

  Furious Feat
  is better), try to get the white version of the other skill.
• 
  Daiwa Scarlet: Decent Front Runner option, with Mid Leg hybrid unique.
• Doesn’t start with any
  

  Groundwork
  trigger skills at all.
• Learn the essentials mentioned in the Front Runner section.
• Generally not worth the effort to build.
• 
  Wedding Mayano Top Gun: Late with an acceleration unique, requires her to overtake someone on the Final Corner, and be 5th-7th after the overtake.
• Overtaking someone there in Mid Leg is actually quite hard, this is a good thing in this case because the Final Corner is a decent distance before the Final Leg, so activating her unique early would just end up wasting it.
• Inherit
  

  Let's Pump Some Iron!
  and grab at least one of
  

  Furious Feat
  or
  

  On Your Left!
  (
  

  Furious Feat
  is better), try to get the white version of the other skill.
• 
  Fantasy El Condor Pasa: Late with acceleration unique on Final Corner, requires her to attempt to overtake another Uma, its activation conditions are easier to fulfil than
  
  Wedding Mayano Top Gun's' unique. This is generally not a good thing on this track as it’s likely to trigger early and not accomplish anything.
• Inherit
  

  Let's Pump Some Iron!
  .
• Has
  

  Furious Feat
  inbuilt, use
  

  Winning Ticket [BNWinner!]
  if possible, to acquire
  

  On Your Left!
  .
• 
  Narita Taishin: End with speed unique that will quite consistently activate in the Mid Leg, with a very good chance to get speed carryover into the Final Leg.
• Inherit
  

  Let's Pump Some Iron!
  , and use
  

  Oguri Cap [Get Lots of Hugs for Me]
  to get
  

  Furious Feat
  .
• 

  Encroaching Shadow
  does basically nothing here so don’t learn it.
• 
  Gold Ship: End with a consistent Mid Leg speed unique, has less high roll potential than Taishin.
• Inherit
  

  Let's Pump Some Iron!
  , and use
  

  Oguri Cap [Get Lots of Hugs for Me]
  to get
  

  Furious Feat
  .
• Reminder that there are no Downhills on this track so
  

  Go-Home Specialist
  will not activate at all. Do not learn it.
• 
  Mayano Top Gun:The only viable Pace option on the track, has a hybrid unique that’s likely the trigger in Mid Leg. Mostly a fun option but is reasonably strong when well built.
• Her unique skill has really good trigger timing on this track and you’ll likely get some acceleration out of it, with a good chance of carryover.
• With enough
  

  Wit
  and good amount of Mid Leg skills, she can contest 1st for
  

  Angling and Scheming
  sometimes.
• Inherit
  

  The Duty of Dignity Calls
  (
  
  Mejiro McQueen unique skill) -
  

  ∴win Q.E.D.
  (
  
  Biwa Hayahide unique) is a good secondary option.
  

  Angling and Scheming
  can be used as well if you’re very confident in her Mid Leg.
• 

  Yaeno Muteki [Fiery Discipline]
  is a very good option to borrow if you already have
  

  Kitasan Black [Fire at My Heels]
  - the Mid Leg skills provided from Muteki are almost essential to making Mayano work.
• 
  Agnes Digital: Late Surger with a decent Final Leg Speed unique skill, the unique skill will often activate early and be partially wasted, she also doesn’t come with very many useful skills, so is ranked lower than the rest of the Late Surgers.
• Inherit
  

  Let's Pump Some Iron!
  and grab at least one of
  

  Furious Feat
  or
  

  On Your Left!
  (
  

  Furious Feat
  is better), try to get the white version of the other skill.

Here are some team templates, however many Fronts you want to use depends on the amount of effort you want to spend on building them. Front’s are extremely strong so 2 Front + 1 Late would give the best win rates.

1 Front + 2 Late is lower effort and will still win a lot.

• 2 Front + 1 Late
• Strongest team setup, Front’s are extremely strong on the track and it’s good to have a Late as backup plan if they fail to take first.
• 1 Front + 2 Late
• If your Front Runner is the only one in the race, they don’t function properly and will not be able to gain a big lead on the rest of the Umas, likely leading them to lose.
• However, Fronts should be common enough on this track to where that won’t happen often.
• Err
  will be the best option for this, but the other fronts will work also.
• 3 Late
• Easiest team to build, gives you a very good chance to activate
  

  Let's Pump Some Iron!
  on one of your Umas.
• Usually only one Uma will get significant benefit from
  

  Let's Pump Some Iron!
  , so you’re putting all your eggs in one basket.
• The other Umas can highroll into good timing on the gold acceleration skills so they aren’t guaranteed to lose.
• 3 Front
• Very High effort and the 3rd Front doesn’t serve much purpose aside from giving you better odds at activating
  

  Angling and Scheming
  .
• Only one of them will activate it at once so the others will most likely lose.
• Not recommended as putting all your eggs into 1 basket can easily backfire.

If you want to use

Mayano Top Gun Pace, she can fit into most of the teams unless you use 2 Fronts.

Aim for 1200

/ 950+ / 350-400 / 800+ .

If your cards are good, aim for a little more

and more . Front and Pace want more , Late and End want .

Here is the required

chart for each style depending on your goals

• These are calculated with 1200
  

  Speed
  , 950
  

  Power
  , 400
  

  Guts
  and 800
  

  Wit
  , with the recommended acceleration skills active. (add about 80
  

  Stamina
  if you want to have enough
  

  Stamina
  for full duration of the rushed state)
• Debuffers shouldn’t be common in Mile as the
  

  Stamina
  requirements are not very high, and some of the stamina debuffs are Medium distance only.
• If you are afraid of debuffers, Nature’s one gold debuff, assuming it lands, is worth about 80
  

  Stamina
  on this track.

We’d recommend at least 60

above these values.

Highly recommend not relying on recoveries for Mile, as that adds extra failure rate to your Uma when the

goals are already quite low.

Please use the umalator to confirm that your uma will be functional, these are just bare minimum values +10 so when you add a lot of extra skills the requirements will go up.

• 

  Kitasan Black [Fire at My Heels]
  should be the borrow if you don’t have her at 3LB or higher, then
  

  Fine Motion [Wave of Gratitude]
  if you do.
• Late Surgers require certain SSR card(s) for skills so adjust accordingly.
• Most people should be using 3
  

  Speed
  1
  

  Wit
  + 1 of either
  

  Power
  /
  

  Stamina
  /
  

  Pal
  .
• Adjust your stat inherits according to whichever you fill that slot with (more
  

  Power
  inherit if you use a
  

  Stamina
  card /
  

  Pal
  and vice versa).
• The last slot can be anything, if your
  

  Speed
  cards are too weak to reach the stat target then add one more
  

  Speed
  etc.
• Some of the Late Surgers will be forced to use at least one
  

  Guts
  card, so lower your stat expectations if you are unable to reach them.
• Late Surgers should use
  

  Winning Ticket [BNWinner!]
  for
  

  On Your Left!
  , and
  

  Oguri Cap [Get Lots of Hugs for Me]
  /
  

  Grass Wonder [Fairest Fleur]
  for
  

  Furious Feat
  .
• Prioritize
  

  Furious Feat
  if you have to choose one,
  

  Oguri Cap [Get Lots of Hugs for Me]
  is the better card to use.
• Prioritize reaching
  

  Stamina
  goals first, as having high
  

  Speed
  but not having the
  

  Stamina
  to finish the race at full
  

  Speed
  is worse than the reverse.
• If you reach the stat goals with those 5 card slots then you should try for higher
  

  Power
  on Late Surger and End Closer, and more
  

  Wit
  on Front Runner and Pace Chaser.

Sample Decks

• Low Spender/Reroller Deck #1
• 

  Kitasan Black [Fire at My Heels]
• 

  Sweep Tosho [Lamplit Training of a Witch-to-Be]
• 

  King Halo [First-Rate Plan]
• 

  Daitaku Helios [Let's Get This Party Lit!]
• 

  Marvelous Sunday [A Marvelous ☆ Plan]
• 

  Fine Motion [Wave of Gratitude]
  (Borrow)
• Low Spender/Reroller Deck #2
• 

  Kitasan Black [Fire at My Heels]
• 

  Sweep Tosho [Lamplit Training of a Witch-to-Be]
• 

  King Halo [First-Rate Plan]
• 

  Pal
  Riko Kashimoto (SSR)
• 

  Marvelous Sunday [A Marvelous ☆ Plan]
• 

  Fine Motion [Wave of Gratitude]
  (Borrow)
• Free to Play Deck #1
• 

  Sweep Tosho [Lamplit Training of a Witch-to-Be]
• 

  King Halo [First-Rate Plan]
• 

  Daitaku Helios [Let's Get This Party Lit!]
• 

  Marvelous Sunday [A Marvelous ☆ Plan]
• 

  Matikanefukukitaru [Fate's Forecast]
• 

  Kitasan Black [Fire at My Heels]
  (Borrow)
• Free to Play Deck #2
• 

  Sweep Tosho [Lamplit Training of a Witch-to-Be]
• 

  King Halo [First-Rate Plan]
• 

  Pal
  Riko Kashimoto (R)
• 

  Marvelous Sunday [A Marvelous ☆ Plan]
• 

  Matikanefukukitaru [Fate's Forecast]
• 

  Kitasan Black [Fire at My Heels]
  (Borrow)
• Front Runner Deck
• 

  Kitasan Black [Fire at My Heels]
• 

  Sweep Tosho [Lamplit Training of a Witch-to-Be]
• 

  King Halo [First-Rate Plan]
• Nishino Flower (SR) Wit
• 

  Marvelous Sunday [A Marvelous ☆ Plan]
• 

  Fine Motion [Wave of Gratitude]
• Late Surger Deck (Grass Wonder)
• 

  Kitasan Black [Fire at My Heels]
• 

  Sweep Tosho [Lamplit Training of a Witch-to-Be]
• 

  King Halo [First-Rate Plan]
• 

  Marvelous Sunday [A Marvelous ☆ Plan]
• 

  Matikanefukukitaru [Fate's Forecast]
• 

  Oguri Cap [Get Lots of Hugs for Me]
• 

  Mejiro Dober [Ignore the Stares]
  can be a good option for
  

  Slick Surge
  skill hint for Umas without easy access to it.
• Mayano Top Gun Deck (Pace Chaser)
• 

  Kitasan Black [Fire at My Heels]
• 

  Sweep Tosho [Lamplit Training of a Witch-to-Be]
• 

  King Halo [First-Rate Plan]
• 

  Marvelous Sunday [A Marvelous ☆ Plan]
• 

  Daiwa Scarlet [Nothing Hard Work Can't Solve!]
• 

  Yaeno Muteki [Fiery Discipline]
  (Borrow)

Stat inherits

It's usually best to use a split between

and inherits to help you reach the stat targets.

Inherit more

if you’re using a card, inherit more if you’re using a card or .

• The necessary acceleration skills are not included in this chart. Unlisted skills are bad, don’t learn them unless you have no choice.
• In general, it’s preferable to take more good skills than double circle skills, as double circle skills are much less SP efficient.
• They have a higher base cost and less effects, double circle on green skills is only a 50% increase when compared to single circle (60 stat vs 40). Double circle on the speed skills is a 66% increase.
• Greens are typically not worthwhile double circling outside of
  

  Speed
  ones, or
  

  Stamina
  if you need it to hit the
  

  Stamina
  thresholds, others only learn if you have extra SP.
• The generic Straightaway/Corner skills (e.g. Medium Straightaways or Front Runner Corner) are so powerful that the double circle version is better than most other skills.
• If you are unclear on skill efficiency, the Umalator can be used to generate a skill chart to show how much distance will be gained for each skill.
• Some skills will be marked with FPLE, for Front Runner, Pace Chaser, Late Surger and End Closer respectively. Parenthesis will be used if that style uses the skill better than the others that are listed.

• Generic Recovery Skills
• Style Locked Recoveries
• Generic + Mile skills
• Front Runner skills
• Pace Chaser skills
• Late Surger Skills
• End Closer skills