Learn about acquiring and upgrading skills, and the way their effects are calculated in Umamusume: Pretty Derby
Raising a horse girl (uma) in Umamusume: Pretty Derby’s Career Mode is a balancing act between energy management, stat training, and earning skill points (SP) through races. Collecting SP by participating in racing events is time that could have been spent increasing rawstats.
However, skills have a dramatic effect on the outcome of a race, and their importance is indisputable. This article will analyze the force-multiplying power of skills, breaking down their effects to help inform your builds.
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Umamusume: Pretty Derby: Skill System Guide
Skills in Umamusume: Pretty Derby work by triggering aWitcheck when your Uma meets the skill’s conditions. For example, ‘Pace Chaser Corners’ will roll a Wit check if you are using the Pace Chaser running style and reach a corner (turn) in the track. If the Wit check succeeds, the effect will activate. The exception to this norm are passive and (some) unique skills.
How To Get Skills
Every uma has an innate, unique skill, and a few other normal skills that are learnable with SP. You can unlock more innate skills by leveling up your uma’spotential.The majority of skills are unlocked by obtaining skill hints. Once unlocked, you canlearn them using SP. Gain skill hints through:
Regular Support Card events also unlock skills sometimes. To check for them, go to the “Events” tab on a Support Card and click on an “i” icon, one that isn’t grayed out. These skills do not appear on a support card’s skill tab and often contain rare (gold-bordered) skills.
Types of Skills
There are four broad types of skills:
Purple “skills” emerge as Career event debuffs that can be removed using SP. After removing them, spending more SP will turn them into a passive (Green) skill, a positive version of the Purple skill.
Levels of Skills
Also Read:Umamusume Pretty Derby: URA Finale Career Guide
Upgrading Skills
Skills with a single circle in front of their icon areupgradableonce you learn them. Their upgraded version features a double-O (◎) instead of a circle. Upgrading such skills usually levels them up from “Slightly increases” or “Moderately increases” to “Increases.”
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