If you're brand new to Umamusume: Pretty Derby, it's a 𝔍lot to take in. From trainees to support cards, career mode, and more, the game throws a ton at you upfront that can be quite confusing to maneuver around.

With several banners available, you'll want to know where to begin, what to save your Car♚ats for, and which trainees to work on. Behind the scenes, there's a lot to invest in and decide on when playing through a career and building up your trainees. If you want to make the best racer, here's where to start your derby racing career in this gacha game.

Save Your Carats For Support Cards

While you might originally be tempted to spend your Carats on getting new trainees to train with, your best bet as a beginner is to invest in Support cards. Most of what you will be doing revolves around creating new trainees with inherited skills and running through their careers to create better versions of them. To boost this, you'll neꦬed stats and bonuses from☂ Support cards.

Your support cards play a huge role in this. Not only will they help you get new skills and specific increases to certain stats, but the friendship bonuses will also help with your training.

You'll want to focus on pulling for SSR cards to create the best racers instead of pulling for a༒ctual trainees that you don't have the best resources to level up, at least in the beginning.

If you really want a specific racer, you can and should pull for them on their ba𒅌nner, but most of your effort should go into getting and enhancing support cards as they have the most impact.

Understand Every Stat So You Know Where To Invest

Don't blindly choose what to increase in career mode. Always factor in what your trainee needs when considering what to increase. There are, however♌, stats that are just overall worth investing in. Here's every stat and what they do.

Your trainees will already have stats that determine each of these. When leveling them through your career and when picking Legacy trainees, consider what your trainee is good at and increase that. Also, consider what your trainee lacks and whether increasing these stats is worth it or⛦ nꦑot.

You ♋shouldn't alway🏅s just increase the lowest stat. Depending on the type of race and your stats, you should consider which stat you need most, or just invest in Speed if you're unsure.

View Career Info Before Starting Your Career

One of the best things to do before you start dropping stats and choosing legacy trainees is to check what your selected trainee will need to do in their career. Here, you can see which races they'll need to compete in and the conditions needed to meet those goals. Compare them to what stats you need to increase and which support cards will wo🏅rk best.

This includes needing fans as a goal. You'll need to do races in between the big career races to garner more fans. Check out the parameters🔯 of what those races need to be won to help you decide on stat ꩲincreases.

Before your career, you can check these stats upfront when selecting your Legacy trainees. You'll see the Career Info and Details button next to your r♉acer's name. Click there to access this information before you select anything else.

You'll learn what type of terrain you'll be dealing with (Dirt or Turf), the type of race (Sprint or Mile), the length, the season, and more. You'll also know what rank you need to place for each, helping determine what factors to choose for the best suc♔cess.

Check Your Sparks For The Best Proficiencies

When you begin your career, don't ignore the sparks section. The skills you inherit and what you can do with them are all there, and they will help you decide which trainees to choose as legacies. The skills will help you with different options when 🐭leveling up, but first, you should understand what these stats mean.

When choosing your legacies, be sure to check the Sparks tab. Here, you'll see not only what blue and pink legacy stats your trainee will attain but also any gr🍬een skills they can learn or grey skills they can discover.

When checking this, you want the star rankings to have at least two stars, if possible. When you beginꦕ, most will have one, but if you can find two-star-rated stats and sparks, you𝐆 can borrow guests' Legacy Umamusume to help with this.

Use Wit To Help Recover Energy

Not only does Wit increase the Wit stat, but it also increases your energy when used. While it doesn't work to increase it by much, it can help when you're right before a race and low on energy and not sure what to do. If you don't want to waste a turn on resting, you can always increase yo꧒ur Wit until the next session.

When Summer rolls around, you'll be able to rest and gain recreation points simultaneously, which will inc⛎rease your mood and give you energy.

While Wit isn't the most optimal skill to increase, it's helpful, as the more skill🌞s you gain from Support Cards, the higher🐟 Wit you have to activate those skills during a race.

You'll also usual⛎ly gain additional S𓆏kill points when choosing Wit.

Don't Forget To Use Your Skill Points

A big factor that can seem minor and easy to forget is to use your skill points. One of the best ways to ensure that you're doing your best in a race, or to help yourself if you've lost a race, is to actually use your skill points.

The game warns you that they will go to waste, and it's true, so they should be used before the career is over. The🐓re's really no reason to stac♋k your Skill points and not use them.

These skills will carry over to your trainee when their career is done, and can be inherited by a new trainee in the next caree🌱r. Importantly, some skills can be the difference between winning and losing. You'll be able to learn skills that not only affect yourself, but also options that can be a detriment to other racers as well.

Lo✨ok out for skills that help increase your endurance and decrease fatigue when racing, as they are good options when you can't decide on which skills to purchase w♍ith your skill points.

Check Your Race Styles And Predictions

Before entering a race, there are a few factors to consider. You can see the type of race before you commit to it, and certain trainees are good at one of the four styles: Front, pace, Late, and End. These styles represent how your racer will 🐻rꦦun and the strategy they will employ.

Late and End racers, for example, save their energy for a late burst to the finish line, while Front racers are intent on getting and keeping their lead throughout the race. When selecting a race and sending your trainee, you can choose what type of strategy they will employ when raᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ�ꦇ�ᩚᩚᩚcing. This means choosing between their race styles.

While the game will default to their best race style, it's not always the best strategy. There are skills that will enhance your abilities depe🥀nding on the number of racers who have also chosen this style. If you lose a race, consider changing your race style based on the track and what other racers are using.

Also, check race predictions beforehand. If you need to do a race to increase followers, ensure you're selecting one you're sure to win or at least be a top contender for🧔. You'll also learn what your trainee is lacking for that spec𓆉ific race, helping you determine what to increase while training if necessary.

Use Guest Legacy Characters And Support Cards When Starting Your Career

When starting a career at the beginning of the game, you won't have much to work with. To get a good start, you'll want to use guest Legacy characters with a higher rating than your own.

This will allow you to inherit a𒉰 ton more skills from higher-ranked trainees. Giving you more winning options and more skills to take back for you༒r next career attempt.

Some Legacy trainees from friends who are ranked B or higher have at least ten skil𒁃ls you can inherit.

You'll want to do the same for Support Cards. This is your chance to grab a good SSR Support Card from others that will complement what you're looking to learn.

Remember that you can use training with multiple friend Support Cards during your career, boosting your st🌳ats, providing more bonuses, and triggering special ꦬevents while also passing down even more traits.