Umas to Watch For

Here are notable umas that released throughout the game, mainly ones that are good parents for a long time. Meta racing umas are replaced frequently. Parent umas have better value for free-to-play players.

Note that there are many ways to get umas: Daily Legend Races, pick tickets, and sometimes banners where you can spark (almost) any uma. So, you don’t have to roll for them when they come up. Plus, you can borrow parents, or work them into your legacies as grandparents. You don’t need every parent uma yourself.

These are umas that are still used as parents even today on the Japanese server, five years into the game’s life. There are other good parents, but they get replaced by better options or are only used once ever.

JP Uma List

An uma in italics is just notable as being a particularly strong racing uma.

URA

  • Taiki Shuttle – Sprint/Mile Pace/Late parent
  • Mejiro McQueen – Often a decent parent for frontlines (Front/Pace)
  • Maruzensky – Frequent parent for certain tracks, for various styles depending on the track
  • Special Week – Often a decent parent for Pace/Late umas
  • Narita Brian – Surprisingly frequently used parent for non-Front umas
  • Seiun Sky – Forever useful and meta Front Runner parent
  • Fuji Kiseki – After her buff, a good frontline parent. Don’t pull immediately (unless you like her)

Aoharu

  • Mejiro Dober – Meta defining Late/End parent for like 3 years, still comes up sometimes
  • Christmas Oguri Cap – Dominant racing uma for quite a while on a variety of tracks with a unique build involving carefully timing recovery skills
  • New Years TM Opera O – Always a very nice parent for most umas in Medium/Long
  • Valentine’s Mihono Bourbon – Meta Front Runner uma for… well, forever, so far

MANT

  • Kitasan Black – Long distance Front Runner parent
  • Ball Seiun Sky – Front Runner parent on tracks where Seiun Sky is bad
  • Nishino Flower – Similar parent to Taiki with some different tracks
  • Summer Gold Ship – Best parent for Team Trials and Debuffers
  • Copano Rickey – Extremely dominant in every Dirt PvP event for years (2–3 of those per year), with a unique build involving stacking green skills

Grand Live

  • NY Kitasan Black – Medium distance Front/Pace parent
  • Hokko Tarumae – Mile Dirt parent mainly for Pace/Late umas
  • Valentine’s Mejiro Ryan – Great parent on two specific tracks for non-Front umas

Grandmasters

  • Sakura Laurel – Best healing unique to inherit in Long for Pace/Late umas
  • Neo Universe – Medium distance backline parent and strong racer
  • Sirius Symboli – Great parent for 2400m races, mainly Pace/Late umas
  • Summer Agnes Tachyon – Good Medium parent for non-Front umas

L’Arc

Note: This scenario is unusually heavy on good support card releases, so these ones are even more skippable.

  • Satono Crown – Similar to NY Opera, for Late umas in Medium races
  • NY Nice Nature – Again similar to NY Opera, for backlines in Medium races

UAF

  • Sigma Agnes Tachyon – Basically the same as NY Nice Nature, also strong as a racer
  • Jungle Pocket – Semi-limited* uma. Medium Late parent and strong racing uma

GFF

  • Gentildonna – Semi-limited* uma. Meta Pace style racing uma

Mecha

  • Christmas Ayabe – Parent for End umas in 2400m
  • Christmas Narita Top Road – Almost always a good parent in Medium/Long races

Twinkle Legends

  • Orfevre – Semi-limited* uma. Meta End style racing uma

Semi-limited umas can still be pulled from the gacha even when not on rate up, but aren’t available in things like pick tickets. This makes them harder to acquire outside of their banner, so if you like these umas, definitely go for them when they show up.

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