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Umamusume: Pretty Derby
How to Increase Unique Skill Level
Level up your trainee's Unique Skill by reaching an amount of fans in the Senior Year and raising your character's Star Unlock. Learn all the conditions to raising a character's Unique Skill in their career by reading below.
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How to Level Up Unique Skills
Raise Fans and Director Friendship Level
| Event | Time | Prerequisites | |
|---|---|---|
| Turf | Dirt | |
| Valentine's Day Senior Year Early Feb |
60,000 Fans | 40,000 Fans |
| Fan Appreciation Event Senior Year Early Apr |
70,000 Fans | 60,000 Fans |
| Director Yayoi Akikawa's Friendship Bond is green or 60%. | ||
| Christmas Senior Year Late Dec |
120,000 Fans | 80,000 Fans |
To level up your character's Unique Skill during their Career, your character needs to have a high amount of fans and a green friendship gauge with Director Akikawa in the Senior Year.
There are different requirements for characters whose initial Track aptitude is the highest. If a character has a higher Dirt aptitude than Turf, or has a Career full of Dirt goal races like Haru Urara, they would need less fans to level up their unique skill.
When you meet the conditions on the day of the event, your character's unique skill will be leveled up.
Unity Cup Does Not Have Director Friendship Requirement
It is important to note, however, that increasing your friendship with the Director (in this case, Riko Kashimoto) is not a requirement to leveling up your Unique Skill when running the Unity Cup scenario. As long as you reach the required Fans by Early April of Senior Year, you will level up your Unique Skill.
How to Upgrade Unique Skill
Raise a Uma's Star Level
| Star Level | Star Pieces Needed |
|---|---|
| ★★ | 50 |
| ★★★ | 100 Total: 150 |
| ★★★★ | 200 Total: 350 |
| ★★★★★ | 300 Total: 650 |
Costs above computes gradual and total Star Piece costs
When a character becomes 3★, their base unique skill will be upgraded with a better version of it. From there, each star unlock will increase its level by 1. This upgraded Unique Skill can levele up further by hitting the Career goals mentioned in the previous section.
You can get Star Pieces for a character by getting them again by Scouting or exchanging Goddess Statues. You can get the Star Pieces for certain characters with other currencies like Friend Points and Club Points or by obtaining them as Event Point Rewards and the Prize Derby.
How to Increase Star Grade: Star Unlock Guide
Can Be Passed Down Through Sparks of Inspiration
Trainees can also get the Unique Skills of their Legacy Umamusume, if they have the Spark for it. If the Legacy was a 3★ during their Career, they can pass down their upgraded Unique Skill.
However, unlike the Trainee's Unique Skill, they cannot be leveled up during Career mode.
Legacy and Sparks Guide: Inheritance Explained
How to Activate Unique Skills
Meet the Condition
All skills have a condition that must be met for your character to use them. Usually, they are related to their Style aptitudes.
Always check how your character's Unique Skill is activated in a race so you can pick skills to support or build it.
Raise Wit
Wit is the stat that determmins how often your character will activate their skills. A 300 or C in Wit can almost guarantee a skill activation.
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pls update for Unity Cup . same fans requirement for both Turf and Dirt