This is a build guide for Special Week (Hopp'n♪Happy Heart), also known as Summer Special Week, in Umamusume: Pretty Derby. Find out how to build Summer Special Week, her preferred tracks, distances, and style, as well as her basic character information, here!
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| Overall | Ease | T.Trials | CM9 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Track Aptitude | |||||||||||||||||||
| Turf: A | Dirt: G | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Sprint: F | Mile: C | Med: A | Long: A | ||||||||||||||||
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| Front: G | Pace: A | Late: A | End: C | ||||||||||||||||
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| SPD: 0% | STA: 10% | POW: 10% | GUT: 10% | WIT: 0% | |||||||||||||||
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Recover endurance by relaxing after activating 2 skills when positioned midpack mid-race. |
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Dazzl'n ♪ Diver is as strong as a unique recovery skill like Swinging Maestro that activates in the mid-race when meeting he following conditions:
Skills of any type can contribute to the unique skill's trigger so as long as they activate in the mid-race. Fast and Furious and It's On are two examples in Special Week (Hopp'n♪Happy Heart)'s potential kit that can trigger Dazzl'n ♪ Diver in the mid-race.
For Special Week herself, this is effectively 1 gold recovery skill already. If the skill is passed down as inheritance, it will be as strong as a white recovery skill.
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| Potential 2: Potential 3: Potential 4: Potential 5: |
| All Career Event Skills |
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Special Week (Hopp'n♪Happy Heart) is a good Late Surger primarily trained for Long races but can alternatively work with Medium distance. Her unique skill recovers her stamina similar to a rare Recovery Skill, making her a more suitable candidate for surviving Longs.
Her having an easy-to-use recovery unique skill means you can allocate Skill points for other relevant skills, such as the gold skills in her potential kit Fast & Furious and It's On!
In the competitive environment, unique speed skills (or hybrids like Festive Miracle) typically outclass unique recoveries, since gold recovery options are given usually through support cards anyway. Lacking her own native speed option, Special Week will have look further for options to get her into the lead, such No Stopping Me! and On Your Left! for her usual Late style.
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Unlike her original counterpart, Special Week (Hopp'n♪Happy Heart) should be run as a Late Surger thanks to her access to various Late Surger skills, as well as skills that synergize well with the running style.
Make sure to get Late Surger Sparks to improve her aptitude for the running style.
As most of Special Week (Hopp'n♪Happy Heart)'s career races are Medium or Long in length, try to get Medium and Long Sparks to improve her aptitude for them.
For TT and CM purposes, maximizing her Long aptitude is usually the best choice since her unique skill is suitable for helping her survive Long races, which require a lot of stamina.
Raising Special Week (Hopp'n♪Happy Heart)'s Mile Aptitude from C to B can help with Special Week (Hopp'n♪Happy Heart)'s first career race, and only requires one Mile Spark to do.
This is not required as she only has one Mile race, but doing so will help you accomplish the goal with ease.
Special Week (Hopp'n♪Happy Heart)'s Unique Skill requires her to use two skills mid-race before it can activate. As such, learning at least two mid-race skills is required to make sure that she can use her Unique Skill. To increase your chances of activating a skill, make sure to train Special Week (Hopp'n♪Happy Heart)'s Wit.
Examples of good mid-race skills include Ramp Up and Position Pilfer, as well as their upgraded forms It's On! and Fast & Furious respectively. All four skills are available to Special Week (Hopp'n♪Happy Heart) as Innate Skills (base) and Awakening Skills (upgraded). Other generic skills can also work as long as they activate mid-race.
Special Week (Hopp'n♪Happy Heart) has access to numerous velocity skills (including her Unique Skill), with Fighter as her only acceleration skill. To complement this, make sure to get acceleration skills from either Support Cards or as inherited skills from Legacies and Sparks.
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It is important to note that if you cannot reach the stats recommended above, you can instead aim for a similar stat distribution. You can then compensate for the missing stats using skills. Additionally, if you are only planning on clearing a career run with Special Week, then you can aim for lower stat numbers, as the stats above are a baseline for Medium Team Trials.
We recommend a 3 Speed, 2 Stamina, and 1 Wit deck, which should give her the stats she needs to compete in all of her races. Alternatively, she can go with a 3 Speed, 2 Power, 1 Pal deck if you want to maximize her Power stat and can still supply her with enough Stamina.
These cards will help Special Week level her needed Stats (especially with Rainbow/Friendship Training), as well as provide some needed skills like Professor of Curvature and Swinging Maestro.
This deck is for players who are starting out and are still trying to get a feel of the game's mechanics and intricacies. This deck can help you get the needed stats to clear the career, while also providing important skills.
Take advantage of the game's borrowing feature to borrow a powerful MLB SSR, like Kitasan Black. Additionally, if you do not have an MLB copy of Riko Kashimoto (Tracen Academy), it would be better to use another SR Stamina card instead.
If you do not have the cards from the recommended deck, you can replace them with a similar stat card that provides skills that Special Week needs. These can be SSR cards or even SR cards. Above are some of the SR cards that you can use in place of SSR Support cards.
These stats are enough to clear the URA Finale easily, as they provide enough Speed, Stamina, and Power for all of Special Week's career races, especially when partnered with the correct skills. As for the deck, you can either run a 3 Speed, 3 Stamina deck, or a 3 Speed, 3 Power deck. You can also choose to replace a Speed card in the first deck or a Power card in the second deck with Tazuna Hayakawa if you want to use a Pal card.
| Recommended | |
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| 9★ Stamina 9★ Power |
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| 3★ Long *3★ Medium 3★ Turf 3★ Late Surger |
Go for Medium sparks if intending to run Special Week for Medium.
For Legacy Sparks, we recommend trying to find Stamina and Power sparks to help with Special Week's races. As for running style and race length aptitudes, get Late Surger to improve her running style, as well as Medium or Long Sparks to improve them to S aptitude. You can also get a Mile Spark to improve your Mile aptitude to B and make your first race easier.
You can use either your own Veterans, or borrow the ones from your friends. If you do not have Veterans with full sparks, you can go with whatever you have access to.
As a Long Late Surger, Special Week will want the appropriate ◎/◯ speed skills whenever available, and will benefit from having good mid-race skills such as Fast & Furious and It's On!. Other skills that can help are Outer Swell, Slipstream, and Playtime's Over. For recovery skills at least 1 recovery skill is recommended to add on top of Special Week's existing recovery unique skill. For strong picks, go for Professor of Curvature, No Stopping Me!, and On Your Left!
For the minimum inherited unique skills for TT point gain, at least Triumphant Pulse and Behold Thine Emperor's Might are good choices. For competitive picks such as in CMs, you can build towards including Let's Pump Some Iron or Moving Past, and Beyond.
If you cannot get the recommended skills, you can replace them with similar skills that you have access to. You will just need to make sure that Special Week can activate said skills in a race.
| Choice | Outcome |
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| Choice 1 |
・ Practice Perfect ◯ (random) ・ Fighter +2 Skill Hint |
| Choice 2 |
・ 20 Guts ・ Practice Perfect ◯ (random) |
| Choice | Outcome |
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| Choice 1 |
・ 10 Speed ・ 15 Skill Pts |
| Choice 2 | ・ 20 Wit |
| Choice | Outcome |
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| Choice 1 |
・ 10 Stamina ・ 10 Power |
| Choice 2 |
・ 10 Energy ・ 2 All Stats |
| Choice | Outcome |
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| Choice 1 | ・ 10 Wit |
| Choice 2 | ・ 10 Stamina |
| Choice | Outcome |
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Choice 1
(Where do you usually go with your mom?) |
・ 10 Stamina |
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Choice 2
(Where do you usually go with your friends?) |
・ 10 Speed |
| Choice | Outcome |
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Choice 1
(Let's work on your finishing dashes.) |
・ Homestretch Haste Skill Hint |
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Choice 2
(Let's work on your cornering.) |
・ Corner Adept ◯ Skill Hint |
| Choice | Outcome |
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| Choice 1 | ・ Tokyo Racecourse ◯ Skill Hint |
| Choice 2 | ・ Nakayama Racecourse Skill Hint |
| Choice | Outcome |
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| Choice 1 | ・ 30 Skill Pts |
| Choice 2 |
・ 5 Stamina ・ 5 Guts |
| Choice 3 |
・ 5 Speed ・ 5 Power |
| Choice | Outcome |
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Choice 1
(Trust your reflexes and take the front position!) |
・ 10 Speed |
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Choice 2
(Trust your stamina and take the back position!) |
・ 10 Stamina |
| Choice | Outcome |
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Choice 1
(The most important thing is to fully express yourself when you dance.) |
・ 10 Guts |
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Choice 2
(It's crucial to move to the beat.) |
・ 10 Stamina |
| Choice | Outcome |
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Choice 1
(Just have fun eating!) |
・ 5 Energy ・ 5 Wit |
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Choice 2
(I'm afraid I've got nothing!) |
・ Pace Strategy Skill Hint |
| Choice | Outcome |
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Choice 1
(For everyone's sake and for your own, get some energy!) |
・ 10 Energy |
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Choice 2
(For everyone's sake and for your own, strengthen your resolve!) |
・ 10 Power |
| Choice | Outcome |
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Choice 1
(It's important for your meals to be balanced right now!) |
・ 10 Energy ・ 5 Skill Pts |
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Choice 2
(Success)
(You'll be fine as long as you exercise afterward!) |
・ 30 Energy ・ 10 Skill Pts |
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Choice 2
(Fail)
(You'll be fine as long as you exercise afterward!) |
・ 30 Energy ・ -5 Speed ・ 5 Power ・ 10 Skill Pts ・ Slow Metabolism |
| Choice | Outcome |
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| Choice 1 (Success) |
・ 30 Energy ・ 10 Power ・ 10 Skill Pts |
| Choice 1 (Fail) |
・ 30 Energy ・ -5 Speed ・ 15 Power ・ 10 Skill Pts ・ Slow Metabolism |
| Choice 2 |
・ 10 Energy ・ 5 Power ・ 5 Skill Pts |
| Choice 3 (Success) | ・ 100 Energy |
| Choice 3 (Fail) |
・ 100 Energy ・ -5 Speed ・ Slow Metabolism |
| Choice | Outcome |
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Choice 1
(You need to get stronger.) |
・ 10 Power |
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Choice 2
(You need to strengthen your resolve.) |
・ 10 Guts |
| Choice | Outcome |
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Choice 1
(Let's work on improving your strong points!) |
・ 10 Stamina |
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Choice 2
(You should be mindful of your health!) |
・ 20 Energy |
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Choice 3
(You should learn the top techniques in Japan!) |
・ 20 Skill Pts |
| Choice | Outcome |
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Choice 1
(To get stronger!) |
・ 30 Energy |
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Choice 2
(To elevate your abilities!) |
・ 5 All Stats |
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Choice 3
(To learn a variety of skills!) |
・ 35 Skill Pts |
| Choice | Outcome |
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| Choice 1 |
・ 10 Energy ・ -2 Mood ・ Last trained stat and two other random stat -10 ・ Practice Poor (random) |
| Choice 2 (Success) | ・ Practice Perfect ◯ |
| Choice 2 (Fail) |
・ -3 Mood ・ 3 Random stat -10 ・ Practice Poor |
| Choice | Outcome |
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Choice 1
(Got it! Then let's do some more laps until you're satisfied!) |
・ -5 Energy ・ Last trained stat +5 ・ 5 Friendship with Director |
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Choice 2
(Don't get too excited, or you might overdo it.) |
・ 5 Energy |
| Choice | Outcome |
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| Choice 1 |
・ -1 Mood ・ Last trained stat -5 ・ Practice Poor (random) |
| Choice 2 (Success) | ・ Practice Perfect ◯ |
| Choice 2 (Fail) |
・ -1 Mood ・ Last trained stat -10 ・ Practice Poor (random) |
| Choice | Outcome |
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| Choice 1 |
・ -25 Energy ・ 25 Skill Pts ・ Random Stat +4 |
| Choice 2 (Success) |
・ -15 Energy ・ 25 Skill Pts ・ Random Stat +4 |
| Choice 2 (Fail) |
・ -35 Energy ・ 25 Skill Pts ・ Random Stat +4 |
| Choice | Outcome |
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| Choice 1 |
・ -25 Energy ・ 20 Skill Pts ・ Random Stat +3 |
| Choice 2 (Success) |
・ -15 Energy ・ 20 Skill Pts ・ Random Stat +3 |
| Choice 2 (Fail) |
・ -35 Energy ・ 20 Skill Pts ・ Random Stat +3 |
| Choice | Outcome |
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| Choice 1 |
・ -25 Energy ・ 20 Skill Pts ・ Random Stat +3 |
| Choice 2 (Success) |
・ -15 Energy ・ 20 Skill Pts ・ Random Stat +3 |
| Choice 2 (Fail) |
・ -35 Energy ・ 20 Skill Pts ・ Random Stat +3 |
| Choice | Outcome |
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| Choice 1 |
・ -25 Energy ・ 10 Skill Pts |
| Choice 2 (Success) |
・ -15 Energy ・ 10 Skill Pts |
| Choice 2 (Fail) |
・ -35 Energy ・ 10 Skill Pts |
| Choice | Outcome |
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| Choice 1 |
・ -20 Energy ・ 45 Skill Pts ・ Random Stat +8 |
| Choice 2 (Success) |
・ -10 Energy ・ 45 Skill Pts ・ Random Stat +8 |
| Choice 2 (Fail) |
・ -30 Energy ・ 45 Skill Pts ・ Random Stat +8 |
| Choice | Outcome |
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| Choice 1 |
・ -20 Energy ・ 35 Skill Pts ・ Random Stat +5 |
| Choice 2 (Success) |
・ -10 Energy ・ 35 Skill Pts ・ Random Stat +5 |
| Choice 2 (Fail) |
・ -30 Energy ・ 35 Skill Pts ・ Random Stat +5 |
| Choice | Outcome |
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| Choice 1 |
・ -20 Energy ・ 35 Skill Pts ・ Random Stat +5 |
| Choice 2 (Success) |
・ -10 Energy ・ 35 Skill Pts ・ Random Stat +5 |
| Choice 2 (Fail) |
・ -30 Energy ・ 35 Skill Pts ・ Random Stat +5 |
| Choice | Outcome |
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| Choice 1 |
・ -20 Energy ・ 30 Skill Pts ・ Random Stat +3 |
| Choice 2 (Success) |
・ -10 Energy ・ 30 Skill Pts ・ Random Stat +3 |
| Choice 2 (Fail) |
・ -30 Energy ・ 30 Skill Pts ・ Random Stat +3 |
| Choice | Outcome |
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| Choice 1 |
・ -15 Energy ・ 45 Skill Pts ・ Random Stat +10 |
| Choice 2 (Success) |
・ -5 Energy ・ 45 Skill Pts ・ Random Stat +10 |
| Choice 2 (Fail) |
・ -20 Energy ・ 45 Skill Pts ・ Random Stat +10 |
| Choice | Outcome |
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| Choice 1 |
・ -15 Energy ・ 35 Skill Pts ・ Random Stat +8 |
| Choice 2 (Success) |
・ -5 Energy ・ 35 Skill Pts ・ Random Stat +8 |
| Choice 2 (Fail) |
・ -20 Energy ・ 35 Skill Pts ・ Random Stat +8 |
| Choice | Outcome |
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| Choice 1 |
・ -15 Energy ・ 35 Skill Pts ・ Random Stat +8 |
| Choice 2 (Success) |
・ -5 Energy ・ 35 Skill Pts ・ Random Stat +8 |
| Choice 2 (Fail) |
・ -20 Energy ・ 35 Skill Pts ・ Random Stat +8 |
| Choice | Outcome |
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| Choice 1 |
・ -15 Energy ・ 30 Skill Pts ・ Random Stat +5 |
| Choice 2 (Success) |
・ -5 Energy ・ 30 Skill Pts ・ Random Stat +5 |
| Choice 2 (Fail) |
・ -20 Energy ・ 30 Skill Pts ・ Random Stat +5 |
| Condition | Win the Satsuki Sho, Kikuka Sho, Japan Cup (Classic), Takarazuka Kinen (Senior), Arima Kinen (Senior) |
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| Event Time | Senior Year Late Dec |
| Event Rewards |
・ Speed +30 ・ Power +30 ・ Stamina to Spare +2 ・ Slick Surge +2 |
Special Week's secret event Rivals in Arms requires her to win five specific races: the Satsuki Sho, Kikuka Sho, Japan Cup (Classic), Takarazuka Kinen (Senior), and the Arima Kinen (Senior).
Doing so provides Speed and Power, as well as Skill hints for Stamina to Spare and Slick Surge.
| Goal | Race/Goal |
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| Run in Junior Make Debut | Junior Make Debut |
| Place top 5 in Kisaragi Sho |
Kisaragi Sho
(Mile - 1800m) Classic Year Early Feb |
| Place top 5 in Japenese Derby |
Japanese Derby (Tokyo Yushun)
(Medium - 2400m) Classic Year Late May |
| Place top 3 in Kikuka Sho |
Kikuka Sho
(Long - 3000m) Classic Year Late Oct |
| Place top 3 in Tenno Sho (Spring) |
Tenno Sho (Spring)
(Long - 3200m) Senior Year Late Apr |
| Place top 2 in Japan C. |
Japan Cup
(Medium - 2400m) Senior Year Late Nov |
| Place 1st in Arima Kinen |
Arima Kinen
(Long - 2500m) Senior Year Late Dec |
Special Week"I gotta make my moms proud! I'll become the top Umamusume in all of Japan!" | Voice Actress | Azumi Waki |
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| Height | 158cm / 5'2" | |
| Weight | Slight decrease (pre-race nerves) | |
| Birthday | May 2 | |
| Three Sizes | B 81 | W 56 | H 81 | |
| Born in Hokkaido, Special Week is a bright and cheery, hardworking Umamusume. After losing her birth mother, Special Week was raised by her mother's friend. Now, she hopes to make both her moms proud by fulfilling her promise of becoming Japan's top racer. Though she may falter along the way, her indomitable spirit ensures that she runs ever forward. | ||

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