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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Recover endurance by relaxing after activating 2 skills mid-race. |
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| All Innate Skills |
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| Skill Per Potential Level |
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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 decent Late Surger with a Unique Skill that recovers her stamina similar to a rare Recovery Skill. This allows you to use your Skill points to get other skills. Not only that, but she has access to strong skills such as Fast & Furious and It's On!, both of which can help activate her Unique Skill.
Although Maruzensky (Hot☆Summer Night) is the better option during their shared banner, Special Week (Hopp'n♪Happy Heart) is still a decent draw, especially if you like her as a character.
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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.
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.
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.
| Alternate Cards | ||
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Sweep Tosho (Lamplit Training of a Witch-to-Be) Rarity: SR Type: Speed Great general-purpose Speed card |
Daitaku Helios (Let's Get This Party Lit!) Rarity: SR Type: Power General power card |
Zenno Rob Roy (The Perfect Book for You) Rarity: SR Type: Stamina Stamina Special Priority and some usable Speed skills |
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.
| Recommended | |
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| 9★ Stamina 9★ Power |
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| 3★ Late Surger 3★ Medium 3★ Long |
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.
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When picking Legacies, try to select compatible legacies, as they increase the chance of inheriting additional sparks during the Inheritance events. This is not required, but is highly recommended.
If you do not have access to fully compatible legacies, it is enough to ensure that you have at least good compatibility with your selected legacies.
As a Late Surger, Special Week will need skills for overtaking and acceleration since she will be coming from the back. She will also need mid-race skills to help activate her Unique Skill. These skills include Ramp Up and Position Pilfer, but other skills like Professor of Curvature and even Swinging Maestro can help activate it as well.
Leading up to the last part, Late Surger Corners and Corner Acceleration will help Special Week keep her position and slowly move up. During the last parts of the race, Slick Surge will help Special Week accelerate to the front, while Homestretch Haste will give the last boost of speed to cross the finish line. This is also when Unique Skills such as Behold Thine Emperor's Divine Might will come in handy.
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 (Junior), Takarazuka Kinen (Senior), Tenno Sho (Autumn) (Senior) |
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| Event Rewards |
・ Speed +30 ・ Power +30 ・ Stamina to Spare +2 ・ Slick Surge +2 |
| 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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