Umamusume: Pretty Derby Team Trials Best Skills Guide

Team Trials is the go-to PvP mode in Umamusume: Pretty Derby. You put together a squad of 15 experienced horse girls, with 3 for each race type. Your team’s total score after racing against other players’ teams decides if you move up, stay put, or drop in your Team Trials Class rank.

If your team keeps pulling in high scores, you can climb all the way to Class 6. Your score gets a boost from things like winning, placing high, and good positioning. While those depend on how well you race, skills are the most reliable way to rack up points. Picking the right skills can seriously pump up your Team Trials score, even if you’re not crossing the finish line first.

Umamusume Pretty Derby: Best Skills For Team Trials

The top skills for Team Trials aren’t always about helping your horse girls win, but about picking ones that trigger easily and often. The points you get from skills depend on their rarity:

• Standard skill: 500 points
• Rare skill: 1,200 points

So, loading up on rare skills from the list below is usually the smarter move for boosting your score. That said, super cheap standard skills like Sprint Corners or Mile Straightaways can be just as good. Skills that always activate, like Front Runner Savvy, are also worth more than rare skills that might not go off.

Note: The rare skills listed below have their standard versions noted underneath.

Best Recovery Skills

• Swinging Maestro
  • Corner Recovery
• Breath of Fresh Air
  • Straightaway Recovery
• Triple 7s

Best Skill For All Distances and Running Styles

• Concentration
• Focus
• In Body and Mind
• Homestretch Haste
• Professor of Curvature
  • Corner Adept
  • Corner Connoisseur
  • Corner Acceleration○
• Rushing Gale
  • Straightaway Acceleration

Out of all the great skills for scoring, Concentration is the real MVP. It gives you 1,200 points for being a rare skill and also locks in the Strong Start bonus for a massive 5,000 points. You can get this skill from SSR Tazuna Hayakawa.

Front Runner Skills

• Front Runner Savvy
• Escape Artist
• Fast-Paced
• Taking The Lead
  • Early Lead
• Front Runner Corners
• Front Runner Straightaways

Pace Chaser Skills

• Pace Chaser Savvy
• Gourmand
• Hydrate
• Race Planner
• Preferred Position
• Speed Star
• Prepared to Pass
• Technician
• Shrewd Step
  • Dazzling Disorientation
  • Disorient
• Pace Chaser Corners
• Pace Chaser Straightaways

Late Surger Skills

• Late Surger Savvy
• Hard Worker
• Fighter
• The Bigger Picture
  • Studious
• All-Seeing Eyes
  • Sharp Gaze
• Late Surger Corners
• Late Surger Straightaways

End Closer Skills

• End Closer Savvy
• Encroaching Shadow
• Straightaway Spurt
• The Coast Is Clear!
• I Can See Right Through You

Best Skills For Each Race Distance

Note: Rare skills are in bold.