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Learn how to train a powerful team for the Tarus Cup Champions Meet event in Umamusume: Pretty Derby with a detailed build guide.
The Champions Meet is a competitive PvP event in Umamusume: Pretty Derby, where players face off in a series of races held over multiple days and across three rounds. The first Champions Meet for the Global Version is the Tarus Cup, centered around a Medium-distance race. This event runs from August 17 to August 27, 2025, giving Trainers a limited window to prepare. This guide outlines the stats, skills, and characters to focus on for maximizing your rewards from the high-stakes event.
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Umamusume Pretty Derby: Tarus Cup Build Guide
Aptitude
One of the most important advantages you can have in the Tarus Cup is to raise your umas’ Medium aptitude rank from “A” to “S.” To raise the Medium aptitude to “S” rank, have at least one 3-star Medium Spark from both Legacies (parents). If the spark activates during career inspiration events, the trainee will achieve the “S” rank.
Racetrack Information
Knowing the racetrack of the Tarus Cup allows for a deeper understanding of which skills will work best during the event, granting an edge to teams trained specifically for it.
- Length: 2400m (Medium)
- Early race: 400m
- Mid race: 1200m
- End race: 800m
- Last spurt: 777m
- Weather: Sunny
- Ground: Firm
- Season: Spring
- Direction: Left
- Corners: 4
- Straights: 3
- Uphill: 3
- Downhill: 1
Stats
| Running Style | Speed | Stamina | Power | Guts | Wit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Front Runner | 1000+ | 750+ | 800+ | 300+ | 400+ |
| Pace Chaser | 1000+ | 800+ | 850+ | 300+ | 400+ |
| Late Surger | 1000+ | 700+ | 900+ | 300+ | 400+ |
| End Closer | 1000+ | 700+ | 900+ | 300+ | 400+ |
- Speed is king:
The race has a long 777m last spurt, which gives racers plenty of time to reach and maintain their top speed. This makes maximizing the Speed stat crucial for gaining an overwhelming advantage over opponents.
- Rare Stamina skill required:
The stamina recommendations are at a bare minimum level. The actual requirements are 200 points more than the given values. However, these are nearly impossible to attain while trying to max out Speed and Power. Therefore, rely on at least one rare (gold) stamina skill to shore up the stat.
Skills
Having one rare Stamina skill is the most important, followed by Speed skills, with passive skills being the least important. However, speed-increasing passive skills take precedence over normal speed skills, which do not activate in the last spurt. Bolded skills in the following list are rare skills, which are far more effective compared to their normal counterparts.
Speed Skills
- Escape Artist (Front Runner)
- On Your Left! (Late Surger)
- No Stopping Me!
- Unrestrained (Front Runner)
- Professor of Curvature
- In Body and Mind
- Killer Tunes
- Lightning Step
- Beeline Burst
- Homestretch Haste
- Up-Tempo
- Masterful Gambit (End Closer)
- Ramp Up
- Medium Straightaways
- Medium Corners
Stamina Skills
- Swinging Maestro
- Breath of Fresh Air
- Gourmand (Pace Chaser)
- Corner Recovery
- Straightaway Recovery
- Rosy Outlook
- Soft Step
Passive Skills
- Left-Handed
- Spring Runner
- Outer Post Proficiency
- Lone Wolf
- Firm Conditions
- Sunny Days
Support Cards
The following Support Cards have excellent skills and training bonuses. Try to include these cards in your loadout, or borrow their MLB (Max Limit Break) version from another player.
- SSR Kitasan Black
- SSR Super Creek
- SSR Satono Diamond
- SSR Special Week
- SR King Halo
- SR Sweep Tosho
- SR Narita Taishin (End Closer)
Team Composition
All running styles are viable for the Tarus Cup, providing players with a large selection of characters to choose from. The three veteran umas you field for the event should be using different running styles.
If you have the resources to do so, include one debuffer in the team to reduce the performance of opposing runners. You don’t have to worry about training the debuffer well in terms of stats; they only need high Wit to activate as many debuffing skills as possible.
Some of the best characters to train for the event are:
Front Runners
- Maruzensky
- Mihono Bourbon
- Silence Suzuka
- Daiwa Scarlet
- Mayano Top Gun
Pace Chasers
- Taiki Shuttle
- Oguri Cap
- Tokai Teio
- Agnes Tachyon
Late Surgers
- Special Week
- Nice Nature (Debuffer)
- Grass Wonder
- Mejiro Ryan
- Symboli Rudolf
End Closers
- Gold Ship
- Narita Taishin
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