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Learn how to increase the Potential of your characters in Umamusume Pretty Derby and unlock special skills during races.
Umamusume Pretty Derby has a large roster of characters that you can obtain and upgrade by raising their Potential. Potential is a type of stat that each Uma Girl starts at Level 1. Moreover, every character has special skills that you must unlock this way. Upgrading Potential unlocks many important abilities that are initially hidden or locked.
Most of these locked skills are tailored for the specific characters and their playstyles. Learn from this guide how you can increase the Potential of characters in Umamusume Pretty Derby.
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Increasing Potential in Umamusume Pretty Derby
As mentioned before, every character starts at Level 1 Potential and can be upgraded to Level 5. Each upgrade unlocks a skill that you can buy for that character in the event that you select them as your trainee in the URA Finale mode. Here’s how you can navigate to the Potential Upgrade area in Umamusume Pretty Derby:
- Open the Enchance tab located at the bottom left of your screen.
- Click and navigate to the Trainee area.
- Select and open the Potential Level.
- You can now choose one of your favorite Uma Girls and start upgrading their Potential Levels.
However, increasing Potential Levels takes two special types of resources other than Monie: Shoes and Winner’s Sashes. You get different types of Shoes by playing URA Finale mode with the Uma Girl whom you wish to upgrade. However, Winner’s Sashes are obtained by coming in 1st on different race tracks.
Higher-level Potential upgrades require you to use sashes from difficult tracks such as the Arima Kinen. Fortunately, there are many more methods to buy Winner’s Sashes from the shops using various in-game currencies.
Should You Upgrade All Potential Levels in Umamusume Pretty Derby?
As long as you are upgrading your favorite Umamusume, then yes. However, you need a lot of resources to do so. Upgrading everyone’s potential is a near-impossible task and can take over 200 hours if you wish to upgrade only R and SR-ranked Uma Girls. Finally, do note that increasing Potential Levels does not automatically grant you the skills in races. You still have to purchase them using skill points each time you start a new playthrough.
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