# Umamusume Global 0.5 Anniversary Balance Changes

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## General Changes

### Career
- More money and SP from career
- More stats from career end events
- Fix the thing where +max energy increases fail chance (lol)

### Events
- Increase stats and add/or some choices for a number of trainee events
- Add new trainee events for some trainees
- Increase stats from some support card events

### Pal Cards
- More recreation events for R pal card
- Pal cards increased event frequency
- Pal card events can occur from off-deck at low rate (like other support cards)

### Bad Conditions
- Increase probability to recover more energy when resting with Night Owl
- Decrease bad condition probability from some trainee events
- Remove mood decrease with certain bad condition events
- Slacker training skip mood decrease now random (was it not random before?)
- Summer camp rest cures bad conditions
- Rest has a chance to cure Night Owl and Skin Outbreak
- Training with reporter has a chance to cure slacker
- Certain career events now cure

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## Race Mechanics

- Add "Runaway" aptitude (you may have seen this referred to as "oonige")
- Fix hills systems (no more phantom hills on Hanshin 2200)
- Recovering HP late-race triggers a last spurt speed recalculation

### Guts
- Add "spot struggle" mechanic (front runners compete with guts)
- Add "dueling" mechanic (nearby uma compete with guts on the final straight)
- Last stretch speed increased by Guts

### Lane Movement
- Racers will now swing out wider on final corner, making blocking less likely
- Navigation skills increase "passing ability" (?)

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## Skills

### Trigger Changes

#### General Skills

**Competitive Spirit / Wallflower:**
- **Old:** >= 6 of same type
- **New:** >= 40% of same type (so 4 or more in CM)
- *(this isn't a good thing when you have Wallflower)*

**Iron Will / Lay Low:**
- **New:** can now trigger in mid-race, not just early. Now gives lane movement speed for 2s

**No Stopping Me! / Nimble Nav:**
- **Old:** requires 1s blocked
- **New:** requires 1s uma nearby in front

**Sturm und Drang / Masterful Gambit:**
- **Old:** random point in late race, back 25% of racers
- **New:** be in back 50% during late race, triggers during 1st half of last spurt

**Mile Maven / Productive Plan:**
- **Old:** 1st place, random point in early race
- **New:** 5th or better, random point in 2nd half of early race

**Trackblazer / Rosy Outlook:**
- **Old:** must be 1st
- **New:** must be 3rd or better

**Adrenaline Rush / Extra Tank:**
- **Old:** HP empty
- **New:** HP < 30%

**Staggering Lead / Huge Lead:**
- **Old:** 5L gap
- **New:** 3L gap

**Adored by All / Intimidate:**
- **Old:** 3rd or better
- **New:** 5th or better

**Speed Eater:**
- **Old:** 1st
- **New:** 3rd or better

**Battle Formation / Opening Gambit:**
- **Old:** must be 6th or worse, can't fire until 5s from start
- **New:** can't fire until 3s from start

**Vanguard Spirit / Keeping the Lead:**
- **Old:** 3L gap
- **New:** 1L gap

**Sixth Sense / Dodging Danger:**
- **Old:** must be blocked on front and 1 side for 1s
- **New:** must be blocked on front OR 1 side for 1s

**Leader's Pride:**
- **Old:** another uma overtook you
- **New:** another uma overtook you, OR blocked on side for 2s

**Second Wind:**
- **Old:** random point in midrace, 6th or worse
- **New:** random point in late race, drains a small amount of own stamina
- *totally changed?*

**Restart:**
- **Old:** 6th or worse after 5s
- **New:** 2nd or worse

**Shatterproof / Tactical Tweak:**
- **Old:** 6th or worse
- **New:** 5th or worse
- *(I still think it sucks)*

**Uma Stan:**
- **Old:** 4-7 other umas nearby
- **New:** 3+ other umas nearby

**Superstan:**
- *This is now in the game!*

**Defeatist:**
- **Old:** seems to have been bugged and sometimes wouldn't fire
- **New:** bugfixed hehe

**Plan X / Countermeasure:**
- **Old:** 2nd-5th, random part of midrace
- **New:** 2nd-5th in second half of midrace, no longer random

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#### Unique Skills

**Special Week unique:**
- **Old:** overtaking into 2nd-5th
- **New:** overtaking into 1st-5th

**Invincible Me:**
- *This is now in the game!*

**Fuji Kiseki unique:**
- **Old:** final straight, 3rd or better, uma is near behind you for 1s
- **New:** if an uma has been behind you for 1s at some point in late race while you were 4th or better, trigger in the last 300m

**Daiwa unique:**
- **Old:** 2nd half of the race, 1st place with an uma close behind
- **New:** can now also trigger when attempting to overtake from 2nd into 1st

**Grass Wonder unique:**
- **Old:** overtaking on last straight into 4th or worse
- **New:** into 3rd or worse

**Hishi Amazon unique:**
- **Old:** last straight, overtaking on the outside into 4th or worse
- **New:** overtaking on the last corner counts for the condition (skill still won't activate until the straight)

**Anime Mcqueen unique:**
- **Old:** final corner or beyond, HP<35%, 3rd or better, uma trying to overtake you for 1s or more
- **New:** 4th or better. HP requirement removed, but it has to be late-race now

**Opera unique:**
- **Old:** final corner, 4th or better, uma 1L front and another 1L behind, blocked on side for >2s
- **New:** 1L in front OR 1L behind, side blocked condition removed

**Air Groove unique:**
- **Old:** final corner, overtake into 4th or worse
- **New:** overtake into 3rd or worse

**Biwa Unique:**
- **Old:** final corner, overtake into 4th or better
- **New:** late race, final corner or beyond, 4th or better position (overtake condition removed)
- *Small bonus speed if haven't become rushed this race*

**Mayano unique:**
- **Old:** final corner, blocked on side for >2s, 3rd place or better
- **New:** can trigger on final straight too

**Rice Shower unique:**
- **Old:** final straight, overtake into 4th or better
- **New:** any late race overtake into 4th or better counts (skill still triggers at last straight)

**Winning Ticket unique:**
- **Old:** final straight, 5th or better, blocked on side >2s
- **New:** being side blocked on final corner counts too (still triggers at last straight)

**Curren unique:**
- **Old:** 50-65% of race distance, overtake into 3rd or 4th
- **New:** overtake into 2nd or 5th is now okay

**Falcon unique:**
- **Old:** mid-race straight, 1st, uma close behind
- **New:** can trigger in 2nd, as well

**Taishin unique:**
- **Old:** final corner, between 50-75% of pack, overtaking someone
- **New:** 40-75% of pack works. final straight works too

**King Halo unique:**
- **Old:** 200m remain, 5th place, never been rushed
- **New:** 4th-6th works, other conditions same

**Taiki unique:**
- **Old:** 3rd-5th on final corner
- **New:** 3rd/4th on 2nd half of final corner

**Silence Suzuka unique:**
- **Old:** final straight, 1st, >1L gap from nearest uma
- **New:** at any point in the 2nd half of the race, 1st, >1L gap from nearest uma

**W.Air Groove unique:**
- **Old:** random point in mid-race, 3rd-5th, overtaking
- **New:** no longer random

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#### Corner/Crowd/Hill Triggers

**All corner skills:**
- In multiple lap races, no longer limited to the final time you pass through a given corner

**Packphobia / Unruffled / Calm in a Crowd:**
- **Old:** blocked on front and 1 side for >1s
- **New:** there are umas nearby in front, back and at least one side, but not necessarily blocking

**Hill speed/accel skills:**
*Ramp Revulsion / Determined Descent / Straight Descent / 15,000,000 CC / 1,500,000 CC / Highlander*
- **Old:** trigger on first uphill/downhill
- **New:** triggers on a random uphill/downhill, not necessarily the first
- *(other hill skills, such as recovery skills, are unchanged)*

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#### Time-Based Triggers

**Taking the Lead / Early Lead:**
- **Old:** can't trigger until 5 seconds pass
- **New:** will trigger immediately

**Calm and Collected / Stamina to Spare / Keen Eye / Watchful Eye:**
- **Old:** can't trigger until 5 seconds pass
- **New:** triggers in 2nd half of early race

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### Number Buffs

**Maverick:**
- **Old:** 40/60 spd
- **New:** 60/80 spd

**Center Stage / Prudent Positioning:**
- **Old:** 0.025/0.035 lane movement speed
- **New:** 0.035/0.045

**Anime Teio unique:**
- **Old:** 0.35 spd
- **New:** 0.45

**Fantasy Grass Wonder unique:**
- **Old:** 0.055 HP recovery
- **New:** 0.075

**Super Creek unique:**
- **Old:** 0.035/0.055 HP recovery
- **New:** 0.055/0.075

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### Duration Changes

| Skill | Old | New |
|-------|-----|-----|
| Professor of Curvature / Corner Adept | 1.8s | 2.4s |
| Corner Connoisseur / Corner Acceleration | 1.8s | 3s |
| Beeline Burst / Straightaway Adept | 0.9s | 3s |
| Rushing Gale / Straightaway Accel | 1.8s | 3s |
| In Body and Mind / Homestretch Haste | 1.8s | 2.4s |
| Speed Star / Prepared to Pass | 1.2s | 1.8s |
| Fast & Furious / Position Pilfer | 1.8s | 2.4s |
| Killer Tunes / Up-Tempo | 0.9s | 2.4s |
| Staggering Lead / Huge Lead | 1.2s | 3s |
| Perfect Prep / Meticulous Measures | 3s | 4s |
| Changing Gears / Shifting Gears | 1.2s | 2.4s |
| Step on the Gas! / Acceleration | 1.2s | 3s |
| Big-Sisterly / Unyielding Spirit | 1.8s | 2.4s |
| Technician / Shrewd Step | 1.8s | 3s |
| Hard Worker / Fighter | 3s | 4s |
| 15,000,000 CC / 1,500,000 CC | 1.8s | 2.4s |
| Trending in the Charts / Top Pick | 1.8s | 2.4s |
| Lightning Step / Thunderbolt Step | 3s | 4s |
| Anime Mcqueen unique | 5s | 6s |

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### Additional Effects

**Wait-and-see:**
- Add 0.1 accel

**Blinding Flash / Gap Closer:**
- Add 0.05/0.1 accel

**Keen Eye / Watchful Eye:**
- Decrease speed of targets in front by 0.05/0.2

**Unyielding / Steadfast:**
- Add 0.05/0.1 accel

**Stop Right There!:**
- Now decreases accel by 0.05

**Sixth Sense / Dodging danger:**
- Causes lane change (?)

**Special Week unique:**
- Add 0.1 accel (0.05 if inherited)

**Narita Brian unique:**
- New effect: if you were blocked on the side for >2s during midrace, gain an extra 0.1 speed (extra speed not weakened when inherited)

**Agnes Tachyon unique:**
- Add 0.15/0.25 speed (0.05 when inherited)

**Matikanefukukitaru unique:**
- Add 0.1 accel (0.05 when inherited)

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*Last updated: November 11, 2025*