Debuff Career - Best Characters and Support

This article introduces Debuff Careers for Umamusume: Pretty Derby. It also includes debuffs and their benefits, recommended Umamusume, supports, and more!

Key Points for Debuff Careers

Train with High Wit

Wit is a stat that affects the activation rate of Skills. In a Debuff Career, aim for at least 600 Wit to maximize the activation rate of your Skills.

Note!	Some debuff skills have a limited effective range. You'll need to adjust your stats according to the race's Distance and your Style to ensure you don't get too far from the target you want to debuff.

Acquire Skills Based on Your Opponents

Instead of blindly learning debuffs, it's better to anticipate the most powerful Umamusume in the current meta and learn many debuff skills that are effective against them.

Note!	For example, if Front Runners are popular, acquire many debuff skills that target them. Choose your skills based on the opponents you expect to face.

Types of Debuff Skills and Their Roles

There are different types of debuff skills, each with a different effect on the target. You can identify the effect by the icon type.

Types of Debuff Skills and Their Roles
	Lowers Speed The most versatile. Can be used to win positioning battles, help meet skill activation conditions, and win out in the final spurt.
	Lowers Endurance Reduces Stamina. However, it's less effective against opponents with plenty of Stamina.
	Lowers Acceleration Very effective when activated at moments when opponents want to increase speed, such as right after the start, on uphills, or at the beginning of a spurt. Currently, there are few debuff skills of this type.
	Extends Rushed Time Can cause Stamina depletion or skill failure due to being out of position. The target must be in a Rushed state for it to activate.
	Narrows Field of Vision Affects Positioning, increasing the chance of getting blocked.

Recommended Umamusume for Debuffer

Nice Nature

Both of her learnable Gold skills from Potential are debuff skills, and her 10% Wit Growth Rate also makes her suitable for a debuffer role.

Acquirable Debuff Skills
Hesitant Late Surger	Mystifying Murmur	All-Seeing Eyes

Grass Wonder

Can learn "Dominator" at Potential Lvl 3. It requires being in the back, which synergizes well with her Unique Skill and On Your Left! from Potential Lvl 5. So, instead of specializing in debuffs, you can also aim for a high rank with her.

Acquirable Debuff Skills
Flustered Pace Chasers	Dominator

Super Creek

She learns "Swinging Maestro" at Potential Lvl 5, and her Unique Skill is also a recovery skill, making her a great choice for a Long Distance debuffer. Her 20% Wit Growth Rate is also a good match.

Dazzling Disorientation - Potential Lvl 3

It requires being near the front in the final leg of the race, so high stats are necessary. If you want to make use of "Dazzling Disorientation", a specialized debuff Career is difficult.

Note!	It's difficult, but the benefit is huge if you can block powerful Long Distance runners like Gold Ship with its vision-narrowing effect.

Acquirable Debuff Skills
Dazzling Disorientation	Hesitant Pace Chasers

Air Groove

She has a wide range of Distance Aptitudes and comes with two debuffs against End Closers.

Acquirable Debuff Skills
Hesitant End Closers	Dazzling Disorientation	Flustered End Closers

Other Recommended Umamusume

Umamusume	Details
	Symboli Rudolf Subdued Late Surgers Dominator You can also make her an End Closer to increase the activation rate of Dominator.
	Curren Chan Adored by All Dazzling Disorientation Both of her Potential Gold skills are debuffs. Recommended as an ace and debuffer for Sprint races.

Recommended Support for Debuff Careers

Example Formation for Debuff Careers

Pal Slot	Stamina Slot	Power Slot
Kiryuin Aoi	Tamamo Cross	Agnes Digital
Wit Slot	Wit Slot	Wit Slot
Marvelous Sunday	Symboli Rudolf	Seiun Sky

Basically, you should form a deck with Support that have the debuffs you want to learn. As long as you have multiple cards for Wit, which is crucial for a debuffer, the remaining slots can be freely customized.

List of Recommended Support

Support Card	Details
	Symboli Rudolf R Recommendation:★★★★★ Tether Subdued Front Runners Subdued Pace Chasers Subdued Late Surgers Subdued End Closers
	Marvelous Sunday SR Recommendation:★★★★★ Hesitant Front Runners Hesitant Pace Chasers
	Kiryuin Aoi SR Hesitant End Closers Subdued Front Runners
	Satono Diamond SSR Recommendation:★★★☆☆ Flustered Front Runners Hesitant Front Runners
	Rice Shower SSR Recommendation:★★★☆☆ Flustered Pace Chasers Subdued Pace Chasers Frenzied Pace Chasers Disorient
	Air Groove SR Recommendation:★★★☆☆ Hesitant End Closers Flustered End Closers
	Ikuno Dictus SR Recommendation:★★★☆☆ Frenzied Front Runners Frenzied End Closers Trick (Rear) Sharp Gaze
	Sakura Bakushin O SSR Recommendation:★★☆☆☆ Flustered Front Runners Frenzied Front Runners
	Tamamo Cross SSR Recommendation:★★☆☆☆ Flustered Late Surgers Frenzied Late Surgers
	Sweep Tosho SR Recommendation:★★☆☆☆ Trick (Front) Trick (Rear)
	Fuji Kiseki SR Recommendation:★★☆☆☆ Flustered End Closers Trick (Front)

What is a Debuff Career?

What are Debuffs?

A debuff is a skill that weakens opposing Umamusume. By weakening your opponents, you can create a more advantageous race situation. All debuff icons are red.

What is a Debuff Career?

A Debuff Career, as the name suggests, is about running an Umamusume with a skill set specialized in debuffs. You'll use a lot of Support that provide debuff skills.

Note!	There's also a Career method where you secure the necessary stats and skills to finish in a high rank, while also learning only the most effective debuff skills.

Benefits of a Debuff Career

In rules where you can race multiple Umamusume, including a debuffer Umamusume is an effective tactic. It's especially useful in the Champions Meeting, where you only need one of your Umamusume to take first place.

Note!	In Legend Races where you can only race one character, or in Team Trials where you want all your members to rank high, a specialized debuff Career is not highly recommended.

Does Not Affect Teammates

Debuff skills do not affect the Umamusume who activated them or any Umamusume on the same team. Therefore, you don't have to worry about debuff skills negatively affecting your allies.

▲Example: Nature's debuff (purple effect) is not affecting her teammate, the new Teio.

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