In a game where you can activate your ability only once, you’d better make sure you have the best Uma with the strongest one. There are exceptions though and some Umas have passives and drawbacks that alter the rankings. I’ll be rating them all to see what is the best Uma in this Uma Racing tier list and guide.
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Uma Racing Umas Tier List
The best Uma in Uma Racing depends on both your skill and, unfortunately, higher rarities. You can still win with a lower rarity Uma against a higher rarity one if you’re more skilled at Stamina management than your opponents. That said, on the same level of skill, a higher rarity Uma has the advantage. I highly recommend Daiwa for beginners but Suzuka and Rice are objectively the strongest.
S-Tier Umas
| S-Tier Umas | All Abilities | Why S-Tier |
|---|---|---|
Silence Suzuka Legendary | Active • Instantly accelerates to maximum speed for a brief duration, ignoring slowdown effects. Used to break away from the pack or maintain the lead. While her ability is active, stamina consumption halts completely. During this time, she’s untouchable by stamina drains and fatigue debuffs. Passive • Naturally accelerates faster than any other runner, allowing her to reach top speed in record time. Her movement inputs essentially become sharper and more responsive, letting her reposition or adjust her lane faster than others. Drawback • Suzuka’s QTE segments are slightly faster than average and include up to 5 inputs instead of 4, making them trickier to hit consistently. Missing them can break her rhythm and cost her the lead. | • While Rice has a slightly better active while she’s behind someone, Silence has the best ability in the game that is strong wherever you are • The dash is soo strong because it ignores slows from Rice and ignores stamina use • Silence also has the better acceleration and her drawback isn’t a big deal once you get used to quick-time events on start • Overall Silence is generally the best in the game with Rice being situationally better |
Rice Shower Legendary | Active • Gains a burst of speed for a short duration, and after a few seconds she bursts to pass anyone infront of her. When running directly behind someone after the skill is activated, she slows the runner ahead and prevents them from accelerating for a moment. If she’s the only one ahead, when activate the skill she gains only an extra speed increase. While the surge is active, stamina does not decrease. If she is behind someone, she regenerates stamina instead of losing it. Drawback • She has a delayed surge with the sprint boost being shortly after she uses her skill. | • While Rice’s ability is slightly weaker than Silence if you’re in the lead, it’s the best ability in the game if you’re second place • The slow is massive and allows you to overtake any other Uma • Just watch out not to use it when Silence uses hers since Silence will ignore your slow with her active • The best strategy with Rice is to save her ability when you are in second place with the note that you watch out for Silence’s active |
A-Tier Umas
| A-Tier Umas | All Abilities | Why A-Tier |
|---|---|---|
Daiwa Scarlet Rare | Active • Daiwa Scarlet can activate a powerful dash twice per race, each use unleashing a burst of forward speed. Both activations allows her to surge ahead or recover her position at critical moments. Each use briefly grants resistance to slowing effects and sharpens her acceleration curve. Passive • Daiwa can use her active ability two times per race instead of once. | • Daiwa can almost compete with the S-Tiers because even though her active is weaker she can use it twice • This gives you massive flexibility in a race to both catch up or maintain a lead • She’s easily the third-best Uma in the game and sometimes second-best if you can play around the Rice Shower active slow • Best of all you don’t have any drawbacks |
B-Tier Umas
| B-Tier Umas | All Abilities | Why B-Tier |
|---|---|---|
Gold Ship Rare | Active • Temporarily boosts forward speed for a short duration. Completely negates stamina drain for a limited time, allowing her to maintain her pace. Passives • Natural stamina consumption is drastically reduced, allowing Gold Ship to maintain her pace long after others would be gasping for air. Drawbacks • There’s a small chance for Gold Ship to trip mid-use of her active ability, causing a brief tumble and recovery animation. | • While Gold Ship’s ability is quite strong ignoring stamina drain, the trip can kill your run • It’s basically an RNG event each time you pop your active because if you trip the animation means you’re getting overtaken by experienced players • That said, her dash is more powerful than Daiwa since it ignores stamina and if you don’t trip of course • Still, I find Daiwa more reliable due to her double ability use and no occasional trip debuff so Gold goes to B-Tier |
C-Tier Umas
| C-Tier Umas | All Abilities | Why C-Tier |
|---|---|---|
Air Groove Uncommon | Active • Air Groove channels her unshakable composure into flawless momentum. While active, she steadily regenerates stamina and gains a slight increase in forward speed. Runners directly ahead are struck by her fierce presence, momentarily blinded and disoriented. | • Air Groove’s main use for her ability is to use it aggressively in second or third place behind other Umas to blind them • It’s a very niche ability but can be quite powerful if you line it up for the blind to overtake people in the lead • That said, she isn’t as reliable as the higher tiers since her dash isn’t as powerful and you have to look for those specific opportunities to use it • Otherwise, if you don’t use it aggressively, you might just as well have picked Haru Urara |
Haru Urara Common | Active • Upon activation, Haru Urara’s unyielding spirit surges forth, restoring stamina and slightly increasing her speed. | • Nothing special to say here, this is your starter that you should replace with the higher rarities when you can • The dash is okay and can win you races against higher rarities if you play better • But other than that, if you’re on the same skill level as someone and they have a higher rarity Uma, you’ll just be underpowered and lose • That’s why I didn’t put any Uma in D-Tier, because each one can be good if you have mastered the basic mechanics of Uma Racing and are skilled enough • It’s just that on that same level of skill, the higher rarity Umas have an advantage |
Uma Racing Tips & Tricks
Here are some tips and advice for winning Uma Racing matches as a beginner:
- Master the QTE: The quick-time event at the beginning is crucial to you getting an early lead or the upper positions. If you do well later with Stamina management, doing well on the starting QTE will carry over to put you in a better place to win.
- Managing Stamina: Keep your acceleration bar directly on the white line since this is your efficiency zone. It will keep your speed on a consistent level without massive Stamina losses. If you go full throttle right off the bat it will drain your Stamina fast and you’ll have a more difficult time recovering it. Learn to balance your Stamina and pace for better results.
- Stamina Recovery: You don’t need to slow down to recover Stamina, you just have to pick the right moment. The best moments are straight paths, open stretches and safe distances from other runners.
- Corner Recovery: Master the Spacebar corner mini-game which directly boosts your regeneration on corners. This is just as important as the starter QTEs.
- Go All Out on The Final Turn: Everyone is usually saving their skills for the final stretch where you should go all out if you managed your Stamina well. This is the best time to use your active skill to guarantee first place. Watch out for Rice Shower slows and Daiwa Scarlet blinds (described above).
- Slipstream and Spurt: Positioning is extremely important since you can Slipstream behind players in front of you to save stamina so you can follow a leading player for a while to conserve Stamina. Don’t do this for too long and try to overtake them. Also, use your Spurts. It can be used with Sprinting at Full Speed to gain even more momentum. Spurt drains Stamina on use, but could be game-changing once you master the timing and stamina management.
That’s it for my Uma Racing tier list and guide. Check out our Uma Racing codes to get a bunch of Gacha resources and score top-tier Umas faster.
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