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Uma Musume Unity Cup Guide (2025): Spirit Burst & F2P Deck Tips

Jack Graham
|2025-11-10

Uma Musume offers the Unity Cup with brand-new machanics, enabling you to experience novel gameplay. It is more complicated than URA Finale. Nevertheless, this Unity Cup guide introduces how to play Unity Cup and take the advantage of everything to maximize your potentials, including tips for Special Training, Spirit Burst and Team Races.

What is Uma Musume Unity Cup

The Unity Cup, also known as the Aoharu Hai or the Youth Cup, is an expanded version of URA Finale, introducing new gameplay mechanics such as Spirit Burst and Special Training. It becomes the second permanent scenario in Uma Musume. The mode is still based on normoal training, though, you should start team racing rather than solo racing.

Level Up Your Team

The Unity Cup focuses on enhancing stats with 2 new mechanics. During this scenario, you are able to train team abilities and raises overall stats. Instead of upgrading a single horse girl, players require building a well-balanced team. Below, we will explain the gameplay mechanics.

Special Training

Special training allows players to increase team's overall stats. It enhances team abilities and the chance of getting skill hints as well. You can see your teammate with white flame icon that shares the improvement. Furthermore, the more allies join in, the higher the stats and skill points increase.

In additon, your girl is granted with extra stats after training the specific stat. For example, if you strenthen her Stamina, she will boost both Stamina and Gut.

Spirit Burst

Spirit Burst will extremely increase team member's attributes and hint your trainee. It is located in the bottom-left corner of the teammates icon as a blue fame.

How to activate Spirit Burst? Actually, each time you completing Special Training fills the Soul. Soul gets max energy after 4 times Special Training. Once you have activated Spirit Burst, it will move to the bottom-right corner. You need to make effort to frequently trigger Spirit Burst to win Team Race.

Spirit Burst

Team Races

Compared with URA mode, the Unity Cup pick Team Races in lieu of traditional combat. It is going to start at specific turns to test your training results. The gameplay is similar to arena battle, featuring five types of races - Dirt, Mile, Medium, Long, and Sprint.

Before you entering competition, click the exclamation mark to learn team's information. Then, edit your team by uising Auto-Select to save your time. You can also adjust you lineup one-by-on. However, the system is trustworthy because it allocate them into optimized racetrack.

Afterwards, you require choosing one opponent team, while three options are offered. Unlike PVP mode, you challenge NPC team, so losing game doesn't matter. But, you should strive for better ranking that depends your rewards.

As four team races end, you begin your Unity Cup Finals which you require challenging Riko Kashimoto's team.

F2P Uma Musume & Deck Recommendation

Certern Uma Musume perform better in this scenario thanks to their bonus effects accelerating the activation of events or synergies. Additionally, corresponding support cards also play an important role in Spirit Burst and Special Training. Beware, related Uma and cards are highlighted with green mark. The Unity Cup build recommendation providess the best support cards and Uma Musume characters as follow.

Uma Musume

The Uma Musume related to scenario includes Rice Shower, Haru Urara, Matikanefukukitaru, Taiki Shuttle, Riko Kashimoto. Prioritize rarer characters to gain more attributes and win team races.

The Gold Skills after defeating Riko Kashimoto's team with these Uma

  • Rice Shower: Cooldown - Stamina Recovery
  • Haru Urara: Indomitable - Stamina Recovery
  • Matikanefukukitaru: Clairvoyance - Increase field of view
  • Taiki Shuttle: Mile Maven - Increase Target Speed

Rice Shower

Haru Urara

Matikanefukukitaru

Rice Shower

Haru Urara

Matikanefukukitaru

Support & Friend Cards for Building Deck

We highly recommend Riko Kashimoto (Planned Perfection) and Rice Shower (Happiness Just around the Bend) as Support and Friends Card. You can also use scenario cards. Don't worry. We have prepared perfect deck for you to cope with various situations as follows.

Riko Kashimoto (Planned Perfection)

Rice Shower (Happiness Just around the Bend)

The Ultimate Deck

Your Wit determines energy consumption. By fully exploiting energy, you are able to maximize your girl's potentials. Therefore, training Wit takes the place of Rest and leverages turns. This deck provides massive Wit stats, especially Riko Kashimoto (Planned Perfection).

The Best Deck

F2P Deck

You should revolve around 2 Speed cards and 3 Wit cards if you can build the ultimate deck.

F2P Deck

Tip: Some cards previously had no use (such as SSR Haru Urara) can be useful now.

Rewards You Can Earn

Upon completing the Unity Cup, players are granted with numerous valuable rewards, such as performance, Unity Cup and general rewards

  • Performance rewards: offer a great number of skill points
  • Unity Cup Rewards: provide scenario-exclusive skill bonuses
  • General Rewards: include upgrade materials for support cards and Uma.

Conclusion

The Unity Cup stands out as a top-tier scenario for players aiming to training stronger horse girls. It combines new mechanics and basic gameplay in URA mode, ensuring you can enjoy quick progression. Play Uma Musume on LDPlayer to dominate the Unity Cup with smoother controls and higher FPS.

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Jack Graham
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Arts and Literature Enthusiast - Engineer - 26 years old. Passionate about MMO&RPG games and impressed by their elaborate arts and vast world view. I love studying background stories and sharing these immersive gameplay experience for all players. It's a kind of communication with virtual world, not just an expression of emotion.