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Sakura Laurel is a member of the Sakura Corps, following Sakura Bakushin O and Sakura Chiyono O. Unlike the previous Sakuras who leaned towards short distances, miles, and middle distances, Laurel is a Uma Musume specialized in long distances.

Along with Arang Narita Brian, she will be an immovable top-tier pick in the upcoming Champions Meeting Aries Cup, as well as in all future long-distance races.

Her characteristics include a complex skill with an extra-large recovery in her unique skill, and most of her skills activate without rank conditions. Of course, there are corner conditions, so she won't be used in any corner other than the front runner, but the fact that all skills can be used without discarding any of them is a great strength.

Since its release, like Gemliv, it has been consistently ranked as a tier pick in long-distance competitions, so it is recommended to pick it if you have enough jewels. Of course, it is not an essential pick level like Kluguri, and if you have a certain card pool or character pool, you can find other alternatives.

From the unique skill, penalties are applied in courses other than long distances, and the running speed increase skill, Illiteracy, is also only for long distances, so it is only used in long distances.

Since both evolution skills have front runner conditions, you must fix it as a front runner even if you have leading and chasing aptitude.

Like Gold Ship, it has a growth value of 20% stamina / 10% power, which is not a very good growth value in the current scenario environment. Of course, stamina is essential in her battlefield, long distance, so there are no stats that are discarded.

Activation Condition 1: Long distance / Progress distance ratio 50% or more, 51% or less / Rank ratio 30% or more, 80% or less (Champions Meeting: 3~7th place / Team Stadium: 4~10th place / Full Gate: 5~14th place)

Activation Condition 2: Progress distance ratio 50% or more, 51% or less / Rank ratio 30% or more, 80% or less (Champions Meeting: 3~7th place / Team Stadium: 4~10th place / Full Gate: 5~14th place)

The unique skill itself is a speed skill that activates in the middle and lasts for a long time, like Gold Ship. The activation timing is good, and the activation success rate is also high.

The difference in activation conditions for additional conditions is whether it is a long distance or not. If it is not a long distance course, the duration is shortened and the stamina extra-large recovery effect disappears, so there is virtually no reason to use Laurel.

Looking at the skill performance on long distance courses, you will receive a long activation time of 6 seconds and an extra-large recovery effect along with Super Creek and Hillas. In other words, you can fill 1.5 gold recovery skills worth of stamina with just the unique skill. Super Creek and Hillas only have stamina recovery, but Laurel has a groundbreaking performance with speed increase.

Thanks to this, unlike other Uma Musume, there is not much burden on additional recovery skills, and even if you receive only a healing degree for inheritance, most long distances are sufficient. When used as an inheritance skill, it is used as an alternative recovery skill like Hillas, and the speed increase value should be considered non-existent.

It consists of skills with long-distance front runner conditions, so there is no freedom to change corners, but each skill is powerful. In particular, the combo of Yongwangmaejin - unique skill - Illiteracy in the middle leads to a powerful combination even without any other skills.

In addition, tail raising, rushing, and front runner straights are all easy to activate and can be used, so the skill composition is very substantial.

When Yongwangmaejin evolves, the stamina consumption penalty disappears, and Illiteracy increases the running speed increase value even more. Both must be learned.

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2024-07-29