Umamusume Cancer Cup preparation guide

Umamusume’s PvP-oriented Champions Meeting mode goes into its third round in October 2025 with the Cancer Cup. You can find a detailed explanation on how Champions Meeting works in the linked article above. This article right here will bring you all the necessary information to prepare a team of worthy contenders for the upcoming Cancer Cup.

Umamusume Cancer Cup: distance, track, and conditions

• Cancer Cup – Tokyo (Turf), Mile (1,600m), Left, Spring, Sunny, Good

Cancer Cup is a Mile race with a pretty standard distance of 1,600m. Elements such as run direction, season, weather, and track condition will be fixed to be the same in every race, so there won’t be any RNG involved when it comes to these aspects.

The 1,600m course in Tokyo contains two corners – both in the Mid-Race – as well as two uphill sections, one of which is positioned Mid-Race and one Late-Race. There is one downhill section in the early Mid-Race as well. The full Early-Race and first third of the Mid-Race take place on a straight, as do the Late-Race and Last Spurt phases. In total, there are 1,050m of straights and 550m of corners to overcome in this race.

Umamusume Cancer Cup: green skills

With the conditions fixed to be the same in every race, several green skills are guaranteed to provide useful stat boosts to your Umamusume, if they possess them. Here’s a list of eligible passive skills for Cancer Cup:

• Speed: Left-Handed
• Speed: Summer Runner
• Stamina: Tokyo Racecourse
• Stamina: Standard Distance
• Power: Wet Conditions
• Guts: Sunny Days

Umamusume Cancer Cup: characters, stats, and skills

Any character will do a fine job in Cancer Cup as long as you can get their Mile and Turf Aptitudes up to A- or S-Rank, as this will provide the best foundation for them. Here are the characters with natural A-Rank Aptitudes in Mile and Turf, which will be easy to upgrade to S-Rank via Sparks:

• Fuji Kiseki
• Grass Wonder (Fantasy)
• El Condor Pasa (Fantasy)
• Hishi Amazon
• Silence Suzuka
• Maruzensky
• Oguri Cap
• Taiki Shuttle
• Vodka
• Daiwa Scarlet
• Grass Wonder
• El Condor Pasa

Whereas Gemini Cup was all about Stamina, Cancer Cup is a competition of Speed and Power. Acceleration matters a great deal more over 1,600m than it does over 3,200m, as you’ll want to reach your maximum speed as quickly as possible (we have a full breakdown of the velocity vs. acceleration question, in case you want to dive into the details).

For this reason, skills such as Groundwork, Corner Connoisseur, and Rushing Gale are valued highly for this event alongside their distance- and strategy-based counterparts. Acceleration via skills effectively means having more Power, making overtakes easier and maximizing the value of speed bursts. Don't waste Skill Points on recovery skills for Cancer Cup contenders: They are not needed as long as you reach between 500 and 600 Stamina.

In terms of stat distribution, you should roughly aim for something like the following:

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