BEST Grand Live Guide! (EVERYTHING Explained) | Umamusume: Pretty Derby

Storyline / Scenario Context (Grand Live / Grand Concert)

• Grand Live (aka Grand Concert) is the 4th permanent scenario in Uma Musume: Pretty Derby.
• It has fixed career objectives based on the Uma you choose, but—unlike some other scenarios—you race far less.
• The scenario’s central purpose is to build Performance Points and manage resources to learn songs and power up concerts.

Core Gameplay Loop & Resources

Performance Points (main scenario currency)

• The scenario is driven by 5 colored Performance Point types:
  • Dance, Passion, Vocals, Visuals, Composure
• Points come from:
  • Training (amount scales with facility level and how many support cards appear)
  • Certain events
• You spend points in the Lesson screen (against techniques) to:
  • gain stats/energy/skill points immediately
  • and, after accumulating techniques, unlock and buy songs

Hype & Songs

• Across the career you perform:
  • 4 promotional concerts at fixed points
  • then the final Grand Concert in senior late December
• Songs learned in the lesson shop:
  1. raise Hype for the upcoming concert
  2. provide an immediate Mastery bonus
  3. grant a Concert bonus that activates after the next concert of that year
• Song unlock cost progression depends on your position in the career via a technique “lesson cadence.”
  • Junior example:
    • Song 1: 1 technique
    • Song 2: 2 techniques
    • Song 3: 3 techniques
• The cadence resets after each concert, and technique tiers become more expensive later.

Key Mechanic: Friendship Training / Rainbow Training

• Each facility has a primary and secondary point type.
• Normally:
  • training tends to give mostly primary
  • sometimes secondary
  • and rarely other types
• Friendship training is the big enabler:
  • gives two point types more often
  • the second type is likely whichever you’re lowest on
  • “patches” shortages and dramatically improves your points economy
• Additional synergy:
  • Scenario link cards appearing on a facility add extra points.
  • Completing a concert grants +5 of each point type (based on the scenario-link behavior described in the guide).

Deck-Building Highlights (Support Card Template + Why)

Recommended base deck template (distance-independent)

• Light Hello
• 2 Speed cards
• 2 Wit cards

Why these choices are mandatory/optimal

• Light Hello

  • has a Grand Live-exclusive post-training event:
    • 45% chance to give 20 performance points in your lowest type
  • reduces energy cost during turns where she overlaps with friendship training facilities
  • being scenario-linked provides improved scenario event rewards

• Speed cards

  • speed training yields Dance + Visuals, described as the most requested / most needed for song learning
  • the guide notes power cards are usually unnecessary since speed already trains power as a secondary stat

• Wit cards

  • wit training is described as energy-positive and important for generating points
  • bond speed is emphasized:
    • reaching bond 80 sooner unlocks more friendship training
  • wit friendship cards can include extra friendship recovery (in addition to facility recovery)

Flex slot & legacy advice (distance-based)

• Sprint/Mile Uma
  • flex slot becomes another Wit (a “3 wit” approach)
  • legacies stay power-focused
• Medium/Long Uma
  • flex slot becomes a stamina card
  • legacies become stamina-focused
• The guide stresses: power cards never directly enter the deck; power is handled through legacies.

How to choose other support cards

Look for:

• Specialty priority (appears more often → more friendship trainings → more points)
• Initial friendship gauge (higher starting bond → earlier bond 80 → earlier friendship training)
• For wit cards specifically:
  • Wit friendship recovery (extra energy recovery during wit friendship training)

Career Strategy (Step-by-step approach used in the guide)

Pre-debut start (Grand Live begins on Turn 8)

Goal (from turn 8 through junior late December):

• build bonds as fast as possible
• keep energy topped up
• aim to avoid resting, but rest right before Light Hello arrives if needed

Junior year: “Don’t open lessons” until concert

• Once Light Hello is available:
  • choose the facility where she’s located when possible
  • chase the 45% lowest-type patch event

Critical junior rule:

• Do not open the lesson screen even once in the junior year.

On junior late December (first concert period):

• go to lessons only then
• follow the cadence to unlock 5 songs

Technique buying rule for junior:

• ignore technique stat bonuses
• choose techniques mainly by what you can afford from your point bank
• prioritize buying types you can spend on without starving Dance/Visuals (the two song-heavy resources)

Song “saving / cadence-cheat” trick

• If you reach the final song page early:
  • unlock the fifth song list
  • do not buy immediately
• After completing the first concert:
  • buy the song while the cadence for the next period has already advanced
• Guide’s claim:
  • because you bought after concert completion (and cadence reset rules changed), you effectively avoid one technique cost for the next period.

Classic/Mid-game approach (from concert 2 onward)

• After friendship trainings start running:
  • Light Hello’s 45% event becomes less of the primary point engine
  • main focus shifts to energy management via:
    • wit recovery
    • Light Hello recreations
    • friendship recovery
• General priorities each concert period:
  • learn as many songs as possible before each concert (technique costs rise over time)
  • prioritize:
    • the period’s priority song (often best Mastery/Deck synergy or best Concert bonus)
    • friendship training bonus songs, since they give immediate/important value

Summer camp rules

• Only the guide’s condition changes the song-saving behavior:
  • save songs only if there isn’t a friendship-training bonus song
• Reason:
  • summer camp benefits immediately from those bonuses and maxed facilities/stats

Before summer camp:

• ensure near full energy (rest, Light Hello recreation, friendship recovery, or an energy-recovering technique like Body Massage)

Late Classic / nearing final concerts: manage the “song purchase window”

• After late December of the senior year:
  • you can still buy techniques and cash skill points
  • but you cannot buy more songs
• Therefore:
  • no more song saving after the 4th concert
  • finish remaining song purchases by the July–late December window (senior timeline)

Scenario events warning (Closer Together / selection mistake)

• At early November, an event appears with 5 options:
  • a gold bottom option “lane” is described as useless
  • example given: choosing Come What May because the guide is running Augury on Medium
• At late November, the guide notes a mistake costing two songs:
  • they waited too long due to only having the bottom option
  • the correction would be to finish early December first and spend on vocals
    • (vocals are a low type and are patched by friendship training)

Key lesson:

• check the remaining song list close to late December and use the provided sheets.

Final Phase (Grand Concert)

• At Grand Concert time:
  • if any songs remain purchasable, buy them now
  • then complete Grand Concert and collect resulting concert bonuses
• After URA Final / end conditions:
  • career completion proceeds normally (less focus at this point)

Gamers / Sources Mentioned (at the end)

• Static (the creator/featured gamer)
• No other specific gamer/source names were mentioned in the provided subtitles.