Which Supports to Prioritize to 80 Bond First

July 20, 2026

A typical training run has six support card slots but a limited number of turns before the career ends, which means bond can’t be spread evenly across every card and still hit 80 on all of them. This guide covers how to decide which supports deserve priority.

Step 1 — Identify Your Career’s Primary Stat Focus

Before prioritizing any specific card, know which 1-2 stats the current career build actually needs most (based on the target race’s aptitude and distance). Supports matching those stat types are the ones whose Rainbow Training will matter most for the run’s actual goal — pushing an off-focus support to 80 first is wasted priority even if it’s easier to reach.

Step 2 — Prioritize Supports Already Closest to 80

Run each equipped support’s current bond value through the uma affinity calculator to see the remaining gap to 80. A support sitting at 65 bond needs far fewer sessions to unlock Rainbow Training than one sitting at 20 — all else equal, closing the smallest gaps first gets more supports into their bonus state before the run ends.

Step 3 — Weigh Rarity’s Effect on Speed

SSR supports more often carry effects that speed up bond gain (boosted starting friendship, training-effectiveness multipliers), which can make an SSR sitting slightly further from 80 reach the threshold in a similar number of sessions as an SR or R card that’s technically closer. See the training terms glossary for what rarity actually changes mechanically.

Step 4 — Don’t Neglect Friend-Type Supports

Friend-type supports typically raise bond with every stat facility rather than one specific type, making them easier to build bond with incidentally during normal training — but this also means they’re easy to underprioritize on purpose since their bond climbs somewhat passively. Check their gauge periodically rather than assuming they’ll “get there eventually” without any deliberate attention.

Step 5 — Use the Full Threshold Table, Not Just 80

The uma affinity calculator shows every remaining threshold (40, 60, 80, 100) at once. A support sitting just under 40 or 60 is close to a smaller but still real bonus — increased event frequency at 40, bonus stat-gain events at 60 — worth factoring into priority even for supports that won’t realistically reach 80 before the run ends.

Step 6 — Recheck Priority Every Few Turns

Bond gain rate isn’t perfectly linear turn to turn (random support events add variable bumps), so the “closest to 80” ranking can shift over a run. Re-run each support’s updated bond value through the uma affinity calculator every several turns rather than setting a priority order once at the start and following it blindly.

Worked Example — Choosing Between Two Supports

Turn budget: roughly 6 remaining training sessions before a key race. Support A is at 68 bond (SR); Support B is at 55 bond (SSR).

Support A: 80 − 68 = 12 bond needed ÷ 7/session ≈ 2 sessions
Support B: 80 − 55 = 25 bond needed, SSR rate faster than baseline ≈ 3-4 sessions

Support A reaches 80 first with fewer sessions committed, making it the safer priority if the run is close to ending — Support B is the better long-run investment if there’s enough runway left to close its larger gap.

Bottom Line

With limited training turns, prioritize supports matching the career’s actual stat focus, closest to 80 already, and factor in rarity’s speed effect — using the uma affinity calculator’s threshold table to re-check the ranking as the run progresses rather than deciding once and sticking with it blindly. For the prioritisation errors that most often waste early training turns, see common Uma Musume bond and rainbow training mistakes.