Uma Musume Tier List January 2026 – All Characters Ranked

Our Uma Musume tier list features some of the best racers to ever grace the game! Look no further than our tier list if you want to know about the strongest racers to ever grace the game. The game features multiple cute chibi girls that look frail but can pick up the agility real quick! We know Uma Musume: Pretty Derby can be quite a tiring game to play, as there are multiple characters to summon and build.

Uma Musume Pretty Derby game

But, that’s where optimization can help you out. Each character comes in different rarities, and have special tropes. It can be a bit confusing to decide which ones to pick for your squad. Take cues from our Uma Musume tier list when confused as to which racers you want to build. Check out our complete tier list below!

Uma Musume Oguri Cap character

S-Tier Characters

The strongest Uma Musume characters can be seen here. You say speed, they will say flash! Complete with special innate abilities that can help you pick up the face in the race, these characters are a must-build for any account. If you don’t have them yet, try to summon them in a new banner. If you have them, what are you waiting for? Train them now and see the growth now.

  • Oguri Cap (Starlight Beat)
  • Seiun Sky (Reeling in the Big One)
  • Maruzensky (Hot Summer Night)
  • Taiki Shuttle (Wild Frontier)

See more such helpful character rankings in our other tier lists for:

Uma Musume Silence Shizuka character

A-Tier Characters

Many of the top Uma Musume characters are present in this tier. If you’re looking for characters that can perform well in all game modes like Pace, Trials, and more, then look no further than this list. Make sure to train them and use all your resources to polish them. A lot of these characters are only a buff away from being broken, so pick up and use them before they get the banhammer.

  • Silence Suzuka (Innocent Silence)
  • Maruzensky (Formula R)
  • Mayano Top Gun (Scramble Zone)
  • Manhattan Cafe (Creeping Shadow)
  • Narita Taishin (Nevertheless)
  • Gold Ship (Red Strife)
  • Sakura Bakushin O (Blossom in Learning)
  • El Condor Pasa (El Numero 1)
  • Mayano Top Gun (Sunlight Bouquet)
  • Symboli Rudolf (Emperor’s Path)
  • Mejiro Ryan (Down the Line)
  • Mejiro McQueen (Frontline Elegance)
  • Super Creek (Murmuring Stream)
  • Special Week (Hopping Happy Heart)
  • Grass Wonder (Stone-piercing Blue)
  • Smart Falcon (Love 4ever)
  • Meisho Doto (Turbulent Blue)
  • Daiwa Scarlet (Peak Blue)
  • Agnes Tachyon (Tach-nology)
  • Special Week (Special Dreamer)
  • Tokai Teio (Peak Joy)
  • Vodka (Wild Top Gear)
  • Agnes Digital (Full-color Fangirling)
  • Tokai Teio (Beyond the Horizon)
Uma Musume Hishi Amazon character

B-Tier Characters

While characters in this tier are considered average at best, there are some hidden gems also. You see, we are not taking into account the performance of each character in each game mode. This is more of an overall tier list that measures the performance of characters in all game modes. Some characters like Narita Brian (Maverick) are A-tier for Team trials but placed in B-tier here due to being weak in other modes. Hence, these characters are still useful and provide you with good results.

  • Hishi Amazon (Azure Amazon)
  • El Condor Pasa (Kukulkan Warrior)
  • Symboli Rudolf (Archer by Moonlight)
  • T.M Opera O (O Sole Suo!)
  • Narita Brian (Maverick)
  • Nice Nature (Poinsettia Ribbon)
  • Rice Shower (Rosy Dreams)
  • Rice Shower (Vampire Makeover!)
  • Fuji Kiseki (Shooting Star Revue)
  • Mihono Bourbon (MB – 19890425)
  • Matikane Fukukitaru (Lucky Tidings)
  • Eishin Flash (Meisterschaft)
  • Gold City (Authentic/1928)
  • Air Groove (Empress Road)
  • Curren Chan (Fille Eclair)
  • Air Groove (Quercus Civilus)
  • Hishi Akebono (Buono Allo Moda)
  • Grass Wonder (Saintly Jade Cleric)
  • Mejiro McQueen (End of the Skies)
  • Winning Ticket (Get to Winning!)
Uma Musume Tosen Jordan character

C-Tier Characters

Sadly, the characters in this tier are just bad. Avoid wasting your time and resources in building them as the results are not fruitful. Instead, be more mindful of your resources. These characters are either having low base stats due to lower rarity, or their skills are obsolete in the current meta.

  • Tosen Jordon (Jokester Vibes)
  • Gold City (Autumn Cosmos)
  • Kawakami Princess (Princess of Pink)
  • Matikane Fukukitaru (Rising Fortune)
  • Super Creek (Chiffon-Wrapped Mummy)
  • Haru Urara (Bestest Prize)
  • King Halo (King of Emeralds)
  • Biwa Hayahide (Winning Equation)

Uma Musume Tier List Factors

While building our Uma Musume tier list, we took into consideration a lot of different pieces of information. This was to judge the variety of characters in a sane way. We took into account several factors, some of which can be seen below:

  • Rarity – First and foremost, the rankings in this tier list are impacted by the rarity of Uma Musume characters. These characters come in different rarities like R, SR, and SSR. A higher rarity means stronger base stats, resulting in higher output.
  • Training Easiness – In Uma Musume, it can be quite tough to train your owned umas. Hence, we also take into account how easy it is to train a specific character when ranking them. A well-trained character will always perform better than even a higher tier character.
  • Team Trials Total – When forming our rankings, the first competitive factor we included was how easily a character can reach 1st place in the Team Trials game mode.
  • Champions Meeting Total – Similar to team trials, we also took into account how easy it is for a character to reach 1st place in the Champions Meeting game mode.
  • Skill Utility – The skills of Uma Musume characters also matters a lot. You can’t expect to speed up ahead of your rivals if not well prepared and synergized. Hence, the lesser a character needs time to build up, the better they sounded.

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