August Cinderella Nine: Youth Rank 37 and the Path to All Players Becoming SSR

This post will provide some simple guidelines on what you can do after raising your youth rank to 37 in the mobile game Cinderella Nine in August.

① Awaken all your characters to SSR and level them up to MAX.
② Skill development through training
③ About Ranking Matches

① Awaken all your characters to SSR and level them up to MAX.
The upper limit for the Youth Rank has been slightly increased, but I think it will reach the maximum in just a few days.
After that, I think the main places to invest stamina will be events and training sessions.
First, let's talk about the path to awakening all characters to SSR and reaching the maximum level.
Leveling up is easy, but the bottleneck is the materials needed for awakening.
This is a daily event match where you can get materials of each color, so use your stamina to play it.

If you're aiming for the Heart's Freedom [Haru] and [Ao] (golden and silver feathers), play on "Super Advanced" difficulty. If you're aiming for lower-level items like Heart Fragments, which you need in larger quantities, play on "Intermediate" difficulty.
If you have about five of each of Haru and Ao, then all you need to do is keep playing the intermediate level.

Having many SSR characters in each position allows you to use them in combination depending on their condition, leading to more stable gameplay.
As for skills, there's nothing to do but diligently keep practicing...

② Skill development through training
Now, this is the most time-consuming task, and it's often the one that gets put off.
While it's relatively quick to awaken players to SSR rarity and max out their levels, acquiring skills can only be done through a steady, painstaking process.


It takes about 15-20 minutes to complete one playthrough, even if you skip through the levels, so it's best to do it casually, perhaps while watching a TV program.

The common approach is to focus orders on just one color and relentlessly pursue only that one color.
My basic strategy is to aim for rare skills, and use any remaining points to acquire common skills.
Once a character has acquired a certain level of skill, I replace them with a character with a lower skill rating and focus on developing that character.

While winning matches during the training period is naturally the goal, if you're steadily acquiring certificates, you should be in better-than-average condition, so you don't need to worry too much.
For rare skills that require 40-50 tokens, characters with energy jelly-type menus are essential.

Energy jelly items are a top priority to add to your menu, as they boost your motivation at the same time you use up one card.
Basically, when you want to boost the motivation of a character, use cards of that color, and when you're left with only characters you don't want to boost, use up the cards you don't need.

If you have the resources, you can use the additional trial menu to increase the number of tokens you obtain.
For bomb disposal, it's recommended to use strategies like "Circle Formation" or "Strategy Meeting" to avoid adding unnecessary colored cards.
If the timing for processing isn't right, it might be a good idea to intentionally use points on the additional menu to minimize damage before the explosion.

Also, adding low-level menu items will dilute the effectiveness of the training, so it's best to limit the additions to level 3 menu items, energy gels, and bread-based snacks.
If you increase the number of Level 1 cards, it will take longer for the deck to go through once.

③ About Ranking Matches
The basic principle is,

A. Gather characters that grant point bonuses.
B. Improve the character's level and skills.
C. Fight against the strongest opponent possible.
D. Score as many goals as possible and concede as few as possible to win.
It all boils down to how to satisfy these requirements.
Since you need to collect characters that grant point bonuses by using the gacha system, it will be difficult for free-to-play players.
However, many characters can be obtained through event matches, so aiming to acquire them that way is also a good option.
Since I generally try to keep my spending to a minimum, I can't compete with top players, so I consider it just a bonus.