Chocobo Racing AdviceFollow

I've recently taken an interest in racing my chocobo I raised a very long time ago. I've done a lot of digging on the internet but I still seem to have a lot of questions.

It is a third generation black female with First Class Strength and Endurance, 0 Discernment and Reception. She was born with Gallop, and is currently retired. I'm not sure if it's possible at this point to learn Cantor.

I know that is beneficial to also have mental traits, but I'm not sure if it is possible to have the other two stats maxed out and still have decent mental attributes, or is it?

Despite having maxed physical attributes, I still lose a lot. Like whenever I go to race (I'll use the non-circuit re-run races as an example) there is usually (almost always) one super chocobo, named MeteorLegs or StarOnion, that ALWAYS wins by a huge margin.

How can I compete with something like that? Is there is a certain item I could use that would possibly tip the scales in my favor that would actually make a difference? I've tried speed and stamina apples. I'm wondering if the key is in these wearable items for the chocobo I've been reading about, or perhaps a more offensive approach with something like fire biscuits?

Also, how do I determine which order to give the jockey? I almost always choose "Final Spurt" to save stamina, but often times my chocobo will lead the entire race then fall behind at the last second despite this.

Any Chocobo Racing gurus out there have any tips or advice?

I see...

I'm thinking what I'm going to have to do is raise a whole new bird while using my current one to raise chocobucks.

I wonder if it is possible that Gallop and Cantor actually DO NOT help if a chocobo is already at First Class on both STR and END... I wonder because Wiki says that these abilities raise those attributes by one level, as if to say there is a level higher than "First Class" that it gives somehow, or not.

What I will probably do is raise 1000 chocobucks (the limit) after buying as many items as I can for raising stats, then begin raising the new chocobo, while at the same time trying to keep us as many chocobucks as I can throughout the raising process so that I may buy items for it every day.

If I need 7 items per stat raise at 560 bucks each I will need a total of:
56 items per stat at 4480 chocobucks
x2 for each stat I cannot raise normally through training alone. (112 items)

So 8960 chocobucks for 112 items... If there were not such a small limit (1000) this would not be so hard to do.

Considering I only have 100 days after it becomes an adult until it retires, and assuming I can only use 1 of these items per day, I will be able to produce a chocobo with:

First Class: Strength (through normal training)
First Class: Endurance (through normal training)
Outstanding: Reception (through the use of 50 items)
Outstanding: Discernment (through the use of 50 items)

OR I could max out one of the two mental attributes and let the other one slack a bit. I might even be able to raise the mental attributes a bit after I've maxed the physical ones through normal training hopefully without losing "First Class" status on either of my physical stats first.

OR I wonder if I should leave Strength and Endurance at "Outstanding" and let Gallop and Cantor raise them to "First Class."

you can use more then 1 token a day to raise a stat. But you can only get 1 stat booster from kamp kweh once a day. Also keep in mind that by Day 64 it's impossible (or rly rly hard) to learn abilities/raise stats without tokens/kamp kweh.



I forgot to mention this in my first post but if your raiseing a chocobo the stat booster with chocobucks costs only 80 chocobucks and AUTOMATICALLY raises that stat (you don't get an item the screen goes blank and the npc says done). If you want the actual items i believe there 120? chocobucks for the non random raisers (or at least more then the others)

Edit: And i think it needs to be past day 30/an adult not entierly sure though



I haven't seen it myself but it's possible to occasionally beat the super chocobos w/o items if you end up lucky and one of the weaker birds lands a Fire biscuit on them. Other then that you can beat them with a speed apple if you have a good enough chocobo (though its not rly worth it imo)

Edited, Jan 30th 2010 5:15pm by Bobtheinvicible

That is another thing I've been meaning to ask: What are the correct raising silks for what? I have been unable to find any information at all on the silks other than they help reduce stamina loss during training.

What are the differences between all the various colored silks? I see:

Orange
Black
Purple
Blue
Sky Blue
Red
White
and Green

Should I buy all of them?

The Circuit races give you random chocobos to race against but they're not in a fixed routine (at least not as small as free races are). As for why you lost if you were useing ur Str: SS End: SS Dcp/Rcp: F it's again the lack of Dsc. A bird with Better then average stats on all 4 is most likely going to beat you.

your best bet for circuits is to try for a dsc saddle (if available) and maybe a stamina apple. Speed Apples will probly go to waste because you're chocobo will just use it at the start and get pelted by Fire biscuits (Dsc also helps a chocobo time when to use its items)

For free races There's a loop of which birds you'll race (think out of 7 races) So it's easy to tell what your going to get if you find the pattern and once you do you'll pretty much get the same out come every time (usually it's like 1stx2 2ndx4 4thx1 or something if you have a average racer)

Good luck show those super chocobos whos boss! :P

That adds up to 828 not 637

I think most people go with
Str: First Class (+ Gallop)
End: Outstanding (+Canter)
Dsc: Better Than Average
Rcp: Substandard/A bit deficient

I believe the trick to getting these is to leave End/dsc/Rcp just barely on the line of being at those stats and fully capping Str. (or some form of that)

if they signed up for the same race as you then you would be vsing there bird as well.

If you had enough mules to put in every single slot of a chocobo circuit you would be wasteing like A thousand Chocobucks + 50-100k in gil to sign up for one race just to win 100k + 120 chocobucks at most for ONE of your chocobos.




there's been speculation that npcs have extra stats to raise there birds or that they've ballanced all there stats perfectly so it seems higher idk rly i've never really noticed it that often

NPC birds are not bound by the same rules as player chocobos. For instance, I have twice run into Circuit chocobo with abilities listed as "Gallop + Gallop" (although I don't recall there being anything remarkable about its performance in the race).