[Tracen Academy] Riko Kashimoto
![Support card art for [Tracen Academy] Riko Kashimoto](/assets/support-card-art/10060.png)
R
Friend
Analysis
Section titled “Analysis”Tier D. A zero-investment R Friend that plugs deck holes in your first few careers and gets dropped the instant any SR or SSR Friend hits your collection.
Friend cards earn their slot by buffing the rest of your board, and Riko barely registers. Max her out and you get a flat 5% Training Effectiveness. That’s the entire friendship payload. There’s no friendship training, no rainbow help, nothing that scales with the rest of your deck. The trimmings are forgettable too: a small Initial Friendship Gauge, 5% Race Bonus, 15% Fan Bonus, and a bit of failure protection plus energy cost reduction once she’s fully limit-broken.
The bigger problem is hints. She gives zero hint skills, so a full run with her teaches your uma nothing. The skills tied to her (Ramp Up, Maverick, Lone Wolf, Straightaway Acceleration, Sympathy) only ever appear as random event choices, so you can’t build around them on purpose.
Her competition is brutal. Every SR and SSR Friend outclasses her, and SSR Riko is an actual meta pull thanks to training-session rerolls this R version can’t dream of. The one saving grace is her events, which lean toward Stamina, energy recovery, and mood. That keeps her from being dead weight in a casual career or in Unity Cup.
- Pros: free, friendly event outcomes, passable failure and energy utility at high LB.
- Cons: no hint skills, anemic 5% effectiveness, buried by any higher-rarity Friend.
Card details
Section titled “Card details”| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Character | Riko Kashimoto |
| Rarity | R |
| Type | Friend |
| Obtain | Gacha |
| Global release | Nov 6, 2025 |
| Hint skills | None listed |
| Event skills | Ramp Up, Maverick ○, Lone Wolf, Straightaway Acceleration, Sympathy |
Support effects
Section titled “Support effects”| Effect | What it does | Values |
|---|---|---|
| Training Effectiveness | Increases the effectiveness of training performed together | Lv40: 5% |
| Initial Friendship Gauge | Increases initial Friendship Gauge when beginning a Career playthrough | Lv1: 10, Lv20: 20, Lv40: 25 |
| Race Bonus | Increases stat gain from races | Lv1: 1%, Lv20: 5% |
| Fan Bonus | Increases fan gain from races | Lv1: 1%, Lv20: 10%, Lv40: 15% |
| Event Recovery | Increases Energy recovery from this Support Card’s events | Lv5: 10%, Lv15: 20%, Lv35: 30% |
| Event Effectiveness | Increases stat gain from this Support Card’s events | Lv1: 10%, Lv20: 20%, Lv40: 25% |
| Failure Protection | Decreases the probability of failure when training together | Lv5: 5%, Lv15: 10%, Lv35: 15% |
| Energy Cost Reduction | Decreases Energy consumed when training together | Lv5: 1%, Lv15: 5%, Lv35: 10% |