Are races winnable?

[Strifeboy]

Lvl 7 chochobo with stanima buff and can't beat gladious. Standing in from of him doesn't work like it did photo boy. Is there any other cheesy that makes this winnable?

[Raemnant]

You have a good bit of leeway to cut the corners of the races and not get penalized for it. If you see the next waypoint around a corner, jump the corner

[Raemnant]

Also, I dont know if the campsite greens go to races, I never tried, but if they do, then do the sidequests from Wiz and unlock Curiel greens. Your chocobo runs SOOOOOOOO fast with Curiel greens

[El Guapo]

Rest to a campfire and let your chocobo eat a good green wich can be bought in the Wiz station. Races are fairly easy tbh and keep the boost all parameters green for the Iris run whitout that is pretty unwinnable.

[KemonoMio]

After sprinting, at the end of the sprint start drifting then immediately sprint again (while you are drifting your chocobo gonna regain stamina). Using this technique you're practically have so many stamina, takes a bit practice though

I beat Iris with lv 9 chocobo with only Curiel Greens (not Sylkis Greens, the best one)

[JefTheReaper]

Originally posted by Strifeboy:

Lvl 7 chochobo with stanima buff and can't beat gladious. Standing in from of him doesn't work like it did photo boy. Is there any other cheesy that makes this winnable?

Its easy actually, just train your chocobo all the way to level 10 first and finish all the quests Wiz gives you (this will eventually unlock more "greens" to feed your chocobo to be bought at the chocobo merchant)

Just buy those greens (The best greens temporarely boost speed, jumping and gliding all at once) and go to the nearby camp, (greens are fed to a chocobo when you rest at camp)
Then go to the races and cheese every race (exept the last hidden race boss, who is pretty much also riding a level 10 chocobo with incredible stamina)

Easiest way to get to level 10 is by just riding your chocobo everywhere, rather then the Regalia (while doing those quests for Wiz) as Chocobo's level by distance traveled.

[Axelo Reim]

just glide if u see slope in ur way.
it's a trick to replenish stamina and also maintain ur speed.

[Strifeboy]

Originally posted by IcePawn:

After sprinting, at the end of the sprint start drifting then immediately sprint again (while you are drifting your chocobo gonna regain stamina). Using this technique you're practically have so many stamina, takes a bit practice though

I beat Iris with lv 9 chocobo with only Curiel Greens (not Sylkis Greens, the best one)

Is that the z key that says halt or is there another button for it? Cause it does slide forward and half the time lurk forward with a spring and the other flat out stop.

[Emmagination]

I haven't done many races, just the first 2 but the race with gladios (I'm referring to the first one with him, in case there are more) is mostly downhill and you can glide faster than he can run even with an unleveled chocobo. When the ground evens up just spam sprint and you'll win by a huge margin...I didn't even know I could drift in that race and he finished a good 5 seconds after me.

[Strifeboy]

How to glide? I jump and sorta just float down is that it or is there a keyboard button i wasnt told?

[J.P.]

Hold the jump button.

[Maverik770]

Yeah, as others have said there is tricks to keep speed without using stamina.

Leveling up the chocobo is really helpful, as is eating greens at a camp first. The last race pretty much requires you to have a leveled up chocobo and to eat good greens.

But what you do is sprint and then on the 7th step of your sprint (right before sprint stops) hold jump button to jump and glide a bit. You maintain your sprinting speed while gliding down. So doing that when going down hills is super important.

As soon as you land from the glide pull the Halt button to slide, wait about half a second while sliding and pull the Halt button a second time. That will cause your chocobo to lunge forward out of the slide back to full speed quickly.

The slide and the lunge out of the slide both replenish stamina. As soon as your lunge out of the slide is complete, tap sprint again. Rinse and repeat. Don't spam any of the buttons. There is a rhythm to this method but once you got the rhythm down its 2nd nature. It pretty much keeps you at sprinting speed at all times without running dry on stamina.

Practice this method all the time when riding your chocobo around the world and you will have it in no time. Also I recommend to turn on your Stamina bar in the options menu and watch the button icons in the bottom left to see when the word "sprint" greys out and lights up. That will prevent you from pressing the sprint button to early and help you establish the correct rhythm to maximize your speed.

[SahaKit]

i had a lvl 5 chocobo, no camp buffs, the way you beat this is drifting, it gives you an inmense short speed boost everytime you do it, once you start doing that is a cakewalk, all of them.

[Gigadesu!]

Jump A LOT.

[JARK]

Originally posted by Strifeboy:

Lvl 7 chochobo with stanima buff and can't beat gladious. Standing in from of him doesn't work like it did photo boy. Is there any other cheesy that makes this winnable?

Jumping after immediately sprint-boosting helps, as the Chocobos glide much faster than they run when on the aerial descent.

But TBH, the real purposes of the races are to purposefully go off-course and look for the feathers lying on the ground. You'll get some custom options for your chocobos that way, won't say anymore!

[Strifeboy]

New issue full field, I destroyed them the whole race and right at the end they all did op sprinting and ran straight past me. Whats the deal with that are there green that increase sprinting speed or something.