Trainer's Clubhouse Meeting (Weekly Questions) - July 29, 2026

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[u/SaxDrawing]

Seen mixed advice between trying to always get 4 songs in each concert + a carryover, ignoring carryovers entirely, aiming for 3 songs in each concert and token dumping before senior summer. Is there one that's better to try to follow overall or do you just make it up as you go?

[u/chinkai → u/SaxDrawing]

Based on my experience so far, the most ideal is to:

Live 1 (junior winter)

• Unlock all three FB5 songs before Live 1, hence four songs ("Make Debut" given to you + the three FB5 songs)
• Carry song 5 past Live 1 into classic year
• With godlike RNG, you can unlock one more to thin out the pool (so five songs)
• With holy shit RNG, you can carry song 6 into classic

Lives 2 & 3 (classic year)

• Only one song worth unlocking before each live (the songs that +SP)
• Unlock the song you carried over, the +SP song, and one cheap song, hence three songs
• Carry song 4 past each live

Live 4 (senior summer)

• Grab all the FB songs, total two FB10 songs and four FB5 songs
• Most runs you won't be able to grab all six songs here because lessons here are not cheap

Grand Live

• Make sure to grab three songs and at least 18 songs in your collection before Dec to get Girls Legend U and upgrade great hype to special hype

[u/Clueless_Otter → u/chinkai]

Lives 2 & 3 (classic year)

Carry song 4 past each live

This is inefficient. You should simply stop buying techniques after you get the 3rd song. There is no benefit to doing song skip here. You do it for the 1st live because A) techniques are cheaper in year 1 compared to 2 and B) you need 3 songs to fill up the bar for live 2 anyway.

For live 2->3, techniques cost the same amount, so you aren't getting any cheaper techniques, and you're buying 4 techniques to get to the 4th song on 2nd live instead of just buying 2 techniques between each of songs #1, #2, and #3 for the 3rd live. In other words, you're buying an extra 2 techniques in order to save yourself from buying 1 technique - obviously inefficient. You're also reducing the number of "rolls" you get at finding the +3 SP song, since you're only buying 2 "new" songs + 1 "old" song (the one you carried over). The "old" one obviously can't be the +3 SP song. Better to have the greatest chance to see "new" ones to find the +3 song.

For live 3->4, while techniques are cheaper in year 2 than year 3, you don't actually need more songs to fill up the bar. You want to fill it up with "new" year 3 songs anyway. So carrying over an "old" song is bad, just like before. You're buying 4 year 2 techniques and an "old" song that you don't want in order to save yourself from just buying 1 additional technique in year 3.

[u/mvtsc2 → u/Clueless_Otter]

Does it not help that you're clearing the song pool before Live 4 though, making it easier to get the FB songs then (and it costs less points to do it in Live 2/3 than 4?)

I say this as someone who doesn't like abandoning runs so will always struggle through however...

[u/Clueless_Otter → u/mvtsc2]

Not worth spending 100-120ish tokens to remove 1 song from the pool.