Chocobo racing, does everything cheat in this game?

[Raez]

My chocobo has SS str SS end C disc and F res with gallop and canter

I can never, ever, ever beat the three super chocobos in free runs despite having strickly better racing stats and using the exact same item. does res have some crazy super secret effect on racing or does the game just cheat like it certainly shows you. (it clearly moves your chocobo back behind them if you are in front every cutscene)

[Godofgods]

i actuly have beaten them once or twice with my choco but its not often. Mine has S str/end F res/dis. If i remember, the three super all have S str/end with canter gallop, so it will be hard against them even with a well trained choco.

That being said, its annoying as hell. With three super chocos, theirs a high chance one will always be present, meaning you cant win. Which makes earning chocobuckes in free run nearly impossible, and highly highly time consuming. And considering the cost of items, like the choco training tokens (80-100 chocobucks) and that you could use like 7+ to raise a single stat a single level, it becomes insain.

[Limecat]

I stopped trying to beat them. I figured that even if I could use an item to beat one, it's still more cost-effective to just get your bird to the point where it never loses to a non-super bird, and spam free runs without using any items. Ends up coming out as each training token costing 27k(assuming 1k races) and taking 134 minutes of racing, on average.

[Saenomo]

My Chocobo has Gallop and Treasure Hunter. It has a 50/50 shot at beating one of the three Super birds, but falls into third or forth during the race with all three of them together. I found the best plan is to hold back so they beat each other down and come from behind at the end of the race. There is also a pattern to when each bird will appear as well, though I forget the order. It runs 1 Super, 1 Super, 1 Super, 3 Supers, No-Supers, No-Supers, Repeat.

[Kavik]

Since this is the only thread i can find on this i'ma jump on it instead of making my own. 5 chocobucks for a a 1k race win is ridiculous. I can see winning 5 chocobucks for a race that costs 100gil. But why can't we get an amount of chocobucks based on how much gil we put in? Even 1/10th of the race cost would be better then what we have now also i think it would be REALLY nice to just skip the entirety of the race like you can with raising a chocobo or redoing a storyline battlefield, "Skip the event?" YES PLEASE! it is tedious watching the same choco's run around the track every time when you have no control over the outcome of the race, now if were manually racing our birds this would be a different story but it just makes it a waste of time to sit and watch them (i have a race going in the background as i'm typing this) (yay my bird with SS str and ENd, cantor and gallop is winning). I really hope SE finds it in their hearts to change these things to make chocobo racing more approachable to the general population.

[Natenn]

They need to make Chocobo Racing like how it was in FF7, where we manually control the bird and give us weapons like Mario kart/speed boosts ect. Then everyone would love it and it would give us more reason to raise chocobos.

[Kavik]

i actuly have beaten them once or twice with my choco but its not often. Mine has S str/end F res/dis. If i remember, the three super all have S str/end with canter gallop, so it will be hard against them even with a well trained choco.

That being said, its annoying as hell. With three super chocos, theirs a high chance one will always be present, meaning you cant win. Which makes earning chocobuckes in free run nearly impossible, and highly highly time consuming. And considering the cost of items, like the choco training tokens (80-100 chocobucks) and that you could use like 7+ to raise a single stat a single level, it becomes insain.

Star onion (green 'super chocobo') has first class Str, better then average endurance average discernment and average receptivity and uses keep pace with canter and gallop (equips speed apple)

Invincible leg (blue Super chocobo ) 1st class str impressive endurance and average discernment and receptivity + gallop and canter also uses keep pace (equips speed apple)

Meteor Brian (black super chocobo) first class str better then average endurance and average discernment and receptivity uses keep pace (equips speed apple)

{case no one noticed i just got these 3 in a single race so i shall be coming in 4th on a black choco with capped str and endurance and poor on the other 2 with a speed apple using keep pace with the abilities canter and gallop}

[Kavik]

450 gil.... 1 chocobuck for 4th place.

[Kyrial]

Once I maxed out my bird the way I wanted, I found that I would randomly beat the supers from time to time as long as it was 1-on-1 (still lost the 3-on-1, of course, though sometimes came in 2nd on that), even with no item at all. That was with Gallop and Canter, SS Strength (capped), S Endurance (barely; almost A), C Discernment (barely; almost D), and D REC (barely; almost C). I also always used Final Sprint for my orders. Final Sprint is important, and Receptivity is more important than some people seem to realize, when it comes to the super chocobos and Chocobo Circuit races. If I'm not mistaken, Receptivity affects your resistance to attack items (Gysahl Bombs and such). My theory is that while yes, you can resist those items outright, you can also partially resist them (which would be shown as them affecting you, rather than being resisted). That would be where the Receptivity comes into play.

Just the observations of me and a friend of mine, though. Take it with a grain of salt. :P

[Kavik]

my aim for this choco is to raise it with SS and S then A and then whatever i can get on the last one which isnt really much, my choco chick currently, at day 16 is substandard strength a bit defiecient endurance and poor on the other 2, i've been feeding vomp carrots x2 and a azouph green a day. She also has gallop already so i'm hoping this will finally be my race bird. Both parents had first class str and endurence.