Strategy

#### Recipe Counter Triangle

Plant Recipes are typically easy to play, and focused on drawing and refreshing your hand. Spicy Recipes are focused on attacking and nullifying your opponent’s combos. Burger Recipes are worth some of the most Umami in the game.

If a Spicy-heavy player attacks a player going for Plant types, the Plant-type player suffers minimal loss and redraws more cards to reverse the attack.

If the Plant-heavy player ignores the Burger player, they will lose due to the Burger player accumulating Umami Points faster than them.

If the Burger-heavy player does nothing but buy vulnerable Burger Recipes, the Spicy player can burn their board and steal their high-value Recipes.

These are just the basic type interactions of Umami Friends. With the right board, character, and strategy, things can look very different each game.

#### Sweet Farming

Sweet farming is often the win condition in longer games. Sweet cards are the most powerful Ingredient type in the main deck. They are used to build Sweet Recipes, which are typically very high in Umami Points.

Managing your Energy and Ingredient spend to redraw the most cards possible at the end of your turn is a great way to draw more Sweets. Recipes with card-draw heavy abilities such as **Garden Salad** may allow you to draw the most cards possible each turn as well.

### Combos

#### Character Ability / Recipe Combos

##### Sasha + Garden Salad + Sweet Farming

**Sasha**'s passive ability **Dig** (when a Plant Type Recipe's active ability draws cards for you, draw +1 card) allows for very high amounts of card draw when building **Garden Salads**. **Garden Salad** itself has low Umami point value, so the player is encouraged to save Sweets to go for high Umami-point Sweet Recipes, such as **Twice Cream**, **Hyper Treat**, and **Chocoberry Cake.**

##### Shinra + Hotpot

While **Hotpot** is not worth many Umami points, but it's ability **Ignite** (discard 1 Basic Recipe from your opponent's board) can be incredibly strong. Keeping Spicy Ingredients on your board allows you to use **Shinra**'s ability **Inflame** (activate the active ability of any Recipe on your board) at any time and maximize the value of **Hotpot**.

##### Fronk + Tofu + The Omegaburger

**Fronk's** active ability **Wallow** (Discard one of your own or your opponents' Basic Recipes. Add a **Fancy Burger** to the affected players' board) allows him to acquire Burger-type Recipes faster than the opponent. With **Tofu**'s ability **Morph** (Tofu counts as a Basic Recipe of any type when building Recipes), **Fronk** can transform even more recipes to **Fancy Burgers**. Thus, **Fronk** can rush to the hard-to-achieve **The Omegaburger** for an instant-win through **Supremacy** (Upon pickup, win the game) very quickly without proper counterplay from the opponent.

##### Coco + Healthy Snack + Big Burrito

**Coco's** passive ability **Nap** is a very strong source of extra Ingredients when proc'd frequently. However, it requires exact card spend from your hand to activate. By having lots of Ingredients on the board through **Taco Party** and **Big Burrito**, Coco can buy **Healthy Snacks** + Basic Recipes using the proper mix of hand / board cards to frequently activate **Nap** and maintain strong board presence.

#### Recipe + Recipe Combos

##### Balanced Meal + Tofu

Balanced Meal is free, but it is the weakest Rare Recipe in the game. You can gain maximum value from the card itself by using it for the Colorless Basic Cost in Tofu. This can allow you to rush key Rare Recipes early in the game.

##### Garden Salad + Spicy Nuggets

Garden Salad's +2 Energy and +3 Card draw are very powerful, but the +1 card draw from Healthy Snacks and Garden Salad can give opponents many extra cards. Spicy Nuggets ability can completely neutralize the opponent's card draw

##### Healthy Snack + Tortilla Soup

Tortilla Soup's active ability **Submerge** (Discard a card from your own hand, then swap hands with an opponent) is incredibly strong when preceded by Healthy Snack(s). Healthy Snack spends Ingredients from your own hand, and draws cards for the opponent. When **Submerge** swaps hands, the opponent ends with little to no ingredients, while you receive the hand with more cards drawn.

##### Tamale Twins + Legendary Recipes

Legendary Recipes have very powerful active abilities. **Tamale Twins'** active ability **Double-Up** (Use the active ability of any Recipe on your board) allows you to proc the Legendary Recipe active ability again.