Scouting is where you will earn new members to add to your teams. Depending on what type of scouting you're doing, this will cost friend points, love gems, or blue coupons.
Scouting Menu
The slideshow above shows both the μ's (#1) and Aqours (#2) scouting menus. On the picture of the μ's scouting menu (#1), each menu item has been numbered so you can find out what each button does.
1. μ's/Aqours Switch: Pressing this will switch the scouting menu between μ's and Aqours mode. Being on μ's or Aqours mode will give you cards from whatever respective idol group you're scouting for.
2. Scouting Tabs: Within the μ's scouting menu, there are different types of scouting from there. Click on each tab to be taken to a different type of scouting.
3. Honor Scouting Buttons: These two buttons will let you do honor scouting at either one scout for 5 Love Gems (or 1 green scouting ticket if you have one), or 11 Scouts for 50 Love Gems.
4. Purchase Love Gems Button: This button will allow you to buy Love Gems for real money.
5. Honor Student Bonus: Every 10 scouts, this bar fills up. Once the bar fills up, you receive one blue scouting ticket and the bar goes back to zero.
6. Regular Scouting Button: This is you do regular scouting. You get one free regular scout per day on both the μ's and Aqours scouting menus. After that, it costs 100 friend points for 1 regular scout, or 10 regular scouts for 1,000 friend points.
7. Featured Card Set: The most recent cards added to each idol group will be shown off here. The μ's side will show the latest μ's cards and the Aqours side will feature the most recent Aqours cards.
8. Scouting Details: Pressing this button will bring up a menu showing which cards can be scouted right now.
2. Scouting Tabs: Within the μ's scouting menu, there are different types of scouting from there. Click on each tab to be taken to a different type of scouting.
3. Honor Scouting Buttons: These two buttons will let you do honor scouting at either one scout for 5 Love Gems (or 1 green scouting ticket if you have one), or 11 Scouts for 50 Love Gems.
4. Purchase Love Gems Button: This button will allow you to buy Love Gems for real money.
5. Honor Student Bonus: Every 10 scouts, this bar fills up. Once the bar fills up, you receive one blue scouting ticket and the bar goes back to zero.
6. Regular Scouting Button: This is you do regular scouting. You get one free regular scout per day on both the μ's and Aqours scouting menus. After that, it costs 100 friend points for 1 regular scout, or 10 regular scouts for 1,000 friend points.
7. Featured Card Set: The most recent cards added to each idol group will be shown off here. The μ's side will show the latest μ's cards and the Aqours side will feature the most recent Aqours cards.
8. Scouting Details: Pressing this button will bring up a menu showing which cards can be scouted right now.
Types of Scouting
There are two quite different types of scouting in this game. There is honor scouting and regular scouting. These two types of scouting are actually quite different from each other.
Regular Scouting
In regular scouting, you are able to obtain N cards and R cards for friend points. It costs 100 friend points to scout once and it costs 1,000 friend points to scout 10 times. Friend points can be obtained easily in game by completing live shows. For both μ's and Aqours scouting, you get one free regular scout per day. After that, it starts to cost friend points. The chances of getting a certain rarity of card are listed below:
N Card: 95%
R Card: 5%
N Card: 95%
R Card: 5%
Honor Scouting
In honor scouting, you are able to obtain R cards, SR cards, SSR cards, and UR cards for love gems. It costs 5 love gems to do one honor scout and 50 love gems to scout 11 times. You can also do one free honor scout if you have any green scouting coupons (these are often given out in events). If If you scout 11 times, you are always GUARANTEED at least 1 SR card or above. It is possible to get multiple SR or higher rarity cards though. Because of the fact that you are guaranteed at least 1 SR card when you scout 11 times, many players advise to NEVER scout once for 5 gems. The chances of getting a certain rarity of card are listed below:
R Card: 80%
SR Card: 15%
SSR Card: 4%
UR Card: 1%
R Card: 80%
SR Card: 15%
SSR Card: 4%
UR Card: 1%
Limited Scouting
During in-game events, limited scouting will be available. To access limited scouting, on the μ's scouting menu, press the "limited scouting" tab. With limited scouting, only certain cards will be scoutable. Sometimes, it will be limited to three different girls of μ's. Sometimes, it be limited to cards that are no longer obtainable in the main scouting box. Either way, it's very useful way to make getting a certain card that you want easier. The official Love Live SIF Facebook page often makes announcements regarding what limited scouting is in score during events.
Coupon Scouting
Remember me mentioning blue scouting coupons earlier? Well, here's where you use them. Blue scouting coupons can be earned by filling up your school idol bonus (once every 10 honor scouts), once every 20 rank ups (rank 20, 40, 60, etc.), or in the sticker shop (accessible from the "other" menu) for 30 N stickers or 2 S stickers (more about stickers can be found on the card management page under special practice). Blue coupon scouting is available for both μ's and Aqours.
For 5 blue scouting coupons, you can do SR/UR scouting. With this type of scouting, you'll always get an SR card or a UR card. The chances of getting a certain rarity of card are listed below:
SR Card: 80%
UR Card: 20%
For 10 scouting tickets, you can do SSR/UR scouting. With this type of scouting, you'll always get an SSR or a UR card. The chances of getting a certain rarity of card are listed below:
SSR Card: 80%
UR Card: 20%
For 25 scouting tickets, you can do UR scouting. With this type of scouting, you'll always get a UR card. The chances of getting a certain rarity of card are listed below:
UR Card: 100%
There is also support card scouting where you can get one support (a card only used to make other cards more powerful) for 1 blue scouting coupon. Pressing the arrow buttons will take you there. Many players advise not doing this though as the chances of getting a decent support card card are very slim, and you're better off trying to get a UR card in the SR/UR scouting for 5 blue scouting coupons. Support card scouting is only found on the μ's side of scouting.
For 5 blue scouting coupons, you can do SR/UR scouting. With this type of scouting, you'll always get an SR card or a UR card. The chances of getting a certain rarity of card are listed below:
SR Card: 80%
UR Card: 20%
For 10 scouting tickets, you can do SSR/UR scouting. With this type of scouting, you'll always get an SSR or a UR card. The chances of getting a certain rarity of card are listed below:
SSR Card: 80%
UR Card: 20%
For 25 scouting tickets, you can do UR scouting. With this type of scouting, you'll always get a UR card. The chances of getting a certain rarity of card are listed below:
UR Card: 100%
There is also support card scouting where you can get one support (a card only used to make other cards more powerful) for 1 blue scouting coupon. Pressing the arrow buttons will take you there. Many players advise not doing this though as the chances of getting a decent support card card are very slim, and you're better off trying to get a UR card in the SR/UR scouting for 5 blue scouting coupons. Support card scouting is only found on the μ's side of scouting.
Below is a video of me doing some regular scouting. I put this here so you can see what the whole scouting process is like.
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