Sugo-Fest Event



Sugo-Fest is a special Rare Recruit Rate Up event. In this event you have higher chances to recruit powerful characters. You can access Sugo-Fest through the Tavern through the Rare Recruit option (which costs 5 gems per use). This event lasts only 24 or 48 hours and comes out periodically (roughly every two weeks since late 2015, it was more of a monthly event before). Many Sugo-Fests are the times where new characters are revealed and enter the Rare Rercuit pool for the first time (hence each subsequent Sugo-Fest has a larger pool of characters to draw from).

Increased likelihood of certain characters
Each Sugo Fest offers a list of 10 or so characters which have a significantly higher chance of being drawn during it. Note that those characters are rated as 4 and 5 stars and can be also drawn during future Sugo-Fest (except for some limited time exclusive characters described below).

Rate Up
Most Sugo Fest offer "rate up" on certain units, which means they are guaranteed to get bonuses such as higher starting levels (usually 20, sometimes higher) or stat boosts (usually a single +1). The bonuses often affect new units released for this Sugo Fest and/or the ones with increased likelihood of being drawn during it.

Sugo-Fest Exclusive Characters
The major reason to draw rare characters only during Sugo Fests is that only during this event you can recruit Sugo Rare exclusive characters, which you CANNOT obtain in other ways. This exclusive characters are not affected by rate up. There are two types of Sugo-Fest Exlusives. First, ones that appear in all Sugo Fests:

Second, there are even rarer exclusives which appear only during named Sugo-Fests (some of which are listed here). For example, Portgas D. Ace Mt. Corvo’s Brothers 3 can only be recruited during the Before They Were Famous! event. Other characters are tied to special times of the year such as XMAS or Valentine Day.

The odds of drawing a Sugo-Fest rare are not high, at best they are around 5% and likely, smaller.

Current/Upcoming Sugo-Fest
Expect something to happen around May 17th, give or take a day or two.

Also, see a list of Japanese Sugo-Fests here, and please add to it if you can.