User blog comment:NovaSolaris/How do you get UR if you are a free user?/@comment-25091632-20140622155949

If you're saving up gems, I'd recommend using step-up summon. It is a better investment as it has a better chance of getting a SR as a minimum. Premium Summon is good and all but the rates of UR are at a 1%. Same as another any other summons.

If you're talking about earning UR. It would be through ranking and individual points. This method would be really tough as players increasing their lead.

I mean I don't know how it feels to not have a UR as I now have 4 of them. 3 lucky pulls from Ultimate Summon (thanks to maiden tickets from Step-Up Summon) and 1 from ranking. But I believe that not having a UR is good at times, as they are too costly to put on a team. For my teams for either ranking or progressing that I've been using, I've only use HSR and HR's. Half of my UR's are only found in my alliance battle teams as they are not worth putting on a team since they aren't HUR.