What is the Pity System in Genshin Impact?
The Pity System in Genshin Impact essentially ensures that you receive certain ranks of characters after wishing a certain number of times. Pity can be tracked by clicking the History button on the Wish page. From there, just count the number of pulls since your last 5-star character. The number of wishes changes between banners.
To begin with, Genshin Impact’s 5-star characters have some of the worst drop rates, with a measly 0.6% chance of being pulled. Thankfully, if you’re out of luck and can’t seem to pull one, you’ll be pleased to hear that you’re guaranteed to win a 5-star character on your 90th wish on the Character Event banner.
Moreover, while the base probability for obtaining a 5-star character is 0.6%, players have found a hidden pity system called soft pity. This system increases the probability after a certain number of pulls. Specifically, at 75 pulls on the Character Event Wish banner and the Standard Wish banner, the 0.6% chance will slowly increase until it hits 100% on your 90th pull.
It’s important to note that pity in Genshin Impact doesn’t carry over between different types of banners. For example, the Weapon Event Wish and the Character Event Wish banners both have different pity counts. This means you’ll have to build pity on both banners if you want a guaranteed five-star character.
The Pity system exists to snuff a little of the uncertainty out of the Gacha system. Basically, after a certain number of rolls, players are guaranteed to get a high rarity item. In Genshin Impact, this item is a 4 or 5-star character or weapon.
- Limited Character Banner: Roll 10 times for a guaranteed 4-star and 90 times for a guaranteed 5-star.
- Standard Banner: Roll 10 times for a guaranteed 4-star and 90 times for a guaranteed 5-star.
- Weapon Banner: Roll 10 times for a guaranteed 4-star and 80 times for a guaranteed 5-star.
Furthermore, there is another type of pity called soft pity, which starts around the 75th roll. This is where the chances of getting a 5-star character/weapon begin to increase. Notably, pity carries over from banner to banner. So, if you roll 75 times before a new banner drops, those rolls will carry over, but this only works if you’re rolling on the same banner. , Character and Standard banners don’t share the same pity—they work separately, and this also applies to the Weapon banner.
Lastly, the Pity system in Genshin Impact operates on two levels, soft pity and hard pity. Soft pity starts with the 74th wish, where every additional wish increases your chances by roughly 6%, until you achieve a 100% chance on the 90th wish.
Pity is the number of wishes you did before you got a five-star. For example, if you wished 77 times on the Character banner and didn’t get any five-star, you have 77 pity. At 90 pity, you are guaranteed to get a five-star; however, reaching 90 is basically impossible because of the soft pity system.
How Does Soft Pity Work?
Soft pity is when you start hitting 70 to 80 pulls. The rate of getting a 5-star increases more and more as you reach 80, and is when you usually get a 5-star character. However, if you’re unlucky, you hit “hard pity”; which guarantees you a 5-star on your 90th pull. Specifically, soft pity starts with the 74th wish. Every additional wish increases your chances by roughly 6%, until you have a 100% chance on the 90th wish. Around 75 pulls in, soft pity will start to kick in, where each subsequent pull increases the chances of pulling an S-rank.
In of the banners:
- Limited Event Banner: Soft pity and hard pity apply here as mentioned above.
- Weapon Banner: This also requires Intertwined Fates and employs a similar pity system. Instead of 90 pulls, you need 80 pulls to get a 5-star weapon. Soft pity occurs between 60-70 pulls, with hard pity at 80 pulls.
- Standard Banner: This banner doesn’t have rate-up characters or an Epitomized Path. It has a pool of standard 5-star characters and weapons, all with an equal rate of probability. It also follows the same pity system, allowing a 5-star character within 90 pulls, with soft pity between 70-80 pulls.
Ultimately, the pity system in Genshin Impact ensures that players receive certain ranks of characters after wishing a certain number of times, thereby guaranteeing rewards through the soft and hard pity mechanics.
Understanding Hard Pity in Banner Pulls
The pity system in Genshin Impact provides players with a guarantee for their pulls. It consists of two phases: “soft pity” and “hard pity.”
Soft Pity: This phase begins at around the 74th wish. Here, the chances of pulling a 5-star character significantly increase. Every additional wish raises your chances by roughly 6% until you reach a 100% chance.
Hard Pity: The hard pity threshold is reached after 90 pulls on a banner, meaning that if you haven’t pulled a 5-star by the 90th wish, your next pull will definitely be a 5-star character. Once you hit hard pity, you are guaranteed to pull a 5-star character on your next wish. At this stage, there is still a 50% chance of obtaining the featured banner character, with the other 50% being a random 5-star character.
Additionally, the gacha system is more favorable to free-to-play (F2P) players. If a player skips a version, they can almost guarantee enough pulls to eventually acquire a 5-star character. Importantly, if you fail to get the 5-star when you are guaranteed a limited version character, your pity carries over to the next event banner. Thus, none of your saved pulls are wasted.
What Happens to Pity When Switching Banners?
The pity system in Genshin Impact consists of several mechanics that influence players’ chances of obtaining desirable items.
Firstly, the pity system carries over between different banners of the same type. For instance, if you reach the 80th wish on a weapon banner and then switch to a different weapon banner, your progress toward the guaranteed pity will carry over. Therefore, it’s beneficial to consider this when deciding to switch banners.
Now, let’s explore the different types of pity:
- Hard Pity: This guarantees a 5-star item after a specific number of wishes. For character banners, the hard pity trigger occurs at the 90th wish, guaranteeing the featured 5-star character if it hasn’t been obtained earlier. Similarly, for weapon banners, the hard pity trigger is at the 80th wish. It is important to note that once a 5-star item is obtained, the pity counter will be reset to zero.
- Soft Pity: This occurs when players make a certain number of wishes without obtaining a 5-star character or weapon. Typically, it happens between 75 and 90 wishes. Once the soft pity threshold is reached, it visibly increases the chances of obtaining 5-star items, making it more likely for players to receive their desired character or weapon.
- 4-Star Pity: The game enhances your chances of obtaining a 4-star item after a specific number of wishes, called the 4-star pity or rate-up pity. For character banners, this triggers after every 10 wishes without a 4-star or higher item. Once triggered, players are guaranteed to receive a 4-star character, with an increased chance that it will be the featured rate-up character.
In of tracking pity, it can be monitored by clicking the History button on the Wish page. From there, players can count the number of pulls since their last 5-star character. However, it’s important to note that the number of wishes required changes between banners:
- The pity count for the Standard/Permanent banner and time-limited character’s banner is at 90 wishes.
- For weapons banners, the pity is set at 80 wishes.
Thus, understanding these mechanics provides players with strategic insights into how the pity system works while switching banners in Genshin Impact.
Explaining the 50/50 Chance with Limited Banners
The in-game description for this guaranteed pull indicates that there is a 50% chance of getting the featured 5-Star on a character event Banner. However, this is only applicable under the 50/50 system. It does not imply that there is a consistent 50% chance of obtaining the featured 5-Star every time you spend your Intertwined Fate on a Wish.
For example, if Arataki Itto is the featured 5-Star character on his Oni’s Royale banner, you will encounter the 50/50 system. If you do not pull Itto the first time you successfully Wish for a 5-Star character or weapon, you will be guaranteed to get him the second time you pull a 5-Star item.
Additionally, the Soft Pity system in Genshin Impact increases your likelihood of obtaining a 5-Star character after your 75th Wish on a character event Banner. Your odds for pulling a 5-Star item rise with each Wish after 75. Ultimately, you will be guaranteed a 5-Star item on your 90th Wish under the ordinary Hard Pity system, provided you haven’t already obtained one. Therefore, in the very worst-case scenario, you could receive the featured 5-Star character on your 180th Wish.
Moreover, if you wish to reduce the Primogems spent on acquiring your desired featured 5-Star weapon through Epitome Invocation, you can utilize the Epitomized Path. By selecting one of the two featured 5-Star weapons to ‘chart a course’ towards, you will start earning Fate Points for every 5-Star weapon you pull that isn’t the one you want. Once you accumulate 2 Fate Points, your next 5-Star weapon will be guaranteed to be the one chosen for your Epitomized Path.
To summarize:
- The 50/50 system provides a 50% chance to get the 5-Star character featured in the banner and a 50% chance to obtain a standard banner character, ensuring fairness for players.
- This system takes effect whenever a player wishes on a banner and reaches the 5-star threshold of 75-90 pulls.
- The pity system guarantees a high-rarity item or character after a specific number of pulls or wishes on a banner.
How to Strategize Your Pulls using the Pity System?
In Genshin Impact, the pity system is an essential mechanic that ensures you receive higher-ranked characters after a specific number of wishes.
The mechanics of the pity system are as follows:
- For the Limited Character Banner and Standard Banner, rolling 10 times guarantees you a 4-star character, while rolling 90 times guarantees a 5-star character.
- Soft Pity refers to the range of wishes between 60 to 80 pulls since your last 5-star character or weapon. It begins increasing your chances from the 74th wish.
- Hard Pity occurs at exactly 90 pulls for a 5-star character or 80 pulls for a 5-star weapon.
Normally, the chance to get a 5-star on each pull is 0.6%. However, once you reach 74 pity (on the character banner and standard banner, not for the weapon banner), you begin to get increased chances of obtaining a 5-star character. This means that, generally, you will acquire a 5-star before hitting 80 pulls.
To effectively strategize your pulls, consider the following tips:
- Instead of wishing with reckless abandon, take the pity system’s mechanics into .
- Save up your Primogems and Intertwined Fates to prepare for the banner of your desired character.
- Once the banner arrives, ensure you have enough Primogems to reach the pity twice, giving you a stronger chance of getting the character even if the first pull doesn’t yield a 5-star.
The Impact of Pity on Player Experience: Is it Fair?
In Genshin Impact, players perform ‘Wishes’ to acquire 3-Star or above characters or weapons (max 5-star). Whenever a player uses 10 wishes, they are guaranteed to obtain a 4-star or above item. If a single wish does not yield a 4-star or above item in 9 consecutive pulls, the 10th pull guarantees a 4-star or above item. The pity system functions similarly for 5-star items; if a player does not receive a 5-star item after 89 wishes, the 90th wish is guaranteed to yield a 5-star item.
For Genshin Impact promotional character wishes, players receiving a 4-star item have a 50% chance of obtaining a 4-star promotional character (characters shown on the banner). However, if players instead receive a 4-star weapon, the next 4-star item is guaranteed to be a 4-star featured character.
When a player receives a 4-star or 5-star item, the pity system resets. For example, if a player receives a 4-star in-game item on the 5th wish, the pity counter resets to ‘0’. This means the player is not guaranteed to obtain a 4-star item on the next set of 10 wishes.
The pity system in Genshin Impact allows for a guaranteed drop of a five-star character if certain criteria are met. Specifically, the system guarantees a five-star character drop for every 90 wishes spent on a character banner. For weapon event wishes, a five-star weapon drop is guaranteed at the 80th wish. It is important to note that accumulated pity is not transferable between different banners.
Given that the wish rate for characters can be slim, Genshin Impact implements a pity system to ensure players eventually receive a character or weapon from the desired banner. Of all drop rates, five-star characters are the rarest, with a rate of only 0.6%.
Furthermore, like ‘soft pity’ and ‘hard pity’ are used to describe the probability of obtaining a 5-star character or weapon from the game’s wish system. Soft pity refers to the stage where the probability of obtaining a 5-star item starts to increase. Notably, if a player loses the 50/50 chance, the next time they pull on that banner and receive a 5-star item, it is guaranteed to be the featured item.
Common Misconceptions about Pity in Genshin Impact
Common Misconceptions about Pity in Genshin Impact
- Many believe Soft Pity and Pity are the same. In reality, they are two different mechanics. While Pity (also called Hard Pity) increases the chances of getting a five-star character, Soft Pity is a modified version that adjusts the odds based on the player’s pull history.
- Many fans mistakenly believe that Soft Pity only applies to the Standard banner. However, this is not true; Soft Pity works with all banners: Event Wish and Standard Wish. Hence, players can summon their favorite characters and weapons without reaching Hard Pity (80-90 pulls).
- One of the biggest misconceptions is that new banners reset Soft and Hard Pity counts. Whenever new banners feature fresh characters, they do not reset the Pity counts. Players can take advantage of this to efficiently use their Primogems to summon desired characters.
- Another common misconception is that the Pity system guarantees five-star summons when making single pulls. In Genshin Impact, players can perform single pulls (160 Primogems) or 10 pulls (1,600 Primogems). In both cases, there is only a 0.6% chance to summon a five-star character.
- Some players believe that Pity only triggers after a certain number of pulls. This is incorrect; Pity is cumulative and continues until a five-star item is obtained.
- Lastly, it is a misunderstanding that Soft Pity only applies to Standard banners. Soft Pity affects all banners, including Limited and Weapon banners.
- In Genshin Impact, the hard pity system guarantees that players will receive a 5-star item within a certain number of wishes. For the permanent wish banner, hard pity occurs at the 90th wish, and for weapon banners, it is at 80 wishes.
