Genshin Impact pity system explained

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Genshin Impact pity and soft pity

  • The Genshin Impact pity system ensures you get the character or weapon pull for after wishing a certain number of times.
  • Standard and Limited character Banners are capped at 90 pity, meaning you need to wish 90 times to get the five-star you want.
  • Soft pity is a system that lets you get a five-star sooner, increasing your chances after 74 pulls.

As a gacha game, Genshin Impact’s pity and soft pity systems are tied to the limited characters and weapons on banners, which you can use in-game currency or real money on to pull in the hopes of getting the featured item. Each character and weapon on the banners has a drop rate, and the pity system in Genshin guarantees you a character after a number of pulls on said banner. For Limited Character Banners and the Standard Banner, you will get a guaranteed five-star after 90 wishes. Let’s break down the Genshin Impact pity and gacha system.

Genshin Impact soft pity - the standard wish banner in Genshin
Wanderlust Evocation, also known as the Standard Banner, is always active. Image taken by VideoGamer

Hard Pity in Genshin Impact

Genshin Impact’s Pity mechanics are there to ensure you will get a featured five-star weapon or character after wishing on a banner a certain number of times. Let’s use Furina’s Banner as an example: if you Wish on her banner 90 times, you will be guaranteed to get a five-star character from her banner within those 90 times you pull. This is known as hard or standard pity.

If you are extremely unlucky, it might take you all 90 Wishes to reach Pity and get the five-star character you want. On your 90th Wish, you will get a guaranteed 5-star character no matter what. The Pity count for the Standard / Permanent banner and limited character banners is 90 wishes. The Pity count for the featured Weapon Banner is 80. Once your Pity count is maxed out and you pull the guaranteed five-star character or weapon through its banner, the count resets automatically. At this point, you can again start investing your Primogems and collecting Wishes to start building Pity again.

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Soft Pity in Genshin Impact

Genshin impact soft pity - the banner wish screen in genshin shows arlecchino
This is what the character event banner looks like. Image taken by VideoGamer

There is another hidden system called Soft Pity in Genshin Impact. After you Wish on a character Banner 74 times, each Wish after that will gradually increase your chances of getting the five-star, which means you seldom have to Wish 90 times to get the character you want. For the weapon Banner, the Soft Pity cap begins after 64 Wishes. Soft Pity is there to make it easier for you to get a five-star without having to spend all 90 or 80 Wishes to get the character or weapon you want.

Limited Character Banners and 50/50 Pity

Whenever you pull a 5-star character from the Limited Character Banner for the first time, there’s a 50% chance you will get the featured character on the banner or a different 5-star character from the Standard Banner. It is generally referred to as winning or losing the 50/50 in the Genshin Impact community. While you have an increased chance to get the characters you want on the banner, getting the four-star items is never guaranteed.


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Genshin impact pity system - the wish history page showing pulls.
You can see your wish history for each banner and count your pity. Image taken by VideoGamer

In case you end up with a standard 5-star character (that is not featured in the Limited Character Banner) after the first roll, the 2nd 90-Wishes pull guarantees the featured 5-star character. Winning and losing the 50/50 can help you plan how you want to Wish or save for the next banner. Within all the banners in Genshin, there is also a pity for getting 4-star characters and weapons. For every 10 pulls you do, you are guaranteed to get one four-star item; whether this is a character or a weapon is entirely random.

Weapon Banners and Epitomized Path

Epitomized Path is a separate Pity system for the Weapon Event Banner introduced in version 2.0 of Genshin Impact. If the weapon banner pull doesn’t reward you with the 5-star weapons featured in the event, this system grants you a Fate Point. While not a great system, the Epitomized Path will guarantee you the five-star weapon you want only if you don’t get it twice in a row.

Genshin impact pity system - winning the weapon on the weapon banner.
The weapon banner is seldom worth it unless you love the character. Image taken by VideoGamer

To utilize the Epitomized Path, you have to first designate a particular weapon that you want to acquire. This is referred to as “charting your course” toward that weapon. When you have two Fate Points, the next five-star weapon from that specific weapon Banner will be the five-star weapon you want, but to get it you need to reach Pity again, or get lucky and have it on early pity. Fate Points do not carry over to the next weapon Banner, but your Pity will.

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Is the weapon Banner worth it?

Generally speaking, no. The Weapon Banner in Genshin Impact has too much cost for such little reward. You should only wish on these banners if you love a character so much and you want one of their signature weapons.

Genshin Impact Chronicled Wish banner and pity

There are already three different types of banners in Genshin Impact. As of patch 4.5, the new Chronicled Wish system has made an appearance, lasting for a limited time. This banner is different to the limited character event banners and acts as a way to obtain 5-star items and limited 5-star characters with a bit more freedom.

Chronicled Wish lets you pick from a plethora of 5-star weapons and characters that have previously been available. The first one we saw included Albedo, Klee, Mona, Diluc, Jean, and Eula. Meanwhile, you could also get the following weapons: Lost Prayer to the Sacred Winds, Hunter’s Path, Aquila Favonia, Skyward Harp, Skyward Atlas, Skyward Spine, Skyward Pride, Skyward Blade, Beacon of the Reed Sea, Song of Broken Pines, and Wolf’s Gravestone.

This banner features the Chronicled Path system, which is similar to the Epitomized Path on the weapon banner. This feature lets you designate a character or weapon and when you pull a 5-star on that banner there is a 50% chance to get the character or weapon you picked. If you lose the 50/50, the next five-star you pull from the banner is guaranteed to be what you wanted.

Does pity carry over between banners?

Pity in Genshin Impact does carryover between event banners of the same type. For example, if you pull 20 times on Kazuha’s banner, your 20 wishes on that banner will carry over to Nahida’s banner. Pity does not carry over between character and weapon banners. This means that if you have pulled 60 times on the character banner and you have never pulled on the weapon banner, the weapon banner will be at 0 pity. This is the same with the Standard Banner.

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Genshin Impact

  • Platform(s): Android, iOS, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5
  • Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Massively Multiplayer Online, RPG