Genshin Impact, like many games with gacha elements, contain what we call a pity system, here’s an explanation of how it works, and what you should keep in mind when you pull on the character or weapon banners.
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Pity gacha system in Genshin Impact
Players who pull in the gacha banners of Genshin Impact get a guaranteed five star character or weapon every 90 pulls, with a 50% chance for it to be the banner’s featured character or weapon. This is called the pity counter. And reaching 90 pulls to get a five star is called hard pity. The pity counter carries over from one Limited Banner to another.
To take an example, if you did 45 pulls on the Zhongli banner, and did not get a five star character or weapon, then you are guaranteed to get a five star in the next 45 pulls on the Eula banner.
Moreover, if you get a five star, and it’s not the banner’s featured character, the pity counter resets to zero, but next time, you’re guaranteed to get the featured character. This also carries over from one Limited Banner to another.
Let’s say you did 90 pulls on the Zhongli banner, but ended up getting another 5* character. If you do 90 pulls on the Eula banner, you are guaranteed to get Eula. After that, it’ll be a 50-50 chance again.
Overall, you need to keep track of your pulls and write them down, or check your Wish / gacha pulls history in-game, in the Wish menu.
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Weapon banners / Epitome Invocation pity system
The same pity system also applies to Epitome of Invocation banners, most commonly called weapon banners. Moreover, you always have two different five star weapons featured on weapon banners. Meaning that it’s always a 50-50 chance to get the five star weapon you want every 90 pulls. If you’re unlucky, you can end up getting the same 5* weapon several times in a row.
Just like with the character Limited Banners, the pity count carries from one weapon banner to another. Lastly, the pity system also exists on the Standard permanent banner. Except it has no featured character or weapon.
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Is it better to do 10 pulls at once or pull one by one? Soft pity explained
While it was never officially confirmed by miHoYo, many Genshin Impact players believe the probability to pull a 5* drastically increases starting 70 pulls or so, which would be what we call a soft pity system.
It’s rare to actually go up to 90 pulls to get a 5*. As such, it’s overall recommended doing pulls one by one once you get to 60 pulls or so. Unlike many other gacha games, Genshin Impact has absolutely no bonus for doing 10 pulls at once.
That’s everything you should know about the pity system in a nutshell. Genshin Impact is currently on Version 1.5, and version 1.6 should be launching on June 9, 2021.
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