What is pity in Genshin Impact?

Genshin Impact is a gacha-based game where wishes are used to obtain limited-rare units. Players can either grind for these wishes for months or use real-world money to get more wishes to obtain rare units. The in-game currency that players will need the most is Primogems to spend on wishes.

Currently, Primogems are hard to accumulate if players stick to F2P (free-to-play) and avoid spending real-world money. However, the developers have an in-built pity system that ensures that all sorts of players in the game can get their grind or money’s worth when drawing wishes repeatedly.

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Here is everything players need to know about the pity system in Genshin Impact.

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Genshin Impact: Pity system explained

Pity system explained (Image via Genshin Impact)

The in-built pity system feature is HoYoverse way of reassuring players that they will definitely receive time-limited characters or weapons from a particular banner. Players will have to draw wishes multiple times before the pity goes into their favor. The wishes mainly consist of the following types:

• Character Event Wish
• Character Event Wish-2
• Weapon Event Wish
• Novice Wish
• Standard Wish

Character event wish banners and Epitome Invocation are time-limited promotional banners. New characters or weapons are featured in these banners where the featured unit will have a 50% increased drop rate in the banner.

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Depending on the banner, the pity rate ensures that a player receives a four-star unit: a character or weapon on their 10th pull if players did not receive any four-star units in the previous nine pulls. However, five-star units have a slightly different pity rate which is separate for weapons and characters.

These are the pity rates for each kind of drop from banners:

• Four-Star Weapon: 10 Wishes
• Four-Star Character: 10 Wishes
• Five-Star Weapon: 80 Wishes
• Five-Star Character: 90 Wishes

To summarize in simpler terms, if a player draws say 89 wishes and does not receive a five-star character, the pity system will guarantee that they draw a five-star character on the 90th wish. Players can keep track of all this pity in the banner on their history tab from the event-wish page.

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Banner history (Image via HoYoverse)

Genshin Impact also has a hidden soft pity system that helps save players up to 1800 Primogems. The soft pity system lowers the number of wishes needed to get a five-star and takes effect at around 75-80 wishes.

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