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Honkai Star Rail is first and foremost a gacha game. How a gacha game works is that it is entirely free to play and download, however, to get through most of the content in the game, you have to obtain powerful characters that offer high value to your account with their abilities and team synergies. The game gives you a small number of free characters to get through some content but most premium and meta-defining characters are obtained through limited-time banners with featured characters. How banners work is that you have to use in-game currency, which in HSR is called Stellar Jades, gained either through clearing content in the game or purchased with real money to ‘pull’, or in other words test your odds on the banner to get or ‘roll’ for the featured character. While the odds of rolling for a desired character are quite low, the game has a system in place to ensure you have a solid chance at obtaining the featured 5-star character known as the pity system. This guide will explain how the pity system works in Honkai Star Rail and how you can plan out how long you’ll need to farm for Stellar Jades, or how much money you’ll need in your wallet.
How Pity Works in Honkai Star Rail
How pity works in Honkai Star rail is that even if your luck is low, you have a guaranteed chance to obtain a 5-star character after 90 pulls. Obtaining a character between 70-80 pulls is known as ‘soft pity’ which is when you are reaching the upper limit of the pity system and pull a 5-star.
Obtaining a 5-star character around that 90-pull threshold is known as ‘hard pity’, which is not ideal meaning you’ve spent the maximum amount of Stellar Jades or dollars required to guarantee a 5-star character pull.
Is There a Pity Counter in Honkai Star Rail?
In terms of a specific counter in Honkai Star Rail, there is no pity counter. To track pity in-game you can click on your records page through the banner summon screen and manually count the number of summons since your last 5-star pull. That number will be your current pity.
There are tools online you can use that can track your pity for you but they require you to enter commands through your operating system’s command line interface which is not recommended due to the risk of malicious code injection through the command.
What is the Difference Between a Single Pull and a 10 Pull in Honkai Star Rail?
Since the featured characters are both high-value and highly desired, the chance of you pulling a character is extremely low, specifically in a single pull you have a 0.6% chance to pull a featured 5-star character and a 0.8% to get their matching lightcone.
On top of that 0.6% chance, upon first obtaining a 5-star character through the featured banner you only have a 50/50 chance to obtain the featured character.
Optionally, you can save your Stellar Jades to perform 10 consecutive pulls in a row instead of a single pull. This inherently does not increase your odds of receiving a 5-star character, but does save you some time compared to manually performing 10 single pulls.
In a 10 pull, each pull within those 10 still carries that 0.6% chance to receive a 5-star so think of it as a fast-forward button rather than a mathematical way to increase your odds for a 5-star.
How the 50/50 Works in Honkai Star Rail
There is an additional system in place called the 50/50, meaning that when you’re pulling on the featured banner and obtaining a 5-star pull for the first time, you only have a 50/50 chance of actually pulling the featured 5-star character. ‘Losing’ the 50/50 means you got a non-limited 5-star character.
Even if you lose the 50/50, the next time you pull a 5-star it is guaranteed to be the featured character. On the lightcone banner, it works the same way but the odds increase from 75/25, and the chance of pulling the featured lightcone increases to 0.8%.
Does Pity Reset in Honkai Star Rail?
After you pull a 5-star character, your pity will reset and it will take up to another 90 pulls to guarantee another 5-star drop. Pity will also travel across banner updates for example if you pulled 20 pulls on the Black Swan banner, you will be at 20 pity on the current Sparkle banner.
This also works with the 50/50 for example if you lost the 50/50 on the Black Swan banner, your next 5-star pull on the Sparkle banner will be guaranteed to be Sparkle.
In the event of a double 5-star limited banner, these banners will share the same pity and say for example you lost the 50/50 on the current Sparkle banner, and your next 5-star pull on the Jing Yuan banner launched alongside Sparkle will be Jing Yuan.
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