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Genshin Impact Pity Calculator: Can You Guarantee the Featured 5-Star?

You can have enough wishes for a 5-star and still come up short for the character on the banner. The difference is whether your next 5-star is guaranteed to be featured. Use your Wish history and the currency you already have to work out both budgets before you choose a banner.

Quick answer · Our advice

Subtract your verified pity from 90. If your next event 5-star is confirmed featured, that is the most additional wishes you need. If the featured status is uncertain or no ordinary guarantee is active, set aside another 90 for the conservative budget. Count one wish per Intertwined Fate or 160 spendable Primogems.[1][2][5]

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By GachaLootGuide reviewed November 9, 2026

Version 7.2 Phase I. Character Event Wish and Character Event Wish-2 only. Use the current banner’s Details and end time.

Count character pity and the featured guarantee separately

On Character Event Wish, the game guarantees a 5-star character within 90 wishes. Any 5-star in this banner family resets the count. When the 5-star is not the featured character on the banner you pulled, the next event 5-star in this family is guaranteed to be featured.[1][2]

Our advice

Open Wish History and select the character event family. Count pulls after the most recent 5-star, leaving that 5-star out of the count. Include both Character Event Wish tabs. Identify whether that pull was featured on its own banner at the time. Some characters are featured on one banner and off-banner on another.

HoYoverse says Wish Records show the past year and may take up to an hour to update. An incomplete list can make it hard to confirm the last 5-star or the true pity count.[1]

Our advice

If recent results are missing, wait for them to appear before relying on the count. If old results are unavailable, use the lowest count you can verify and treat the featured status as unknown unless you have a reliable record. A history screen with no visible 5-star does not establish a guarantee.

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Count character pity and the featured guarantee separately comparison
What you can verify	What to enter	Conservative featured budget
Your last event 5-star was off-banner	Confirmed featured guarantee and verified pity	90 minus current pity
Your last event 5-star was featured, or this is your first event Wish	No confirmed featured guarantee	180 minus current pity
You cannot verify the featured status	Not sure, with the lowest verified pity	180 minus the entered pity as a safe planning ceiling
You are looking at Weapon, Standard or Chronicled Wish	Use that banner’s own Details	This calculator applies to the two character event tabs

References[1][2][3][4]

Calculate your Primogem and Intertwined Fate shortfall

Intertwined Fates pay for these event wishes. The standard conversion is 160 Primogems per Fate. Acquaint Fates are a separate currency.[5][3]

Our advice

Use your spendable balance after any reserve you want to keep. Add code rewards only after claiming them and seeing the Primogems or eligible Fates in your inventory. If a reward is already included in that balance, count it once.

Calculate your featured character Wish budget

The example is loaded below. Replace it with your own Character Event Wish history and balances. Each Wish costs one Intertwined Fate or 160 Primogems.

Wishes since your last 5★

Count Character Event Wish and Wish-2 together. Enter 0 right after a 5★ or if you have never made an event character Wish.

Spendable Primogems

Use the balance you are willing to spend. Leave out rewards you have yet to claim.

Intertwined Fates available

Count the pink Fates you already hold separately. Acquaint Fates are for other Wishes.

Featured guarantee status

Choose Yes if your last Character Event 5★ was off-banner and you have not received another 5★ since.

Wishes available: 53
Next 5★ within: 38 Wishes
Featured within: 128 Wishes

You are 75 Wishes short of the conservative featured ceiling. That is 11,920 additional Primogems if you cover the gap with Primogems alone.

The ceiling assumes you Wish on the banner featuring the character you want while it is available. Early 5★ drops and Capturing Radiance can reduce the actual cost. If your pity is uncertain, enter the lowest count you can verify. The calculation stays on this page.

Worked example · GachaLoot calculation

52 pity, eight Fates and 7,280 Primogems with unknown featured status

Assumptions

You have verified 52 Character Event wishes since the last 5-star. You cannot confirm whether the next 5-star must be featured.
You have eight Intertwined Fates and 7,280 spendable Primogems. The target is currently featured on the Character Event Wish tab you would use.

Worst-case wait for any 5-star90 − 52 = 38 wishes
Conservative ceiling for the featured character38 + 90 = 128 wishes
Wishes funded by the balance8 + floor(7,280 ÷ 160) = 53 wishes, with 80 Primogems left over
Gap to the featured ceiling128 − 53 = 75 wishes
Additional Primogems using the existing remainder75 × 160 − 80 = 11,920 additional Primogems

Result: This balance can cover a 5-star within the documented ceiling. For the featured character, the conservative plan is still short by 75 wishes. If you can verify that the last event 5-star was off-banner, update the status before deciding.

Limits of this example: This is a maximum-cost scenario from the entered history. An earlier drop or Capturing Radiance can lower the actual number of pulls. The calculation gives no date when future resources will arrive.

Mechanic references[1][2][4][5]

Worked example when the next 5-star is guaranteed featured

Worked example · GachaLoot calculation

68 pity after an off-banner 5-star, with two Fates and 3,070 Primogems

Assumptions

The last 5-star in the shared event history was off-banner. You have made 68 eligible wishes since then without another 5-star.
Two Intertwined Fates and 3,070 Primogems are available. You intend to pull on the tab where your target is featured.

Ceiling for the next 5-star and the target90 − 68 = 22 wishes
Wishes available now2 + floor(3,070 ÷ 160) = 21 wishes, with 30 Primogems left over
Shortfall in Primogems(22 − 21) × 160 − 30 = 130 Primogems

Result: One more Intertwined Fate or 130 more Primogems would cover the ceiling. If a confirmed code reward grants 60 Primogems and you collect it before the banner ends, the gap falls to 70. The available number of wishes stays at 21 until you cross the next 160-Primogem step.

Limits of this example: The 60-Primogem reward is hypothetical. The existing guarantee is used on the next 5-star in this family, even if it arrives on a different featured character’s tab.

Mechanic references[1][2][5]

What carries over when a banner ends or you switch tabs?

The two Character Event Wish tabs share the pity count and featured guarantee. The count continues into future Character Event Wish phases. The guarantee applies to the promotional character on the tab where the next 5-star appears, so it does not reserve the previous phase’s character.[1][2][3]

Our advice

If your target leaves, save the carried progress for a future banner that actually features them. Before making a single pull or a ten-pull on a different tab, check which character would take the guaranteed result if a 5-star appears early.

Capturing Radiance can turn an otherwise off-banner outcome into the featured result under its rules. HoYoverse describes it separately from the ordinary guarantee after an off-banner 5-star.[4][1]

Our advice

Use the conservative ceiling unless you have verified a more specific guarantee against the current Wish Details. A likely early 5-star, an estimate from an old chart and a guaranteed result are different planning inputs.

Genshin featured Wish calculator questions

Is 90 pity a guarantee for the character I want?

It is the maximum wait for a 5-star in this banner family from zero pity. If no featured guarantee is confirmed, allow for a second 5-star in the conservative budget.[1][4]

Does switching between the two limited character banners reset pity?

The character event tabs share the count and featured status. If a 5-star uses the guarantee, the featured character is the one on the tab you pull.[2][3]

Does a Standard or Weapon 5-star change my character pity?

Those wish types track their own guarantees. Read the Character Event Wish history and Details for the budget on this page.[1][3]

Should I enter all my Primogems if I want to keep a reserve?

Our advice: Subtract the reserve first and enter the spendable amount. An unclaimed code or other future reward belongs in a separate scenario until it reaches your inventory.[5]

Sources and review scope

HoYoverse’s Help Center and Version 7.2 banner notice establish the 90-Wish ceiling, off-banner guarantee and shared counter. The Capturing Radiance explainer documents an additional route to the featured result. The calculator uses a conservative budget and does not infer a Radiance state from incomplete history. The example balances are invented.

Review dates describe this article and its references, not hands-on testing of a game account. Passages marked “Our advice” are GachaLoot’s recommendations. Check the current kit, challenge rules and upgrade preview for your own account.

[1] How does the Wish guarantee system work?
HoYoverse Help Center — official support · Checked November 9, 2026
Character 5-star ceiling, reset, featured guarantee and visibility of Wish Records. The standalone 50/50 explanation is supplemented by the Capturing Radiance notice.
[2] Character Event Wish-2 Mechanics Description
HoYoverse — official mechanics notice · Checked November 9, 2026
Shared event character pity, next featured result on the selected tab and carryover into later phases.
[3] Version 7.2 Event Wishes Notice — Phase I
HoYoverse — official banner notice · Checked November 9, 2026
Current-version example confirming the shared Character Event Wish counter and independent Wish types. Check the live screen for the deadline.
[4] Capturing Radiance mechanic Q&A
HoYoverse — official mechanic explainer · Checked November 9, 2026
Capturing Radiance as an additional path to a featured character. The calculator does not estimate its activation or publish account-specific odds.
[5] Intertwined Fate
Genshin Impact Wiki — indexed in-game item and exchange reference · Checked November 9, 2026
The 160-Primogem exchange rate and currency distinction used in the calculations.

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