Genshin Impact soft pity

HoYoverse's web notices don't give a point where the 5-star rate starts to rise. What they do state are the hard guarantees: on a Genshin Impact Chronicled Wish, a 5-star item arrives within a maximum of 90 wishes, and a 4-star or better at least once every 10 wishes.

Soft pity means a rate that climbs as you get close to a guarantee. Any exact wish number you see for it needs a source you can check, and we haven't found one from HoYoverse on the web.

What does HoYoverse confirm about wishes?

These come from HoYoverse's own Chronicled Wish rules and Version 7.1 wish notice:

Question	HoYoverse's answer
Guaranteed 5-star after how many pulls?	Within a maximum of 90 wishes (Chronicled Wish)
Guaranteed 4-star?	A 4-star or better at least once every 10 wishes (Chronicled Wish)
Is the 5-star the one you picked?	A 50% chance on a Chronicled Wish; if not, you get a Fate Point and your next 5-star is the one you chose
Does the count carry over?	Yes, to the next Chronicled Wish, but Fate Points reset to 0 when the current one ends
Do the Character Event Wishes share a count?	Yes, the two banners share one count, kept separate from every other wish

Those rules also set a ceiling. If a Chronicled Wish hits its 90-wish limit twice and the first 5-star isn't your pick, the second one is. So the most you could need for the item you chose is 180 wishes, as long as the banner stays open. That's our sum, not a figure HoYoverse states.

Where does the rate start to rise?

We can't give you a number from HoYoverse. Its banner notices send players to the in-game Details screen rather than listing the odds, and they set out no rising-rate schedule.

Players do quote a figure. For example, a player's post on HoYoLAB asks about a 75-wish threshold. HoYoLAB is HoYoverse's community forum, but that post was written by a player, not by HoYoverse, so we don't treat it as confirmed. If you plan your spending around a number like that, treat it as an estimate.

How can you check the odds yourself?

Open Wish in the game, pick a banner and tap Details in the bottom-left corner. The rates for that banner are shown there. We only publish rates we can link to on a publisher's own web page, so we haven't copied them here.

Once you have the rate, the drop-rate calculator shows your chance of a 5-star within any number of wishes, up to the guarantee. It assumes a flat rate up to the guarantee, so it doesn't model any rise near the end. Our guide to how pity works explains what a guarantee does to your odds and what soft pity would change.

How does this compare with other games?

Wuthering Waves publishes more on the web. Kuro Games' official Convene Details notice gives a 0.8% base rate for a 5-Star, 1.8% consolidated, and a 5-Star within 80 Convenes. On Featured Resonator Convenes it's a 50/50 for the featured Resonator, with the next 5-Star guaranteed featured if the first isn't, and a 4-Star or better at least every 10 Convenes. Like HoYoverse, Kuro gives no point where the rate starts to rise: see Wuthering Waves soft pity. Our look at whether Wuthering Waves is free to play covers what its Convenes cost.

NetEase goes further with Naraka: Bladepoint, publishing both rates and guarantees on its website: see whether Naraka Bladepoint is free to play.

How we checked

The guarantees, the 50% chance, Fate Points and wish counts are from HoYoverse's Chronicled Wish rules and its Version 7.1 Phase II notice, as cited on our Genshin Impact page. HoYoverse has posted its Version 7.2 wish notice since we read those, and we haven't yet checked this page against it. The 180-wish ceiling is our own sum from those rules. We haven't read or copied the in-game Details screen. The Wuthering Waves figures are from Kuro Games' Convene Details notice, read on 7 November 2026.