Wishing (Gacha) in Genshin Impact: Banner Types, Pity & the 50/50

• Standard Wish: permanent, doesn't change between versions, contains every standard 5★ character/weapon.
• Character Event Wish: a limited banner featuring 1 five-star character plus a few four-star ones, rotating each phase of a version.
• Weapon Event Wish: a limited banner for weapons, with an "Epitomized Path" system letting you pick in advance which weapon you're guaranteed to get.
• Beginners' Wish: only for new accounts, guarantees a specific 4-star character early at a cheaper cost.
• Chronicled Wish: a special banner that bundles older characters/weapons around a theme each run — not always open.

Per the data we've verified: hard pity is pull 90 for character banners, pull 80 for weapon banners — reach that pull without a 5★ yet, and that pull is GUARANTEED to be one. Before that there's also soft pity: starting around pull 74, the odds of a 5★ on any given pull jump well above the base rate, even though the publisher hasn't officially published the exact figures behind this. Each of the 5 banner types keeps an INDEPENDENT pity counter — draining your character banner's counter has no effect on the weapon banner's counter.

On limited banners, once you land your first 5★ (whether via soft or hard pity), the system flips the 50/50 coin: 50% chance it's the banner's featured character/weapon, 50% chance it's a random standard 5★ instead. Lose the 50/50, and the banner remembers — the very next 5★ on that SAME banner is guaranteed to be the featured one (no second coin flip needed). According to the publisher's own official announcement, starting in patch 5.0 every Character Event Wish also has the Capturing Radiance mechanic: when you pull a non-guaranteed 5★ (i.e. one that could lose the 50/50), you have a chance to trigger Capturing Radiance, which boosts your odds of winning that 50/50 — the publisher's stated goal is cutting down how often players lose the 50/50 several times in a row.