Love and Deepspace Wish and Pity System Explained (Soft Pity, Hard Pity, 50/50)
Every number behind the game's gacha, in one place, so you always know exactly how close you are to your next 5-star.
Love and Deepspace uses two Wish pools — the permanent Empyrean Wish and the limited Deepspace Wish — each built on a 1% base chance for a 5-star Memory Card, rising sharply after your 61st pull without one (soft pity) until pull 70 guarantees a 5-star outright (hard pity). On the limited banner, losing the 50/50 guarantees your very next 5-star is the featured character thanks to Precise Wish, and your pity count carries over between different limited banners, so nothing you've built up is ever wasted.
Every pull you make belongs to one of two separate pools. The Empyrean Wish is permanent — it only contains Memory Cards that never rotate out, which is why players use it as a long-term, no-pressure source of 5-star cards. The Deepspace Wish is limited-time — it rotates in a new featured 5-star Memory Card tied to a specific character and event, and it changes as the game releases new banners.
- If you're saving Wishes for one specific Love Interest's new card, pull on the Deepspace Wish banner while it's featured.
- If you have spare Wishes and no urgent target, the Empyrean Wish is a safe place to spend them since you can never miss out on what's inside.
- These two pools track pity separately from each other — building pity on one does not add to the other.
The core 5-star chance is a 1% base rate per pull. That rate stays flat for your first 60 pulls without a 5-star, then climbs starting on your 61st pull: each pull from 61 onward adds roughly 10 percentage points to your chance, until it reaches 100% at pull 70. That climbing phase is what's known as soft pity, and pull 70 itself is your hard pity — a guaranteed 5-star if you've somehow gone that long without one.
- Pulls 1–60: flat 1% chance per pull.
- Pulls 61–69: chance increases roughly +10% per pull.
- Pull 70: guaranteed 5-star (100%), if you haven't already gotten one.
- 4-star Memory Cards have their own separate pity: you're guaranteed at least one every 10 pulls.
These figures come from community-compiled banner data (an older community guide and the community-run community wiki), and they agree with each other on the 1% base rate and the 70-pull hard pity — we're labeling this a cross-checked figure rather than a single-source estimate.
On the limited Deepspace Wish banner, getting a 5-star doesn't automatically mean you get the featured character — like many gacha games, there's a coin-flip element commonly called the 50/50. What sets Love and Deepspace apart is its Precise Wish safety net: if you lose that 50/50 and get a non-featured 5-star instead, the game guarantees your very next 5-star pull on that banner will be the featured character.
- Worst case, you're never more than two 5-star pulls away from the character you want on a given limited banner.
- This makes the limited banner meaningfully less punishing than a straight 50/50 with no backup guarantee.
- Precise Wish only applies within the Deepspace Wish pool — it has no effect on the permanent Empyrean Wish, since that pool has no featured character to guarantee.
One detail that trips up players coming from other gacha games: your pity count on the Deepspace Wish pool is shared across every limited banner, not reset each time a new one launches. If you're sitting at 25 pulls into your pity count when a banner ends and a new one begins, you start the new banner still carrying those 25 pulls toward your next soft and hard pity.
- This means saving Wishes "for a banner you like more" doesn't cost you any pity progress — nothing resets just because the featured character changed.
- Pity carry-over applies only within the Deepspace Wish pool. It does not carry over to or from the separate Empyrean Wish pool, since that's a different pool entirely.
- Because of this carry-over, tracking your current pull count matters more than remembering which banner you were on when you last pulled.
A few quick answers to what players ask most about this system.
- Does the game show my pity count on screen? No — Love and Deepspace does not display a running pity counter in the Wish menu, which is exactly why tracking your own pull count (or using a pity calculator) is worth doing.
- Do 4-star pulls affect my 5-star pity? No — the 4-star guarantee every 10 pulls runs independently and doesn't reset or change your 5-star pity progress.
- Is losing the 50/50 ever truly bad? Not for long — thanks to Precise Wish, a lost 50/50 simply means your next 5-star on that banner is guaranteed to be the one you wanted.
Want to plug in your own pull count and see exactly where you stand? Use our Wish and pity calculator tool to get your personal odds instead of doing the math by hand.