ZZZ W-Engine Pity Explained — Soft Pity, 80 Guarantee & 75/25 | Zenless Zone Zero

The single most important point: the W-Engine banner keeps its own pity counter. Pulls you make on the Agent banner do not add to your W-Engine pity, and vice versa. The two counters are completely separate.

So if you're 70 pulls deep on the character banner, your W-Engine pity still starts at 0. Budget your Polychrome for each banner on its own.

The base chance for an S-rank W-Engine is 1% per pull — higher than the Agent banner's 0.6%. Even on a dry streak you are guaranteed an S-rank W-Engine on pull 80. That's the hard pity.

• Base S-rank rate: 1%
• Hard pity: 80 pulls
• Cost: 160 Polychrome or 1 Encrypted Master Tape per pull

There's also a soft pity: per community tracking, S-rank odds spike from around pull 65, so most players hit their S-rank before reaching 80.

When you land an S-rank W-Engine, it isn't automatically the featured one. The split is 75/25:

• 75%: you get the featured W-Engine.
• 25%: you get a standard S-rank W-Engine (a "loss").

The good part: if you fall into the 25%, your next S-rank is a 100% guaranteed featured W-Engine. This guarantee is friendlier than the Agent banner's 50/50, making W-Engines far less painful to secure.

Worst case: you hit pity at 80 but lose the 25%, then hit pity at 80 again. The maximum is 160 pulls to guarantee the featured W-Engine.

In resources: 160 × 160 = 25,600 Polychrome, or 160 Encrypted Master Tapes. In practice, thanks to soft pity around 65, most players spend noticeably less than this ceiling.

Because progress here is best treated per-banner (the pity and 75/25 state apply to W-Engine banners, but the featured W-Engine rotates each version), pull only after you own the Agent who uses it. Prioritize the character first, then the W-Engine if you have resources to spare.

A matching S-rank W-Engine is a clear damage boost, but for F2P (free-to-play) players a well-suited A-rank W-Engine is usually strong enough for most content.