*some basic knowledge is required before reading this guide

Understand the Risk

Character (and Standard) Banners typically spike around 70-80 wishes (bigger chance, more common occurrence).

If you are currently at 0 pity (mean your immediate last wish was exactly a 5☆), pulling for 4☆s right now might mean you have a chance to get a 5☆ around pity 20-30 (smaller chance, though some accounts might be able to do this). If you are alright with that, then it is safe to proceed.

And if you are nearing 70-80 right now, it is not advisable to make pulls at the current moment, especially if you are building a pity for future 5☆s.

Important: Of course, there is always a possibility that early pity can come early and unexpectedly. Which is why you should only build pity on banners that you like. 5☆ that you don't mind coming in the rare case that pity comes early. Because any early pity is always a big win. It saves you thousands of primogems that otherwise would have gone wasted, spent chasing that pity.

Data collected by: http://genshin-wishes.com

Data collected by: http://paimon.moe/wish/tally

*Of course there is always the odd chance that pity can come early, especially for those who has frantic pity history

Example of a frantic pity:

Though for those who mostly have a steadier pity count (like mine), you might lean more towards a safer side:

↳In here, the rule of "sometimes hitting early pity between 20-30" applies.

For this calculated pity, I would also suggest collecting/noting down data on your pity count, so you can roughly predict when to expect results throughout time.

Cash in Early

A special situation I had faced recently, especially when planning ahead to get future new 4☆ characters, is that I was nearing pity (50 pity in), but did not want to get the next 5☆.

So what I did was make a choice, between getting a 5☆ of the current banner at the time (Baal), or get the next 5☆ (Kokomi). Since I was unsure on how to utilize Kokomi just yet, I decided to settle between a Baal or a Standard 5☆ instead.

I was pretty lucky that my pity is pretty consistent with past history, and got an on-banner character to top it off (I had a bad feeling it wasn't possible to win another 50/50 at the time).

Thus for now, my pity is clear, and I am free to pull for any future 4☆ or 5☆ with a lower risk of spending my built pity early. I hope this case example can help you decide, should you ever get stuck in a similar situation in the future.

Benefit

Should you manage to save up 60 pulls into pity (in an ideal situation where Character Banner A has 4☆ characters you want, while Character Banner B has a 5☆ you want), you will be saving up around 9,600 primogems.

When it comes down to the case of building weapon banner pity, it is only possible to build up the first round of your targeted 5☆ weapon. The pity number will also be different from Character/Standard Banners, with 60-70 on soft pity. All risks mentioned above still apply.

If you have a much different count than what is shown above, feel free to send in your counts and I'll see what I can do to help ^ o ^

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