{
  "slug": "fifty-fifty",
  "url": "https://gachawiki.com/wiki/fifty-fifty",
  "type": "term",
  "title": "50/50",
  "description": "The HoYoverse-style featured guarantee, where each top-rarity pull has a 50% chance of being the featured character and a loss guarantees the next one. Winning or losing the 50/50 is core gacha vocabulary.",
  "aliases": [
    "50-50",
    "fifty fifty",
    "losing the 50/50",
    "guaranteed"
  ],
  "tags": [
    "terminology",
    "mechanics"
  ],
  "verification": "verified",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-07-09",
  "lastVerified": "2026-07-09",
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Genshin Impact in-game Wish Details rate disclosure",
      "url": "https://genshin.hoyoverse.com/en/home",
      "publisher": "HoYoverse",
      "accessed": "2026-07-09",
      "note": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Capturing Radiance mechanic FAQ (Version 5.0)",
      "url": "https://genshin.hoyoverse.com/en/news/detail/125274",
      "publisher": "HoYoverse",
      "accessed": "2026-07-09",
      "note": null
    }
  ],
  "related": [
    "pity-system",
    "rate-up",
    "off-banner",
    "banner",
    "genshin-impact",
    "wuthering-waves"
  ],
  "markdown": "The 50/50 is the featured-character guarantee structure popularized by [Genshin Impact](/wiki/genshin-impact) and now standard across HoYoverse games and their competitors. When a player pulls a top-rarity character without an active guarantee, there is a 50% chance it is the banner's featured character. If it is not (the player \"loses the 50/50\" and gets an off-banner character from the standard pool), the next top-rarity result is guaranteed to be the featured one. [[1]](#ref-1)\n\nCombined with hard [pity](/wiki/pity-system) at 90, the structure gives a clean worst case: 180 pulls always secures the featured character. This bounded arithmetic, more than the base rate, is what players budget around, and phrases like \"I'm guaranteed\" (a banked 50/50 loss) are core community vocabulary.\n\nVariations on the coin flip:\n\n- Genshin Impact's Capturing Radiance (Version 5.0, August 2024) softens losses: HoYoverse publishes a 55% consolidated featured share, with an automatic conversion after three consecutive losses. [[2]](#ref-2)\n- Weapon banners typically run 75/25 with the same loss-guarantee structure ([Honkai: Star Rail](/wiki/honkai-star-rail), [Zenless Zone Zero](/wiki/zenless-zone-zero)).\n- [Wuthering Waves](/wiki/wuthering-waves) removes the flip entirely on its weapon banner: every 5-star there is the featured weapon.\n- Older designs like [Fate/Grand Order](/wiki/fate-grand-order) have no flip and no loss protection at all; the featured share is just a fractional [rate-up](/wiki/rate-up).\n\nWhether a lost 50/50 still feels worthwhile depends on the standard pool's quality, which is one reason standard-pool [powercreep](/wiki/powercreep) is watched closely by players.",
  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
  }
}