# Guaranteed Summon (330-roll pity)

> FGO's only safety net, added in January 2022 after six and a half years without one. How the 330-roll guarantee works, what counts toward it, the per-banner reset, and the 2024 and 2026 repeatability changes.

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For six and a half years Fate/Grand Order had no pity of any kind, the most famous holdout in the genre. The Guaranteed Summon changed that: announced in late December 2021 and live in Japan with the New Year 2022 campaign, it guarantees the featured SSR servant on the 330th roll of a banner if it has not already appeared. [[1]](#ref-1) The English server received it in November 2022 with the Heian-kyo banner, years ahead of its usual content delay. [[2]](#ref-2)

## The rules

- Applies to limited banners with an end date; the permanent Story Summon is excluded. [[3]](#ref-3)
- Free Saint Quartz, paid Saint Quartz, and Summon Tickets all count toward the 330. [[3]](#ref-3)
- The counter is per banner and does not carry over when the banner ends. On rotating banners, the counter tracks the featured SSR of the day. [[3]](#ref-3)
- Off-banner SSR "spooks" do not reset the counter; only obtaining the featured SSR does. [[3]](#ref-3)

At 3 Saint Quartz per roll, reaching the guarantee costs 990 Saint Quartz, several hundred US dollars at typical bundle pricing, which is why the system is best understood as a disaster ceiling rather than a discount. Mechanically it behaves like an automatic [spark](/wiki/spark) set at 330 rather than a pull-count [pity](/wiki/pity-system).

## Repeatability changes

As introduced, the guarantee was once per banner. Japan removed that limit at the game's ninth anniversary in August 2024: the counter now re-arms every 330 rolls, resetting each time the featured SSR is obtained, with a visible counter added to the summon screen. The English server matched this at its own ninth anniversary in June 2026, making a five-copy grail of a single servant a bounded (if enormous) 1,650-roll worst case. [[3]](#ref-3)

The per-banner reset remains the sharpest edge: unlike HoYoverse pity, nothing you rolled last banner helps you next banner.

## References

1. Fate/Grand Order implements a pity system in gacha (January 2022, Japan) (Siliconera): https://www.siliconera.com/fate-grand-order-implements-a-pity-system-in-gacha/ (accessed 2026-07-09)
2. English version of Fate/Grand Order to get pity system early (Siliconera): https://www.siliconera.com/english-version-of-fgo-to-get-pity-system-early/ (accessed 2026-07-09)
3. Rate-Up SSR Pity System rules (community documentation) (Fate/Grand Order community wiki): https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Rate-Up_SSR_Pity_System (accessed 2026-07-09)