Revision history: Recruit system

NIKKE's gacha runs on recruits: 300 Gems for a single, 3,000 for a ten-pull. Its headline 4% SSR rate is the highest among the games this wiki covers, and the design pairs that generosity with slower targeting systems worth understanding before budgeting. [1]

Rates

Parameter	Value
SSR	4% per recruit
Featured SSR (Pick-Up banners)	2% within the 4%
Cost	300 Gems per recruit

A 4% rate means an SSR every 25 pulls on average, but only half of that rate points at the banner unit, with no loss protection: the classic fractional rate-up trade-off behind a friendly headline number. There is no escalation and no hard pity counter. [1]

Gold mileage: the spark that keeps

Every pull on Special and Pick-Up recruits grants one gold mileage ticket; 200 tickets buy the featured SSR in the mileage shop. The rule that separates NIKKE from nearly every other spark implementation: gold mileage never expires and carries across banners, so 120 tickets left over from one banner are 120 tickets toward the next. [2] Partial progress is never wasted, which changes saving strategy completely compared with expiring sparks like Blue Archive's or Granblue's.

Silver mileage and the wishlist

Ordinary (standard) recruits grant silver mileage instead, exchangeable for Spare Bodies (duplicates) but not new characters. The standard pool also supports a wishlist: after 40 Ordinary recruits it unlocks 20 slots, five for each manufacturer faction, and once all 20 are filled, every SSR from Ordinary recruits comes from those choices. [2] The wishlist narrows the pool without changing the rate, effectively retargeting the 4% at units you actually want.

Cross-game context for all of this is in the comparison table.