# 50/50

> 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.

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- Last updated: 2026-07-09
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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)

Combined 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.

Variations on the coin flip:

- 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)
- 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)).
- [Wuthering Waves](/wiki/wuthering-waves) removes the flip entirely on its weapon banner: every 5-star there is the featured weapon.
- 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).

Whether 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.

## References

1. Genshin Impact in-game Wish Details rate disclosure (HoYoverse): https://genshin.hoyoverse.com/en/home (accessed 2026-07-09)
2. Capturing Radiance mechanic FAQ (Version 5.0) (HoYoverse): https://genshin.hoyoverse.com/en/news/detail/125274 (accessed 2026-07-09)