How the Zenless Zone Zero Pity System Works

Pity. It sounds bad, but when you are trying to get your favorite characters in a gacha game, it might just be your best friend. Zenless Zone Zero has a pretty substantial pity to try and make getting the agents you want a little easier, so let’s dive in so you know exactly how to take advantage of it.

How Limited Character Banner Pity Works

The Limited Character Banner will feature a new S-Rank character and two A-Rank characters with higher than usual drop rates. It still contains and can drop the other characters, including S-Ranks.

• The pity system guarantees you an S-Rank character every 90 Pulls.
• Your first S-Rank pull has a 50% chance of being the Featured character.
• If your first S-Rank is not the Featured (often called “rate up”) S-Rank then your NEXT S-Rank pull is guaranteed to be that.
• The worst luck means it could take up to 180 pulls to get the Featured character, although that is reasonably unlikely from a mathematical point of view.
• As of CBT3, S-Ranks have a 0.6% chance of dropping, and A-Ranks have a 9.4% chance of dropping.
• When an S-Rank drops, the pity system will reset. So, if it takes (for example) 57 pulls to get an S-Rank, the pity then resets to 0 from the next pull.
• You are guaranteed an A-Rank character or other reward every 10 pulls.

How the Star-Studded Cast Banner Pity Works

The Star-Studded Cast is a Banner that contains the general pool of characters in the game, including both S-Ranks and A-Ranks.

• S-Ranks have a 0.6% drop rate, A-Ranks have a 9.4% drop rate.
• Guaranteed A-Rank character every 10 pulls.
• Guaranteed S-Rank character every 90 pulls.
• After 300 total pulls, regardless of reward levels, you can select an S-Rank or your choice from the Banner.
• The pity system will reset after receiving an S-Rank character.

For Banners, it will not affect your chances of getting S-Ranks to pull in groups of 10 or as single pulls, but you could end up wasting a small number of pulls this way. If you pull in a group of 10 and get an S-Rank the pity resets, but you may have gotten that S-Rank on an early calculated pull. If you use single pulls, the moment you pull the S-Rank, all pulls after that are then building up the new pity count.

If you are curious about the characters that you will be able to pull for over the coming weeks, you can find all that information in our article on the upcoming Signal Search Banners.