Anime Expeditions Gacha Pity System Explained (With Gem Math)
Pity is the mechanic that guarantees a rarity once you've pulled enough times without one, and Anime Expeditions runs three separate pity counters across its three banners rather than one shared system. Knowing the exact pull thresholds is only half the picture; converting those thresholds into a real Gem cost, and then into real farming hours, is what actually tells you whether a pity target is worth chasing this week or next month.
This guide walks through the math end to end: what pity costs in Gems on each banner, how that converts into hours of farming using the game's own reward rates, and what does and doesn't move the needle on how fast you get there.
What pity means in Anime Expeditions
Each banner tracks a separate pull counter per rarity. Once a counter reaches its listed threshold, your very next summon on that banner is guaranteed to be that rarity or better. The counter then resets to zero, whether the rarity that triggered the reset came from the pity guarantee itself or from ordinary luck along the way.
Standard Banner and Mini Banner track pity independently of each other, even though they share identical Legendary and Mythic thresholds; pulls on one banner do not contribute to the other's counter. Beginner Banner is its own separate system entirely, running on Beginner Tickets instead of Gems.
How many farming hours each pity target actually costs
Converting Gem pity into time depends on your farming route. Using Hard Story's roughly 2,483 Gems per hour as a baseline: reaching Legendary pity (2,500 Gems) takes about 1 hour of farming, reaching Mythic pity (20,000 Gems) takes about 8 hours, and reaching Secret pity (500,000 Gems) takes roughly 201 hours, spread across weeks of normal play rather than a single sitting.
Infinity Mode, once your team can hold in it, farms closer to 3,000 Gems per hour, cutting those same targets to roughly 50 minutes for Legendary, 6.7 hours for Mythic and about 167 hours for Secret. Neither route is meant to be run in one sitting for the higher targets; the point of the math is comparing routes and setting realistic expectations, not planning a single farming marathon.
One-time sources shrink these numbers further before you ever touch a repeatable farm route. First-time story act clears alone are worth roughly 17,500 Gems across a full account, more than enough to clear a Legendary pity and put a real dent in a Mythic pity target before any repeat farming starts.
Does Anime Expeditions have soft pity?
Some gacha games ramp your odds up gradually as you approach the hard pity threshold, commonly called soft pity. Anime Expeditions' client data doesn't show that kind of ramp; base rates (Rare 74.676%, Epic 15.06%, Legendary 10%, Mythic 0.25%, Secret 0.01% on Standard Banner) stay flat until the hard pity counter hits its listed threshold, at which point the next pull is simply guaranteed. If you're used to a soft pity curve from another game, don't expect your odds to visibly climb as you approach 400 pulls here; they stay the same until pull 400 itself.
Standard vs Mini: which pity to prioritize
If Secret is your eventual goal, every Gem spent on Mini Banner is a Gem not contributing to that 10,000-pull counter, so dedicated long-term Secret hunting should default to Standard Banner exclusively. If you only care about a specific featured Mythic and Secret isn't the goal, Mini Banner's 30-minute refresh cycles through lineups twice as fast as Standard's hourly rotation without giving up any Legendary or Mythic pity progress, since those thresholds match exactly between the two banners.
FAQ
How much does it cost to guarantee a Mythic unit in Anime Expeditions?
20,000 Gems on Standard or Mini Banner (400 pulls at 50 Gems each), or completely free on Beginner Banner, which only needs 50 pulls of Beginner Tickets earned mostly through Beginner's Path questing.
How many hours of farming does it take to reach Mythic pity?
Roughly 8 hours on Hard Story at about 2,483 Gems per hour, or about 6.7 hours on Infinity Mode at roughly 3,000 Gems per hour, not counting one-time sources like first-time story clears that reduce the total before you start repeat farming.
Does pity carry over between Standard and Mini Banner?
No. Even though both banners share identical Legendary and Mythic pity thresholds, each tracks its own independent counter, so pulls on one banner never contribute to the other's progress.
What is the Gem cost to guarantee a Secret unit?
500,000 Gems at Standard Banner's 10,000-pull Secret pity, the only banner where Secret can drop at all. In practice this is a long-term goal reached through months of normal play and natural 0.01% pulls rather than a single farming session.
Is Beginner Banner pity really free?
Effectively yes. It spends Beginner Tickets instead of Gems, and Beginner's Path questing plus early story clears are tuned to hand out roughly the 50 tickets needed to hit its Mythic pity within a new account's first day.
Does Luck Potion reduce how many pulls I need for pity?
No. Luck Potion boosts the odds of Legendary and Mythic on individual pulls, which can get you a natural rarity drop sooner, but it does not lower the pity threshold itself or skip pulls toward it.
Does Anime Expeditions have soft pity like other gacha games?
No confirmed soft pity ramp exists in the client data. Base pull rates stay flat all the way up to the hard pity threshold, where the next pull becomes guaranteed, rather than gradually improving as you approach it.
Should I save Gems or spend them as I get them?
Because pity only resets on a matching pull and doesn't decay over time, there's no efficiency loss to saving Gems and pulling in bulk toward a specific pity target instead of spending in small batches, so the decision comes down to whether you're chasing a specific featured lineup or just banking toward a guaranteed rarity.
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