Wuthering Waves soft pity

Kuro Games doesn't publish a point where the 5-Star rate starts to rise. What its official Convene Details notice does state, for a Wuthering Waves Featured Resonator Convene: a base 5-Star rate of 0.8%, an average of 1.8% once the guarantee is counted, and at least one 5-Star every 80 Convenes. Every 10 Convenes guarantee at least one 4-Star or better.

Soft pity means a rate that climbs as you get close to a guarantee. Kuro's published figures don't include one, so any Convene number you see quoted for it comes from players, not from Kuro.

What does Kuro Games confirm about Wuthering Waves pity?

These come from Kuro's Convene Details notice, on the official Wuthering Waves site:

Question	Kuro Games' answer
Base 5-Star rate	0.8% per Convene (Resonator or Weapon banners)
Average 5-Star rate, including the guarantee	1.8%
Guaranteed 5-Star after how many pulls?	At least one every 80 Convenes
Is the 5-Star the featured Resonator?	A 50% chance; if it isn't, the next 5-Star is guaranteed to be the featured one
Featured Weapon Convene	Every 5-Star Weapon is the featured Weapon
Guaranteed 4-Star?	A 4-Star or better at least once every 10 Convenes (base 6.0%, average 12.0%)
Featured 4-Stars	Each 4-Star has a 50% chance of being one of the featured three; if not, the next one is
Does the count carry over?	Yes, across all Featured Resonator Convenes until you get a 5-Star. Featured Weapon Convenes share a separate count

Kuro adds that its average rates are worked out from the base rates and the guarantee "based on extensive sample/user testing", and that they "may differ from the convene records of an individual player".

The Standard Resonator and Standard Weapon Convenes use the same 0.8% base rate, 1.8% average and 80-Convene guarantee, each with its own count. The newcomer banners differ: the Beginner's Choice Convene lets you choose which 5-Star you'll get and closes once you have it (within 80 Convenes), and the Utterance of Marvels newcomer banner guarantees a 5-Star within 50.

Those rules also set a ceiling for the Resonator you want. If your first 5-Star on a Featured Resonator Convene arrives at the 80th Convene and isn't the featured one, the next is guaranteed, so the most you could need is 160 Convenes, as long as the banner stays open. That's our sum from Kuro's rules, not a figure Kuro states. On a Featured Weapon Convene the ceiling is 80, because every 5-Star there is the featured Weapon.

Where does the rate start to rise?

We can't give you a number from Kuro. Its Convene Details notice lists the base rate, the average rate and the hard guarantee, and nothing in between. Its current banner notices, such as the Version 3.7 Phase II notice, repeat the 10-Convene guarantee and the shared count, then send players to the in-game Convene page for more detail.

Players do report the 5-Star rate rising in the run-up to the 80th Convene. That's an unofficial observation, not something Kuro has published, and we haven't found a threshold for it on any Kuro page, so we don't give one. If you plan your spending around a number you've seen elsewhere, treat it as an estimate.

The gap between the 0.8% base rate and the 1.8% average doesn't settle it either way. Kuro says the average comes from testing, and it doesn't describe how the rate behaves between the first Convene and the 80th.

How can you work out your odds?

The drop-rate calculator is set up with Kuro's 0.8% base rate and 80-Convene guarantee. It shows your chance of a 5-Star within any number of Convenes, and the average you'd need. It assumes a flat rate up to the guarantee, so it doesn't model any rise near the end. Our guide to how pity works explains what a guarantee does to your odds and what soft pity would change.

To see the rules for a specific banner, Kuro's notices point you to the in-game Convene page.

How does this compare with Genshin Impact?

Genshin Impact works in a similar way, but HoYoverse goes less far on the web: its notices give a 90-wish guarantee and send players to the in-game Details screen for the rates. See what HoYoverse confirms about soft pity in Genshin Impact.

Convenes use Tides, which you get by exchanging Astrite, and Lunites, the paid currency, can be exchanged for Astrite. Our look at whether Wuthering Waves is free to play covers what Lunites cost in the UK.

How we checked

The rates, guarantees, 50% chances and shared counts are from Kuro Games' Convene Details notice on the official Wuthering Waves site, read on 7 November 2026. That notice is dated 23 May 2024, the game's launch, and its example banners are launch-era ones (Jiyan and Yinlin). It was still listed among the site's notices when we read it. The 10-Convene guarantee and the shared count also appear in Kuro's Version 3.7 Phase II notice of 21 October 2026, which gives no rates. We haven't read the in-game Convene page, so if Kuro has changed a rate in the game without updating its notice, this page won't show it. The 160-Convene ceiling is our own sum from Kuro's rules.