Honkai: Star Rail vs Wuthering Waves: which pity system is more generous?
Same question every player asks before starting a second gacha: is Wuthering Waves kinder than Honkai: Star Rail, or the other way round? This page puts the main banner of each game side by side — the numbers that decide how many pulls a featured unit really costs — and reads the verdict from them. Everything comes from each banner's published rate table, not from opinion.
Main banner, side by side
 Honkai: Star RailCharacter Event |  Wuthering WavesResonator (Limited) | |
|---|---|---|
| Hard pity | 90 | 80 |
| Soft pity starts at | 74 | 66 |
| Base rate | 0.6% | 0.8% |
| Featured guarantee | 50/50 with carry-over | 50/50 with carry-over |
| Cost per pull | 160 Stellar Jade | 160 Astrite |
| Cost of hard pity | 14,400 Stellar Jade | 12,800 Astrite |
| Featured unit, worst case | 180 · 28,800 Stellar Jade | 160 · 25,600 Astrite |
| Chance in 10 pulls (pity 0) | 5.8% | 7.7% |
| Pulls for a 50% chance | 76 | 67 |
Verdict
- Wuthering Waves guarantees the featured unit sooner: 160 pulls in the worst case.
- Wuthering Waves has the lower hard pity, with a top-rarity drop forced by pull 80.
- Wuthering Waves has the better base rate (0.8%), so lucky early drops are more common.
- In both games the pity counter carries over to the next banner of the same type, so saving between banners is never wasted.
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