Genshin Impact Capturing Radiance New Banner Mechanic Explained

Genshin Impact 5.0 is adding a ton of new mechanics and also improving many of its base game systems. One of the new banner mechanics that will be implemented from version 5.0 is Capturing Radiance. This banner mechanic is introduced to increase the chances of attaining the featured character on the limited banners, potentially making life a lot easier for Genshin players. Here is a quick guide on what the new banner mechanic Capturing Radiance does in Genshin Impact.

What Is Capturing Radiance in Genshin Impact

Capturing Radiance is the new banner mechanic that will be implemented in Genshin Impact from version 5.0 onwards. The Capturing Radiance is a mechanic to increase the odds of getting the promotional 5-star character from the limited banners. When triggered, the players are guaranteed to get the featured 5-star character on the banner, without having to worry about the 50/50.

As Genshin Impact players already know, when pulling a 5-star character from the Gacha pool, there is a different gacha pull animation than the normal. When triggering the Capturing Radiance during a gacha pull, the normal 5-star pull animation will change into the Capturing Radiance gacha pull animation. This animation will tell players that they have definitely pulled the featured 5-star character from the banner.

Currently, the chances of the Capturing Radiance triggering during a 5-star character pull is not revealed.

How Capturing Radiance Affects 50/50 Pulls in Genshin Impact

According to the Genshin Impact 5.0 Livestream, the Capturing Radiance doesn’t affect the normal probability of 50/50 pulls in Genshin Impact. When the Capturing Radiance triggers, the pulled 5-star character would definitely be the featured character.

However, if Capturing Radiance doesn’t trigger during a 5-star character pull, then the normal 50/50 will take place, with players having a 50% chance of pulling the featured character.

Capturing Radiance only increases the chance of pulling the current promotional character when it’s a 50/50. It won’t affect other probabilities in the game.

So, the introduction of the Capturing Radiance should only be a benefit for Genshin players, increasing their odds of obtaining the featured 5-star character from the limited character banners.

Genshin Impact Weapon Banner Changes

Other than the Capturing Radiance, version 5.0 will also bring a much-needed change to the limited weapon banners in Genshin Impact. After the Genshin Impact 5.0 version, the Fate Point required in the Epitomized Path to pull the featured Weapon of choice will decrease. Players will now only need 1 Fate Point in the Epitomized Path to guarantee the Weapon pull of their choice.

This is a massive change to the Weapon Banners, giving players a much better chance of pulling their favorite weapons while spending less Primogems.

So, there you have it. These are all the banner mechanic changes in Genshin Impact 5.0 version. Tell us your opinion on the introduction of the Capturing Radiance in the comment section.