Blue Archive banner guide – current Blue Archive banner, banner rates, and pity

Blue Archive came out in Japan in early 2021, and after great success made its way to global release. Now, players everywhere are stepping into the shoes of the sensei, guiding teams of cute but deadly school girls through the trials of modern life – and combat. Of course, it’s always a case of the more the merrier, but if you want to snag your favourite students, you’ll need to get to grips with Blue Archive banners.

As with other gacha games, Blue Archive features different banners, which can offer higher rates for getting a specific, high-tier student, or even the opportunity to recruit special, limited characters. In our Blue Archive banner guide, we’ll tell you everything we know about the current and upcoming banners, pull rates, and what happens if you get duplicates. We’ve also included a list of previous banners from the Japanese version and a Blue Archive banner schedule, so you can get an idea of what to expect in the future.

Head over to our Blue Archive tier list to see which characters you should be prioritising, and our Blue Archive codes list to snag some great freebies. We also have a list of the best gacha games if you’re looking for something new to play.

Blue Archive banner guide

Blue Archive has a gacha system called ‘pick-up recruitment’, which allows you to spend your valuable pyroxenes on new students to add to your party. You can either use 120 pyroxenes to do a single pull, or 1,200 pyroxenes to do ten pulls at the same time.

Students range from one-star quality (lowest) to three-star quality (highest), and for every ten summons, you’re guaranteed to obtain at least one two-star student. There’s also a Blue Archive banner pity system, which gives you recruit points for each student you pull. If you spend 24,000 pyroxenes (200 pulls) on a banner, you’ll receive a three-star student of your choice. These points don’t carry over to the next banner, though, and any that are left unused are converted into craft materials when the event banner ends.

Current Blue Archive banner list

At the moment, two Blue Archive banners are running alongside each other.

One allows you to pick up Mashiro, a specialist in rear fire support. Her attack type is explosive, and her defence type is heavy.

The other banner features Aru, with an increased pick-up rate. She’s a powerful backline attacker with explosive damage, who uses light armour.

The recruitment period for these banners runs from November 16 to November 29.

Blue Archive banner rates

There are two types of gacha in Blue Archive – regular recruitment, which features all unlimited students, and pick-up recruitment, which is the Blue Archive equivalent of a banner. The regular recruitment gacha rates for the different rarities of students are:

• One-star students – 79% chance
• Two-star students – 18.5% chance
• Three-star student – 2.5% chance

However, when pulling from Blue Archive banners, the rates are different. Certain banners offer a rate-up for pulls of specific students. At the moment, we aren’t entirely sure of the banner rates in the global release, as it appears they differ from the Japanese rates, but we’ll be sure to update this guide when we find out.

If you pull duplicate students, you’re rewarded with divine fragments and student fragments. You can use divine fragments in the shop to purchase growth materials or more student fragments. Student fragments allow you to awaken a student to their next level of rarity.

What types of Blue Archive banners are there?

There are two different types of event banners in Blue Archive. Banners feature selected students, which are either limited or unlimited.

• Unlimited banners feature students who will remain available in the regular gacha recruitment pool after the event ends. The purpose of these banners is to increase the drop rate for the specified student, so you have a higher chance of snagging them for a limited time.
• Limited banners feature special students who are only available during the event period, and will not be included in the regular recruitment pool once the banner is finished. There’s a chance the banners may return in the future, but there’s no guarantee.

If two limited banners run alongside each other, they‘ll also share some perks (unless otherwise stated):

• Both banners share their recruit points
• Students from both banners are temporarily available on the regular recruitment banner
• You can obtain both limited students from each other’s banners (without their individual rate-up)

Blue Archive banner schedule – what is Blue Archive’s next banner?

Unfortunately, we don’t have an exact schedule for the Blue Archive banners in the global version at the moment. Nexon has stated that it wants the global version to catch up with the Japanese version, therefore they seem to be going through the Japanese banner history, running some of them simultaneously. So far, the banners that have come out in the global version haven’t completely aligned with the order of the Japanese ones, but they’re pretty close, so we can guess that you might be seeing Izuna, Shizuko, and Haruna soon.

Be sure to keep this page bookmarked and check back from time to time, as we’ll be sure to add the Blue Archive banner schedule as soon as we get more information.

Blue Archive banner history – global version

These are the banners, or ‘pick-up recruitments’, that have been and gone in the Global Version. Keep your eyes peeled, as they may come back around in the future.

Blue Archive banner history – Japan

These are all of the previous banners that have come to the Japanese version of Blue Archive.

And that’s it for our Blue Archive banner guide for now. While you’re here, check out our list of the best mobile games in 2021 to seek out your next adventure.

Source: https://www.pockettactics.com/blue-archive/banner