What is the current and next Genshin Impact banner?

Genshin Impact banners rotate every few weeks on a precise schedule, and we always know what to expect thanks to regular updates from Hoyoverse. The developer of the anime game always keeps its fans in the loop with regular livestreams and social media updates, so you can plan where you want to spend your hard-earned Primogems.

With a three-week turnaround for banners, the roster of Genshin Impact characters is constantly changing, and the free PC game regularly introduces two new characters to wish for. Every limited-time character banner, or event wish, contains a five-star character and three four-star characters with increased drop rates. There's also a Genshin Impact weapon banner, which runs alongside each character banner and changes weapons every update.

The first phase of Genshin Impact banners in the 5.7 update launched on Tuesday, June 17, and they're set to end on Tuesday, July 8. Skirk is the five-star character on the Void Star's Advent banner, and Shenhe returns as the five-star character on The Transcendent One Returns banner.

To obtain the characters featured on these character banners, you will need to spend money on Primogems to purchase Intertwined Fates. These items cost 160x Primogems each, and you'll need at least ten of them to guarantee one four-star or higher reward. That doesn't necessarily mean you'll pull a character, sometimes you may receive a four-star weapon.

The Genshin Impact weapon pity system gives you the chance to strengthen your characters with a variety of four and five-star weapons on offer. Like the character banners, you'll need to spend some Primogems to wish for these weapons.

For the current Epitome Invocation banner, Azurelight is Skirk's best weapon, and Calamity Queller is Shenhe's best weapon.

The five-star weapons are always the best-in-slot weapons for the characters featured on the banners. If you want to get the most out of your brand-new character, you're going to want to pull on the latest weapon banner.

According to the latest data-mined leaks, the next characters set to arrive on the character event banners are Mavuika and Emilie. We don't know which four-star characters may join their respective banners, but we'll be sure to update this guide once we find out.

To see which characters have already appeared over the past year, our table breaks down when each banner dropped since Genshin Impact 5.0 which released back in August 2024.