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A list of headhunting banners in Arknights.

Rate-up Operators are those who are more likely to appear than others.

  • When a 6★ or 5★ Operator appears in a pull, there is a 50% chance that said Operator will be the rate-up one(s).
    • In regular Limited banners, the primary rate-up 6★ Operators have a higher chance of 70% to be the 6★ Operator that appears in a pull, while the secondary rate-up limited Operators have a 30% chance to be the 6★ Operator that appears in a pull.
    • In crossover Limited banners:
      • The rate-up 6★ Operator has a 50% chance to be the 6★ Operator that appears in a pull as in regular banners, but they are guaranteed to appear in any of the first 120 pulls (i.e. if the rate-up 6★ Operator do not appear after 119 pulls, then they will appear in the 120th pull).
      • If there are two rate-up 5★ Operators, should either appears in a pull, the next (and only the next) 5★ Operator that appears are guaranteed to be the other rate-up 5★ Operator.
  • When a 4★ Operator appears in a pull, there is a 20% chance that said Operator will be the rate-up one(s).

List

  • Limited Operators of the primary rate-up are denoted by red borders.
  • Operators available in the Store as part of the Standard Pool and Kernel banners are denoted by yellow borders.

Current

Banner/Date Rate-Up Operators
Global: February 7, 2025 – February 21, 2025
CN: July 9, 2024 – July 23, 2024
Mitm
Nymph
Proviso
January 31, 2025 – February 14, 2025
Dorothy
Firewhistle
Ho'olheyak
Lunacub
Poncirus
January 28, 2025 – February 11, 2025
Nightmare
Platinum
Saga
Waai Fu
Weedy

Upcoming

Banner/Date Rate-Up Operators
Global: February 14, 2025 – February 28, 2025
CN: July 16, 2024 – July 30, 2024
The 6★ and 5★ Operators that appear in a pull will always be the following:
Ascalon
Cement
Degenbrecher
Fang the Fire-sharpened
Greyy the Lightningbearer
Horn
Leto
Qiubai
Vendela
Wind Chimes
Global: February 28, 2025 – March 14, 2025
CN: September 19, 2024 – October 3, 2024
Almond
Jessica the Liberated
Wind Chimes
Global: March 10, 2025 – March 24, 2025
CN: September 2, 2024 – September 16, 2024
Chilchuck
Laios
Marcille
Global: March 25, 2025 – April 8, 2025
CN: September 27, 2024 – October 11, 2024
Three of the following 6★ Operators, determined by the player, will always be the 6★ Operator that appears in a pull:
Ebenholz
Hoederer
Ines
Logos
Saileach
Viviana

Three of the following 5★ Operators, determined by the player, have a 60% chance to be the 5★ Operator that appears in a pull:
Aroma
Greyy the Lightningbearer
Melanite
Mulberry
Rockrock
Spuria
Addendum
  • The Joint Operation #16 image is taken from the CN server's, whose featured Operators differ with that of the Global server's.
  • The Global dates of Clank Liberty Rerun, Terran Food, Ah, Terran Food, and Orienteering #1 are based on the release dates of the events they are featured, which has been referenced in the game files updated on the release of A Kazdelian Rescue.
  • The rate-up Operators in Clank Liberty Rerun and Orienteering #1 are subject to change as the Operators available in the Standard headhunting pool in Global differs from those in CN.

Former

Overview

Headhunting banners are divided into three categories: Standard, Limited, and Kernel.

Operators available in all banners
4★
Aciddrop
Ambriel
Arene
Beanstalk
Beehunter
Bubble
Chestnut
Click
Cuora
Cutter
Deepcolor
Dobermann
Earthspirit
Frostleaf
Gitano
Gravel
Greyy
Gummy
Haze
Humus
Indigo
Jackie
Jaye
Jessica
Matoimaru
Matterhorn
May
Meteor
Mousse
Myrrh
Myrtle
Perfumer
Pinecone
Podenco
Roberta
Rope
Scavenger
Shaw
Shirayuki
Sussurro
Totter
Utage
Verdant
Vermeil
Vigna
3★
Ansel
Beagle
Cardigan
Catapult
Fang
Hibiscus
Kroos
Lava
Melantha
Midnight
Orchid
Plume
Popukar
Spot
Steward
Vanilla

All Operators introduced on a headhunting banner, with the exception of limited ones, will be available from all future Standard banners after the one they were introduced in ends.

Standard

Operators available in Standard banners
6★
Ascalon
Degenbrecher
Dorothy
Ebenholz
Executor the Ex Foedere
Fartooth
Fiammetta
Flametail
Gnosis
Goldenglow
Ho'olheyak
Hoederer
Horn
Ines
Irene
Jessica the Liberated
Lee
Lin
Logos
Mizuki
Młynar
Narantuya
Nymph
Penance
Pozëmka
Qiubai
Ray
Reed the Flame Shadow
Saileach
Stainless
Swire the Elegant Wit
Typhon
Ulpianus
Viviana
Zuo Le
5★
Almond
Aroma
Ashlock
Aurora
Bassline
Blacknight
Cantabile
Cement
Corroserum
Fang the Fire-sharpened
Firewhistle
Grain Buds
Greyy the Lightningbearer
Harmonie
Hibiscus the Purifier
Kazemaru
La Pluma
Leto
Lucilla
Lunacub
Melanite
Mitm
Mulberry
Paprika
Poncirus
Proviso
Quercus
Rockrock
Sand Reckoner
Santalla
Spuria
Vendela
Warmy
Wind Chimes
Windflit
4★
Lutonada

Standard Pool

Standard Pool banners include the previously introduced Operators and always have two rate-up 6★ Operators and three rate-up 5★ Operators, one from each rarity is available in the Distinctions Store for 180 Distinction Certificate icon.png and 45 Distinction Certificate icon.png, respectively, who can be easily identified by looking at the banner's image: the 6★ Operator is the one who uses their base artwork while the 5★ Operator is the one in the middle of rate-up 5★ Operators. Standard Pool banners are updated every two weeks.

Initially the Global and TW server's Standard Pool rotation follows the CN server's until the third and fourth, which are switched, and differs from the fifth onwards.

Special

Special (officially limited-time, but the Arknights Terra Wiki uses "Special" to avoid confusion with Limited banners, explained below) banners are always up alongside Side Story, most Story Collection, and Main Theme episode release events, which includes the Operators introduced in the respective content, always having one new 6★ and 5★ Operator (as well as 4★ on Main Theme ones), and one previously introduced 5★ Operator as the rate-up ones.

Joint Operation

Joint Operation (JO; known as Joint Action in the CN server) banners are always up alongside most Contingency Contract seasons and includes four 6★ Operators and six 5★ Operators as the rate-up ones, all of which are previously introduced ones. Unlike in most other banners, the 6★ and 5★ Operators that appear on a pull in the JO banner will always be the rate-up ones.

The Front That Was

The Front That Was (TFTW) banners always precede Main Theme episode releases since Episode 11 Warm-Up and includes three 6★, 5★, 4★ Operators, all of which are introduced with previous Main Theme episodes with the newest ones replacing the oldest ones, as the rate-up ones. Unlike in other banners:

  • The 6★ Operators that appear on a pull in TFTW banners will always be the rate-up ones.
  • The 5★ and 4★ Operators that appear on a pull in TFTW banners have a 60% and 45% chance, respectively to be the rate-up ones.

Orienteering

Orienteering banners are first introduced in Vector Breakthrough and features three 6★ and 5★ Operators from a player-determined selection of six Operators from each rarity like that of the Kernel Locating banners (explained below). Unlike in other banners:

  • The 6★ Operators that appear on a pull in Orienteering banners will always be the rate-up ones.
  • The 5★ Operators that appear on a pull in Orienteering banners have a 60% chance to be the rate-up ones.

Limited

Limited banners are named such because they introduce limited Operators and being the only way to add them into the player's Operator roster. They always feature two new 6★ Operators, one of which is the limited one, up to three old limited 6★ Operators of the same series, and one new 5★ Operator as the rate-up ones. Other Operators that may appear in limited banners are the same as those in Standard banners (see above)

Crossover banners, part of a collaboration event with a non-Arknights media franchise, are also classified as limited headhunting banners. They always feature one new 6★ Operator and at least one new 5★ Operator as the rate-up ones.

Celebration - Vista (formerly Celebrate & Recollect) and Celebration - Kernel banners are also classified as a limited headhunting banner, but neither introduces nor features limited Operators. Instead, the first (and only the first) 6★ Operator that appears in a pull on said banner will always be a non-limited 6★ Operator outside of Kernel banners (within Kernel banners for Celebration - Kernel) that the player do not have yet in their roster up until a certain special headhunting banner for Celebration - Vista banners; if the player have all the specified 6★ Operator in their roster, then the one that appears will be randomly chosen from the specified ones. Celebration - Vista banners are always live in the lead-up to the New Years (CN)/Festival events starting from Invitation to Wine (Global), with Celebration - Kernel banners following suit in the lead-up to New Years 2024 (CN)/Here A People Sows (Global).

Currently limited headhunting banners are divided into three series; note that their release in Global follow a different schedule than CN's.

Series CN schedule Global schedule Operators (Global)
Celebration Nov. 1 and May 1 Late Apr./early May and Late Oct./early Nov.
Muelsyse
Nearl the Radiant Knight
Rosmontis
Skadi the Corrupting Heart
Specter the Unchained
Texas the Omertosa
Virtuosa
W
Wiš'adel
Festival Late Jan./early Feb. Late July/early Aug.
Chongyue
Dusk
Ling
Nian
Shu
Carnival Late July/early Aug. Around Jan. 16
Ch'en the Holungday
Eyjafjalla the Hvít Aska
Gavial the Invincible
Pepe

An exception to the scheduling above is Cremation Last Wish, which are released during the 1st Anniversary Celebration on January 2021.

In all limited headhunting banners, the pull count and increased 6★ Operator rate for the pity system are not carried over from non-limited banners, instead tracking them separately including from other limited banners.

When a limited headhunting banner ends, the limited Operator introduced in that banner will be available from future limited banners and the Headhunting Data Contract Store of the matching series except for those on the Celebration banners who will be available from the other next Celebration banner (e.g. Rosmontis is introduced in Forget Me Not and added to Celebration banners in Path of the Radiant rather than Deep Drown Lament), with the sole exception to W.

Contrary to popular belief, once a limited Operator is no longer included in limited banners, they are not removed from the banner altogether, but are as likely as non-limited Operators to appear in a pull on the banner and remains available in the Headhunting Data Contract Store.

From the Our Kind Celebration limited banner:

  1. The oldest limited Operator in the limited banner group at the time the new limited banner is released (in the case of Our Kind, W) has their Headhunting Data Contract price reduced from 300 to 200, making them somewhat more accessible for players who missed them.
  2. The limited Operator introduced in the limited banner can be claimed for free from the banner menu after the player had done a total of 300 pulls in the respective banner.

Kernel

Introduced alongside Episode 12, the Kernel banner only features 6★ and 5★ Operators that no longer appears in Standard headhunting banners.

Operators available the Kernel banner
6★
Aak
Angelina
Archetto
Bagpipe
Blaze
Blemishine
Carnelian
Ceobe
Ch'en
Eunectes
Exusiai
Eyjafjalla
Hellagur
Hoshiguma
Ifrit
Kal'tsit
Magallan
Mostima
Mountain
Mudrock
Nightingale
Pallas
Passenger
Phantom
Rosa
Saga
Saria
Schwarz
Shining
Siege
SilverAsh
Skadi
Surtr
Suzuran
Thorns
Weedy
5★
Akafuyu
Andreana
Aosta
April
Asbestos
Astesia
Ayerscarpe
Beeswax
Blue Poison
Broca
Chiave
Cliffheart
Croissant
Elysium
Executor
FEater
Firewatch
Flint
Franka
Glaucus
GreyThroat
Hung
Iris
Istina
Kafka
Kirara
Lappland
Leizi
Leonhardt
Liskarm
Manticore
Mayer
Meteorite
Mr. Nothing
Nearl
Nightmare
Platinum
Pramanix
Projekt Red
Provence
Ptilopsis
Reed
Sesa
Shamare
Silence
Skyfire
Sora
Specter
Swire
Texas
Toddifons
Tsukinogi
Waai Fu
Warfarin
Whisperain
Zima

The Kernel banner also feature Headhunting Permits that can only be used in said banner: Kernel Headhunting Permit Kernel Headhunting Permit and Ten-roll Kernel Headhunting Permit Ten-roll Kernel Headhunting Permit, and the pity system is independent from Standard and Limited banners.

Instead of awarding Commendation and Distinction Certificates, obtaining Operators from the Kernel Banner awards Universal Certificate Universal Certificate, and their Operator Tokens differ from the regular ones in which they are exchanged for Universal Certificates.

Like Standard Pool banners, Kernel banners are rotated every two weeks and one of the rate-up 6★ and 5★ Operators (all on the left of Operators of the respective rarity shown in the banner) are available for purchase in the Universal Certificates Exchange Area, costing 2000 Universal Certificate icon.png and 500 Universal Certificate icon.png, respectively.

Kernel Locating

Every ~3 months starting from Lone Trail, which coincides with the weeks after Celebration, Festival, and Carnival events, the Kernel Locating banner will be featured in place of regular Kernel banners, where the player will be able to choose which 6★ and 5★ Operator would appear as the rate-up ones, including in the Certificate Store. Note that once the rate-up Operators are chosen, they cannot be changed for the rest of the Kernel Locating banner's period, so make your decision wisely.

Starter

EN BP Starter Headhunting Update.png

The Starter Headhunting banner is always available and has a discounted price of only 380 Orundum icon.png per pull instead of 600 Orundum icon.png, but are limited to 20 pulls for each account; once this limit is reached, the banner can no longer be accessed from the Headhunting menu.

A 6★ and 5★ Operator is guaranteed to appear in the first ten pulls and any of the twenty pulls within the Newbie Pool banner, respectively, which makes it the best choice for new players.

Starter Headhunting rate-up Operators
Astesia
Blaze
Blue Poison
Elysium
Exusiai
La Pluma
Lappland
Liskarm
Manticore
Mountain
Nearl
Platinum
Projekt Red
Ptilopsis
Saria
Shamare
Silence
SilverAsh
Specter
Thorns
Warfarin
Whisperain
Starter Headhunting rate-up Operators before Path of Life
Archetto
Flametail
Mountain
Suzuran
Thorns
Weedy
Starter Headhunting rate-up Operators before Episode 12: All Quiet Under the Thunder
Angelina
Exusiai
Hoshiguma
Shining
Siege
SilverAsh

Trivia

  • The order of several headhunting banners on the Global and TW servers are different with the CN server:
    • In CN, Summer Guardians preceded Forging Steel and Frozen Land, whereas on Global and TW Frozen Land precedes Forging Steel and Summer Guardians.
    • In CN, Drillelectric preceded Enthusiasm Expansion Explosion, whereas on Global and TW this was reversed.
    • Due to Darknights Memoir being delayed in Global to mid-December 2020 and TW to mid-May 2021 instead of succeeding Contingency Contract Barrenland, which made Children of Ursus, Twilight of Wolumonde, and Contingency Contract Pyrite preceding DM, First Snowfall, Lisa of the Valley, and Misty Wild all preceded Illusions of the Past in Global and TW instead of succeeding them as in CN.
    • In CN, Quicksand Vortex was featured concurrently with Contingency Contract Blade, but in Global and TW it was featured concurrently with the rerun of Grani and the Knights' Treasure instead.
    • As the result of the above, all Operators introduced in First Snowfall, Lisa of the Valley, Misty Wild, and Quicksand Vortex are treated as Kernel banner Operators in Global from the release of Episode 12.
      • This also caused the rate-up Operators on several rerunned special banners and Joint Operation banners in Global to be different with those in CN.
  • The original Standard Pool 15 banner's image for JP. Note that Swire was in the middle instead of Liskarm, which is the case when the banner went live.
    Originally the 5★ Operator available in the Distinctions Store for the Global server's Standard Pool 15 banner was expected to be Swire, as seen from the early JP and KR announcements, but this was changed to Liskarm; the banner's image on later announcements were altered to reflect this.
    • Something similar had occurred with Standard Pool 02 on all servers, which showed Platinum in the middle of the three rate-up 5★ Operators and therefore should have been in the Distinctions Store, but Texas was in the shop instead, but no change was made to the banner image.
    • This was repeated in Standard Pool 54 on the Global server, where the banner's image shows Mayer as the middle 5★ Operator that should have been available in the Distinctions Store, but Istina was in the shop instead.
  • Due to an oversight, an initial tweet from the official Arknights EN's Twitter account announcing Saileach on the Hill erroneously displays Saileach's Operator class as a Caster. It has since been replaced with the correct version properly showing her class as a Vanguard.
  • Some banners' name were changed in the Global server:
    • Piper on the Knoll was known in CN as Grassy Bagpipe.
    • Illusions of the Past was known in CN as Past Illusion.
    • First Snowfall was known in CN as Үтро[note 1] Snowfall.
    • Fractured Light was known in CN as Blemishine (no relation to the Operator; the change is likely to avoid confusion with her).
    • Holiday Stars was known in CN as Summer Stars; the change is likely because the event it was featured, Dossoles Holiday, was not actually released during the summer on Global.
    • Through a Path of Briars was known in CN, JP, and KR as Chop the Thorns, Open Circuit; the change for the EN server is likely because the original title is incomprehensible to English speakers.
  • A hidden mechanic involving rate-up Operators in non-limited headhunting banners has been discovered recently, which ensures that the player will acquire them if they didn't over time. Whether this is limited to a specific banner or carried over between banners remain unconfirmed.[1]
    • For banners with one rate-up 6★ Operators, if the rate-up Operator does not appear after 200 pulls, the next 6★ Operator that appears will always be the rate-up one.
    • For banners with two rate-up 6★ or 5★ Operators, if either of the rate-up Operators do not appear after 400 or 100 pulls, respectively, the next 6★/5★ Operator that appears will always be either of the rate-up ones.
    • For banners with three rate-up 5★ Operators, if any of the rate-up Operators do not appear after 150 pulls, the next 5★ Operator that appears will always be any of the rate-up ones.
  • Earthborn Metals is the only limited headhunting banner that was rerun. This is because it was released before the spark system for limited headhunting banners were introduced in Cremation Last Wish, and the lack of a spark system was a cause for controversy among the Chinese playerbase. The rerun was therefore intended as an apology of sorts by the developers.
  • A trend among limited headhunting banners is that the 6★ Operator designated as the limited Operator plays a significant role in the event that debuted alongside said banner, while the non-limited 6★ Operator on the same banner either has a major role in the event (such as Saga and Mizuki) but not to the extent of the limited Operator, or no role at all (such as Weedy and Mudrock).

Notes

  1. Utro; "Morning" in Russian

References