Arknights: Endfield Standard vs. Limited Banner (Where Your Origeometry Actually Belongs)

Arknights: Endfield runs two permanent pull pools side by side, and they behave nothing alike once pity is involved. Basic Headhunting, the Standard banner, carries zero risk of pulling the wrong character. Chartered Headhunting, the Limited banner, is where every new featured character actually lives, and it comes with a real coin flip attached. Spending Origeometry without understanding which pool solves which problem is how accounts end up with duplicates they didn't need and missing the character they actually wanted.

Basic Headhunting has no 50/50 at all. Chartered Headhunting does. That single difference should decide almost everything about how you split a pull budget between the two.

Basic Headhunting vs. Chartered Headhunting: the two pull pools in Arknights: Endfield

Both banners run on the same underlying rates: 0.8% for 6-star characters, 8.0% for 5-stars, 91.2% for 4-stars, with the same soft pity curve climbing from pull 66 and reaching a hard guarantee at pull 80. Where they diverge is what that guarantee actually gets you.

Chartered Headhunting is the Limited banner, home to the newest featured character and their specific kit, and every 6-star that drops before pull 120 triggers a 50/50 between that featured character and an off-banner standard pull. Basic Headhunting is the Standard banner, drawing only from a fixed, permanent roster of five 6-star characters, and it carries no featured character at all, which removes the coin flip entirely.

The 300-pull selector pity in Arknights, explained

Basic Headhunting carries a second, deeper pity layer on top of the 80-pull guarantee: a 300-pull selector that lets you choose any one of the five Standard 6-star characters directly, no RNG involved at that point at all.

This is the closest thing the game has to a guaranteed pull on demand, and it exists specifically because the Standard pool has no featured character to chase, only a fixed roster to eventually complete. Three hundred pulls is a large number to bank purely on Standard, which is exactly why this pity layer functions more as a long-term insurance policy than a near-term target for most accounts.

Should you pull Standard or save for Chartered in Arknights: Endfield?

For most accounts that top up, Chartered should get priority. The featured characters on Limited banners are where new kits, new mechanics, and the characters actually built around a version's content release, and missing a Chartered window means waiting for a rerun with no fixed schedule.

Standard pulls make the most sense when a specific roster gap needs filling and the Chartered banner currently running does not solve it, or when the account is close enough to that 300-pull selector threshold that finishing it converts leftover pity progress into a guaranteed, chosen character instead of banked risk. Pulling Standard reactively, without a specific gap in mind, is the most common way Origeometry gets spent on a character the roster did not actually need yet.

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Arknights: Endfield Standard vs. Limited FAQs

Does the Standard banner in Arknights: Endfield have a 50/50?

No. Because Basic Headhunting has no featured rate-up character, there is nothing for a 6-star pull to coin-flip against. Every 6-star that drops on the Standard banner comes from the same permanent pool of five characters, currently Ardelia, Pogranichnik, Last Rite, Ember, and Lifeng. The 80-pull pity on this banner guarantees a 6-star from that pool, full stop, with no risk of landing an "off-banner" result the way Chartered pulls can. That certainty is exactly why Standard pulls are the lower-stakes half of the pull budget.

Can New Horizons Headhunting give you a Limited character in Arknights: Endfield?

No. New Horizons Headhunting is the beginner banner, unlocked through Special Headhunting Permits earned by clearing the early main story, and it pulls only from the Standard character pool, not from any Chartered featured character. Its own pity guarantees a 6-star Standard character, plus a 6-star weapon selector, within 40 pulls using those permits. It is a strong, low-risk source of early roster foundation, but it is not a route to any Limited or featured character, so it should never be mistaken for a shortcut around Chartered pulls.

Does pulling on Standard affect your Chartered pity in Arknights: Endfield?

No. The 80-pull general pity carries over only between banners of the same type, meaning Chartered pity tracks separately from Basic Headhunting pity, and progress on one does not add to or subtract from the other. An Endministrator who pulls 40 times on Standard without a 6-star and then switches to a Chartered banner starts that Chartered pity count at zero, not at 40. Treat the two pity tracks as entirely separate budgets, because the game does too.

Is the 300-pull selector worth saving for in Arknights: Endfield?

It depends on how close an account already sits to that threshold and how many Standard characters are still missing from the roster. For an account with several 6-star Standard duplicates already and only one or two gaps left, the selector is close to a guaranteed, targeted pull once the count is reached. For an account early in its Standard pull history, chasing the 300-pull mark specifically is usually a worse use of Origeometry than saving it for Chartered banners, since Standard 6-stars can still drop naturally along the way through the regular 80-pull pity without ever needing the full selector count.

What do New Horizons Headhunting pulls guarantee in Arknights: Endfield?

Completing all 40 pulls using Special Headhunting Permits guarantees one permanent 6-star Standard character plus a New Horizons Weapon Supply, which lets you select one 6-star weapon of your choice from a designated pool. Along the way, the banner also guarantees a 5-star or higher character on every 10-pull, matching the standard 10-pull guarantee found elsewhere in the gacha system. Because the Permits themselves come from progressing the beginner story rather than from paid currency, this banner functions as a one-time, largely free foundation for a new account's roster.

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