Summoning Explained: Banners, Rates & Pity
Summoning is how you grow your roster — but pulling well is a skill of its own. Here's how banners, rates and pity work in Fatebound, and how to spend wisely when every summon counts.
What is summoning?
Summoning spends premium currency to pull heroes (and some pets) from a banner. You earn that currency steadily just by playing — through quests, arena rewards, events and progression — so even free players build a strong roster over time.
Banners and rotations
At any time there's a standard banner plus rotating featured banners that boost the odds of specific heroes. Featured banners are the efficient place to chase a hero you want, because they concentrate your pulls on a target rather than the whole pool.
Rarities and rates
- Common / Rare: the most frequent pulls and the backbone of early teams.
- Epic: strong build-around units that show up regularly.
- Legendary / Mythic: the rarest, highest-ceiling heroes.
Remember: rarity sets a unit's ceiling, not an automatic win. A fully-evolved Epic with the right pet pairing beats a poorly-built Mythic every time.
The pity system
Fatebound uses a pity system so you're never pulling into a void. The more you summon on a banner without a top-rarity hero, the higher your odds climb, until a high-rarity pull is guaranteed. Pity means a long dry streak always ends in a reward — and it makes saving toward a featured banner a reliable plan.
Save your currency for featured banners with a hero you actually want. Scattering pulls across every banner is the slowest way to build a roster.
Summoning smart as a free player
- Bank your currency between banners instead of pulling on impulse.
- Commit to a featured banner only when it has a hero that improves your core team.
- Don't chase duplicates of units you won't play — breadth of a strong core beats a hoard of benchwarmers.
New to the game? Pair this with the beginner's guide to turn your early pulls into a winning team.
