Genshin Impact: Here are the current and next banners

It’s not easy keeping up with the Genshin Impact banners. The regular updates are great, but it also means Genshin Impact characters—and weapons—rotate in and out of the game regularly. It’s easy to miss a hero you’ve got your eye on, either to bad luck or just by simply not realising their banner is active. Most characters will return at some point for a banner re-run, so all is not lost if you miss out the first time.

Banners—or event wishes—are at the heart of Genshin’s gacha system. Primogems are used to wish on a banner, giving you a chance to roll a character or weapon from a pool of rewards. There’s a pity mechanic, too, meaning you’re guaranteed to get a five-star hero on your 90th character wish and a five-star weapon on the 80th pull from the weapon banner, Epitome Invocation.

So with all that in mind, here are the next Genshin Impact banners, as well as the current event wishes.

Current

(Image credit: miHoYo)Current Genshin Impact banners 

These event wishes are active until January 25. Both Shenhe and Yun Jin are new characters, while the weapon banner Epitome Invocation introduces Calamity Queller, the new five-star polearm.

The Transcendent One Returns

• Shenhe (five-star)
• Yun Jin
• Ningguang
• Chongyun

Invitation to Mundane Life 

• Xiao (five-star)
• Yun Jin
• Ningguang
• Chongyun

Epitome Invocation 

• Calamity Queller (five-star)
• Primordial Jade Winged-Spear (five-star)
• Lithic Spear
• The Flute
• Favonius Greatsword
• The Widsith
• Favonius Warbow

Next

(Image credit: miHoYo)Next Genshin Impact banners 

The following event wishes are set to arrive during the second half of the 2.4 update on January 25 and will run until February 15: 

Gentry of Hermitage 

• Zhongli (five-star)
• Xingqiu
• Beidou
• Yanfei

Adrift in the Harbor  

• Ganyu (five-star)
• Xingqiu
• Beidou
• Yanfei

Epitome Invocation 

• Vortex Vanquisher (five-star)
• Amos’ Bow (five-star)
• Lithic Blade
• Favonius Sword
• Dragon’s Bane
• Favonius Codex
• Sacrificial Bow

Previous

(Image credit: miHoYo)Recent Genshin Impact banner history: Version 2.3  

Secretum Secretorum (first phase) 

• Albedo (five-star)
• Bennett
• Noelle
• Rosaria

Born of Ocean Swell 

• Eula (five-star)
• Bennett
• Noelle
• Rosaria

Epitome Invocation 

• Freedom-Sworn (five-star)
• Song of Broken Pines (five-star)
• Wine and Song
• Alley Hunter
• Lion’s Roar
• Sacrificial Greatsword
• Dragon’s Bane

Oni’s Royale (second phase) 

• Arataki Itto (five-star)
• Gorou
• Barbara
• Xiangling

Epitome Invocation 

• Redhorn Stonethresher (five-star)
• Skyward Harp (five-star)
• The Alley Flash
• Mitternachts Waltz
• The Bell
• Favonius Lance
• Sacrificial Fragments