The Phantom X Gacha System Explained
Persona 5: The Phantom X utilizes a gacha system that enables players to pull for characters, weapons, and low-rank Personas. All of these elements have a direct impact on each player’s account progression, combat strategies, and overall gameplay experience. To avoid wasting resources, Persona fans and gacha players must understand the game’s gacha system and banners to build strong and versatile teams capable of completing the main story content, as well as clearing endgame modes.
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This guide provides an overview of Persona 5: The Phantom X’s gacha system, including an explanation of each banner type and its features. Moreover, this page will explain the game’s currency exchange shop and give tips on maximizing your pull currency in the game.
Gacha System Overview
Persona 5: The Phantom X’s gacha system features multiple banner types for pulling characters, weapons, and low-rank Personas. It also features an exchange shop for trading rare currency called Merope’s Cognition Shop. The banner types include the following:
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Banner Type |
Banner Name |
Availability |
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Beginners Banner |
Phantom Thieves of Hearts |
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Featured and Limited Banner |
Various Banners |
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Rerun Banner |
Various Banners |
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Super Rerun Banner |
You Are My Destiny and Kaidola Starlight Show |
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Standard and Permanent Banner |
Phantom Idol Draft or Kaidol Draft |
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Weapon Banner |
Silent Pistol |
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Some banner types, such as the Kaidol Starlight Show and You Are My Destiny banners, will not be available immediately in Version 1.0. Their availability is dependent on the timelines of the Global, Japan, and Southeast Asia servers.
Beginners Banner
The beginners banner in Persona 5: The Phantom X is named the Phantom Thieves of Hearts. This banner type requires Gold Tickets to acquire 4-star characters and low-rank Personas. Unlike other banners, spending currency in this banner will cost less as you can do a 10-pull for the price of 8 Gold Tickets. After 50 pulls, you can pick between Skull, Mona, or Panther as your 5-star standard character.
This banner will no longer appear after choosing your 5-star character. If you are experiencing regrets, you can pick the other two 5-star standard characters from the Standard Banner or Lufel’s Business Plan.
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Featured and Limited Banner
Persona 5: The Phantom X’s featured banner is a non-permanent banner with varying titles that offers a limited 5-star character. Unlike the beginner and standard banner, this gacha banner uses Platinum Tickets to pull for 5-star characters, 4-star characters, and low-rarity Personas. This banner follows a 50/50 system where a 5-star limited character can be obtained at a base rate chance of 0.8%. The soft pity for this banner is 70, while the hard pity is 80.
Persona 5: The Phantom X’s featured banner will only be available for a few weeks, so save as many Cognitive Crystals or Meta Jewels as you can to get your target 5-star limited characters.
Exclusive Bond and Fated Bond
After a few version updates, P5X’s limited banner will be divided into categories: the Exclusive Bond and Fated Bond. The Fated Bond will follow the same 50/50 pity system, while Exclusive Bond offers a guaranteed 5-star featured character after 110 pulls. Since the Exclusive Bond lacks a 50/50 pity mechanic, players will receive a 5-star standard character selector box instead after pulling 165 times in this banner, with the first 110 pulls counted. The pool of characters in the selector box will also increase depending on the number of 5-star standard characters available in the standard and permanent banner.
This featured and limited banner update is not yet implemented on P5X’s Global, Japan, and Southeast Asia servers as of Version 1.0.
Confirmed and Upcoming Limited Characters
Here are the limited and featured characters available in the East Asia servers of P5X. Aside from the new Phantom Idol characters and their variants, these servers have already released all the original Phantom Thief characters from Persona 5 and Persona 5 Royal. As of Version 4.1.3, these servers have begun releasing the SEES characters from Persona Reload.
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All 5★ Limited and Featured Characters in Persona 5: The Phantom X |
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5★ Joker |
5★ Bui |
5★ Marian |
5★ Fox |
5★ Rin |
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5★ Riddle |
5★ Queen |
5★ Phoebe |
5★ Chord |
5★ Closer • Summer |
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5★ Moko • Summer |
5★ Messa |
5★ Oracle (Navi) |
5★ Cherish |
5★ Noir |
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5★ Mont • Figure Skater |
5★ Howler |
5★ Violet |
5★ Wind • Vast |
5★ Rin • Lion Dance |
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5★ Matoi |
5★ Crow |
5★Turbo |
5★ Ange |
5★ Makoto Yuki |
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5★ Yukari Takeba |
5★ Akihiko Sanada |
5★ Berry |
Coming Soon! |
Coming Soon! |
You can skip the debut banner releases of Marian, Phoebe, Cherish, Howler, and Turbo. Then, wait for them to become available in the standard or permanent banner after a few version updates. This will allow you to save Meta Jewels and Platinum Tickets for stronger characters or weapons.
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Rerun Banner
Persona 5: The Phantom X’s rerun banner is a returning character and weapon banner of a previously released 5-star Phantom Thief or Phantom Idol. These returning banners use Platinum Tickets and stay longer than their debut banners, reaching up to 2-3 version updates. Also, these unique banners share the same gacha mechanics and pity system as the current limited character and weapon banners.
An Exclusive Bond rerun banner will follow the same pull count and pity of an Exclusive Bond limited banner. The same principle applies to a Fated Bond rerun banner as well. These apply when the banner update is implemented in the newest servers.
There are times that P5X servers can also make three pairs of rerun banners available, for a total of three limited 5-star character banners and three signature weapon banners.
Super Rerun Banner
The super rerun banner is a hardcore version of Persona 5: The Phantom X’s rerun banner that also requires Platinum Tickets. This special banner consists of more than three returning 5-star characters, both limited and standard. In terms of its gacha mechanics and pity system, it is similar to a regular rerun banner. The super rerun banner has two versions: You Are My Destiny and Kaidola Starlight Show.
You Are My Destiny
You Are My Destiny is a super rerun banner with a specific theme, such as Valentine’s Day, Summer, or Server Anniversary. The game will then select previously released 5-star characters that fit the theme and put them together under a single banner. You can then choose three units from the character pool and draw them with better rates.
These special banners have not yet been implemented in Version 1.0 of the Global, Japan, and Southeast Asia servers. They will be available for upcoming special events such as seasonal events or anniversary events or major version updates.
Kaidola Starlight Show
Kaidola Starlight Show is another unit-specific super rerun banner exclusive for new players and accounts. This unique banner will become available once the newest P5X servers have been active for months. It is only active for 30 days after the creation of a new account and allows late-bloomer players to catch up on all 5-star standard characters and a few 5-star limited characters.
Standard and Permanent Banner
The Phantom Idol Draft or Kaidol Draft is Persona 5: The Phantom X’s standard and permanent banner. This banner uses Gold Tickets to pull for 4-star characters and random 5-star standard characters. Low-rarity, 2-star Normal Personas are also obtained in this banner by chance. Like the featured and limited banner, this permanent banner also follows a 50/50 pity system and a hard pity of 80 pulls. As of Version 1.0, only 5-star standard characters are available in this banner: Skull, Mona, Panther, Rin, or Riddle.
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All Base 5★ Standard Characters in Persona 5: The Phantom X |
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5★ Skull |
5★ Mona |
5★ Panther |
5★ Rin |
5★ Riddle |
For new accounts, spend 300 Gold Tickets to guarantee one of the 5-star standard characters. This feature is only available once, so make sure you choose a 5-star unit that you like.
Don’t spend the majority of your Cognitive Crystals or Meta Jewels on Gold Tickets. You can obtain additional Gold Tickets regularly by clearing story missions, mini-games, and game modes per version update.
Following their debut banners and a few version updates, some featured 5-star characters will become available in the standard or permanent banner. These characters include Marian, Phoebe, Cherish, Howler, and Turbo, who are now available in the permanent banners of P5X’s East Asia servers (China, Taiwan, and South Korea) as of Version 4.1.3.
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All Future 5★ Standard Characters in Persona 5: The Phantom X |
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5★ Marian |
5★ Phoebe |
5★ Cherish |
5★ Howler |
5★Turbo |
Persona 5: The Phantom X’s Global, Japan, and Southeast Asia servers may use a different approach in updating their standard banners. Always wait for official announcements before using or saving your Gold Tickets.
Weapon Banner
Persona 5: The Phantom X’s weapon banner is called Silent Pistol, and it uses weapon coins called Milicoins to pull for character weapons. Players can get 3-star, 4-star, and 5-star weapons in this banner, and it covers both featured and standard characters. This banner also follows a 50/50 system, but the hard pity for the featured weapon is 70 and the base rate of getting a 5-star weapon by chance is around 0.8%.
There are two currencies for obtaining weapons: Milicoins and Gecko Coins. Milicoins are used for weapon banners, whereas Gecko Coins, both purple and green, are used to purchase 5-star or 4-star weapons at Munehisa Iwai’s Untouchables Shop. Don’t be confused by the two currencies.
A unique feature of this banner is that it has 3 weapon slots. One is locked for the featured weapon while two are open for two non-featured 5-star weapons. If the player loses the 50/50 and does not acquire the featured weapon, the player will get either one of the two non-featured 5-star weapons. All the non-featured 5-star weapons of 5-star standard characters and 4-star characters are available for choosing.
You can change and replace two non-featured 5-star weapons you’ve set up at any time. If there are numerous weapon banners available during a special event, you must select two 5-star weapons for each weapon banner, which can be weapons from different 5-star or 4-star characters.
Exchange Shop
Merope’s Cognition Shop is a rare currency exchange shop in Persona 5: The Phantom X that offers additional banner tickets, items, and leveling materials. As you pull on any banners, you collect rare currency that you can use in this shop. Cognitive Shards, Cognitive Gems, and Cognitive Afterimages are the currencies you can trade in this shop.
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Cognition Shop Currency |
How to Obtain |
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Cognitive Shards (Gold) |
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Cognitive Gems (Violet) |
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Cognitive Afterimages (Diamond-shape) |
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Cognitive Afterimages will be available with the debut of the Super Rerun Banner, You Are My Destiny.
Understanding Persona 5: The Phantom X’s gacha system will help new players balance their pulls across multiple banner types as well as leverage the game’s pity system and 50/50 mechanic to their advantage. With this information, they can get their favorite Phantom Thief or Phantom Idol, along with their signature weapon without a problem. By learning Merope’s Cognition Shop, they can obtain additional currency to pull for duplicate copies of their target character or weapon. They can also save the extra Platinum Tickets and Gold Tickets they have for upcoming limited characters, such as the original Phantom Thieves like Fox and Queen.
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Persona5: The Phantom X
- Released
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April 12, 2024
- Developer(s)
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Black Wings Game Studio, Atlus, Sega
- Engine
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Unity
- Multiplayer
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Online Multiplayer
- Cross-Platform Play
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Yes
- Prequel(s)
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Persona 5
