It’s that time of year again! The best banner of the year. Time to summon!
My expectations for this summoning session
According to Fehology’s video, the average player should expect to receive 43 focus 5-stars in 1,000 orbs, mentioning that it’s “almost a certainty that you’ll get 2 +10’s”. Since I’m spending more than 1,000 orbs, I hope to +10 all of them.
During the previous all-green A Hero Rises event, I was on the unlucky side, getting 40 total 5-stars (including 4-star-special heroes and spark) in 1,300 orbs. The expected rates for that banner were about 29 orbs per focus 5-star unit. If you haven’t seen that video though, I received 28 focus 5-star units (29 including the single spark). I hope to be able to get luckier this time around.
Using the summoning statistics calculator
Using the summoning statistics simulator, the 50th percentile of players are able to get one of the focus units in under 33 orbs, which is great.
Calculating the number of copies needed to summon, 50% of players are able to obtain 10 copies of one of the units in 1,162 orbs. Note that you only need 10 because the Spark will give you the 11th. Also note that you only need 9 Peonies since she’s given out for free. You also only need 9 Dimitri’s since you can get one from the Divine Codes 5.
Summoning Time
You can see the full summoning session here:
Total 5-stars units
I received many 5-stars units. These include focus 5-stars, non-focus 5-stars, and 4-star-special heroes.
Full list below:
To summarize, I received:
Focus 5-star units breakdown
Here is the count of focus 5-star units I received:
- 10x Peony (11 including spark)
- 1x Dimitri (2 including spark)
- 10x Claude (11 including spark)
- 4x Alear (5 including spark)
During this session, I got 25 focus 5-star units in 1,192 orbs. That averages out to 47.8 orbs per focus 5-star.
If we do the orbs per 5-star excluding 4-star specials, then I received 32 of them in 1,200 orbs. This comes out to 37.5 orbs per 5-star.
If we include all 5-stars including the 4-star specials, then I received 42 in 1,200 orbs, which comes out to 28.6 orbs per 5-star.
Comparing my stats to other FEH YouTubers’ AHR Summons
Looking at other FEHTubers’ AHR summoning sessions, I’ll calculate their rates so we can see how lucky I was comparatively. I will exclude the sparks and only consider focus 5-stars obtained.
| FEH-tuber | Orbs spent | Focus 5* (excl. spark) | Orbs per focus 5* |
| Fehology | 470 | 11 | 42.73 |
| The0blivionknight | 571 | 14 | 40.78 |
| Rocketgal | 1049 | 27 | 38.85 |
| me (this year) | 1192 | 25 | 47.68 |
| me (2 years ago) | 1311 | 28 | 46.82 |
The chart above puts into perspective how my summons were compared to the other FEHTubers. During this summoning session, I unfortunately performed worse than the others.
Because I spent a large amount of orbs, it sets back my account’s progress compared to everyone else. If my account was luckier, I could have spent some more orbs in other places.
I’m still waiting for a time when I drop over 1,000 orbs on a banner and get (significantly) better-than-average pulls.