Genshin Impact | 5.7 Update Character Banners & Patch Notes

5.7 Update Patch Notes and Character Banners guide for Genshin Impact. See 5.7 schedule, new characters, banners, events, and system adjustments for the 5.7 Version!

5.7 Update - Release Date & Overview

Check the upcoming Banners and events for the 5.7 update here!

5.7 Character Banner Dates

The 5.7 Version Update for Genshin Impact will run with the above schedule.

Pre-Installation on June 16, 2025

Pre-installation will be available on June 16, 2025, two (2) days before the Update happens. Pre-installing the update will allow players to immediately be able to enjoy the new Version once the maintenance is done.

5.7 Update Trailer

Compensation Details

5.7 Update Summary

5.7 Update Schedule
1st Phase: 2025/06/18 ~ 2025/07/08 2nd Phase: 2025/07/08 ~ 2025/07/29
Banners (Which Banner Should You Pull?)
The Transcendent One Returns 2025/06/18 ~ 2025/07/08						Void Star's Advent 2025/06/18 ~ 2025/07/08
Ambrosial Essence 2025/07/08 ~ 2025/07/29						Ancient Flame Ablaze 2025/07/08 ~ 2025/07/29
New & Rerun Characters
Skirk				Dahlia				Shenhe
Emilie						Mavuika
New Weapons & Items
■ 5 Star Limited Weapon └ Azurelight (Sword) ■ New Item └ Dust Of Enlightenment
New Quests & Events
■ Story & Archon Quest └ Crystallina Chapter: Act 1 (Skirk Story Quest) └ A Space and Time for You (Archon Quest) ■ New Events - Stygian Onslaught (Permanent Event) - Battle of Imagined Arrays Event (Theme Event) - Fearsome Ferocious Firepower - Reminiscent Regimen: Frenzy - Traveler's Tales: Anthology - Overflowing Abundance Event

5.7 Update

New Characters

Skirk - 5-Star Cyro Sword

Dahlia - 4-Star Hydro Sword

5.7 Update - Wish Banners

First Phase Banner Characters: Skirk & Shenhe

Featured 5-Star Characters
Skirk [New] Void Star			Shenhe [Rerun] Lonesome Trascendence
Featured 4-Star Characters
Dahlia [New]		Candace [Rerun]		Diona [Rerun]

Second Phase Banner Characters: Mavuika & Emilie

Featured 5-Star Characters
Mavuika [Rerun]			Emilie [Rerun]

5.7 Update - New Weapons

Skirk's Signature Weapon

Wish Weapon - Epitome Invocation
5-Star Weapon
Azurelight

5.7 Update - New Quests

New Archon Quest

A Space and Time for You

A Space and Time for You is a new upcoming Archon Quest coming in the 5.7 Update and is set in Natlan. They have hinted that we may find out more about our sibling in this quest.

New Story Quest

Skirk Story Quest
Skirk Crystallina Chapter: Act I

According to the 5.7 Livestream Skirk's character story quest will be available in the upcoming 5.7 Update.

5.7 Update - New Events

Battle of Imagined Arrays

Battle of Imagined Arrays is a board game-style event where you select and place companion pieces, strengthen them, and battle against enemy teams.

Fearsome Ferocious Firepower

In this event, the turrent has received improvements such as piercing shots and also shots that spread to target multiple targets.

Reminiscent Regimen: Frenzy

Reminiscent Regimen: Frenzy is an event that lets you team up with other players to complete various challenges. You will need to cooperate with other players from choosing your character to building a strategy.

Stygian Onslaught

This is a new permanent event where you will be able to farm Artifacts efficiently within the first 10 days after the challenge begins. You can also play in Co-op to work together with your friends.

Travelers' Tales: Gilded Chapter

This will be the next installment for Travelers' Tales. They have also stated that they are planning to make this a permanent event in the future.

5.7 Update - Other Updates

Quest Resource Management

Mobile Version Game Size

On the mobile version, you will now have the option to choose from multiple resource plans depending on your preference. The system also automatically downloads any necessary data when playing new quests as needed.

Map Interface and Adventurer Handbook

Fragile Resin

The update enables players to use Fragile Resin directly to get rewards from Ley Line Blossoms and challenge domains

Resin Boss Guide Entries

The Adventurer Handbook will now have guide entries for 40 Resin bosses. The icons will be displayed in the order they were unlocked.

Spiral Abyss Optimizations

Choosing Your Party

When moving to the next floor or restarting a challenge, you can now save your party or reset it with a single click. You can also automatically claim rewards after floor 12, in addition to be able to restart the challenge right after you finish a challenge.

TCG Updates

• New Character Cards: Chasca, Citlali, Mavuika, and their corresponding Talent cards. Corresponding invitation duel and guest challenges have been added to the Player List.
• New Action Cards "The Dockhand's Assistant," "Crown of the Saints," "Scroll of the Hero of Cinder City," "Rawr! Rawr!," "Fight for Death," "Fire and War," "Flying Squad, Attack!," "Fruits of Training," and "Harvest's Boon" have been added which can be purchased from Prince at The Cat's Tail.
• The Forge Realm's Temper is once again available. The theme of this edition is "The Forge Realm's Temper: Endless Swarm":

Imaginarium Theater Updates

• After the Version 5.7 update, the first season of "Imaginarium Theater" will be available on July 1, 2025.
• Required Elemental Types: Pyro, Hydro, and Cryo
• Opening Characters: Lyney, Xiangling, Tartaglia, Dahlia, Wriothesley, and Rosaria
• When Imaginarium Theater is open, the corresponding Opening Characters will obtain Fantastical Blessings.
• Special Guest Stars: Emilie, Kinich, Lan Yan, and Noelle
• After the first season of Imaginarium Theater begins, the characters Mualani, Lyney, Yaoyao, and Charlotte will each gain a new "Thespian Trick" that can be exchanged from the NPC Wolfy.
• After the Version 5.7 update, new challenge stages and Echo cosmetics for Raiden Shogun and Shenhe will be added.

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Current Wish (Gacha) Banners

Banner	Boosted Character / Weapon
Ancient Flame Ablaze 7/8/2025 - 7/29/2025	Mavuika Iansan Yaoyao Xiangling
Ambrosial Essence 7/8/2025 - 7/29/2025	Emilie Iansan Yaoyao Xiangling
7/8/2025 - 7/29/2025	A Thousand Blazing Suns Lumidouce Elegy The Flute Rainslasher Dragon's Bane Sacrificial Fragments Rust
Beginners' Wish Permanent	Noelle
Wanderlust Invocation Permanent	-

Version 5.7 Current Events

5.7 Events
A Space and Time for You (Archon Quest) 6/18/2025	The main story (archon quest) for version 5.7.
Reminiscent Regimen: Frenzy Event 7/14/2025 - 7/24/2025	An event with three (3) different stage challenges with unique objectives. Choose characters that are well suited to the objective of each challenge/s.
Fearsome Ferocious Firepower Event 7/21/2025 - 7/29/2025	A shooting game challenge event where players will be tasked to clear out the opponents on every stage.

Version 5.8 Upcoming Events

5.8 Events
Sunspray Summer Resort 7/30/2025 - 8/18/2025	The main event for Version 5.8. This event has 4 mini-games! Participate to this event to obtain amazing rewards!
Tracing Vanishing Trails 7/30/2025 - 8/18/2025	An event where players will be tasked to join Yelan with her investigation and solve various cases.
Mementos Of Teyvat: Prelude of the Frozen Veil 8/21/2025 - 9/1/2025	Another photo-taking event where players will be tasked to capture photos with characters under certain conditions.

Other Events

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