Version 3.8, The Temporal Scale, landed on Global on September 24, and it has gone down well — a strong event chapter plus two new Mineral 6-stars in Everecho and Cornerstone. The second half is already running and players are deep in Version 3.9 leaks. That is not impatience: Hedone and Narcissus were released ahead of Global back in August, and community databases have had their full kits documented ever since.
That gap is the one real advantage Global players have. Reading the Reverse: 1999 banner schedule in advance lets you plan your Unilogs rather than react to whatever the summon screen is showing. Some banners will not fit the team you are building; others simply will not be to your taste. Skipping them is a decision rather than a loss, because every pull you hold is still there when a character you actually want arrives.
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Article status: Updated October 16, 2026. Version 3.8 dates and rate-ups follow Bluepoch's Global announcement. The Version 3.9 and 4.0 leaks below describe characters that have already released ahead of Global and been documented by community databases, so their kits are known, but every Global date here is a projection.
Current Reverse: 1999 Banners: v3.8, The Temporal Scale
The version is 42 days long and splits into two 21-day halves. The first ended on October 15 and took Everecho with it. The current banner is Cornerstone's, running the second half with Diggers and Desert Flannel in the 5-star slots, and the Ripples on the Water selector stays open across both.
So two banners are currently taking Unilogs, one has just gone, and the next banner does not arrive until the version rolls over. Here is where things stand:
One small thing that table hides. Bluepoch writes these versions as v3.8 in its Steam announcements rather than Version 3.8, so searching for Reverse: 1999 v3.8 banners will find the original patch notes faster than the full spelling will. With the dates settled, here is what each banner is actually offering.
Cornerstone Banner: The Future's Foundation
The Future's Foundation opened on October 15 and closes November 5 at 04:59 (UTC-5), which gives you three weeks. Diggers and Desert Flannel are the featured 5-stars.
Her profile before the write-up:
Cornerstone is the first Arcanist designed to make counterattacking the plan instead of the payoff. Reverse: 1999 calls counterattacks Ripostes, and normally an enemy has to swing first. She does not wait: her own skills push her into a counter state, while Trial and Error banks the damage her team prevented and pays it back as heavier follow-up hits.
In play, that turns Riposte from an occasional bonus into the team's main damage source. J is her cleanest partner after his 3.8 rework, because he can shield her and add counter triggers in the same slot. Flutterpage keeps the extra actions coming. The fourth slot stays flexible: another buffer when the stage is soft, a second healer when it is not.
Ripples on the Water: Who Should You Select?
Ripples on the Water asks you to commit before you pull: choose one 6-star from the list, and only that name gets the boosted rate. It stays open until the version ends on November 5, so there is no rush to decide.
What there is no shortcut for is matching the name to your roster. The right pick is whichever one fills a hole in a team you already take into hard content, not whichever one ranks highest on a list.
J and Hissabeth lead the discussion because of those 3.8 Euphoria upgrades. Euphoria unlocks once a character reaches the required Insight level, Insight being the star-up system that raises her ceiling, and it adds or sharpens mechanics rather than handing out flat stats. That is how a unit from 2024 ends up worth building again in 2026.
So J is the straightforward pick if Cornerstone is already on your list. Mercuria is the safer general choice, because higher-rank incantations turn up in plenty of teams. And if you are new with no settled core, skip it. An open list is not a reason to spend.
Everecho: The Banner That Just Closed
Everecho left the summon screen on October 15, but she is worth understanding anyway, because Hedone later this year only makes sense next to her. Her profile:
Everecho is a 6-star healer of the Mineral afflatus — one of the game's six elemental types — and she does not play like any healer most accounts already own. She is built for Conduit teams. A Conduit is an extra slot that spends Energy at the end of the turn and casts incantations, the game's word for spell cards, on its own.
That means Conduit characters skip normal cards and Ultimates entirely. Everecho fills a resource called Harmonization rather than Moxie, the points most Arcanists stack up before they can cast one.
Her healing runs on the same delayed beat. When an ally loses HP, that ally stores Remembrance in proportion to the share of health lost, and Everecho turns it back into healing at the start of the next round. You are not patching damage card by card. You let the team eat a hit and trust next round to pay it back.
That makes her the sustain slot of a Conduit core that already has its own damage dealer and Energy support. Outside the archetype, half her kit idles, because nothing is spending Energy. So if you missed her, nothing is really lost. Debut 6-stars come back on solo rerun and selector banners, and Conduit is a long-term build rather than a one-version window.
Upcoming Reverse: 1999 Banners: Version 3.9 and 4.0 Leaks
New Arcanists reach Global roughly three months after their first release, which means you can read weeks of real play data before committing anything. That is also why Reverse: 1999 leaks are unusually dependable: what circulates on Reddit or X is a community translation of played content, not a datamine.
Reruns are the exception, and they have their own section below. The Reverse: 1999 v3.9 banners and the v4.0 banners behind them come down to four debut Arcanists, listed here in the order Global should receive them.
Version 3.9 Phase 1: Hedone
Hedone at a glance:
Everecho keeps a Conduit team standing. Hedone keeps it moving. She runs on exactly the same engine as Everecho but aims it at damage, and she arrives holding a large block of Harmonization that grows every time an ally spends Energy.
Her real job, in every leaked kit breakdown so far, is the failure state everyone who plays Conduit has met: the Energy runs out, the Conduits fall silent, and a whole turn produces nothing. Hedone makes that much harder to reach, which is why she reads as a support on paper and feels like a damage increase in practice.
Pull her to finish Conduit; save if your damage comes from somewhere else. She is the piece that makes the engine run, and almost nothing to a team that never activates a Conduit.
Version 3.9 Phase 2: Narcissus
Narcissus at a glance:
Narcissus is the sustain answer for a completely different kind of team: the ones that win through Ultimates rather than through cards or Conduits. She is a Beast healer, and every heal she lands also leaves Ripple on the target, which is where all of her value sits.
Ripple pulls double duty. An ally carrying it gets a large Critical Rate and Critical DMG boost on Ultimate attacks, and it softens incoming damage when a hit is big relative to the Ripple value. Her team heal then scales off the Moxie an ally just spent, so the more your team ults, the more sustain comes back.
Community theorycrafting has settled her into Ritual teams, the Moldir and Recoleta line that leans hardest on Ultimates. With Moldir's 3.9 Euphoria beside her, Recoleta casts and amplifies her Ultimate far more reliably, and Igor, Grace and Noire draw on the same support. She does much less for teams that live on ordinary cards, counterattacks, or Energy-fed Conduits.
Version 4.0 Phase 1: Huntsworn Lilya
Huntsworn Lilya at a glance:
Huntsworn Lilya is an alternate Star-afflatus form of the Lilya most accounts already have. The leaked Reverse: 1999 v4.0 banner structure is the useful detail: hers ran across the whole patch rather than a single phase, which is the pattern Bluepoch uses for limited units, so plan for her as a limited pull until Global says otherwise.
She also opens a new combat style, Star Pursuit. The team fills a shared point gauge during the fight, and once it is full a short special-action sequence opens and Lilya fires pursuit incantations. It is the first archetype in a while that asks the whole team to feed one character rather than trade buffs around.
For most accounts that makes her a save-up target rather than a casual pull. A brand-new archetype means a brand-new set of partners, and none of them exist on Global yet.
Version 4.0 Phase 2: Drake
Drake at a glance:
Drake takes the back half of the version and plays nothing like Lilya. He converts Burn, the game's damage-over-time status, into Lingering Glow, an archetype that stacks power for several turns and then cashes the whole pile in at once.
That makes him the easier of the two 4.0 banners to justify: he raises the ceiling on Burn damage you may already own, rather than asking you to assemble something from scratch. Glyndŵr also joins in Version 4.0, though not as a headline banner.
Two new systems landing this close together should change how you spend in 3.9. Each line asks for a different shopping list:
- Conduit — Everecho, Coppélia, Rhiannon, then Hedone.
- Ultimate / Ritual — an Ultimate carry such as Recoleta, plus Moldir and Narcissus.
- Star Pursuit — Huntsworn Lilya and whoever ends up partnering her.
- Lingering Glow — Burn applicators you already have, finished off by Drake.
What the Version 3.9 Rerun Leaks Show
The leaked 3.9 banner lists doing the rounds are really just the line-up that has already run once. That version paired a Ripples on the Water selector holding Moldir, Noire, Regulus, Melania, Recoleta and Hissabeth, plus Boon of the Water, a special banner that let players pick three rate-up characters from a wider pool. Enigma, Brume and Ms. Stranger each got a separate rerun.
Treat those names as a shortlist of who could return, not as a date. Global has reordered reruns before, and more than once it has put two 6-stars together on a Yearning of the Water banner — a format with rules worth knowing before you pull into it, covered further down.
Recent Reverse: 1999 Banner History: v3.7 and v3.8
A patch can also change shape completely from one version to the next. The Reverse: 1999 v3.7 banners were crowded: an anniversary limited character, a standard debut, selectors and several reruns all at once. Set against that, the debut banners of the last two versions look like this:
How Reverse: 1999 Banners and Pity Work
Dates tell you when. Pity tells you how much. Pity is the community name for the guarantee counter behind every banner, and on a standard New Release banner each pull carries a 1.5% base chance at a 6-star. The rate starts climbing after 60 pulls without one, and pull 70 guarantees a 6-star outright.
That 6-star then has a 50% chance of being the featured character. Lose the coin flip — “losing the 50/50” — and the next 6-star from the same compatible pool is guaranteed to be the one you wanted. What catches people out is which banners actually share that counter, and the table below sorts them out.
Why Players Call Dual Rate-Up Banners “Scam Banners”
“Scam banner” is the nickname for Yearning of the Water, the format with two featured 6-stars. Pulling one of the pair brings you no closer to the other, and leftover pity disappears when the banner closes. Chase one name and the other can show up three times without ever handing you a useful guarantee.
It is not always a trap, though. If you own neither featured character and both would walk into a team, the odds stop working against you, because any 6-star on that banner is a win. It is only a bad deal when one specific favorite is the goal, since a later solo rerun or selector would give you an actual target.
Should You Pull Cornerstone, or Save for Hedone?
Every decision above comes back to the team you are actually building. Recent Reverse: 1999 characters are designed around connected systems rather than raw standalone power, so four strong units that never interact will clear less than one archetype you have finished.
Before you spend anything, clear the free sources. Event stages, login mail and the active Reverse: 1999 redeem codes all pay out Clear Drops, the currency summons actually consume, and a good batch of codes covers most of a ten-pull. Codes expire quickly, so check at the start of a version rather than when you are already short.
If you still land short of the guarantee, GamsGo is another route to the paid currency summons run on. Set your stopping point before you start: take the character who finishes your chosen team, then rebuild the reserve. Extra copies, called Portrays, do sharpen a kit, but they rarely beat owning the teammate you are still missing.
Final Thoughts on the Reverse: 1999 Banner Schedule
That is the Reverse: 1999 banner schedule as it stands: Everecho gone, Cornerstone on the clock until November 5, and Hedone the next real decision point in early November. Use the leaks to pick a target now, while there are still three weeks to build the Unilogs for it.
For live dates, the official Reverse: 1999 announcements remain the only source worth trusting over any schedule, including this one.
FAQ
Who Is on the Current Reverse: 1999 Banner?
Cornerstone, on The Future's Foundation, until November 5 at 04:59 (UTC-5). You can also still lock in a target on the selector running beside it. Everecho's banner closed on October 15.
What Is the Next Reverse: 1999 Banner After Cornerstone?
Hedone, most likely. Version 3.8 ends on November 5 and the Reverse: 1999 Version 3.9 banners should open the same day, with Hedone first and Narcissus around November 26. Bluepoch has not published the notice, so both are projections.
Should I Pull Cornerstone If I Do Not Have J?
Only if she is a personal favorite, or you already field a team that generates frequent extra actions. J's Euphoria lets one character protect Cornerstone and feed her Riposte triggers at the same time. Without him you have to split those two jobs between weaker substitutes.
Does Pity Carry Over Between Reverse: 1999 Banners?
It carries between compatible New Release and solo rate-up banners, including the guarantee you earn after losing a 50/50. True Limited, Yearning of the Water, Ripples on the Water and other special banners keep separate records or run on different rules. Check the Details page on the summon screen before spending.
How Reliable Are Reverse: 1999 Leaks?
More reliable than in most gacha games, since the kits have already been played rather than datamined. What genuinely moves is the Global release date, and a character can still pick up a balance pass on the way over, so avoid farming materials for a community-translated build before Bluepoch confirms the Global version.
How Many Unilogs Guarantee a Featured 6-Star?
A 6-star is guaranteed by pull 70. If that one loses the 50/50 on a standard debut or compatible solo rate-up banner, the next 6-star is guaranteed to be featured. Starting from zero pity with no carried guarantee, the worst case is 140 pulls, or 25,200 Clear Drops if every pull is paid at 180 Clear Drops.
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