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Excited to get your 20th Qiqi? Here’s how you can get the free Genshin Impact 5-star unit.
Here’s a short guide on how you can choose and claim your free 5-star character in Genshin Impact and more details about this giveaway.
Genshin Impact free 5-star selector
To celebrate Genshin Impact’s 4th anniversary, everyone gets afree 5-star character! Players can claim this reward during the entirety of Genshin Impact version 5.0 on August 19, 2025.
Genshin Impact developers HoYoverse previously announced that this will be an annual occurrence.
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Genshin Impact: Free 5-star and more for version 5.0!
Genshin Impact beats the “Genshin could never” allegations with a free 5-star selector and more!
Who are the free 5-star choices?
Currently, you can choose between the following characters:
HoYoverse reassured players that the pool of Standard characters will expand past the current seven. This means that the choices for free 5-star units in the future will grow, too.
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Genshin Impact 4th anniversary
There aremore rewardsfor Genshin Impact’s 4th anniversary besides the free 5-star character. Three of the new craftable 4-star weapons can be claimed via the in-game mail thanks to the “Off we Go to the Nation of Pyro!” web event.
Players can claim many Primogems and other rewards from the in-game mail as well. A total of 10 Intertwined Fates are being given out through alog-in eventduring version 5.0.
Genshin Impact: World Level 9 and buffed drop rates!
Travelers can increase their World Level to 9 in an upcoming Genshin Impact update. Ad astra abyssosque!
The experience for new and early players has also been optimized, with various systems allowing them to enjoy the latest content sooner. Returning players also get something, as the reworked Stellar Reunion event now offers more rewards.
