Hello,
So we’re almost at 2020: Redux in just a couple of months, and despite COVID starting that year FGO still managed to put out a few nice banners and events (as well as the wonderful 5th Anniversary “Under the Same Sky” advertising campaign, I die a little of joy every time I see the Bryn/Sigurd art ).
We’ve already had some threads for the New Year GSSR and then we always have the save SQ encouragement threads, but what about next year in its entirety are you excited for? What banners are you hitting the hardest? Which are you going to skip? Which ones did you plan to hit or skip, but then newcomers from this year made you rethink them (the Buster rebirth, perhaps, making some more attractive gameplay picks or the opposite and making you feel the need to save harder for an even more desired target?) Who will you be chasing NP levels on? What are your top 5 or top 7 most wanted?
This probably isn’t every banner for the year and we can always get surprised by something new, but in general we can expect:
January 2022:
New Year 2020 (New Year 2022): This has the GSSR lucky bag, but should also have a rotating banner featuring the new Foreigner Yang Guifei. Rotating days (2 days each) for: Yang (3 days for her; I’m not sure if she’s available every day or just her rate up ones), Saber Shiki, Mothman, Gil, Scathach, and Summer BB. No 4*s. The 5* CE isn’t bad (Musashi art, Pierce Invincible/+15% NP Damage/+15% NP Gain) but probably isn’t worth it on its own.
Sparrow’s In Rerun: Rotating days for Beni-enma and Tamamo, with Saber Diarmuid always. The 5* Smiling Face CE is very good.
The Part 2 banner has 5* Story-locked Assassin Li, with rate ups on Tomoe Gozen and Kiyohime (if you need a 3*, I guess new players might not have her from the FP gacha yet?). This also has the same CE which isn’t a bad pick for Li himself.
CEO Crisis/Amazones Tower Event: Rotating days for Cleopatra (Limited) and Osakabehime (General-pool), with 4* Penth always. There are no CEs which makes it a stealth Kscope rateup
February 2022:
Valentine’s 2020/Sei’s Event: Rotating days for the new, Limited Sei and split days for her and every non-Limited female 5*. Marie and Sheba are rate up 4*s the entire time? Valentine’s also usually has the story-locked ones included AS LONG AS THEY’RE FEMALES and doesn’t have any males in the summoning pool…or at least they used to do it like that. The 5* CE (Chocolate Heaven) has nice Kama art + good stats of Quick/NP Damage/NP Gain all +10%. The 4* CE has good Bai art but isn’t special for effects.
19 Million Downloads Campaign: Date and title likely to change for the US. Has a banner with Eresh and Fionn, then CEs from Eresh’s launch event - the Ishtar’s Ass CE is pretty good on both Ishtar and Eresh.
March 2022:
Spring Breeze/Circe’s Event: Odysseus is added as a general-pool 5* Rider, and the campaign always has him and the 4*, story-locked Circe. It also has rotating, split days with a bunch (all?) of the non-Limited 5* Male Servants. Circe there is throwing me off but I can’t remember if the CBC banners normally only have males the way Valentine’s is only females? Anyway, there are a couple of 5* CEs but IMO other than art they aren’t special. Blue Illusion has the nice Pierce Invincibility at least.
Apoc Rerun: Quite the banner with a large roster of rotating 5* (but none are split days, they’re all solo) of the Apoc cast, minus Jeanne. We get Mordred/Saber Astolfo/Achilles/Jack/Semi/Vlad/Amakusa. There is also a large collection of 4*s - Siegfried/Atalanta/Chiron/Astolfo/Angry Atalanta/Fran and then the 3* Avicebron. The 5* CE gives you starting charge/NP Gain/NP Damage but has split stats. Also no Jeanne for some reason even though Mordred/Achilles/Jack/Vlad are also General-pool and Amakusa also wasn’t technically a servant summoned for that HGW and was a master, I don’t know why she’s shafted like this. I guess she just wasn’t in the story for the event? I can’t remember 2 years ago
April 2022:
Olympus Release: Multiple banners, the first with 5* Dioscuri and 4* Caenis. The 5* CE (Witchcraft) has Buster +10%/Crit damage +10%/NP Gain +15% and is pure attack, but IIRC it’s added to the general pool.
The Part 2 banner just has the limited Super Rome without the same CEs on rateup? And no 4*.
20 Million Downloads: Time/name likely to change. Features an extensive rotating cast of Saber Musashi/Gil/Kintoki/Bryn/Scathach/Jalter/da Vinci/Ishtar, each getting 2 days. It also has CEs from when Musashi first released of which First Sunrise is starting NP gain, pure attack, and +15% Buster.
May 2022:
Gudaguda Final Honoji Rerun: Has the limited 4* Summer Nobu and the limited 3* Mori on permanent rate up, but then has rotating days with Maou Nobu/Okitan/Assassin Li (2x times each solo) and then Maou Nobu + Okitan and Maou Nobu + Assassin Li (split) before a final couple days with solo Maou. The CEs are the same as from the event last year, where the 5* gives pure attack, +Quick/+Buster and starts with NP charge.
Fate/Requiem Pre-release: A mess of Osakabehime/Ganesha/Edison/Nursery Rhyme. Both 5*s get a day with both 4*s as well as days with the 4*s individually (so Okkie + Edison + Rhyme and Okkie/Edison and Okkie/Rhyme; same with Ganesha) and days with just all 4 on split rateup. No CEs.
Fate/Requiem: 5* Limited Voyager and 4* Limited Kijyo Koyo. The 5* Ce is +Quick/+Arts/+Crit damage and has starting gauge.
June 2022:
Summer 4 Rerun: Date might change? Same banners as last year, Musashi/Okkie/Carmilla; Merlin/Siegfried/Fuuma; Rulertoria/Melt/Okita
Interlude pt 13: Bai and Tell always. Split and rotating days on the 5* of Sherlock and Reines.
July 2022:
SERAPH Main Interlude: Date likely to change. Has Melt/Passionlip/Suzuka and Kingprotea/Passionlip/Suzuka as well as Melt/Kingprotea/Passionlip/Suzuka days. CEs are the same as the initial event.
Tokugawa’s Labyrinth Rerun: Date likely to change. Has Yagyu always. Rotating and split days for Kama and Kiara. CEs are the same as the initial event.
August 2022:
Anniversary: Date pretty much guaranteed to change for us lol to July. Has a GSSR but then actually doesn’t have the normal mix of anniversary summoning campaigns that are chapter-related and instead has Castoria/5th Anniversary campaign CEs and da Vinci Rider/5th anniversary campaign CEs on different days.
Summer 5: Kiara always with rotating 4*s Archer Illya and Berserker Bryn. The CEs here aren’t special IMO but the 5* one has Pierce Invincibility.
Banner 2 has 5* Sigurd always, with rotating 4*s Lanling and Emiya. The CEs aren’t special.
Banner 3 has Summer Abby always, with rotating Saber Tomoe and Rider Shikibu. This has both the CEs from banner 1 and banner 2.
September 2022:
21 Million Downloads: Time/title likely to change. Has rotating days featuring some Chinese servants with Mothman always and then rotating 4*s Lancer Li/Yu-meiren/Empress Wu. No CEs.
Land of Shadows/Scathachfest Lotto: Has 5* Limited Scathach with rotating days with general-pool 4*s Tamamo Cat/Saber Diarmuid/Fionn. The 5* Ce isn’t bad with pure attack/+Quick/+Quick Crit Damage/+Starting NP charge.
October 2022:
Gudaguda Yamatai-koku: Limited 5* Himiko and 4* Saito Hajime. The 5* CE features a one-time +2 to your NP overcharge level but otherwise isn’t special.
Nightingale Christmas Rerun: I hope this date changes and we don’t get Christmas in October. A very different summoning campaign vs the OG though, with Saber Astolfo/Ash/Astolfo/Rhyme; Bradamante/Ash/Astolfo/Rhyme; Nightingale/Ash/Astolfo/Rhyme; then days with Saber Astolfo AND Brad + the 4*s, then Saber Astolfo AND Night + the 4*s, then Saber Astolfo with each of the 4*s separately, then a repeat of the earlier combination of 5* + all the 4*s. The CEs are the same as the OG event and aren’t really special.
November 2022:
Imaginary Scramble Pre-Release: Yang Guifei on rateup, with rotating days for Saber Fran/Summer Raikou/Sumer MHXX
Imaginary Scramble: Rotating and split days for 5* servants Van Gogh and Nemo. No 4*s. None of the CEs are that special IMO (but I like the look of Jalter on the 5* one.)
22 Million Downloads: Time/title will probably change. Shikibu with the CEs from her debut event.
December 2022:
Heian-Kyou Release: 2 banners, the first with Douman and 4* Watanabe no Tsuna. The face on the 3* CE is terrifying, but the 5* one isn’t bad (pure attack, staring gauge, +2 to NP overcharge 1x, and +debuff rate).
The 2nd banner features Ibuki-douji and the story-locked Medea (Lily) along with the same CEs.
Christmas 2020/Karna’s Event: 5* Vritra with rotating Beowolf and Summer Martha; 5* CE has +Arts/+NP Damage/+passive stars/turn but is split stats. I like the 4* and 3* CE art.
A second banner has rotating Arjuna/Karna on rateup with the 4* Parvati, but they’re all general-pool so that’s probably a skip for most people. CEs are the event ones from the first banner.