Tangtang comes back on Oct. 29, and the banner is not a Chartered one. [Ancestral Spring Flows Anew] is a RE-Factor headhunting banner, the category Gryphline introduced on Sept. 24 with Yvonne's [Resplendent Spectrum] rerun. RE-Factor brings something Chartered banners never had: a hard 6โ pity at 80 pulls that follows you from banner to banner.
The window runs Oct. 29 at 12:00 to Nov. 19 at 11:59 server time. [Tender Sprig Issue] RE-Factor Issue #1 opens in the same window and reruns Brigand's Calling, the Handcannon she shipped with in March. Every number below is parsed from official text: the [Sanctuary of Ink] update notes for the dates and both pools, the Aug. 22 DEV Comm that defined the RE-Factor category, and the Sept. 23 banner notice for Yvonne's rerun. Nothing here is estimated.
The two banners opening on Oct. 29
| Banner | Detail |
|---|---|
| Operator banner | [Ancestral Spring Flows Anew] RE-Factor Headhunting #1 |
| Type | RE-Factor Headhunting (the type introduced Sept. 24, 2026) |
| Rate-up 6โ | Tangtang โ Caster, Cryo, Handcannon |
| Window | Oct. 29, 2026 at 12:00 to Nov. 19, 2026 at 11:59 (server time) |
| 6โ pool | 6 operators: Tangtang / Ember / Lifeng / Ardelia / Last Rite / Pogranichnik |
| Currency | Chartered HH Permit or Oroberyls |
| Weapon banner | [Tender Sprig Issue] RE-Factor Issue #1, same window |
| Weapon rate-up | Brigand's Calling (Handcannon) |
| Prerequisite | Complete the main mission [Chapter I Process I: Break the Siege] |
Gryphline prints server time only. Every notice carries the same two offsets, UTC+8 for Asia and UTC-5 for the Americas and Europe servers, so a 12:00 open on Oct. 29 in Asia is 23:00 on Oct. 28 in the Americas, and the 11:59 close on Nov. 19 is the evening of Nov. 18 there.
RE-Factor against Chartered, field by field
Both banners draw from the same permit pool, and both promise a 5โ within ten pulls. Past that point they diverge. The Chartered side is summarised in the headhunting guide; this table is the side-by-side.
| Rule | Chartered Headhunting | RE-Factor Headhunting |
|---|---|---|
| Currency | Chartered HH Permit or Oroberyls | Chartered HH Permit or Oroberyls |
| 5โ or better | Guaranteed within 10 pulls | Guaranteed within 10 pulls |
| Hard 6โ pity | Not described in the published Chartered rules | 6โ within 80 pulls, shared across every RE-Factor banner, reset by any 6โ |
| Rate-up guarantee | Not described in the published Chartered rules | Rate-up within 120 pulls, once per banner name |
| Milestones | 30 pulls and 60 pulls (Headhunting Dossier), then 240 pulls | 30, 60 and 90 pulls (three free 10ร), then 240 pulls |
| Carry-over | The Chartered notices describe no counter that survives the banner | The RE-Factor notice explicitly carries counters into future banners |
| 6โ pool | 8: rate-up, the two previous rate-ups, five permanent residents | 6: rate-up plus the five permanent residents |
| Free 10ร pulls | Do not count toward pity or rewards | Do not count toward pity or rewards |
The 80-pull 6โ pity is shared across all RE-Factor banners. The 120-pull rate-up guarantee is tied to banners that share a name. Yvonne's September banner was [Resplendent Spectrum], which has nothing in common with [Ancestral Spring Flows Anew] except the word RE-Factor.
The 80-pull guarantee follows you into every RE-Factor banner
Official wording, Aug. 22, 2026, when the type was introduced: "A 6โ operator is guaranteed within 80 headhunting attempts. This guarantee system is shared across all [RE-Factor Headhunting] banners. If you have not acquired a 6โ operator, attempts toward this guarantee will carry over to other [RE-Factor Headhunting] banners. The attempts will reset once you acquire a 6โ operator."
Three things follow from that sentence. The count is per pull and it resets the moment any 6โ arrives, so hitting 80 only happens when your luck has been genuinely bad. It applies across every RE-Factor banner, which means pulls spent on Yvonne in September still count if no 6โ ever dropped. And because the free 10ร grants from milestones do not count, only the pulls you actually pay for move the number.
The practical consequence: 80 pulls buys you a 6โ . It does not buy you Tangtang. Five other six-stars sit in the pool, and the pity fires on whichever one the game hands you.
The 120-pull guarantee does not travel between banner names
Official wording: "The Rate-UP 6โ operator is guaranteed within the first 120 headhunting attempts. This guarantee can only trigger 1 time across all RE-Factor Headhunting banners of the same name."
This is the counter people misread. The 80-pull pity is global to the RE-Factor category. The 120-pull rate-up guarantee is not: it counts only inside banners of the same name, meaning [Ancestral Spring Flows Anew] #1, #2 and onward. It fires once across that series and the progress survives into the next one, so a partial run is not lost. What does not survive is a different series name.
If you spent 60 pulls on [Resplendent Spectrum] in September and walked away without Yvonne, you are not 60 pulls into Tangtang's guarantee. Those pulls helped only the shared 6โ pity, and only if no 6โ dropped at all.
Milestones at 30, 60, 90 and 240
| Pulls on this banner | Reward | Counts toward pity? |
|---|---|---|
| 30 | 10 bonus Urgent Recruitment pulls (one free 10ร) | No |
| 60 | 10 bonus Urgent Recruitment pulls (one free 10ร) | No |
| 90 | 10 bonus Urgent Recruitment pulls (one free 10ร) | No |
| 240 | Tangtang's Token ร1 | No |
The RE-Factor ladder replaces the Chartered one. There is no Headhunting Dossier at 60 pulls here, because the rules never mention one; the three free 10ร grants take its place. Those grants behave exactly like the Chartered version and are excluded from both the pity counters and the milestone totals.
Everything else about pulling is unchanged. Every pull still produces Arsenal Tickets (2000 for a 6โ , 200 for a 5โ , 20 for a 4โ , spendable at Acquisition Center - Arsenal Exchange), plus AIC Quota, Bond Quota and Endpoint Quota, and the token at 240 pulls is Tangtang's own.
The exclusion of free pulls is printed, not inferred. Gryphline's wording: "The free 10ร headhunting attempts given by Urgent Recruitment do not count toward the guarantee for this or other [RE-Factor Headhunting] banners."
The pool: six 6โ , and five of them are permanent
| 6โ operator | Class | Element | Weapon | Faction | Ever headlined a Chartered banner? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tangtang | Caster | Cryo | Handcannon | Endfield Industries | Yes |
| Ember | Defender | Heat | Greatsword | Order of Steel Oath | No |
| Lifeng | Guard | Physical | Polearm | Hongshan Academy of Sciences (HAS) | No |
| Ardelia | Supporter | Nature | Arts Unit | Rhodes Island | No |
| Last Rite | Striker | Cryo | Greatsword | Seลก'qa | No |
| Pogranichnik | Vanguard | Physical | Sword | Rhodes Island | No |
Compare the two RE-Factor pools in the archive. Yvonne's [Resplendent Spectrum] ran Yvonne, Ember, Lifeng, Ardelia, Last Rite and Pogranichnik. Tangtang's runs Tangtang and the same five. Two banners, one pattern: the rate-up plus the five permanent residents, with no rotation slots. A Chartered pool runs eight by adding the two most recent rate-ups.
For anyone hunting a six-star who is not in that list, this pool is not the place. None of the five has ever headlined a Chartered banner, and Tangtang is the only rate-up on this one.
Who Tangtang is, if you missed her in March
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | Tangtang |
| Class | Caster |
| Element | Cryo (internal id Cryst) |
| Weapon | Handcannon โ weapon type 6, shared with 3 other operators |
| Faction | Endfield Industries |
| Debut | [River's Daughter] Chartered Headhunting, Mar. 12, 2026 |
| Attribute direction | Corrosion Boost main, Solidification Boost sub |
| Voice cast | Jing Chen (EN and CN), Fairouz Ai (JP), Kim Chae-rin (KR) |
She debuted on Mar. 12, 2026 with the 1.1 update as the [River's Daughter] rate-up. The archive lists one more Chartered pool with her in it, [Wolf Pearl] on Mar. 28, as a rotation slot rather than the headliner. Chartered rate-ups exit the rotation after their own banner plus two more and never join Basic Headhunting, so October is her first banner since March. Her kit numbers are not in the data this site holds, so the build guide sticks to direction and weapon pool rather than multipliers: Tangtang build guide.
Her weapon type is Handcannon. That pool holds 12 weapons in this site's data (6 at 6โ , 3 at 5โ , 2 at 4โ , 1 at 3โ ), and Brigand's Calling is the one the companion issue headlines.
Tender Sprig Issue: the weapon rerun
Each issue gives ten random weapons from the pool, with at least one 5โ or better. On top of that, the RE-Factor Issue rules print two guarantees that the older Arsenal Issue notices do not:
| Threshold | What you are guaranteed | Scope |
|---|---|---|
| 4th consecutive issue with no 6โ | A 6โ weapon | This banner only, no carry-over |
| 8th issue without the rate-up | Brigand's Calling, the rate-up 6โ | Once across same-name banners, carries |
| 10 issues | Arms Offering Crate ร1 | Carries across same-name banners |
| 18 issues | Brigand's Calling ร1 | Carries across same-name banners |
| Every 8 issues after 18 | Arms Offering Crate or the rate-up weapon, alternating | Carries across same-name banners |
The 4th-issue 6โ guarantee is deliberately narrow: it applies to this banner and does not carry anywhere. The 8th-issue rate-up guarantee is the opposite, firing once across same-name banners and carrying forward. Both are ceilings, not expectations.
| 6โ weapon | Official type | Game-data type |
|---|---|---|
| Brigand's Calling | Handcannon | Pistol |
| Clannibal | Handcannon | Pistol |
| Wedge | Handcannon | Pistol |
| Chivalric Virtues | Arts Unit | Wand |
| Thermite Cutter | Sword | Sword |
| Sundered Prince | Greatsword | Claymores |
| JET | Polearm | Lance |
Brigand's Calling headlined [Budding Anew Issue] in March 2026, opening alongside [River's Daughter]. The two March releases rerun together, which is the cleanest way to read this window: if you skipped 1.1 entirely, both halves of it are available again for three weeks.
How many pulls to budget
- Tangtang, worst case: 120 pulls, and only if this banner series starts at zero for you.
- Any 6โ , worst case: 80 pulls, minus whatever you have already banked on other RE-Factor banners since your last 6โ .
- The three free 10ร: arrive at 30, 60 and 90 pulls. They add 30 pulls of value and move neither counter.
- The milestone ladder: resets between series. Yvonne's 30/60/90 do not count toward Tangtang's.
- The 240-pull token: also per series, so it is a target for a future #2 banner rather than something a three-week window delivers.
What the notices do not say
- There is no standalone [Ancestral Spring Flows Anew] announcement in the archive yet, only the listing inside the version update notes. The two earlier banners both got their own notice the day before opening, so expect one here, and expect it to restate these numbers.
- No base 6โ rate is printed anywhere in the RE-Factor rules. The 80 and 120 figures are guarantees, not probabilities.
- The update notes list no sign-in event and no Combat Drills trial for the rerun. They list both for [Rejuvenation], which is what a first-run banner gets.
- The exchange value of Tangtang's Token is not published in these notices.
Is Tangtang's banner a Chartered banner? No. It is [Ancestral Spring Flows Anew] RE-Factor Headhunting #1.
Does my Chartered pity carry into it? No. The two systems are separate. Only RE-Factor counters carry, and only within their own rules.
Can I guarantee Tangtang in 80 pulls? No. 80 guarantees a 6โ from the six-name pool. Tangtang herself is guaranteed at 120.
Do the free 10ร pulls count? No. The notice excludes them from both the guarantee and the reward totals.
Sources: [Sanctuary of Ink] version update notes (Oct. 15, 2026) for the banner dates and both pools; [Dreamscape of Wind and Snow] DEV Comm (Aug. 22, 2026), which introduced RE-Factor Headhunting and states the 80-pull and 120-pull guarantees quoted above; [Resplendent Spectrum] RE-Factor Headhunting #1 notice (Sept. 23, 2026) for the first banner's pool and milestone ladder; [River's Daughter] and [Budding Anew Issue] notices (Mar. 11, 2026) for the March debut. Operator, weapon and item pages on this site are generated from the game's own data files. Live countdown and every confirmed date: banner schedule tool, with the wider context in the full Chartered calendar and how Arsenal Issues work.