Etheria Restart Summoning Guide: Limited Banners, Standard Pools, and Selector Tickets​

Summoning in Etheria Restart is generous but also easy to misplay, especially with multiple banner types and a very strong targeted (selector) system. A good plan is to invest early pulls into the permanent and beginner banners, delay your selector until your box takes shape, and only then look at true limited banners.

Standard pool banners and when to pull

The Permanent Summon is your core banner and uses Anima Prototypes (100 Hydra Crystals per pull). A detailed breakdown on Pocket Tactics explains that it features the full pool of original SSR, SR, and R units, with SR guaranteed every 10 pulls and an SSR guaranteed every 80 pulls, plus soft pity that ramps SSR rate after 50 pulls (Pocket Tactics banner guide). HellHades’ summoning article at hellhades.com calls this banner “the safest starting point” because you can even pull Light/Dark units here over time, making it ideal for building your first three SSR core before touching limited banners (HellHades summoning guide).

Community advice on Reddit reinforces this: a highly‑upvoted thread titled “When do I stop pulling on the permanent banner” notes that many players regret leaving permanent early, because they later pull the same limited unit off the permanent banner and feel they wasted an 80‑pull pity on a dupe (Reddit discussion). Most progression roadmaps recommend staying on permanent until you have at least three strong SSRs and a good spread of SR supports before shifting your focus.

Limited banners and Extre‑Affinity (Apex) summons

Limited “Light Judgement”‑style banners guarantee the featured SSR within 80–100 pulls and have no 50/50: if you hit an SSR, it is always the advertised character. Pocket Tactics highlights this “no coin‑flip” structure and points out that limited banners still give an SR or higher every 10 summons, with the featured SR taking half of those SR slots (Pocket Tactics banner guide). However, summoning videos and day‑one plan guides repeatedly warn that these banners are significantly more expensive in practice, especially when they require Apex Prototypes (300 Crystals per pull) or don’t share pity with standard banners (Day ONE Summon Plan, Summoning Tips F2P & Low Spend).

The Extre‑Affinity Summon is another permanent banner that features only “supreme” SSR/SR units aligned with Constant or Disorder, also with SR‑every‑10 and SSR‑every‑80 pity but using the pricey Apex Prototypes (Pocket Tactics banner guide). Guides from HellHades and Prydwen both describe Extre‑Affinity and Light/Dark–style banners as late‑game or whale targets: they are powerful but so Crystal‑intensive that free‑to‑play and low spenders should generally avoid them until their account is already well‑rounded (HellHades summoning guide, Summoning Tips F2P & Low Spend).

Directed / targeted summons and selector tickets

Etheria Restart’s directed (targeted) summon is effectively a selector banner: you pick one original SSR from a list and the banner guarantees that unit within 40 pulls using standard Anima Prototypes. Pocket Tactics’ beta preview explains that this “Directed Summon” uses the same 100‑Crystal Anima tickets, lets you change your target at any time without resetting pity, and closes permanently once you obtain the chosen SSR (Pocket Tactics banner guide). Because 40 pulls is half of a normal 80‑pull pity, this banner is incredibly efficient, but only if you pick the right unit at the right time.

High‑level summon planners on YouTube, like those behind videos such as “BEST Etheria Restart Targeted Summon Guide – FREE Animus” and “5 BEST Etheria Restart Targeted Summon FREE Animus,” recommend using the targeted summon to complete your team rather than to chase your very first SSR (Targeted Summon guide, 5 BEST Targeted Summon Picks). Similarly, the beginner blueprint on HellHades advises pulling permanents first to see which SSRs and SRs you naturally get, then using the targeted banner once you understand your roster’s gaps, such as missing a true healer, tank, or key debuffer (HellHades Beginner Blueprint).

Later in the lifecycle, global servers even hand out Light/Dark selector tickets that let you choose any LD SSR, as covered in the “This Is Insane! FREE LD Selector Ticket” video, with the recommendation to save these for meta‑defining Constant or Disorder units once you know which element or archetype you plan to main long‑term (LD selector breakdown).

Practical summon plan for F2P and low spenders

Putting these pieces together, experienced players and creators suggest a simple priority order:

• Start with Permanent Summon using only Anima Prototypes until you have at least three solid SSRs and a strong SR backbone; both HellHades and multiple “Day 1/Launch Summon Plan” videos stress that this banner builds your account’s foundation with the best pity‑to‑cost ratio (HellHades summoning guide, Day ONE Summon Plan).
• Delay your targeted selector banner until you are around account level 30–35 and have burned through a sizable chunk of free Anima tickets from Hyperlink Charter and events, as advised in the F2P summoning tips video, so you do not accidentally pick a unit you later pull naturally (Summoning Tips F2P & Low Spend). At that point, use the selector to fix a specific role gap in your team.
• Treat limited and Extre‑Affinity banners as optional: only pull here if the featured unit is truly account‑changing for you and you are prepared to go to pity; multiple Reddit and YouTube explainers emphasise that half‑committing to limited banners is how F2P players drain months of savings with nothing to show for it (Banner & Pity explained, SAVE SUMMONS or KEEP PULLING).

Used this way, Etheria Restart’s summoning system, permanent banner first, selector kept in reserve, limited and Apex banners only when it really matters, lets low‑ and zero‑spend players assemble strong, flexible rosters without getting trapped by the more expensive sides of the gacha.