Mi Fu Potentials: When to Stop Pulling

I’ve been mainlining Mi Fu since her banner dropped two days ago, and the question I keep getting asked — and the one I kept asking myself before I even pulled — is this: how many copies of her is too many? Because Endfield doesn’t hand out duplicates like candy, and once you start chasing potentials, it’s shockingly easy to torch a thousand pulls and not feel meaningfully stronger for it. So here’s everything I learned the hard way, plus where I personally drew the line. If you’re free-to-play or a light spender, I’ll save you some heartbreak right now: you almost certainly want to stop earlier than you think, and the marketing-speak math being thrown around in the community is overselling at least two of her dupes.

TL;DR - Key Points

P0 is the correct stop for almost everyone — Mi Fu is a fully realized T0 physical carry at zero dupes, and the next dupe costs up to 240 pulls on top of your initial 120
P1 is the only dupe worth chasing — 2-second cooldown shave plus a bigger, longer Physical Susceptibility debuff smooths her rotation and buffs the whole physical team
P2 is a flat stat stick — nice-to-have, never a target, only acquired in passing on the way to P4
P3 is the trap — the shield-triggered attack buff falls off before her burst window, making it one of the worst dupes in the game outside niche speedrun setups
P4 is the whale target — a 15% Ultimate energy cost reduction lets her drop energy-gen gear for pure damage pieces (~10% damage swing in solo runs)
P5 is the ceiling — a flat 1.1x battle-skill multiplier, roughly +5% over P4 at the worst marginal cost in Endfield’s pull economy
The real lever for Mi Fu damage is her support core, not her dupes — finishing Chen Qianyu, Pogranichnik, or Rossi outperforms any single potential
Skip dupes entirely if 1.4 Arcane is on your radar — pull-economy math punishes anyone trying to do both

The Short Version, If You Need to Decide in 30 Seconds

If you just want the answer and don’t care about my rambling: get one copy of Mi Fu (P0) and stop. She’s a top-tier physical carry at zero dupes. If you’ve got pulls burning a hole in your pocket and you genuinely love the kit, P1 is the only dupe I’d call worth it — and even then, only if you’re not eyeing a future banner. Everything past that is whale territory, and I mean that with love. The dupe-by-dupe breakdown below explains why that’s the right answer, but if you stop reading here you’ll still make the same call most experienced players are making in the community right now.

First, Who Even Is Mi Fu?

Mi Fu is a 6-star physical-element greatsword Guard — your classic melee main-DPS. She’s the Captain of the Wuling Watchguard, and despite hauling around a greatsword, a huge chunk of her damage actually comes from gauntlet strikes during her battle-skill chain. Her whole kit revolves around a multi-stage Battle Skill (Qingbo Triplex) that yanks enemies together, stacks Vulnerability, then unloads a giant Crush nuke once the conditions are met.

She’s genuinely strong. I’d put her right at the top of the physical-DPS pile in the current meta, and on tier-list deep dives she lands at T0 alongside Sui Shisan in our 1.3-1.4 outlook. The catch — and it’s a real one — is that she leans hard on her teammates to apply those Vulnerability stacks. Without a proper physical support core around her, she sputters. So before you even think about dupes, ask yourself if your team is built. Honestly, a second support does more for her damage than a second copy of her ever will, which is the core thesis of my Mi Fu teams writeup.

How Potentials Work in Endfield (and Why They’re Not Genshin Constellations)

This is the part I wish someone had hammered into me before I pulled. In Endfield, dupes are called Potentials, and they run from P0 (your base copy) all the way to P5. Maxing a character means owning six total copies — the original plus five duplicates. Every dupe you pull turns into a token that bumps the potential up one rank.

Here’s the thing that makes Endfield different from other gacha games: the potentials are not the build-defining power spikes you might be used to. There are no dead, useless levels — every rank does something — but the per-level payoff is genuinely modest. If you’re coming from a game where you’d happily chase eidolons or constellations, recalibrate your expectations all the way down. These are nice-to-haves, not transformations.

The other thing worth knowing: the potential system is intentionally designed to soft-cap whales. The first copy gets you 100% of the kit. The next copy gets you maybe 3% more personal DPS. By P5 you’re looking at a unit that’s roughly 20-25% stronger overall than P0, and you paid 4-5x the resources to get there. Endfield’s combat is not balanced around max potential, the way some games are — it’s balanced around P0.

What Each of Mi Fu’s Potentials Actually Does

Let me break down what you’re actually buying at each rank, because the marketing-speak versions floating around right now are overselling some of these badly. Numbers below reflect live Version 1.3 values as of June 7, 2026.

P1 — The Only One I’d Genuinely Campaign For

P1 knocks 2 seconds off her Combo Skill cooldown (from 19s down to 17s), bumps her Physical Susceptibility debuff by +5%, and extends that debuff’s duration by 4 seconds.

That cooldown is often the thing bottlenecking her rotation in extended fights, so smoothing it out feels good in a way the raw number (~+3% personal DPS) undersells. Plus the bigger, longer Susceptibility debuff helps your whole physical team, not just her — Chen Qianyu’s autos, Pogranichnik’s stagger pressure, Lifeng’s burst, all of it scales harder when Mi Fu is at P1. This is the breakpoint, and it’s the only dupe where I think the case is genuinely defensible for non-whales.

P2 — A Pure Stat Stick

Flat Strength and Arts Intensity boost. Perfectly fine, totally unexciting. You’ll only ever realistically grab this on the way to something higher, and you should not be targeting it. It contributes maybe 1-2% to her overall damage, the way a midline gear roll would. If you find yourself with P2 because you got lucky on pulls, great; if you’re spending pity for it, you’re being scammed by the gacha.

P3 — The Trap, and Why It’s Worse Than It Looks

On paper, P3 buffs her shield and tosses out a +6% attack buff. In reality, that attack buff triggers off the shield proc and tends to fall off before her burst window even comes up. I’ve watched two different streamers run side-by-side comparisons of P2-vs-P3 damage with identical builds, and the gap was inside the variance of a normal run.

I’d rank this one of the least useful dupes in the game outside of very specific speedrun or full-ult-start setups. Don’t let anyone tell you it’s a “huge survivability spike” — it isn’t, not in the content that matters. Mi Fu already has her Combo Skill shield from the base kit, and stacking another shield mostly just changes how often she gets staggered during overlapping enemy attack windows. If P3 didn’t exist as a step on the ladder to P4, nobody would buy it.

P4 — The Real Damage Jump for Whales

P4 cuts her Ultimate’s energy cost by 15%, which sounds boring until you realize what it actually does to her gear sheet. With a 15% cheaper Ult, she can drop all her energy-generation gear and run pure damage pieces instead. That gearing freedom is where the biggest single damage leap actually comes from — roughly +10% in a solo setup based on the early CC test footage from week one.

If I were a whale, this is the rank I’d actually be aiming at, not P5. Mi Fu at P4 with an optimized damage-piece loadout is closer to her P5 self than her P3 self is. It’s the rare Endfield dupe that enables a different build, rather than just slapping a multiplier on the existing one.

P5 — The Ceiling

A universal x1.1 multiplier on her battle skills. It’s the max, it’s the flex, and it’s the least efficient thing you can buy relative to what it costs to get there. Maybe +5% over P4 in raw combat output, and you paid up to 240 pulls for it on top of everything you already spent. P5 exists for completionists and content creators. It is not for you.

Mi Fu Potentials Ranked at a Glance

Here’s the full breakdown in one table, since you’ll inevitably want to send this to a friend.

Rank	Effect	Approx. DPS Gain (Solo)	Worth It For
P0	Base kit, full Vulnerability cascade, Crush burst	—	Everyone
P1	-2s Combo Skill CD, +5% / +4s Physical Susceptibility	~+3% personal, +team buff	Anyone with spare pulls + no upcoming banner
P2	Flat Strength + Arts Intensity stat boost	~+1-2%	Whales on the way to P4
P3	Shield buff + +6% attack on shield proc (clunky timing)	~+1% (variance overlap)	Niche speedrun setups only
P4	-15% Ultimate energy cost (frees a gear slot)	~+8-10%	Whales — this is the real damage breakpoint
P5	x1.1 universal battle-skill multiplier	~+5% over P4	Completionists only

The Pull Economy Is the Whole Reason I’m Telling You to Stop

Here’s why “just get a couple dupes” is terrible advice in this game specifically, and why the math is brutal in a way it isn’t in some other gacha titles.

A single pull costs 500 Oroberyl; a ten-pull runs 5,000. Soft pity kicks in around pull 65, and you’re guaranteed a 6-star by 80. On a rate-up banner, you’re guaranteed the featured character by 120 pulls — and that guarantee does not carry over to the next banner. Mi Fu’s banner closes before Camille’s opens, so any pity you build chasing extra Mi Fu copies evaporates the moment Phase 2 goes live.

Now here’s the brutal part for dupe-chasers: beyond that first guarantee, you only get a bonus dupe token every 240 pulls on the same banner. So a worst-case run to fully max Mi Fu at P5 looks like 120 pulls for the first copy, plus five separate chunks of up to 240 pulls each. That’s somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,200 pulls in the worst case. In real money, depending on how you top up, you’re staring down four figures to max one character.

Let me put that in a table because it’s easier to internalize when it’s laid out:

Target	Worst-Case Pulls	Approx. Oroberyl	Rough USD Cost (worst case)
P0 (first copy)	120	60,000	~$120-$180
P0 + sig weapon	~200	100,000	~$200-$300
P1	360	180,000	~$360-$540
P2	600	300,000	~$600-$900
P4 (whale target)	1,080	540,000	~$1,100-$1,600
P5 (max)	1,320	660,000	~$1,300-$2,000

That’s the math that ended the conversation for me. The jump from “she’s a T0 carry” to “she’s a slightly better T0 carry” is just not worth a thousand-plus pulls when the next character I want is always right around the corner. For context on what “the next character” actually looks like, our 1.3-1.4 roadmap analysis sketches out what’s incoming, and there’s at least one operator on that list I personally want more than Mi Fu’s P2.

Where to Stop by Player Type

This is the section that actually matters for the decision you’re making right now. Pick the row that describes you and stop there.

F2P or Light Spender

Stop at P0. Full stop. She’s a complete, top-tier carry with zero dupes — especially if you can get her signature weapon, which alone is a massive physical-damage boost and matters far more than any dupe up through P3. Pour everything else into building her team. That’s not me being cheap; that’s just where the value is. If you’re F2P and you somehow pulled a second copy on the way to her sig, congratulations on P1, but don’t target it.

Mid-Spend with Surplus Pulls

Grab P1 only if you already have her, a working team, pulls to spare, and nothing better on the horizon. It’s the one dupe that smooths her gameplay and buffs your squad meaningfully. But if getting P1 means burning a whole extra banner’s worth of pulls? I’d skip it. It’s not that good. The threshold I use: if I’d need to spend more than 200 extra pulls past my sig-weapon stop point to lock P1, I walk.

Whale

Go for P4 as your real target — that’s the meaningful gearing-and-damage breakpoint — and only push to P5 if you want the absolute ceiling and you’ve made peace with the 240-pulls-per-token grind. P2 and P3 are just filler you collect along the way. Do not stop at P3; the marginal cost from P3 to P4 is the best ratio in the entire potential ladder, and stopping at P3 leaves the best dupe on the table.

Returning Player Who Missed Earlier Banners

P0 only, and only if your roster supports her. If you don’t already have Chen Qianyu, Pogranichnik, or Rossi, your priority is the team, not the carry. Mi Fu without a Vulnerability applicator runs at ~60% of her ceiling, which is detailed in the head-to-head pull decision post. Skip dupes entirely, finish your core, then revisit at her rerun.

Common Mistakes Mi Fu Pullers Are Making Right Now

These are the things I’m watching people do in chat and on stream that are costing them pulls they didn’t need to spend.

Targeting P2 instead of her signature weapon. This is the single biggest mistake I see. Her sig (Amaranthine Tassel) gives a roughly 25-30% damage uplift — bigger than P1, P2, and P3 combined. If you have to choose between sig and any dupe below P4, the sig wins every time.
Pulling Mi Fu without a Vulnerability applicator. Mi Fu consumes Vulnerability stacks; she doesn’t generate them. Without Chen Qianyu, Pogranichnik, or Rossi on your team, she’s running at a fraction of her output. Pull the team first if you don’t have one.
Splitting pulls between Mi Fu and Camille hoping for “a little of both.” Banners do not share pity. Splitting pulls usually means missing both. Pick one and commit.
Chasing P3 because it “buffs survivability.” It doesn’t, not in any content that matters. Skip it cleanly or buy it only as a stepping stone to P4.
Treating community tier lists from pre-release as final. A handful of analysts are still using day-1 simulator numbers. Real CC footage from week one shows P3 is worse than the predictions, and P1’s team buff is slightly better. Trust live footage over pre-release math.
Spending the full Oroberyl reserve on Mi Fu dupes when 1.4 is six weeks away. The rumored Arcane operator silhouette teased in the May 22 livestream is widely expected to be a major pull. Burning your entire reserve on Mi Fu P2-P3 leaves you exposed.

What Could Change This Calculus (Watch List)

Things to keep an eye on over the next few weeks that could shift my recommendations:

CC modifier interactions. If a future Contingency Contract modifier punishes shield-less units, P3’s value goes up meaningfully. We’re not there yet, but it’s the one realistic path to P3 mattering.
Endministrator rework rumors. If Endmin gets a buff that makes her co-exist with Mi Fu instead of replace her, dupes lose value across the board because team-slot pressure changes.
Camille’s exact SP/sec numbers. If Camille’s Heat-Infliction SP loop turns out to be as generous as the early datamines suggest, Mi Fu’s P4 Ultimate-cost discount loses some of its premium — she’ll have plenty of energy from the team anyway.
Mi Fu signature weapon banner rates. If Hypergryph adjusts sig weapon pity (rumored for 1.4), the relative value of sig-vs-dupe shifts. Right now sig is the obvious priority; that might tighten.
Vulnerability cap interactions. If a future patch introduces a hard cap on Physical Susceptibility stacking, P1’s team-buff value gets squeezed.

Final Read

Mi Fu earned her spot on my team at P0 and hasn’t given it up. The single best upgrade I made for her wasn’t a dupe at all — it was finishing her support core so those Vulnerability stacks actually land on time. Potentials in Endfield are the dessert, not the meal, and Mi Fu is a perfect example: she’s already great the moment you pull her once, and the marginal cost of every dupe past P1 is wildly out of line with what you get back.

Chase P1 if you love her and the pulls are spare. Leave the rest to the people with more money than patience. Your future self — and your future banners — will thank you. For the rotational details that actually unlock her damage at any potential level, the Mi Fu and Camille build guide is where I’d send you next.

Quick housekeeping: everything above reflects the live Version 1.3 numbers as of June 7, 2026. Values get tuned between patches, so always double-check her current kit before you commit pulls.

FAQ

Should I pull Mi Fu’s signature weapon before going for a dupe?

Yes, every time. Amaranthine Tassel provides a roughly 25-30% damage uplift, which is larger than P1, P2, and P3 combined. The only scenario where a dupe beats the sig is P4-or-higher whaling, and even then you generally finish sig before pushing past P1.

Is P0 Mi Fu enough for endgame content?

Yes. CC, Turbidity Manifest stages, and the current endgame tower are all clearable at P0 with a properly built team. The harder content is more sensitive to team composition (Chen Qianyu, Pogranichnik, Rossi) than to Mi Fu’s potential rank.

How does P1 Mi Fu compare to P0 with sig weapon?

P0 with sig is meaningfully stronger than P1 without sig. Sig is roughly +25-30% damage; P1 is roughly +3% personal DPS plus a team-wide Susceptibility buff. There’s no scenario where you should grab P1 before her signature weapon.

Does P3 actually buff Mi Fu’s survivability in CC?

Marginally, but not enough to matter. Her base-kit Combo Skill shield already covers most stagger windows, and P3’s additional shield triggers at awkward timings relative to her burst. In CC tier 6+ footage, P0 and P3 Mi Fu deaths happen at near-identical rates.

What’s the worst-case pull count to max her at P5?

Approximately 1,200-1,320 pulls in the absolute worst case (120 for guaranteed P0 + 5x 240-pull dupe tokens). Realistically with average luck you can shave 100-200 pulls off that, but the worst case is what you should plan for.

Is Mi Fu worth pulling if I don’t have Chen Qianyu?

She’s pullable but significantly weaker. Chen Qianyu is the budget 5-star Vulnerability applicator that roughly doubles Mi Fu’s effective damage. If you can get Chen Qianyu first via standard pulls or shop, do so — she’s a non-negotiable partner.

How does Mi Fu’s dupe value compare to Camille’s?

Camille’s potentials follow a similar pattern: P0 gets you the kit, P1 is the only defensible non-whale dupe, P4 is the whale breakpoint. The exact numbers differ but the shape of the curve is the same. Endfield does not reward dupe-chasing on either character.

Should I save pulls for Mi Fu’s rerun instead of pulling now?

Rerun cadence in Endfield is estimated at 9-12 months based on the Fest of Brilliance cycle. If you have a working physical team now and the pulls saved, pull now — the year-long delay costs you more in real combat utility than the rerun discount saves you in pulls.

Can I salvage a misclick if I pulled Mi Fu without a physical team?

You can, but it’s slow. Mi Fu will sit on the bench until you build out Chen Qianyu (free progression), Pogranichnik (standard-banner pulls), or Rossi (standard-banner pulls). Plan for 3-6 weeks of focused progression before she’s online at her real ceiling.

Yes, based on the 1.4 roadmap. Physical compositions remain a core damage profile through at least Version 1.5, and no announced operator power-creeps Mi Fu’s specific role as a Vulnerability-consuming Crush burst carry. She’s a long-term investment, which is part of why the dupe-cost math hurts so much — you’ll have plenty of time to grab P1 at her rerun if you skip it now.

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