NTE Standard Selector: Best 5-Star Pick After 50 Pulls

Published: April 22, 2026 · Standard banner selector guide

Once you hit 50 pulls on the standard banner in Neverness to Everness, the game rewards you with a selector that lets you pick one free 5-star character from a pool of six. It sounds straightforward, but the pool is strong across the board and making the wrong call here is a real mistake. This guide breaks down every option and tells you who is actually worth picking.

Who Is in the Selector

The pool contains six standard S-rank characters: Sakiri, Baicang, Hathor, Fadia, Daffodill, and Jiuyuan. Every single one of them is viable. The question is which one gives you the most value given what you are likely to already have, and what your team actually needs.

Sakiri

Incantation · Support / Buffer

Sakiri is an Incantation-type support character who excels at grouping and controlling enemies with AoE attacks. Her passive is genuinely impactful: after she uses her ultimate, the entire team gets a 30% base ATK boost for 20 seconds. That is a real team-wide multiplier that any DPS in your roster benefits from.

She is a strong character overall and a solid addition to any account. The reason she falls short in this selector is that the other options simply offer more. Her value is tied to mob content and enemy grouping, which gets less relevant as you move into harder single-target boss encounters. If you are specifically building a mob-clearing team and want a buffer for it, she works well. For most players though, there are better calls here.

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Baicang

Incantation · DPS

Baicang is an Incantation DPS with solid single-target and AoE damage. His skill has two distinct forms that you cycle through depending on the situation, and his ultimate functions like a domain extension that amplifies his output during its window. He is technically demanding but rewarding for players who put in the time to learn his rotation.

He is a good pick if you enjoy his playstyle and design. His ceiling is high and he handles boss content well. The honest reason to pass on him in the selector is that Daffodill and Hathor both bring more to the table for the average team, and both are available in the same pool. If Baicang is the character you want to play and none of the others appeal to you, go for it. He is S-tier. Just know that stronger options exist in this specific context.

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Hathor

Lakshana · DPS

Hathor is a Lakshana DPS with strong AoE attacks and exceptional single-target damage potential. She edges out Baicang in raw output and brings consistent team energy generation on top of her personal damage. She fits comfortably as a second DPS in most team compositions.

She is a great pick if you skipped Nanally's banner or want a strong DPS without going for a limited character. If you are going into the game without a main DPS and Daffodill does not appeal to you, Hathor is the strongest alternative in this selector. She is straightforward, hits hard, and does not require a specific team setup to function.

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Fadia

Psyche · Tank / Healer

Fadia is a Psyche tank and healer with a genuinely complex kit. Her skill lets her tether to a target, which forces that target to share a percentage of the damage she takes. Her ultimate triggers Lilith state, dealing 6 instances of mental damage, restoring HP, and unlocking a modified attack form for a short window.

She is very powerful at what she does. The issue is that healers and tanks are generally easier to slot in from free and A-rank options early in the game. Using your selector on a support role is not a bad decision, but you are giving up a damage dealer in a meta where damage output is the main bottleneck. If you already have a strong DPS lineup and your main gap is sustain, Fadia is a legitimate pick. For most players entering the game fresh, a damage dealer first makes more sense.

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Daffodill: Best Pick

Chaos · Sub-DPS / Break Specialist

Daffodill is a Chaos Sub-DPS and the strongest standard character in the game at launch. Her entire kit is built around break damage. She massively amplifies break damage against bosses, reduces the break threshold by up to 30%, and deals strong damage herself throughout the fight. She also benefits the rest of your team directly through those Break windows.

What makes her the recommended pick in this selector is how universally she fits into teams. She does not need a specific element, a specific team composition, or a specific playstyle to function. You put her in, you build her, and she makes every team measurably better regardless of who else is in the lineup. There is no content where she underperforms. No matchup where she becomes a liability.

She is also on the permanent banner, which makes this selector your easiest path to getting her without spending pull currency. If you plan to eventually build her anyway, taking her here is just free value.

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Jiuyuan

Anima · Sub-DPS / Support

Jiuyuan is an Anima Sub-DPS that is very easy to play and can fill a support role when needed. She combines damage output and passive healing in a single character slot, which gives your team comp real flexibility without having to dedicate a full slot to a healer.

The situation where she becomes exceptional is with her first dupe. With one resonance unlocked, her healing output becomes strong enough that you can drop a dedicated healer from your team entirely, as long as you are not getting hit constantly. That is a meaningful slot freed up. Without the dupe, she is still a solid off-field character who contributes damage and some sustain without requiring specific setups. If you want a flexible all-rounder who never feels like a bad inclusion, Jiuyuan delivers exactly that.

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Final Advice

Daffodill is the best overall pick for the vast majority of players. Her break utility and flexibility across any team composition make her the safest and strongest choice you can make here, and this selector is the easiest free path to getting her.

Hathor and Baicang are both S-tier picks if you prefer a more aggressive DPS playstyle and already have a support sorted. Neither of them is a wrong answer. They just tend to serve more specific team archetypes than Daffodill does.

At the end of the day, every character in the pool is viable. Pick whoever fits your playstyle, or pick whoever you think looks the coolest. This is a game and that is always a perfectly valid reason.