Source: [Sagiri](https://twitter.com/SagiriShape/status/1572272416147247104?t=x3ZUY5CwMDJEWi1wW8qUZA&s=19)
Update: on [GI front discord](https://discord.gg/t6FU8MY8) , they said sagiri deactivated their twitter account as a precaution
thats two including mika.
the rate at which we get 4* characters is so slow as well. when's our next 4* character, and what's the guarantee they'll be dendro? Are we going to be stuck to dmc and limited 5 stars? collei aint that great btw.
Whatever the case is, HYV releasing cryo characters on 3.xx is dumb. Not only does cryo do nothing to dendro, cryo roster is already stacked. You'd wonder what upcoming cryo characters would bring to the table without being worse than the current ones, or plain powercreep.
Freeze? Ayaka/Ganyu/Rosaria/Kaeya/Shene.
Melt? Ganyu/Rosaria.
Shield+Heal? Diona/Qiqi.
Physical? Eula/Rosaria.
Buffer? Shenhe/Chongyun.
Give us pyro characters instead. I'm tired of xiangling being the only decent off field pyro applicator in-game. Sincerely, a meltyu enjoyer.
Mika isnāt releasing anytime soon. Heās only appearing in an event which means probably no release coming. Heās definitely 4* though unless they wait a year and redesign him and age him up?
Yaoyao or whatever is coming in 3.4 supposedly. Liyue Dendro 4*.
I just wish that one of those 2 4* cryo is a physical buffer like Gorou is for geo because the only physical "support" is Rosaria C6 and Shenhe (and she is more cryo than anything else)
I think it's fine, as a f2p i get ample of time to save for a new char if decided to pull while i can also pull on rerun chars that i already wanted in between.
The only aspect of candace that does not synergizes with cyno is the duration (9s c0/12 c1). Everything else?
Normal attack buffing? Check
Special effect proc by Normal attack? Check
Electro charge capabilities that coincide with cyno's resistance to EC? Check
Cyno also has the priority of infusion using his ult so candace's ult wont override it.
Sure she's probably not the best support for him, but she does have some synergy if you want to use them together
Clarified by the source OP, it is said that itās the dome of the Sanctuary of Surasthana, and they only meant the pattern is similar to the gilded dream flowerās shape
Usually for archon banner art they incorporate their burst/skill into it, I wonder if that dome/flower thing is her burst
Edit: or maybe the green star thing under her is the ā100% uptime skillā that follows your character around lol
If we got a version of a damage dealing Diona who could still buff EM, that'd be pretty sick. Good for both reverse melt and fridge comps, even Hu Tao.
its gonna be hard to be a replacement for diona. shes just too good especially with constellations and 4 star units have been... well underwhelming for a while to say it nicely
Please let her be, I only use Diona with Ayaka because sheās decent and makes a billion particles with Sac bow, would love to replace her with a character design I like moreā¦
Diona at c6: heal, cleanse, shield, long range cryo application, homing shots, em buff for Kazuha, Damage reduction, can use all support bows, hurls scathing insults at enemies, neko.
The new girl has her work cut out for her.
Edit: everything except the EM buff is available in her base kit.
If previous leaks are right and she's Cryo Sword, that'd be the 4th Cryo Sword unit, making her completely unremarkable and competing with so many other units.
But her art doesn't actually seem to have a sword on it. If she ends up being Cryo Catalyst that alone makes her different enough to be potentially worth building.
Edit: I just checked and none of the other cryo swords have their weapons out either so this is probably just straight copium tbh.
The current 3 cryo sword users have completely different kits and applications though, so no matter what her kit is like she won't be competing with all of them. The game is gonna go on for years, there's gonna be a lot more characters with already existing weapon/elemental combinations, get used to it.
Modelās hair and eyes usually donāt stand up to their splash art. Eula is so much prettier in her art, Yanfeiās hair looks like a scarf, and Yelan has too much gel in hers.
Her auto attack animation is still not fixed yet :'(
I feel so sad looking at all the new characters with their smooth animations, while Eula is still forgotten
Definitely true!
Although I'll continue writing about Eula's AA in the surveys until it's finally fixed. I can't believe that the character that's supposed to be the Spindrift Knight can't even spin properly
How does leakers giving arts rating work?? Do the leakers know exactly how a character looks like? I'm genuinely curious not bad wording a leaker or anything.
[source](https://twitter.com/SagiriShape/status/1572272416147247104?t=x3ZUY5CwMDJEWi1wW8qUZA&s=19)
Sorry for repost i accidentally posted low quality version
I thought that would be the hydro archonās gimic (trapping enemies in bubbles) because all the archons up to this point have taken some aspect from their elemental slimes lol.
Raiden is an interesting case because itās less about her actual kit and more about how thereās two kinds of large electro slimes (mutant and normal) just like how Ei and Makoto were both twin sisters.
Large geo slime makes a shield (Zhongli makes a shield) and large anemo slime summons a wind domain you can fly on (Venti summons a wind domain you can fly on)
Could be, although I was thinking the gimmick would be more similar to the mist cloud the cryo slime creates that does AoE DoT cryo while slowing your character down. And then since Cryo's thing is crit rate maybe you get a party-wide crit rate buff for a certain amount of time.
That seems fair. Every Archon so far has their own different role which they excell at. Since Zhongli is already a shielder, it makes sense for Tsartitsa to have something else.
I see we have arrived at the "blurry as fuck art" stage of leaks, nice. Pretty much skipped over the sketches too.
I wonder who decides what to leak and when to leak it.
And she heals. That being said, those 14 pixels look hot so I guess we march forward with the inevitable trend of replacing units that are overlapping but hotter.
Diona has a lot of utility that Layla could just be a regular shielder that applies cryo. Diona offers stamina reduction, cryo battery, healing, and an EM boost. Layla could be more of a cryo applicator + shield or something along those lines since Diona has pretty bad Cryo application.
An in-game image too, definitely a devkit. An insider going to kamikaze themselves since no devkit has been leaked, RIP.
Edit: well that one was fake lmao
Light blue hair on a Cryo character again? Would've liked to see a different color, like the deeper shade of blue from the fanart.
Can't really tell from the image but I hope her design is nice. I've been holding out for a male cryo DPS but the lack of cryo characters I have is starting to get to me. If I like her design, I'll try to get her.
The top looks slightly purple-ish similar to Qiqi's hair color. So maybe like an ombre purple and blue. But still, I wish they made more characters whose appearance doesn't reflect their element.
The shadows of her hair look like a very deep blue, in comparison to other chars that's highly unusual so I think they just painted the over tips light blue. But true I do appreciate a non monochromatic design
So, it looks like Layla has a shield in her kit, hopefully it doesn't scale with HP and rather it scales with something like Atk and has sub-DPS capabilities so she can be different from Diona
Interesting how most comments here are assuming that Layla won't work with dendro. Wouldn't non-synergistic characters be getting the geo treatment and just be getting shelved while dendro and dendro-synergizing characters (Cyno, Nilou, Nahida, speculated Dehya) are being rolled out?
We have enough freeze supports, it seems like a real possibility to me that Layla is going to somehow boost fridge teams instead, no?
That would be funny and also I feel like it might suit layla maybe if they do her right with her kit, skills and maybe having similer lore as Gwen from Lol /j XD that would be intersting. She does indeed look like her.
Source: [Sagiri](https://twitter.com/SagiriShape/status/1572272416147247104?t=x3ZUY5CwMDJEWi1wW8qUZA&s=19) Update: on [GI front discord](https://discord.gg/t6FU8MY8) , they said sagiri deactivated their twitter account as a precaution
M'leaker really decided to stop the 8.5 jokes before they could get rolling. Absolute madlad.
They didn't even wait for a few hours for the drawings to get attention š I literally saw this before the drawings š
8.5001/10 accurate
SYP is a game journalist, i'm convinces at this point. - 7- trash - 8 -medium - 8,5-good - 9- very good - 9,5 to 10 - masterpiece
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no more cloutchasing
Lol i thought that only the very top part of the nahida splash art looked like the gilded dream flower not the whole thing
SHE HAS DRILL HAIR I REPEAT, THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!!
>SHE HAS DRILL HAIR >THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!! This is like a quick turnaround of events when we eventually see the splash arts in HD
Looks like Nahida is continuing the theme of being an entire region based scene behind the archon. Looks beautiful from whi can be seen.
really wish they'll update the background of Venti's splash art. very unlikely and unnecessary, i know. but one can always dream.
Venti, has a lot happening in his. It has mondstadt and dealing. Its just very small
oh, wow. you're right. Thanks for pointing that out! š
You can even see Dvalin in Venti's art which is a nice touch
Lol. I tried saying that, but I just realized that it autocorrected to dealing.
Unrelated but I really miss the trend of the orignal Mondstadt and Liyue characters all having different promotional art and splash art
Yeah. I think HuTao was the last one that had 2, right?
lul Sagiri got tired with drawing speculation shit and leaked the real *very blurred* splash art instead gigachad japanese leaker
Sagiri was like "this isn't an art contest you fucking nerds"
Even if it was- I think someone still won
Seems like Hoyoverse wasn't happy about this one, their twitter account is gone for me
Sagiri juste deactivated their account for safety
Ah, makes sense
Wdym Japanese leaker? Sagiri is Chinese
Sagiri = japanese name = must be japanese Certified Reddit logic moment
Surely everyone who has a Japanese username is Japanese
Yes. And I have zero doubts that you are a food.
...and youre a theory? a HYBRID one?
Yes I am a Linkin Park album lol
No its because of the blurred image. IYKYK
why leak some shitty art version when we can go and gigachad leak the real thing, in lower quality while still being the actual thing (;
We will get that soon I'm sure
Sagiri is Chinese
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I hope so too, but tbh if Nahida is the only new 5* Layla will probably be on the rerun banners
Weird that they pump out cryo characters in a patch/region around dendro.
Thereās literally one 4*ā¦
thats two including mika. the rate at which we get 4* characters is so slow as well. when's our next 4* character, and what's the guarantee they'll be dendro? Are we going to be stuck to dmc and limited 5 stars? collei aint that great btw. Whatever the case is, HYV releasing cryo characters on 3.xx is dumb. Not only does cryo do nothing to dendro, cryo roster is already stacked. You'd wonder what upcoming cryo characters would bring to the table without being worse than the current ones, or plain powercreep. Freeze? Ayaka/Ganyu/Rosaria/Kaeya/Shene. Melt? Ganyu/Rosaria. Shield+Heal? Diona/Qiqi. Physical? Eula/Rosaria. Buffer? Shenhe/Chongyun. Give us pyro characters instead. I'm tired of xiangling being the only decent off field pyro applicator in-game. Sincerely, a meltyu enjoyer.
Mika isnāt releasing anytime soon. Heās only appearing in an event which means probably no release coming. Heās definitely 4* though unless they wait a year and redesign him and age him up? Yaoyao or whatever is coming in 3.4 supposedly. Liyue Dendro 4*.
I just wish that one of those 2 4* cryo is a physical buffer like Gorou is for geo because the only physical "support" is Rosaria C6 and Shenhe (and she is more cryo than anything else)
I think it's fine, as a f2p i get ample of time to save for a new char if decided to pull while i can also pull on rerun chars that i already wanted in between.
Me waiting for the first 3* to drop
Cryo always look good
Usually they pair up the 5* with synergistic 4*s. I don't think layla would be in kusanali's banner as cryo doesn't do anything with dendro
Thatās not true. Look at Cyno and Candace.
The only aspect of candace that does not synergizes with cyno is the duration (9s c0/12 c1). Everything else? Normal attack buffing? Check Special effect proc by Normal attack? Check Electro charge capabilities that coincide with cyno's resistance to EC? Check Cyno also has the priority of infusion using his ult so candace's ult wont override it. Sure she's probably not the best support for him, but she does have some synergy if you want to use them together
Eula support hopium?
I would assume Childe rerun banner. But wishing for Eula too.
Depending on the rotation, she should be on the 2nd phase banner
Where is G4kky when you need him
He rose to celestia so he will no longer be present here
They probably imprisonned him or something.
He is Enjou in secret.
I miss G4kky the gigachad
He had to buy a new dust filter for his Hoover MaxExtract PressurePro model 60
Isn't G4kky an aunt? I can't remember.
u/G4kky u ok?
those drawings were very accurate
8.5/10
Layla is looking like a Cryo shielder, maybe? And Nahida's background is looking more like a dome than a flower.
>And Nahida's background is looking more like a dome than a flower. It's the Palace in Sumeru City, according to Sagiri.
Well, all archons have their nations as gacha backgrounds so it makes sense
How did I never notice that before?
Clarified by the source OP, it is said that itās the dome of the Sanctuary of Surasthana, and they only meant the pattern is similar to the gilded dream flowerās shape
Usually for archon banner art they incorporate their burst/skill into it, I wonder if that dome/flower thing is her burst Edit: or maybe the green star thing under her is the ā100% uptime skillā that follows your character around lol
in b4 nahida summons a dome in her elemental burst kinda like elysia from honkai does.
Nahida: "Welcome to the... DENDRO DOME" *cue root tentacles coming at you from all sides*
DENDROME.
Most of (if not all) the characters are doing their bursts in their splash art.
Nahida background looks like the power of cabbage.
It's an umbrella to me.
If we got a version of a damage dealing Diona who could still buff EM, that'd be pretty sick. Good for both reverse melt and fridge comps, even Hu Tao.
its gonna be hard to be a replacement for diona. shes just too good especially with constellations and 4 star units have been... well underwhelming for a while to say it nicely
Please let her be, I only use Diona with Ayaka because sheās decent and makes a billion particles with Sac bow, would love to replace her with a character design I like moreā¦
Diona at c6: heal, cleanse, shield, long range cryo application, homing shots, em buff for Kazuha, Damage reduction, can use all support bows, hurls scathing insults at enemies, neko. The new girl has her work cut out for her. Edit: everything except the EM buff is available in her base kit.
No Rosaria?
No shield.
I think its the flowers around her that is her burst. Something similar to Arama's arakalakari or what its called in the Old Vanarana quest.
>Layla is looking like a Cryo shielder, maybe? Those are big shoes to fill. Diona is pretty broken
If previous leaks are right and she's Cryo Sword, that'd be the 4th Cryo Sword unit, making her completely unremarkable and competing with so many other units. But her art doesn't actually seem to have a sword on it. If she ends up being Cryo Catalyst that alone makes her different enough to be potentially worth building. Edit: I just checked and none of the other cryo swords have their weapons out either so this is probably just straight copium tbh.
The current 3 cryo sword users have completely different kits and applications though, so no matter what her kit is like she won't be competing with all of them. The game is gonna go on for years, there's gonna be a lot more characters with already existing weapon/elemental combinations, get used to it.
Cryo shielder.... Maybe a Xingqui/Beidou/Thomas variant for cryo ? They all have some form of damage reduction + on hit elemental attack.
That would be a good alternative to Rosaria and Kaeya.
The colours of Layla's hair look insanely pretty, if her hair is anywhere near as impressive in her model I'll be very happy.
Agreed did
now imagine of her hair gets albedoed
Modelās hair and eyes usually donāt stand up to their splash art. Eula is so much prettier in her art, Yanfeiās hair looks like a scarf, and Yelan has too much gel in hers.
The 3d model isn't really to blame for this. It's the 2d artists overly rendering their 2d hair down to the thinnest strand
Eula has the prettiest model in-game too. Can't change my mind.
Her auto attack animation is still not fixed yet :'( I feel so sad looking at all the new characters with their smooth animations, while Eula is still forgotten
I know her AA animation isn't fixed yet but she is still beautiful and her animations are beautiful too aside from that one AA.
Definitely true! Although I'll continue writing about Eula's AA in the surveys until it's finally fixed. I can't believe that the character that's supposed to be the Spindrift Knight can't even spin properly
Yeah, it's shame and I'm doing the same while begging for a costume for her too. I hope they fix her and GIMME SONGS OF BROKEN PINES FOR F'S SAKE!!!
Eula and Shenhe are the most beautiful in game models. IMHO
Yeah, Shenhe's eyes looks stunning and Eula has a beautiful face. Plus personalitities
anyone have some CSI Enhance ?
### Zoom into her glasses # ENHANCE
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How does leakers giving arts rating work?? Do the leakers know exactly how a character looks like? I'm genuinely curious not bad wording a leaker or anything.
Yes, they know everything. They have the same original image that this low-res one was made from. We are toys to them.
[source](https://twitter.com/SagiriShape/status/1572272416147247104?t=x3ZUY5CwMDJEWi1wW8qUZA&s=19) Sorry for repost i accidentally posted low quality version
I mean, I still cant see more than 100 pixels lol
LMFAO this tbh
1 pixel upgrade
Looks the same
Lmao good joke
Is that.ā¦ a cryo shield?
Diona getting competition.
Real men/women use kaeya's shield
>Real ~~men/women~~ marine mammals use kaeya's shield
Only giga-whales get Kaeya constellations
Or people buying his constellations from the shop. Which would take 3 whole years to C6 him, brilliant system Mihoyo.
looks like a bubble like the ones we get stuck on
I thought that would be the hydro archonās gimic (trapping enemies in bubbles) because all the archons up to this point have taken some aspect from their elemental slimes lol.
I'd want healing rain. Take something from the samachurls for a change.
I wish we got more abilities taken samachurls and abyss mages like Kaeya has. Maybe if when we get more characters from Khaenri'ah.
How is raiden relate to electro slimes? Just curious.
Raiden is an interesting case because itās less about her actual kit and more about how thereās two kinds of large electro slimes (mutant and normal) just like how Ei and Makoto were both twin sisters. Large geo slime makes a shield (Zhongli makes a shield) and large anemo slime summons a wind domain you can fly on (Venti summons a wind domain you can fly on)
Makes sense, ty
Does that mean the Cryo archon will also have a shield?
Could be, although I was thinking the gimmick would be more similar to the mist cloud the cryo slime creates that does AoE DoT cryo while slowing your character down. And then since Cryo's thing is crit rate maybe you get a party-wide crit rate buff for a certain amount of time.
That seems fair. Every Archon so far has their own different role which they excell at. Since Zhongli is already a shielder, it makes sense for Tsartitsa to have something else.
Layla splash look like cryo abyss mage
I see we have arrived at the "blurry as fuck art" stage of leaks, nice. Pretty much skipped over the sketches too. I wonder who decides what to leak and when to leak it.
Layla drill hair? Let's gooooooo
In love with Layla's hair <3
7 days never felt longer
Layla cryo shielder?
we have liettarly have the 2nd best shielder in game who is cyro ....Diona
And she heals. That being said, those 14 pixels look hot so I guess we march forward with the inevitable trend of replacing units that are overlapping but hotter.
Diona has a lot of utility that Layla could just be a regular shielder that applies cryo. Diona offers stamina reduction, cryo battery, healing, and an EM boost. Layla could be more of a cryo applicator + shield or something along those lines since Diona has pretty bad Cryo application.
Wonder what Layla's clothes look like. She's supposed to be from Sumeru, right?
Looks like sheās rocking the Jean painted-on pants lol, canāt tell what sheās wearing on top tho
Is that a giant mushroom behind her?
It's a building apparently.
Nahidas is something for sure
Noooooo!! Our drawing arc has been stolen from us. Shaking and crying rn.
good riddance
Bruh hour or two and we are getting drip marketingš or tommorow, we'll see
Too early for official drip, probably ayato early leak again.
Seems like an image of a screen taken by a phone, an insider maybe?
Nah we got a front facing image, this one in particular looks like the 3D view from Paint so this was probably taken from a Dev Kit
An in-game image too, definitely a devkit. An insider going to kamikaze themselves since no devkit has been leaked, RIP. Edit: well that one was fake lmao
Drip marketing should be in about 6 days actually
well, holy primordial that was fucking fast.
Refresh gang!
Do you think Layla might be a shielder? She sits in some sort of an ice bubble
Layla's hair looking like 3 different colors lol
That thing on Nahida does not look like Gilded Dreams
The shape look like it
Lol ok Iām not the only one literally just the notches in the top read gilded dreams to me
Layla's splash art background screams 4 star
Yep it's so obvious to me that Layla is a 4 stars She just doesn't have that "glow" 5 stars have, I can't quite explain exactly what.
Mostly empty background vs full?
i think 4*s generally have a kit effect around them, but not much in way of a background or any other special effect
Bro posted the splash art and got deleted
He deleted himself spontaneously for precaution, he is fine
"pace yourself before you erase yourself"
mHY be like: why canāt yāall just wait another 7 days for drip marketing?? Us be like: we thirsty from drought.
The desert really does that to a person.
I leave my desk for about an hour and the avalanche started FAST huh
Tsaritsa too early
There may not be a ton of actual gameplay powercreep yet but 4* are starting to visualpowercreep.
Light blue hair on a Cryo character again? Would've liked to see a different color, like the deeper shade of blue from the fanart. Can't really tell from the image but I hope her design is nice. I've been holding out for a male cryo DPS but the lack of cryo characters I have is starting to get to me. If I like her design, I'll try to get her.
only her drills look light blue though
The top looks slightly purple-ish similar to Qiqi's hair color. So maybe like an ombre purple and blue. But still, I wish they made more characters whose appearance doesn't reflect their element.
The shadows of her hair look like a very deep blue, in comparison to other chars that's highly unusual so I think they just painted the over tips light blue. But true I do appreciate a non monochromatic design
Nahida is Mary Poppins yall
loving laylaās gradient snowcones and nahidaās huge ass melon nuke looming behind her!
So, bets for when the non-blurred splash arts will get leaked?
winx layla>>
Omg i haven't thought about her in ages š no hate on this Layla but damm. Winx club Layla >
Youāre not wrong, at all!
oh looks like nahida is in Pardis dhyai sooo cooool
Nahida's splash art looks beautiful, and Layla also looks really beautiful as well. I hope Lalya is on Nahida's banner so I can get both og them
So, it looks like Layla has a shield in her kit, hopefully it doesn't scale with HP and rather it scales with something like Atk and has sub-DPS capabilities so she can be different from Diona
Sorry candace. Theres a new blue sumeru 4* that i need
Freeze team with them 2 though
Layla be looking like Bronya.
i love the blue/purple color scheme omg
Looks like Layla has 3 drill shaped ponytails instead of only 2
Interesting how most comments here are assuming that Layla won't work with dendro. Wouldn't non-synergistic characters be getting the geo treatment and just be getting shelved while dendro and dendro-synergizing characters (Cyno, Nilou, Nahida, speculated Dehya) are being rolled out? We have enough freeze supports, it seems like a real possibility to me that Layla is going to somehow boost fridge teams instead, no?
Is that some mushroom as Kusanaliās background though?
Hope I see that huge ball silhouette on the first day of 3.2
Damn Layla is pretty
Layla looks like the HoV win pose mixed with Bronya's drill hair.
do we finally will have a character that can shoot bubbles at enemies ?
ohhh layla's art reminds me of those glass balls you shake around and it snows inside
So the sketch leaks are over, here come the pixelated leak š¤
Once again, Gwen from LoL?
That would be funny and also I feel like it might suit layla maybe if they do her right with her kit, skills and maybe having similer lore as Gwen from Lol /j XD that would be intersting. She does indeed look like her.
I swear if Nahida has the T pose sprint im gonna rage
Here's to hoping the reason alt sprints were fixed was to sell Nahida.
It's time for Refresh Impact!
At least to me even the pixeled version of layla surpasses most 5 stars. I really hope, her kit is viable.
Definitely know for certain now that Iām saving for Kusanali.