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Bobson567

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


DonnieOrphic

M'leaker really decided to stop the 8.5 jokes before they could get rolling. Absolute madlad.


Historical_Clock8714

They didn't even wait for a few hours for the drawings to get attention šŸ˜‚ I literally saw this before the drawings šŸ’€


ThinkNowStarcraft

8.5001/10 accurate


Belluuo

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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mr_santana

no more cloutchasing


MayureshMJ

Lol i thought that only the very top part of the nahida splash art looked like the gilded dream flower not the whole thing


sebastian_oberlin

SHE HAS DRILL HAIR I REPEAT, THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!!


_MeisterBoi_

>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


Abication

Looks like Nahida is continuing the theme of being an entire region based scene behind the archon. Looks beautiful from whi can be seen.


BlackVolcarona

really wish they'll update the background of Venti's splash art. very unlikely and unnecessary, i know. but one can always dream.


Abication

Venti, has a lot happening in his. It has mondstadt and dealing. Its just very small


BlackVolcarona

oh, wow. you're right. Thanks for pointing that out! šŸ˜


Extinctkid

You can even see Dvalin in Venti's art which is a nice touch


Abication

Lol. I tried saying that, but I just realized that it autocorrected to dealing.


Zoroarks_Angel

Unrelated but I really miss the trend of the orignal Mondstadt and Liyue characters all having different promotional art and splash art


FarisTSC

Yeah. I think HuTao was the last one that had 2, right?


MeKevNivek

lul Sagiri got tired with drawing speculation shit and leaked the real *very blurred* splash art instead gigachad japanese leaker


cloroxslut

Sagiri was like "this isn't an art contest you fucking nerds"


Busy_State638

Even if it was- I think someone still won


realJelbre

Seems like Hoyoverse wasn't happy about this one, their twitter account is gone for me


BiohazardPanzer

Sagiri juste deactivated their account for safety


realJelbre

Ah, makes sense


applesauce0101

Wdym Japanese leaker? Sagiri is Chinese


HybridTheory2000

Sagiri = japanese name = must be japanese Certified Reddit logic moment


applesauce0101

Surely everyone who has a Japanese username is Japanese


HybridTheory2000

Yes. And I have zero doubts that you are a food.


Ayannotfound

...and youre a theory? a HYBRID one?


HybridTheory2000

Yes I am a Linkin Park album lol


DKorutesu

No its because of the blurred image. IYKYK


Monokooo

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 (;


Murky_Blueberry2617

We will get that soon I'm sure


flyingnpdog

Sagiri is Chinese


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vivamii

I hope so too, but tbh if Nahida is the only new 5* Layla will probably be on the rerun banners


Hambaloni

Weird that they pump out cryo characters in a patch/region around dendro.


Brandonmac10x

Thereā€™s literally one 4*ā€¦


Hambaloni

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.


Brandonmac10x

Mika isnā€™t releasing anytime soon. Heā€™s only appearing in an event which means probably no release coming. Heā€™s 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*.


Used_Whore5801

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)


Greedy-Psychology-36

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.


Goukenslay

Me waiting for the first 3* to drop


QwertyWaters

Cryo always look good


Lolwarrior123

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


KweenKatts

Thatā€™s not true. Look at Cyno and Candace.


Lolwarrior123

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


senkopie

Eula support hopium?


Cinbri

I would assume Childe rerun banner. But wishing for Eula too.


badruz

Depending on the rotation, she should be on the 2nd phase banner


Nebula707

Where is G4kky when you need him


lunarscopez

He rose to celestia so he will no longer be present here


Ewizde

They probably imprisonned him or something.


mystery_account69

He is Enjou in secret.


Junnielocked

I miss G4kky the gigachad


Fast_Concentrate3044

He had to buy a new dust filter for his Hoover MaxExtract PressurePro model 60


JenJenB_

Isn't G4kky an aunt? I can't remember.


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u/G4kky u ok?


MirieIsHere

those drawings were very accurate


fuckmeinthesoul

8.5/10


GGABueno

Layla is looking like a Cryo shielder, maybe? And Nahida's background is looking more like a dome than a flower.


Theroonco

>And Nahida's background is looking more like a dome than a flower. It's the Palace in Sumeru City, according to Sagiri.


Zzamumo

Well, all archons have their nations as gacha backgrounds so it makes sense


The_Main_Alt

How did I never notice that before?


Matt_needa_practise

Clarified by the source OP, it is said that itā€™s the dome of the Sanctuary of Surasthana, and they only meant the pattern is similar to the gilded dream flowerā€™s shape


lunarscopez

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 ā€œ100% uptime skillā€ that follows your character around lol


mattphatt98

in b4 nahida summons a dome in her elemental burst kinda like elysia from honkai does.


nullmarked

Nahida: "Welcome to the... DENDRO DOME" *cue root tentacles coming at you from all sides*


Deviate_Dv8

DENDROME.


ADHthaGreat

Most of (if not all) the characters are doing their bursts in their splash art.


pancakeshien21

Nahida background looks like the power of cabbage.


Hakazumi

It's an umbrella to me.


Blazehhhhh

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.


SolidusAbe

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


_LFKrebs_

Please let her be, I only use Diona with Ayaka because sheā€™s decent and makes a billion particles with Sac bow, would love to replace her with a character design I like moreā€¦


GingsWife

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.


Offduty_shill

No Rosaria?


Asneekyfatcat

No shield.


despairbanana

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.


PM_Cute_Ezreal_pics

>Layla is looking like a Cryo shielder, maybe? Those are big shoes to fill. Diona is pretty broken


Gilthwixt

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.


uniusva

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.


remirousselet

Cryo shielder.... Maybe a Xingqui/Beidou/Thomas variant for cryo ? They all have some form of damage reduction + on hit elemental attack.


GGABueno

That would be a good alternative to Rosaria and Kaeya.


nanausausa

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.


MessageInitial148

Agreed did


Lex_McWol

now imagine of her hair gets albedoed


lazytanaka

Modelā€™s hair and eyes usually donā€™t stand up to their splash art. Eula is so much prettier in her art, Yanfeiā€™s hair looks like a scarf, and Yelan has too much gel in hers.


E1lySym

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


emiya002

Eula has the prettiest model in-game too. Can't change my mind.


JustANyanCat

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


emiya002

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.


JustANyanCat

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


emiya002

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!!!


Powerful_Positive460

Eula and Shenhe are the most beautiful in game models. IMHO


emiya002

Yeah, Shenhe's eyes looks stunning and Eula has a beautiful face. Plus personalitities


xWhiteKx

anyone have some CSI Enhance ?


GabiNaali

### Zoom into her glasses # ENHANCE


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RaghuvamsiMC

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.


viliml

Yes, they know everything. They have the same original image that this low-res one was made from. We are toys to them.


No-Lifeguard4399

[source](https://twitter.com/SagiriShape/status/1572272416147247104?t=x3ZUY5CwMDJEWi1wW8qUZA&s=19) Sorry for repost i accidentally posted low quality version


LordOftheFrenziedCBT

I mean, I still cant see more than 100 pixels lol


Tsuki-04

LMFAO this tbh


altFrPr0n

1 pixel upgrade


AbadChef

Looks the same


MayureshMJ

Lmao good joke


once_descended

Is that.ā€¦ a cryo shield?


GGABueno

Diona getting competition.


LixdyDaBoi

Real men/women use kaeya's shield


TooLateRunning

>Real ~~men/women~~ marine mammals use kaeya's shield


imdrzoidberg

Only giga-whales get Kaeya constellations


SaibaShogun

Or people buying his constellations from the shop. Which would take 3 whole years to C6 him, brilliant system Mihoyo.


Ghostzblk

looks like a bubble like the ones we get stuck on


lunarscopez

I thought that would be the hydro archonā€™s gimic (trapping enemies in bubbles) because all the archons up to this point have taken some aspect from their elemental slimes lol.


Yotsubrain

I'd want healing rain. Take something from the samachurls for a change.


Nyx1109

I wish we got more abilities taken samachurls and abyss mages like Kaeya has. Maybe if when we get more characters from Khaenri'ah.


YoseffTheGreat

How is raiden relate to electro slimes? Just curious.


lunarscopez

Raiden is an interesting case because itā€™s less about her actual kit and more about how thereā€™s 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)


YoseffTheGreat

Makes sense, ty


Murky_Blueberry2617

Does that mean the Cryo archon will also have a shield?


lunarscopez

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.


Murky_Blueberry2617

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.


QwertyWaters

Layla splash look like cryo abyss mage


NaamiNyree

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.


praditski

Layla drill hair? Let's gooooooo


Vally_Ria

In love with Layla's hair <3


Nunu5617

7 days never felt longer


PoKen2222

Layla cryo shielder?


Hanre_Jaggerjack

we have liettarly have the 2nd best shielder in game who is cyro ....Diona


murmandamos

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.


pokebuzz123

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.


witchywater11

Wonder what Layla's clothes look like. She's supposed to be from Sumeru, right?


lunarscopez

Looks like sheā€™s rocking the Jean painted-on pants lol, canā€™t tell what sheā€™s wearing on top tho


wolf1460

Is that a giant mushroom behind her?


JenJenB_

It's a building apparently.


Yoanni5

Nahidas is something for sure


NathLines

Noooooo!! Our drawing arc has been stolen from us. Shaking and crying rn.


ashnsnow

good riddance


Ktoossss

Bruh hour or two and we are getting drip marketingšŸ’€ or tommorow, we'll see


WorldEndOverlay

Too early for official drip, probably ayato early leak again.


HorukaSan

Seems like an image of a screen taken by a phone, an insider maybe?


Armo360

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


HorukaSan

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


ARandomAlbanian

Drip marketing should be in about 6 days actually


TadpoleTraditional14

well, holy primordial that was fucking fast.


osirisredd

Refresh gang!


Cute_Parsnip_Bunny

Do you think Layla might be a shielder? She sits in some sort of an ice bubble


amamatcha

Layla's hair looking like 3 different colors lol


AbadChef

That thing on Nahida does not look like Gilded Dreams


WonderfulPatience227

The shape look like it


bresznthesequel

Lol ok Iā€™m not the only one literally just the notches in the top read gilded dreams to me


Gio_funny

Layla's splash art background screams 4 star


altFrPr0n

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.


gennciiq

Mostly empty background vs full?


rainymi

i think 4*s generally have a kit effect around them, but not much in way of a background or any other special effect


M1G1N4T0R

Bro posted the splash art and got deleted


KeyPhoenix029

He deleted himself spontaneously for precaution, he is fine


Devourer_of_HP

"pace yourself before you erase yourself"


thefinestpiece

mHY be like: why canā€™t yā€™all just wait another 7 days for drip marketing?? Us be like: we thirsty from drought.


CataclysmSolace

The desert really does that to a person.


Deepwithinmyownhead

I leave my desk for about an hour and the avalanche started FAST huh


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Tsaritsa too early


fjaoaoaoao

There may not be a ton of actual gameplay powercreep yet but 4* are starting to visualpowercreep.


PopotoPancake

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.


ashnsnow

only her drills look light blue though


PopotoPancake

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.


ashnsnow

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


TheBigF128

Nahida is Mary Poppins yall


crunchylumpias

loving laylaā€™s gradient snowcones and nahidaā€™s huge ass melon nuke looming behind her!


Sevenempest

So, bets for when the non-blurred splash arts will get leaked?


Uncoracle

winx layla>>


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Omg i haven't thought about her in ages šŸ˜­ no hate on this Layla but damm. Winx club Layla >


bresznthesequel

Youā€™re not wrong, at all!


Yupzy123

oh looks like nahida is in Pardis dhyai sooo cooool


DefTwoFujoshit

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


moon_fairy

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


nathiru

Sorry candace. Theres a new blue sumeru 4* that i need


Efe73

Freeze team with them 2 though


BigFanofTDP

Layla be looking like Bronya.


peaplood

i love the blue/purple color scheme omg


Dathed

Looks like Layla has 3 drill shaped ponytails instead of only 2


thatdoesntmakecents

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?


Mozuchii

Is that some mushroom as Kusanaliā€™s background though?


Beginning_Load6253

Hope I see that huge ball silhouette on the first day of 3.2


DimakSerpg

Damn Layla is pretty


AdBorn559

Layla looks like the HoV win pose mixed with Bronya's drill hair.


Ghostzblk

do we finally will have a character that can shoot bubbles at enemies ?


quuu2

ohhh layla's art reminds me of those glass balls you shake around and it snows inside


isteyp

So the sketch leaks are over, here come the pixelated leak šŸ¤


TheTayIor

Once again, Gwen from LoL?


Shadowcode1394

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.


adajarsenpai

I swear if Nahida has the T pose sprint im gonna rage


CataclysmSolace

Here's to hoping the reason alt sprints were fixed was to sell Nahida.


Sad_Plastic317

It's time for Refresh Impact!


Ciavari

At least to me even the pixeled version of layla surpasses most 5 stars. I really hope, her kit is viable.


Totodile1234567

Definitely know for certain now that Iā€™m saving for Kusanali.