With Genshin Impact gearing up to add its next major region in Sumeru in the coming months, players have already gotten a taste of what the new locale will have to offer. The recent livestream event for the game's 2.8 update officially unveiled Sumeru for the first time, teasing the region as featuring both a rainforest and a desert. Social media marketing from HoYoVerse has also revealed the first set of Sumeru characters to join the game with Tighnari, Collei, and Dori planned to arrive with Version 3.0.
Alongside Genshin Impact's official reveals, the game has already seen several leaks related to the upcoming region with characters, locations, and more being revealed. An image released earlier today from leaker GI Front gave a glimpse at the overworld map for Sumeru while others have introduced character constellations, models, and upcoming content. With Sumeru and the first batch of characters set to arrive in the game's next update, the trio of newcomers has now seen their gameplay leaked.
A new batch of leaks from prominent Genshin Impact leaker Ubatcha has revealed the animations for the characters set to arrive in Version 3.0. The gameplay snippets show off not only idle animations and walking segments, but also give a glimpse into each character's attack patterns, Elemental Skill and Elemental Burst. The leaks reveal that both Tighnari and Collei will be bow users while Dori wields a claymore that is swung by her slime companion. Tighnari and Collei will notably both share the role of being the first Dendro element characters added to Genshin Impact.
While the leaked animation demos do little to demonstrate the effects of each character's abilities, previous leaks have given hints about some of what to expect from Genshin's newest characters. Collei's leaked Constellations set her up as a support with the player receiving bonuses for having her in the party and not set as the active character. Tighnari looks to be a strong DPS option for Genshin's newest element with his abilities and Constellations letting him take advantage of Dendro's elemental reactions.
Genshin Impact looks to have plenty in store for its massive playerbase, not only with the release of Sumeru but into the future as well. The recently released "A Winter's Night Lazzo" teaser introduced players to the other members of the Fatui's Harbingers for the first time. Leaks for future Sumeru content have also shown off a plethora of characters set to come to the game including the new region's Archon, Kusanali. Sumeru's release later this year will bring a host of new adventures in Teyvat for Genshin Impact's fans with more still to come.
Genshin Impact is available now for PC, PS4, PS5, and mobile devices. A Switch version is in development.
