Genshin Impact Hydro Archon (Furina) leaks: Star rarity, weapon, release date, and more

Players are always excited at the arrival of new characters in Genshin Impact, but certain ones generate even more hype than usual, with the arrival of each Archon always being met with lots of anticipation.

Genshin’s Hydro Archon Furina is set to become the next playable god of Teyvat arriving sometime in the near future and has already had many leaks for her surface.

All Furina Genshin Impact leaks

Much about the Hydro Archon is meant to be kept secret until miHoYo is ready to officially unveil her, but the leak community has already uncovered a solid amount of information about her. As any new information surfaces or changes are made to Furina, all new details will be updated here.

Table of contents

Who is Focalors in Genshin Impact?

Focalors is the Hydro Archon of Fontaine, meaning she is one of The Seven, who are the gods of Teyvat. She is not the original Hydro Archon, as the original one passed away at some point after The Seven Archons were officially established as the gods of Teyvat.

In the “Teyvat Chapter Storyline Preview: Travail” spoiler video, Dainsleif comments that “The God of Justice lives for the spectacle of the courtroom, seeking to judge all other gods. But even she knows not to make an enemy of the divine.”

Related: Who are the Hexenzirkel in Genshin Impact?

Focalors is the goetic name for the Hydro Archon, while the name players will more commonly call her by will be different. This is true of every Archon as players call the Geo Archon Zhongli instead of Morax, the Electro Archon Raiden Shogun or Ei instead of Beelzebub, the Anemo Archon Venti instead of Barbatos, and the Dendro Archon Nahida instead of Buer or Kusanali.

Who is Furina in Genshin Impact?

Furina is the name of Focalors’ current vessel and the version of the Hydro Archon that will become playable. You can think of this as the Hydro Archon’s common name, just as the Anemo Archon is called Venti and the Dendro Archon is called Nahida.

Furina is quite unpredictable and ruthless in her determined pursuit of justice over everything else. She has two different sides to her personality with the first being extremely confident and dramatic and the other a dedicated and focused justice machine.

During the Archon quest in Fontaine, you’ll see these two different sides of Furina represented by her and her inner monologue. Furina is still a fairly new character that players have only seen a few times, but she seems to feel unworthy in the eyes of Fontaine citizens and often consults her inner monologue because of this.

What is Furina’s element in Genshin Impact?

Because Furina is the Hydro Archon, she will wield the Hydro element. There is one Archon for each element, and players have met five of The Seven so far, which are the Anemo Archon Venti, the Geo Archon Zhongli, the Electro Archon Raiden Shogun, the Dendro Archon Nahida, and now the Hydro Archon Furina.

Furina is the fifth playable Archon and is expected to be quite powerful when she does become playable since all playable Archons are generally ranked highly among Genshin’s best characters.

The other two gods of Teyvat that players will meet sometime after Furina is the Pyro Archon Murata and the Cryo Archon Tsaritsa. Of all the Archons, players currently know the least about the Hydro Archon and the Pyro Archon, which has the community especially excited to learn more about Furina as she becomes playable.

What is Furina’s weapon type in Genshin Impact?

Furina is currently believed to be a sword character, but this has not been officially confirmed by miHoYo just yet.

The weapon the Hydro Archon will wield has previously been rumored to be both a claymore and a sword. Based on the most recent leaks, she seems to be a sword wielder, but this is very much subject to change since she is still in development.

Some leaks have also said that the Hydro Archon’s alleged sword will be a rapier sword featuring a decorative Fontaine-inspired design. So far, none of the playable Archons have had a sword as their signature weapon, so the Hydro Archon could certainly become the first.

A series of Fontaine weapons have been circulating among the leak community and the sword within this series could potentially be Furina’s if she does end up being a sword wielder. However, it’s also quite possible she has another sword designed specifically for her that is not part of this series so Travelers likely won’t know for sure until her release is closer.

What abilities does Furina have in Genshin Impact?

Some possible details about the Hydro Archon’s skillset have also been uncovered. If these leaks are true, she will be incredibly unique and powerful.

These possible leaks suggest that her skillset will have something to do with gravity. This is not necessarily a mechanic that Genshin players are familiar with, but the individual who shared this intel said that players could look to another of miHoYo’s games called Honkai Impact 3rd for reference as to what they mean.

Another leak for her skillset indicates she will have some sort of health manipulation abilities. What exactly this means is rather unclear, but it could perhaps function somewhat similarly to the health-draining abilities of the five-star Pyro Polearm character Hu Tao and the five-star Anemo Polearm character Xiao. Fontaine characters like Lyney and Lynette have health-draining abilities too, so this might be a theme for all Fontaine recruits.

Outside of this information, the Hydro Archons skillset could truly be anything. All of the Hydro characters that have been released in Genshin so far have distinctly unique, powerful, and versatile skillsets.

There are brutal primary damage dealers like Tartaglia (Childe) and Kamisato Ayato, powerful healing units like Sangonomiya Kokomi, and superb support characters like Mona and Yelan. With such a wide range of powerful characters already available to be recruited, the Hydro Archon is certainly expected to be rather impressive.

What is Furina’s rarity in Genshin Impact?

The Hydro Archon Furina will almost certainly be a five-star character which means she will only ever be available as a featured banner character.

So far, every Archon that has become playable in Genshin has been a five-star character. Due to their high status as the gods of Teyvat and the Archons being some of the best characters that players can recruit makes sense since they are all meant to be immensely powerful.

What does Furina look like in Genshin Impact?

Furina is a moderately tall woman with light white hair with blue ombre ends and a vibrant cobalt blue outfit. Everything about her appearance is very blue to represent her status as the Archon of Hydro.

The appearance of the Hydro Archon was first leaked on Reddit by several reliable leakers alongside almost an entire cast of Fontaine characters, but it was quickly removed because of its significance. MiHoYo later officially unveiled a small glimpse at her during the “Overture Teaser: The Final Feast” trailer and she officially made her storyline debut during the Version 4.0 Archon quest, so if you’ve played through that then you’ve gotten a good look at her overall appearance.

When will Furina release in Genshin Impact?

Furina will release sometime before the Version 4.0 updates come to an end and she is currently predicted to run during Version 4.2.

Because Furina is the Hydro Archon and the primary face of the Hydro region of Fontaine, she will become playable sometime before players move on to the Pyro region of Natlan, but when this will be is currently unknown.

If Furina becomes playable in a similar matter to Archons of the past, then it’s likely you’ll need to befriend her before she becomes recruitable. This means that the main storyline must progress to a point where players are on good terms with her.

This has been the pattern with past Archons, like with Raiden Shogun in the Electro region of Inazuma when players had to navigate from being enemies to friends with her before they could recruit her, and with Nahida in the Dendro region of Sumeru when players had to find her in the isolated state that she was living in before she could join their team. Each new chapter of Teyvat generally seems to hold onto the release of the Archons as a playable character until at least a few updates in so players can get to know them before actually recruiting them.

Based on where the Fontaine storyline is at, you can likely expect to see Furina become playable before 2023 comes to an end or very early on in 2024. Furina’s exact release date will become much clearer after Version 4.1 launches as the Version 4.1 characters will then be announced.