Recent rumors and leaks have ignited excitement among the Genshin Impact community regarding a new 5-star character named Escoffier, anticipated to debut in version 5.6. Credible sources, including Seele Leaks—known for their reliable insider information—suggest that Escoffier may specialize as a Cryo sub-DPS and healer, enhancing teams focused on Freeze reactions. As fans await official details from HoYoverse, let’s delve into what has been revealed about her potential abilities and passive traits.
Overview of Escoffier’s Leaked Abilities and Constellations
Seele Leaks has disclosed the framework of Escoffier’s abilities, complemented by a more refined translation from another source. Hints of her character design were reportedly revealed in Varesa’s trailer. Below, we explore her skills, passives, and potential constellations as per the leaks.
Normal Attack: Kitchen Expertise
- Normal Attack: Executes three consecutive spear strikes.
- Charged Attack: Consumes stamina for an upward thrust.
- Plunging Attack: Descends from the air to hit the ground, damaging enemies along the way and delivering AoE damage at impact.
Elemental Skill: Low-Temperature Cooking
Escoffier’s Elemental Skill seems to feature two variations based on how the skill is activated, either by tapping or holding. Sharing the Ousia Arkhe type common among other Fontaine characters, the skill summons a Surging Blade that inflicts Ousia-aligned AoE Cryo damage.
- Tap: Engages the All-Spectrum Multi-Use Cooking Mek in Cold Storage mode, dealing AoE Cryo damage to nearby foes.
- Hold: Activates the Mek’s Off-the-Cuff Cookery mode.
Elemental Burst: Scoring Cuts
Her Elemental Burst is designed to inflict AoE Cryo damage while restoring health to all nearby allies based on Escoffier’s ATK.
Passive Abilities
According to leaks, Escoffier may possess three notable passive abilities, enhancing her role within team compositions:
- Better to Salivate than Medicate: Following the activation of her Elemental Burst, Escoffier gains the Rehab Diet effect for nine seconds, steadily restoring health for active characters, linked to 138.24% of her ATK.
- Inspiration-Immersed Seasoning: Depending on the number of Hydro or Cryo characters in the party (1 to 4), Escoffier can diminish the Hydro and Cryo resistance of enemies hit by her skills by 5% to 55% over 12 seconds.
- Constant Off-the-Cuff Cookery: Utilizing the hold option of her Elemental Skill, Escoffier activates her Cooking Mek in the Off-the-Cuff Cookery mode, which absorbs elemental attacks. Once a threshold is met, ingredients can be transformed into potent dishes, although this mode has a cooldown of seven days.
Constellation Details
Rumored constellation effects for Escoffier include:
- C1: When all party members are either Hydro or Cryo, Escoffier boosts Cryo damage Crit DMG by 60% for 15 seconds following the use of her Elemental Skill.
- C2: Activating the Cooking Mek in Cold Storage mode grants Escoffier the “Freshly-Prepped Delicacy”effect for 15 seconds, enabling nearby characters to amplify Cryo damage by 240% of Escoffier’s ATK using Cold Dish stacks.
- C3: Enhances Escoffier’s Elemental Skill by three levels, maxing out at level 15.
- C4: Extends the duration of the Rehab Diet by six seconds, with a chance to heal an additional 100% HP and restore energy based on Escoffier’s Crit Rate.
- C5: Boosts her Elemental Burst by three levels, capped at level 15.
- C6: Upgrades the Cooking Mek: Cold Storage to unleash a Special-Grade Frozen Parfait when active characters land Normal, Charged, or Plunging attacks, dealing significant AoE Cryo damage based on her ATK.