EDIT: Original source was taken down. There’s now an OWCavalry Twitter post on it https://x.com/OWCavalry/status/1948512521008132585. A player had the ability sheet and model leaked to them through a survey, and it seems in line with what’s been data mined so far.
[Primary] Xuanwu Staff
Fire a damaging water orb. Hold to control its trajectory and empower its explosion.
[Secondary] Restorative Stream
Place a passive healing stream on an ally. Hold on the target to manually heal at an improved rate, consuming resources.
[Ability 1] Guardian Wave
Send a water wave forward that increases the amount of healing received by allies and knocks back enemies.
[Ability 2] Rushing Torrent
Ride water to move faster and jump higher.
[Ultimate] Tidal Blast
Protect an ally or yourself with water that detonates after a short duration. The explosion knocks down enemies and massively heals the host target.
Thoughts? I think the ultimate has the potential to be very… polarising… if you’re playing DPS support.
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Have to see how it plays but it sounds very moba but it has potential. A single target ultimate is a bit weird, can’t lie.
But close enough, welcome back Nami
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If anything, I’m just afraid the primary fire will be extremely clunky 
Especially if you can only have one orb out at a time.
At least it would be 
youneighque like they’ve claimed it would be, numerous times
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If this leak is real, i don’t like how they again put more CC in the game. Other than that, seems OK but i have see how he plays first.
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I am okay with the wave, but does the ult need an AOE knockdown? lol
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absolutely not, CC was supposed to get toned down in OW2…but you know…
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It’s just going to be a “make tank immortal” button anyway. Judging by it being single-target, it likely will be cheap, similarly to Pulse Bomb. Not a fan.
he sounds like he’ll be Lifeweaver 2 (not derogatory). I think he’ll feel like very unique in his gameplay and hard to compare. Let’s see how he’ll work
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He looks super cute. And people were calling him chopped based off the portrait.
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To be fair, the lighting and the angle were not doing him any favours 
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They tend to be pretty good at this.
It’s an ultimate.
Earthshatter.
Area-effect oriented compared to single-target Lifeweaver.
EDIT: Should mention that the primary sounds a lot like Symmetra’s RMB charged orbs.
Renewing Mists
Dagger’s from Marvel Rivals’ Light Wall.
Water dash. Might go upward, maybe?
Anduin’s Heroes of the Storm’s Lightbomb ultimate.
Honestly they are hitting it out of the park with supports, I wish that DPS/Tank heroes were half as fun to play.
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Every time I read the name Aqua, I think of the Konosuba anime. I wish Blizz would use more original and less generic names like “Freja.”
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I love that anime, really funny, I gotta watch the new season here soon.
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His real in-game name will be Wuyang, but atp my brain defaults to Aqua because it’s the name we’ve known him by for so long lol
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Closer to Ana I would say
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Junker Queen’s pretty fun.
Can’t really say the same for Mauga, or Hazard.
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Alas, this Aqua looks like an Avatar Last Air Bender character that got left behind on the cutting room floor >_<
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Maybe. I was thinking it would be closer to Rei’s ultimate from Paladins. It doesn’t necessarily buff an ally, but I suspect it will make them invincible for a brief duration. The brevity that it PRESUMABLY WILL AND SHOULD* have is why I expect it to be a cheap ult.
*I do not accept any responsibility in the event of Blizzard balancing as Blizzard do
(also I’m not a fan of more invincibility in the game in the first place)
Tidal blast on Rein knocks everyone down, when they get back up, earthshatter again hah
What an annoying little combo
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