Wo Long: Fallen Dynastypits you against significant characters from China’s Three Kingdoms Era, and one of Cao Cao’s generals, Xiahou Dun, is one such boss you must face down. This fight involves a lot of fire-elemental damage, so be prepared.
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As is historically accurate in the Three Kingdoms timeline, Xiahou Dun gets shot in the eye by a stray arrow and famously eats it on the battlefield. The less historically-accurate part introduced by Wo Long is that this triggered him to transform into a demon wreathed in flame. Bring Water Wizardry and change any armour for fire-defence scaling gear for this battle.
Xiahou Dun Boss Fight Strategy
Depending on how much of a troll Xiahou Dun wants to be in this fight, he could choose toopen the fight with a charging Critical Strikeright off the bat. If he does, you need to be prepared toget out of the way or stand your ground for the deflection.
The strike has a huge wind-up. He will fly towards you, pause to do a backflip in the air, and then swing with his axe.
If this attack connects,he will grab you.The attack ends when he swings you to the floor. This attack couldkill you in one hit,depending on your level.
Regardless of whether Xiahou Dun charges towards you with a Critical Strike, he will close the distance one way or the other. You’ll want tokeep your guard up as you approachhim or let him come to you.
Don’t be intimidated by him flying around all the time, his attacks are wild, but you canblock them with impunity. Keep an eye on your Spirit andtry to attack if it gets too low.
We recommend using Water magic,such as Ice Weapon,because you can easily inflict thefreeze debuff on him.
This will stagger him for a few seconds,giving you time to strike.
Even though Xiahou Dun is on fire, his axe swingsare not imbued with the element,meaning you don’t need to worry about blocking his attacks and having fire damage slip through.
He does like to dodge around a lot. This makes him hard to hit, so the best practice is tostay close to him and wait for his attacks to finish, usually with him pausing for a second after completing a combo.
If you have enough Spirit, you cansafely block all his attacksand then go on the offensive yourself.
Throughout the fight, he will createpatches of fire with his attacks and movements.These should be avoided, but don’t worry too much about them because the damage they deal is negligible.
If you’re extra worried about them,cast a Water spell near themto counter and remove the flames.
Double-check your armour forfire defence and any resistance to the blaze debuff.
Staying too far away from Xiahou Dun will cause his AI to uselong-reaching attacks that also cover a huge distance. These attacks have multiple swings and hits, making them hard to predict and harder to dodge.
Because of his flying attacks, you’ll want to try andstay in a close or medium rangeto keep up the offensive and stop him from dominating the arena. This is especially useful because you want tobait out a specific attack of histhat you can punish and exploit to no end.
Xiahou Dun has an attack with a long wind-up animation and along rest period after the swing.
When using the attack, he will hold a position in the air before swinging.
Try and deflect the slamas you see his axe move towards the ground.Or, if you want, dodge to the side of the attack to avoid it.
As he hits the floor,he will stay put for a few seconds, giving you an excellent opportunity to deal significant damage to him while he resets to his normal stance.
Don’t forget touse your Martial Artswhen you have positive Spirit to enhance the damage you do.
When he’s at half HP, he will get enraged and fly around the arena,shooting fireballs out in a random pattern. This move isn’t anything dangerous, so don’t worry when you see him do this.Stay out of the fire and wait for him to land.
As he lands, you get another chance to deal damage, socapitalise on these moments throughout the fight. Deflecting his Critical Strikes will alsoground him for a few secondswhile extinguishing his flames.
As an added bonus, you will naturally have Xiahou Yuan with you for this Battlefield and boss fight.
He will do well to act as a distraction and get cheap shots on the boss.
Being in close proximity to Xiahou Dun will mean you probably won’t see his Critical Strike, but you shouldtry to deflect as many of his hits as you cansince each deflected blow will shrink his Spirit gauge and make it easy to inflict a stance break.
Keep on the offensive, and always attempt to back away if you need to heal. Remember thatusing Ice Weapon or other ice magicwill let you debuff him. Thisdebuff can trigger multiple timesthroughout the fight, and each time you do, he will bestaggered for a brief moment.
