The New Three Kingdoms: Cao Cao's Campaign, as a challenge mode, allows you to choose a buff after passing each level and finally challenge the boss. The competition is about who can deal more damage. If the damage meets the standard, you can receive rich rewards. Many newcomers, without understanding the boss's mechanism, rashly challenge and easily fail to select buffs that can counteract, affecting the damage dealt. This guide will help explain and analyze the boss's mechanism and response methods.
1. Liu Bei
His special mechanism is quite complex. First, he has a high critical hit rate bonus, and every time he deals a critical hit, it confuses our side for one turn. Being confused means losing one turn of output opportunity, so it's best not to rely on critical resistance but to get control immunity, as it cannot be dispelled. Secondly, Liu Bei has a negative effect that reduces critical damage by 100%, which actually requires us to try to deal critical hits, so choose buffs accordingly; Finally, he also has a feature where causing damage makes us lose 15% of our maximum health. It's advisable to choose characters that can heal or bring a healer. If really unable to withstand, you can also choose a resurrection. In terms of character selection, the boss has a very high luck value in his five attributes. Without a high-luck character, you may not be able to deal critical hits to him, so it's best to choose a character with high luck and a certain critical hit probability.
2. Dong Zhuo
Dong Zhuo is the only boss among the four who can cause casualties, making him quite troublesome. His entire battle mechanism is that if his HP is higher than the opponent's, he can deal an additional 200% damage. Therefore, we must ensure our HP remains healthy. He also inflicts 4 layers of negative effects when dealing damage. It's recommended to choose characters or buffs that can heal and dispel. Among the buffs, you can choose ones that consume and clear negative effects, those that recover HP every turn, those that can disarm enemies for 8 turns preventing them from counter-attacking, and those that allow full HP resurrection once upon receiving fatal damage. Willpower is particularly important because his ultimate move will definitely kill someone, and if you don't have it, you will lose a teammate in the third turn; Dong Zhuo also has several innate skills. First, at the end of his action, he deals fixed damage and applies bleeding. Second, he has a high chance of taunting. These two can be countered by applying more dispels or immunities. Lastly, the boss is an infantry unit, and the only one susceptible to class counters, so it's best to choose cavalry units that can counter him.
3. Cao Cao
Cao Cao is the simplest one, with low output and uncomplicated mechanisms, making him very friendly to newcomers. His entire battle effect is that for every point his mobility exceeds the enemy's, his damage increases by 50%. So, the key against him is to get buffs that increase or decrease mobility. Other than that, any output-related buffs are fine. When choosing characters, prioritize those that can increase our team's mobility, such as Cao Cao, or those that can decrease the enemy's mobility, like Xiahou Yuan.
4. Sun Quan
Although Sun Quan ranks third in terms of threat among the bosses, his mechanism is quite complicated and can be divided into four points. The first is that his block rate can reach 100%, meaning if we do not have a buff that increases accuracy by 100%, we cannot normally deal damage to him. The second is that once he suffers continuous damage, it increases by 1000%, meaning we must get buffs that can inflict continuous damage or directly use characters with continuous damage. The third point is that he inflicts burning, which is not much of a threat and can be ignored; Finally, every time he is injured, he stacks a 3% overall damage increase and reduction. To counter this, it's suggested to get the copy buff, otherwise, it will be difficult to deal damage in the later stages. Understanding these four points, dealing with Sun Quan becomes simple. Prioritize selecting the copy and concentration buffs, and also choose any with negative effects. Currently, there are three very effective effects: inflicting burning, bleeding, and poison. Getting all three can help deal high damage every turn.
The New Three Kingdoms: Cao Cao's Campaign boss guide is shared here. The above content explains the mechanisms of the current four bosses and specific response methods. I hope players can apply these strategies in their challenges, deal higher damage, and receive the most rewards.
