In the world of New Three Kingdoms: Cao Cao's Legend, the abilities of generals are key to determining core strength. Many critical aspects of the game, whether it's steadily leveling up, carefully acquiring resources, or fully sprinting for rankings, are closely related to the generals under the player's command. An overview of the strength of the generals in New Three Kingdoms: Cao Cao's Legend is the main focus of this article. These characters are highly recommended strong choices, and as for how to cleverly match them, it still depends on the players themselves.
First is Guan Yu, whose overall ability rightfully ranks at the T0 level. In the arena, Guan Yu's performance is extremely strong. Whether it's advancing through the main storyline, team trials, or various other modes, his second action skill can reduce the number of battle rounds, allowing players to efficiently end battles even in auto mode, saving a lot of time. However, to fully utilize Guan Yu's talent and make him act again, he either needs to successfully get a kill or trigger a critical hit. In boss stages, bosses are usually hard to kill directly, which means Guan Yu must strive for a higher critical hit rate. Unfortunately, Guan Yu's inherent critical hit rate is not very outstanding. To further enhance his damage output, he needs to be supplemented with critical hit rate and critical damage. Among the many generals, Liu Bei is the most suitable partner for this need.
Lü Lingqi is also a unique general. On the battlefield, she can increase her maximum HP by 25%, and before causing damage, she can inflict 2 random debuffs on the target, which last for 2 turns. More importantly, for every debuff the enemy carries, Lü Lingqi's weapon damage increases by 10%. This shows that the amount of damage Lü Lingqi deals is closely tied to the number of debuffs on the enemy. Although Lü Lingqi can add debuffs to the enemy herself, she alone is not enough to maximize this talent. In fact, Lü Lingqi's damage increase based on the number of enemy debuffs has no upper limit, meaning the more debuffs her teammates can apply, the more astonishing her damage will be. Among the many generals, Li Ru is an extremely suitable choice. Li Ru's skill range is very broad, capable of applying a large number of debuffs to multiple enemies at once, perfectly matching Lü Lingqi's damage increase mechanism.
Sun Ce is also an extraordinary general. On the battlefield, he comes with powerful attributes such as +25% weapon damage, +25% critical hit chance, and +30% critical resistance. After successfully killing an enemy, he can also apply the Tiger Roar effect to the diamond-shaped 2-grid area around the target, lasting for 2 turns. Additionally, before attacking, Sun Ce applies 1 layer of Quenching to himself, which lasts for 3 turns. For each Burn debuff on the target, he can apply an additional layer of Quenching. Sun Ce's passive is an attack growth passive, requiring attacks on targets with Burn debuffs to achieve rapid growth. However, Sun Ce's ability to apply Burn effects is relatively weak and mostly single-target, so he needs teammates to help apply Burn effects over a wide area. In this regard, generals like Sun Shangxiang, Lu Su, and Huang Gai all have the ability to apply Burn effects over a wide area, and they can form good combat synergy with Sun Ce.
Cao Cao, as one of the three lords in the game, also has considerable value. In the game, the three lords—Old Cao, Liu Bei, and Sun Quan—are all support-type generals. After all, in Cao Cao's Legend, the system-gifted Old Cao is not only easy to obtain but also relatively simple to star up, making him one of the initial choices for many players. In actual combat, Cao Cao's role is to provide beneficial support effects to his teammates, and he is quite tanky, often able to hold out until the end on the battlefield, taking damage for his teammates and providing stable protection. Of course, he cannot be relied upon too much for output, but in a five-man formation, his presence as a support role is still acceptable. Sometimes, he even needs to step up and go to the front line to block enemy attacks, creating a good output environment for the backline DPS.
Finally, let's talk about Lü Bu. In PVP mode, he has the characteristic of ignoring defense. His ultimate skill, after successfully killing an enemy, not only deals area damage to the surroundings but also inflicts a Panic effect. Because of this, Lü Bu is a pure PVP general in PVP mode. Additionally, in the sandbox simulation gameplay, Lü Bu also performs well, especially in high-level challenges, where he can help players obtain high-level military books, thereby bringing advantages to the growth and strength enhancement of generals. Lü Bu's ultimate skill has a wide attack range and can also cause confusion to the enemy. However, what frustrates many players is that, despite their desire to get Lü Bu, even after nearly 300 draws, they still find it difficult to obtain one. This makes Lü Bu currently one of the hardest-to-get generals in the game, becoming a love-hate existence for many players.
The above is a detailed introduction to the strength of the generals in New Three Kingdoms: Cao Cao's Legend. These generals are currently among the most discussed characters in the player community. The purpose of this analysis is to help players, in the later stages of the game, to build their battle teams more reasonably based on these advantages.
