10 Best Dynasty Warriors Characters

9. Guan Yu

Zhou yun dynasty warriors
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One of the infamous Three Brothers, who fought against Lu Bu to a standstill and eventually helped both Cao Cao destroy Yuan Shao and Liu Bei found the kingdom of Shu. In the novel he is referred to as a warrior worth a thousand men as well as regularly being called the man with the 'Beautiful Beard'. He was abnormally tall, especially in his own time. Considering in the Ming Dynasty he was revered as a war deity, you'd better believe he's regularly a badass in the Dynasty Warriors series.

Wielding his famous curve-bladed polearm, usually called either the Blue Dragon or the Green Dragon due to a weird issue with translating the original Chinese it was described with, he is capable of cutting a path through even the largest groups of enemies. His musou moves are often also crowd-clearing techniques and oddly ballet-like with his continual spinning attacks.

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