Zhou Yu

* Officer Keywords: Group Strategy Damage, Main Damage Dealer
* Tactic Combos: Any Strategy Tactics that don’t require additional round(s) to get ready.
* Key Teammates: Any Officers from the Wu Faction that have an S-tier Bow Troop Quality.

## Zhou Yu

### Troop Quality

S: BowA: Shields, Spears

B: CavalryC: Siege

### Affinity

1. Pillar of the State
2. Grand Marshal of Wu
3. Battle of Chibi
4. Suppressor's Interdiction

### Innate Tactic

Divine Fire

Zhou Yu has exceptional base attributes, and that makes his role in a team quite flexible. You can make him the main damage dealer in your team or equip him with healing Tactics to improve your team’s survivability.

Despite all these lineup builds and detailed breakdowns, it’s always the same old saying - there isn’t a bad team, only a bad player. Hopefully, with this basic strategy guide, everyone can build their own dream team!

## Gameplay

* Attributes Breakdown: Zhou Yu has decent base attributes among the Intelligence-type Officers. Most Officers in this category have terrible Strength and Speed, but Zhou Yu is an exception.
* Troop Qualities: S-tier for Bow and A-tier for both Shield and Spear - Overall, Zhou Yu’s Troop Qualities are quite nice, but his attributes make him the main damage dealer or the backup damage dealer most of the time. Therefore, I’ll recommend Bow units for Zhou Yu.

### Tactics

**Divine Fire** is a Passive Tactic that relies on the activations of his other Active Tactics to deal damage to enemies. In order to optimize the damage potential of “Divine Fire,” the player should equip Zhou Yu with high triggering chance Tactics that don’t require additional rounds to activate, such as Soul Steal, Falling Thunder, Antidote, Lonely City, etc.

Please avoid equipping Tactics that need one round to get ready or any non-Active Tactics because, if you do, you will undermine the damage potential of “Divine Fire” drastically.

Zhou Yu’s Inherit Tactic is **Fan the Flames**. This Tactic can inflict high Strategy Damage on enemies without the need to prepare. If your target is Burning, you’ll attack them 2 times instead. If your enemy is an Officer with poor Intelligence, the damage can be catastrophic. For instance, if your target is Zhang Fei or Lu Bu (both of them have low Intelligence), there’s a chance you will slay them in one round - which is an incredible result.

## Strategy

### Early

Zhou Yu has a problem dealing consistent damage, especially before he is Awakened where he has only 1 Active Tactic available. This has a big impact on the damage potential of “Divine Fire.” Therefore, Zhou Yu needs a powerful damage dealer by his side to bridge the damage gap. As for Zhou Yu himself, both using healing Tactics to ensure your team’s survivability or using damage-dealing Tactics to further increase his damage output are viable strategies.

Recommended Teammates: Taishi Ci, Sun Ce, Sun Jian, Zhao Yun, and Zhang Fei.

### Late-game

Zhou Yu: Soul Steal + Antidote / Falling Thunder / Lonely City / Rescue (Intelligence attribute)

Han Dang: Fallen Phoenix + Raid and Pillage (Strength attribute)

Jiang Qin: Ambidextrous + Close Combat / True to Duty (Strength attribute)

Mixed Bow

Yuan Shao: Breach / Slaughter + Pen and Sword / Rain of Arrows / Fallen Phoenix (Strength attribute)

Zhou Yu: Soul Steal + Antidote / Falling Thunder / Rescue / Fan the Flames (Intelligence attribute)

Zhu Jun: Unstoppable Elites + Barrier / Lonely City (Intelligence attribute)

Grand Marshal of Wu

Zhou Yu: Soul Steal + Antidote / Falling Thunder / Lonely City / Rescue (Intelligence attribute)

Lu Xun: Apocalypse + Fan the Flames (Intelligence attribute)

Lu Meng: Unstoppable Elites / White Horse Brigade + Rain of Fire / Grand Design / Eight Gold Locks Formation (Focus on bringing up your Speed to a certain point first, then invest the rest of your Attribute Points on Intelligence)

Wu Bow

Zhou Yu: Soul Steal + Antidote / Falling Thunder / Lonely City / Rescue (Intelligence attribute)

Taishi Ci (1): Cruel Tyranny + Draw Bow / Cut / Hidden Secrets (Strength attribute)

Taishi Ci (2): Fickle War + Overcome (Intelligence attribute)

Lu Xun: Unstoppable Elites + Eight Gold Locks Formation / Fan the Flames (Intelligence attribute)

## Story

Zhou Yu, courtesy name Gongjin, was born in Shu County, Lujiang. He was a renowned general of the late Eastern Han dynasty. In the 13th year of Jian’an (208), Zhou Yu and his Sun army from Jiangdong joined forces with Liu Bei’s army. They made Cao’s army suffer a bitter defeat during the Battle of Chibi. Their victory marked the beginning of the Three Kingdoms era.