

He is one of the key requirements needed to trigger the hypothetical route at Fan Castle where he arrives to assist the Guan family by formulating a strategy. His return to Liu Bei and joins the fight at Chengdu. In Shu's version of the stage, players can convince Xu Shu not to throw his life away by finding him after the fire attack has been executed. Due to circumstances beyond his control, he is coerced to serve Wei and fights for them until his death at Chibi. He guides the group to Zhuge Liang's home and departs once his colleague agrees to join Liu Bei's cause. In non-story battles, he serves as one Cai Wenji's default lieutenants.ĭynasty Warriors 8 has Xu Shu introduce himself to Liu Bei's party at Xinye, convincing them to find a strategist for future battles ahead while aiding them as a temporary adviser. He advocates the use of strategy to Liu Bei's men and displays its effectiveness at the Battle of Xinye by employing a sneak attack to split Cao Ren's troops in half. He respectfully declines to join Liu Bei due to a plot concocted by Cao Cao.ĭuring the fifth chapter of Dynasty Warriors Next, Xu Shu is dispatched by Sima Hui to help Liu Bei find Zhuge Liang. With the army victorious, he admits that his strategies pale in comparison to Zhuge Liang. He momentarily appears at Liu Bei's side in Dynasty Warriors 7 and orders Zhang Fei to follow his strategy at Xinye. At Chi Bi, Xu Shu will try to spot Pang Tong's attempt to chain the boats. Successfully handling the plans will have Xu Shu outmatch his rival.

At Bo Wan Po, he competes with Zhuge Liang over strategy.

His character's height in Kessen II is 180 cm (5'11").ĭynasty Warriors 4 has Xu Shu already working for Cao Cao in the Wei army. This counterpart has two image songs titled Find My Place and Live & Learn. The character poll for overseas fans puts him in fourth place for the Shu division. The latest poll for the eighth installment puts him in fourth. He was the third most popular character in Gamecity's Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends popularity poll. Xu Shu placed second in the boyfriend category for Famitsu's character centric survey. In Famitsu's first most wanted character poll, he ranked seventh with participating fans. In both history and in fiction, it is because of Xu Shu's piety that he chooses to leave Liu Bei for Cao Cao, as the latter held the aforementioned mother hostage.Īlthough there is nothing historically recorded to imply as such, Romance of the Three Kingdoms portrays him as Cao Cao's advisor in name only Xu Shu regretted leaving Liu Bei and remained sympathetic to him and his followers.īefore his playable Dynasty Warriors appearance, he was a generic NPC since the series's third title's expansion. He was known to have been a filial son, and cared deeply for his mother. Avenging his old friend with his blade, he gave up swordsmanship and decided to commit to study after his arrest, eventually befriending Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong in later parts of his life. Xu Shu (onyomi: Jo Sho) is a disciple of Sima Hui and an expert swordsman in his younger days.
