Wu Xuan, the Fallen General Boss #35 of 74 · Pangzhen

How to beat Wu Xuan, the Fallen General

Our strategy, built from the fight's numbers, followed by the game's own codex entry.

• Parry the blue flashes: 4 of Wu Xuan, the Fallen General's 19 attacks flash blue before they land, and a timed parry stops them.
• Dodge the red flashes: 2 attacks flash red. They can't be parried, so dodge through them instead of blocking.
• The tightest tell is Vertical Mace Windmill: only 0.37s from the flash to the hit, so react to the flash, not the swing.
• Mace Grab Throw is a grab: dodge it, because blocking and parrying don't stop a grab.
• Wu Xuan, the Fallen General adds new attacks below 90%, 70%, 60%, 55% HP, so expect the moveset to change at 90%.
• Bring Chaos: it deals 50% more damage to Wu Xuan, the Fallen General.
• Poison builds up 50% faster on Wu Xuan, the Fallen General.
• Wu Xuan, the Fallen General's Sha-Chi bar is 4,000: perfect parries and Guard Break attacks drain it, and an empty bar opens the boss to a finisher.

Every attack Wu Xuan, the Fallen General can use, read from its ability data. The cards show the in-game animation with its timing: wind-up, the red or blue flash, the hit window and recovery.

Attacks

19

Red flash (dodge)

2

Blue flash (parry)

4

Grabs

1

Tightest tell

0.37s

New moves below

90% · 70% · 60% · 55%

From the start

Below 90% HP

Below 70% HP

Below 60% HP

All 19 attacks

Attack names are ours: the game doesn't name boss attacks. Times are seconds from the start of the attack; the reaction time runs from the flash to the first hit after it.

Parry Trainer

Test your timing on Wu Xuan, the Fallen General's real attacks: parry the blue flashes, dodge the red ones.

Wu Xuan, the Fallen General takes 50% extra damage from Chaos. Every element and status effect below.

Base attributes from the boss's config, and the same values at the level the fight runs at.

Calculated Base values come from the enemy's own config. The game raises them with the area level; it fights at level 13 here (difficulty multipliers are not included).

Each kill gives 24,000 Remnant Dust at this level.

The boss's spawn point on the Pangzhen map. Nearest Bell: Backstreet Archway.

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Wu Xuan, the Fallen General lore

The codex entry the game unlocks for Wu Xuan, the Fallen General.

A general who once led his troops in bloody battles against the Maskwalkers, later stationed in the backstreets of Pangzhen. His heavy armor shares its origins with that of Zhuo Bi, gatekeeper of the Village of Lu. Looming like an iron tower, he swings his spiked club with crushing force and the bloodlust of a rabid wolf. When cornered, he can turn Sha-Chi into Chaos Fire to sear his enemies.

Countless Transcended have died at his hands, their devices grafted onto his own body. He still lives in the years when Maskwalkers roamed in hordes. Defying every objection, he ordered his entire army to undergo Transcension, only to see his comrades all descend into madness. After putting them down himself, he embedded their devices in his flesh, hoping to bring them home that way.

But his corruption has gone too deep. As device upon device accumulates, his humanity falls away. His consciousness has begun to pass briefly between the Waking Realm and the Discordance, even drawing close to the latter's depths... He understands now that this is their true home. He must devour more devices, draw ever nearer, and deliver the countless souls of the dead to the Blight!

In-game codex

Boss order

Boss #35 of 74: the previous fight is Soulclaimer, Elite Shadow Warden, the next one Gu Wanyue, the Wailing Wraith.

Data: Phantom Blade Zero 26367565 (CL-302256, UE 5.7.4). How we source this