Wo Long Fallen Dynasty: How To Beat Aoye

Are you having trouble defeating the boss Aoye in Wo Long Fallen Dynasty? We show you how!

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Wo Long Fallen Dynasty: How to beat Aoye | © KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD.

Team Ninja recently released their latest Souls-like action role-playing game, Wo Long Fallen Dynasty. As with previous titles such the Nioh game series and Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin , the game features challenging and epic boss fights. Wo Long Fallen Dynasty may not have as many memorable bosses as Elden Ring, but its solid moment-to-moment combat more than compensates for it.

And there are still some highlights, including an early-to-mid game boss named Aoye. This fight can be a tough nut, but fortunately there are certain strategies that can make the battle against Aoye much easier. Here is a comprehensive guide on how to defeat Aoye in Wo Long Fallen Dynasty easily.

How To Beat Aoye in Wo Long Fallen Dynasty

Aoye is a massive bull-like creature covered in fur that uses it to attack and impale its enemies.

During your journey through the fifth main mission "In Search of the Immortal Wizard", you will face it as the final encounter. Aoye's appearance can be intimidating, and the boss fight can be challenging if you are not familiar with how to counter its attacks.

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Aoye can be challenging due to its large health pool and quick attack transitions that can catch you off-guard.

The small arena where the fight takes place adds to the difficulty, leaving little room for maneuvering and healing.

However, Aoye is vulnerable to elemental attacks and can easily be staggered due to its low spirit gauge, which can be exploited to deal significant damage.

The best way to defeat Aoye is to focus on constantly attacking and breaking its posture by quickly depleting its spirit gauge. This will lead to massive spirit-attack damage.

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Wo Long Fallen Dynasty: Boss Aoye | © KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD.

But, this can be difficult to pull off due to the boss's aggressive nature and quick attacks.

Fortunately, there are strategies that can be employed to trivialize the fight, making it one of the easiest encounters in the game.

Things You Need To Pay Attention To In Battle

To start with, Aoye in Wo Long Fallen Dynasty has various elemental attacks, including a sweeping stone attack, a chain of lightning attacks, and halfway through the battle, ice shards.

Equipping special effects that boost your resistance against ice, stone, and lightning damage is essential.

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Wo Long Fallen Dynasty: Fight against boss Aoye | © KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD.

Aoye also has three regular attacks that you need to be cautious of during the battle:

  • The sweeping tentacles attack that does stone damage can be deflected, but it usually sends out two in a row. Aoye has many tentacles, which can deal damage even when you're behind it, so stay clear of its back.
  • When Aoye jumps towards you in the air, there is enough time to deflect the attack, so don't panic.
  • Third is a flurry of attacks from its horns, which are difficult to deflect, so it's best to move back and avoid them.

Even though Aoye shoots lightning bolts, it's weak to lightning attacks. So, it's recommended to use Wood Phase abilities in the battle.

Aoye has two critical blows: the first is when it charges towards you, and the second is when it throws one of its arms at you. The latter is more challenging to deflect than the former.By keeping these strategies in mind, defeating Aoye in Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty should be more manageable.

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Wo Long Fallen Dynasty: Defeat Aoye | © KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD.

Tricks Against Aoye

  1. Agility helps to keep your spirit consumption and depletion in check and allows you to stay mobile on the battlefield.
  2. Lightweight armor sets that keep your agility stat below "B" are ideal. Upgrading armor pieces to +3 can also ensure enough defense.
  3. Dual swords or dual halberds are recommended for Aoye as they are fast and allow you to inflict elemental damage on enemies and bosses.
  4. Use weapon martial arts to keep pressure on the boss. Martial arts associated with dual-bladed weapons allow for multi-hit combos that deal a lot of damage in a short amount of time.
  5. Best wizardry spells to use: Fire phase elemental spells are ideal against Aoye. Flame Weapon, Surging Blaze, Burning Flamewave, and Engulfing Inferno are effective.
  6. Hong Jing is a good choice as she can distract the boss and has elemental spells that can either stagger or lure Aoye.
  7. The Frozen Ground attack and flailing attack are two attacks that can be quite damaging if not deflected or dodged. Deflecting while holding block is the best way to avoid them.
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