Uploaded December 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Speed tech marches on.
Long story short, Xiahou Yuan's regular air attack is buggy. If you do it while having a decent base speed and some Agility on your weapon, then leave L-stick neutral during the attack, Xiahou Yuan will get some glitched momentum and he will start zipping around at a high speed.
Done optimally, this movement rivals Benkei's speed digging. It's just a pity that the optimal timing for this movement is nearly impossible to get consistently. You got to hold L-stick for just long enough to get a running jump, then let go before starting the air attack. And after jumping, doing the air attack too early or late squanders some of the potential speed you could gain from it.
One final oddity to consider is the "momentum exploit" that most Dynasty characters have in this game: they tend to get a very high base speed for just a few frames after they start running from a stop. If you jump during these few frames, your speed boost during the jump becomes that much more potent as well.
So, getting perfect speed all the time is TAS-only, but even when performed poorly this movement tactic shines in the original WO3 where Benkei speed digging is not available. It works surprisingly well even with a base Xiahou Yuan without a boosted speed or Agility on weapon, so it will be an important movement tactic in many different categories, I would imagine.
On PS4, this movement tactic suffers from the same limitation as Benkei's speed digging: you cannot get the glitched speed all the time. The game has to be "lagging" for that to happen, and it can't always be relied on. I heard from Illayaya that Benkei speed boosting works everywhere on the PS3 version of WO3U, and the same seems to be true for this movement tactic as well, so that's one advantage the PS3-port of this game has.
Overall, this is currently the fastest or second fastest movement tactic in the original WO3, tightly competing with horse musou boosting.
Speed tech marches on.
Long story short, Xiahou Yuan's regular air attack is buggy. If you do it while having a decent base speed and some Agility on your weapon, then leave L-stick neutral during the attack, Xiahou Yuan will get some glitched momentum and he will start zipping around at a high speed.
Done optimally, this movement rivals Benkei's speed digging. It's just a pity that the optimal timing for this movement is nearly impossible to get consistently. You got to hold L-stick for just long enough to get a running jump, then let go before starting the air attack. And after jumping, doing the air attack too early or late squanders some of the potential speed you could gain from it.
One final oddity to consider is the "momentum exploit" that most Dynasty characters have in this game: they tend to get a very high base speed for just a few frames after they start running from a stop. If you jump during these few frames, your speed boost during the jump becomes that much more potent as well.
So, getting perfect speed all the time is TAS-only, but even when performed poorly this movement tactic shines in the original WO3 where Benkei speed digging is not available. It works surprisingly well even with a base Xiahou Yuan without a boosted speed or Agility on weapon, so it will be an important movement tactic in many different categories, I would imagine.
On PS4, this movement tactic suffers from the same limitation as Benkei's speed digging: you cannot get the glitched speed all the time. The game has to be "lagging" for that to happen, and it can't always be relied on. I heard from Illayaya that Benkei speed boosting works everywhere on the PS3 version of WO3U, and the same seems to be true for this movement tactic as well, so that's one advantage the PS3-port of this game has.
Overall, this is currently the fastest or second fastest movement tactic in the original WO3, tightly competing with horse musou boosting.
