Power

Power (力, onyomi: Ryoku/Riki, lit. Power/Strength) is a character category introduced in the Warriors Orochi series and represented by the color red. By pressing the R1 button, the player can sacrifice a hefty amount of the character's Musou to perform a powerful special attack (必殺技, Hissatsu Waza, lit. Special Art/Certain Finishing Art), receive a temporary buff, or even both. Their special attacks are usually quite damaging and often come with limited invulnerability while being executed, but they usually use the most amount of musou in one go compared to the other character types.

In the first game, characters who use their R1 special will cause the screen to radiate red light with yellow lightning effects from the character themselves, along with red afterimages trailing the character. A variation the classic Musou attack sound effect also occurs upon initiation. The sequel tones these special effects down, mainly by omitting the red light and yellow lightning effects and replacing them with brief white aura emissions depending on the character's R1 special.

Characters in this class via the Hyper Armor function (ハイパーアーマー, Haipā Āmā) usually will not be interrupted while attacking unless they are hit by powerful attacks, or when facing stronger-ranked enemies. If two or more of these character types perform a Musou Chain together, the next one will automatically activate the Multi attribute.

In the third game, this character type has changed the least. The altered Musou attack sound effect is now shared by all character types' R1 specials.

Characters
Those listed below are power characters.


 * Guan Yu
 * Zhang Fei
 * Ma Chao
 * Xiahou Yuan
 * Xu Zhu
 * Zhang Liao
 * Sun Ce
 * Huang Gai
 * Sun Quan
 * Lu Bu
 * Zhu Rong
 * Meng Huo
 * Dong Zhuo
 * Guan Ping
 * Pang De
 * Fu Xi
 * Nagamasa Azai
 * Kunoichi
 * Goemon Ishikawa
 * Kenshin Uesugi
 * Keiji Maeda
 * Ranmaru Mori
 * Tadakatsu Honda
 * Ieyasu Tokugawa
 * Toshiie Maeda
 * Yoshimoto Imagawa
 * Katsuie Shibata
 * Yoshihiro Shimazu
 * Ginchiyo Tachibana
 * Orochi
 * Kiyomori Taira
 * Orochi X
 * Gyuki
 * Benkei



Warriors Orochi 3
The characters listed below belong to this type. It will only list the new character affiliations.


 * Xiahou Dun
 * Dian Wei
 * Xu Huang
 * Cao Ren
 * Gan Ning
 * Taishi Ci
 * Lu Meng
 * Ding Feng
 * Wei Yan
 * Sima Zhao
 * Deng Ai
 * Xiahou Ba
 * Shingen Takeda
 * Hideyoshi Toyotomi
 * Kiyomasa Katō
 * Muneshige Tachibana
 * Masanori Fukushima
 * Musashi Miyamoto
 * Kojirō Sasaki
 * Nuwa
 * Susano'o
 * Ryu Hayabusa
 * Achilles
 * Rachel
 * Yinglong
 * Sterkenburg Cranach
 * Hundun