Who do you like better: Xiahou Dun or Xiahou Yuan?

[grand master of san guo]

i think dun didnt got higher rank level than yuan. but yuan got killed to earliy

[SoSZ Patch 0506C]

I like Dun better. Mainly cuse the guy ate his own eye.

[Russ]

I was never fond of Yuan. I like Dun better.

[Chao Tzu Lung1]

Xiahou DUn sacrifice for his eye & devotion & loyalty to Cao Cao is surpassed by none in the Wei Empire, Dun is the Man,Yuan was a good general, but not one of my favorites

[TheGreatNads]

Xiahou Dun was an awful general. Xiahou Yuan sucked too, but he at least won a battle.

[Shao]

dun is too popular than yuan.

[Humble Fisherman]

I think the point in the book where I lost a great deal of respect for Xiahou Yuan was when Ma Chao was attacking Governor Wei Kang in Jicheng.

Wei Kang sent missives to Xiahou Yuan in Changan for aid, but Xiahou Yuan would not act without the advice of his lord.

Some might call this loyalty, but I think it shows Xiahou Yuan wasn't a self starter. One could only assume that had Ma Chao been stopped sooner, it would have been a tremendous boon to Cao Cao's cause, and it's highly doubtful that Cao Cao would have told Yuan not to send troops in any event (in fact, he eventually did arrive when Ma Chao had moved on to fight Yang Fu with his borrowed forces).

So, though he may have been a formidable warrior, I'm slightly turned off of Yuan for the simple reason that I believe he did not act when it was necessary, and could not make his own decisions.

[Cao Ren]

I like Dun better, so what if he didnt win any battles, he showed excellant leadership and great bravery, Yuan showed little and was indecisive, his loss at Hanzhong just tops him off

[Kingdom of Cheng]

I like Xiahou Dun way better

[waynethegame]

Xiahou Dun, definatly. Xiahou Yuan is cool, but... he has issues. Didn't it say somewhere that he really, really enjoyed killing people? Even in Ancient China, that's a little much I think, since I'd imagine most of the killing was done (unless you happen to be Dong Zhuo or any of his gang e.g. Li Jue, Guo Si, etc) because you had no choice, not because you enjoyed doing it. Yuan sounds like a sadist to me.

Plus, in the TV series he looked like an idiot at Mt. Ding Jun. Come to think of it, in the series he was very ratty-looking and weak. Didn't look threatening at all.