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Champion guide

What the Rift Lab holds on this champion: the kit as Riot publishes it, the build the lab reviewed, and the matchups it has documented. Anything the dataset does not record is left out rather than filled in.

In-game title
the Monkey King
Official role
FIGHTER, TANK
Lane
Jungle
Difficulty
Low
Source tier
S

Abilities

Riot's own text for each slot, in the order the champion learns them.

PASSIVE CRUSHING BLOWS

Wukong and his clones' attacks and abilities apply stacks of Crushing Blows. For each stack, Wukong and his clones deal increased damage to the target.

1 GOLDEN STAFF

Passively gives Wukong's next attack bonus range after casting an ability. Wukong's next attack deals additional damage and heals him.

2 WARRIOR TRICKSTER

Wukong becomes Invisible and dashes in a direction, leaving behind a clone that will attack enemies for reduced damage, mimicking Golden Staff and Cyclone.

3 NIMBUS STRIKE

Wukong dashes to a targeted enemy and sends out images to attack enemies near his target, dealing damage to each enemy struck, and grants Wukong a temporary Attack Speed increase.

ULTIMATE CYCLONE

Wukong extends his staff and spins it around repeatedly, gaining Movement Speed. Enemies struck take damage and are knocked up. Cyclone can be recast within a short time window.

Reviewed build

The reviewed purchase order and rune page for this champion. Every entry that has a page of its own is linked to it; an item the catalogue holds no page for is printed as a name rather than pointed at a page that does not exist.

Core build order

  1. Sunfire Aegis
  2. Divine Sunderer
  3. Thornmail
  4. Plated Steelcaps
  5. Goredrinker

Runes

Situational answers

One slot, changed when the enemy team changes the problem. These are answers, not automatic purchases.

Matchups

  • 5reviewed counter links
  • 5reviewed synergy links

Harder matchups

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Ability text and the in-game title follow Riot's official Wild Rift champion pages. The tier letter is the external snapshot shown on the tier list, and the build is the Nexus reviewed snapshot — neither is a win rate.