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Stop building Wukong Tank

DesmondKaii·6/17/2015, 6:17:33 AM·4 votes·1,188 views

Let us be clear THIS GUY is not a tank, stop building him like one.

Obviously I main Wukong. Wukong is not a tank, he is a damage dealer. Stop building him with 3 tank items or even full tank, its horrible. I Personally play wukong as a midlane assasisn, never top / jungle bruiser for the following reasons.

1. The AD scaling on his ult is insane

Even without your Q + E, your ult has insane scaling at all stages in the game, you can literally 100-0 entire teams with a well placed and timed Wukong ult. Use your W from the fog of war to engage, flash if you need to. E + Q who you want to die first, then watch was your primary target is deleted instantly, and the rest of their team is at 30% wondering wtf just happened and why you do so much damage.

2. Tank Wukong does nothing after his ult is done

Just a fact. After your ult is done the only thing you can really offer your team is an armor reduction on your Q, no more CC or even slows, you are essentially a tank at this point.

3. Wukong's passive combined with offensive item auras and dangerous game is more than though to keep him alive

The above is pretty self explanatory.

MY WUKONG BUILDS

Standard

Brutalizer ----> Hydra -----> Mercs -----> LW -----> Cleaver -----> BT

Sell brutalizer lategame for anything you need

VS AP Heavy maw ---> Hydra -----> Mercs -----> LW -----> Cleaver -----> Murcurial Scepter

Upgrade hex to maw late game

VS AD Heavy I somtimes substite BT for

8 Comments

All Day Tay Tay6/17/2015, 10:58:29 AM4 votes

fact: ppl play bruiser wukong, which is a mix of full ad and tank

YumaS2Astral6/17/2015, 6:43:56 AM1 votes

Obviously a full tank Wukong will not work, but bruiser Wukong with 3 damage items is perfectly viable and in fact I think that it's better than full damage Wukong.

Why? Because Wukong is squishy, has to be on the middle of enemy team to do damage, vulnerable to be bursted and killed, he needs to go tanky to be able to survive and actually do damage. For the most part, 2 AD items are enough, you usually don't need to build that much damage especially when you already have a squishy mid laner and a squishy ADC that are dealing most of the damage.

Yes the AD scaling on MonkeyKing 's ult is insane, but the AP scaling on 's ult is insane too, and is instant. Yet do you see anyone building him full AP? (Not that it can't work, but Tank Malphite is much more effective).

TehNACHO6/17/2015, 6:47:29 AM1 votes

CDR Tank Wukong is pretty balling.

4.8 second targeted gap closer, and because of the Attack Speed steroid, Wukong starts leaning towards a Raid Boss styled gameplay. 3 second Spell Blade procs make Trinity Force or Frozen Mallet extremely useful (hey look, big, damaging, aoe slows). Goes really well with the Black Cleaver as a whole.

Full damage Wukong has its uses, yes. The problem is however is as with any burst based damage dealer, falling behind is complete shit. Wukong still has his ult's knock up, sure, but a pure damage Wukong that has fallen behind quite frankly isn't going to be doing that much damage. Might as well suck it in and use CDR Tank Wukong for both the better reliability and taking advantage of the 54 second cooldown on his ult.

buster kiton6/17/2015, 9:55:05 AM1 votes

You know, it's better to be able to live against an adc for over 2 seconds, applying pressure and zoning carries than dying every time somebody uses oracle-trinket-thingy. Bruiser wukong can still kill carries rather easily, can provide armor shred for his team and can peel and zone better than a squish-kong.

Sasogwa6/17/2015, 11:10:00 AM1 votes

Why would your opinion be better than others? How about utility AOE armorshred bruiser wukong? Like, item 3725 item 3071 item 3143 item 3102 item 3110 item 3111 I'm sure this would be fairly decent. He can also setup nice Orianna ults for instance

ninjaIRL 9/28/2015, 12:52:26 PM1 votes

Tank Wukong is bad but I do it if no one else in the team is listening to me, "WE NEED A FUCKING TANK, JESUS!"

BeatzBoyFTW6/17/2015, 6:36:20 AM1 votes

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Let us be clear THIS GUY is not a tank, stop building him like one.

Obviously I main Wukong. Wukong is not a tank, he is a damage dealer. Stop building him with 3 tank items or even full tank, its horrible. I Personally play wukong as a midlane assasisn, never top / jungle bruiser for the following reasons.

Wth, so you can play him mid, but we can't build him tank? It's like people autolocking my lane even after I called it, and he has a problem with me picking Darius jungle. Fyi, even pro teams played Fizz summoner 11 summoner 12 full tank in the LCS.

My point? Not every champion has to be restricted to just the one build path. Every types of builds has its own ups & downs, and you wont be expecting to be fighting the same champ over & over again.

WarlockLaw9/28/2015, 12:59:21 PM1 votes

Honestly black cleaver and brutalizer are really all you need for damage. Also if you take wukong mid you can somewhat justify glass cannon but in top lane you should definitely be planning on picking up a tank item or two, same goes for jungle.