I think Wukong's W decoy animation spasm should be fixed.

ninjaIRL ··1 votes·626 views

It's been like that since his release and I think it undermines the basic theme of his W, decoy ability, to fool opponents into thinking it's the real Wukong. Want it should be when using the ability is a smooth animation transmission between the real Wukong and the decoy so that experienced enemy players can't easily distinguish this. I know that one way to circumvent this is to utilise brush so that you can hide the animation spasm but we shouldn't have to do that.

Obviously this would be a massive buff to MonkeyKing players in Gold+ (who can instantaneously tell when the decoy has been used) especially during the lane phase where it's arguably more important to have that extra "champion" in surviving against stronger top laners such as Darius, Maokai, Tryndamere, Riven, Garen, etc - so for compensation the decoy duration and the invisibility duration should be be nerfed to something similar to 1.4 seconds.

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Meep Man1 votes

But then you couldn't fool someone by pressing S to instantly stop. Also the decoy duration is 1.5 seconds right now. Thats a 0.1 second nerf.

ninjaIRL 1 votes

You'd be surprised how much 0.1 changes can affect gameplay. This makes him travel noticeably less before he gets seen. Decoy disappears faster if Caitlyn/Ashe/Jinx ultimates are trying to be body blocked, etc.

BeatzBoyFTW1 votes

If that happen, people can just hit S to trick enemies instead of wasting mana with W.

ninjaIRL 1 votes

That's risky because these exist: Rengar RekSai item 3362 item 2043 item 3364

He has plenty of counter play. Makes it easier to catch him after invisibility if you slow him, or use lock on CC.

Pretty much the top tier SoloQ top laners in league right now has a really easy time laning against Wukong, which is his weakest stage of the game. Darius, is still hard to beat, even more so now that he can heal up at least 12% of his missing health when he gets bursted. Garen is still as tanky as he was early game but now packs more damage and a semi-situational true damage execute.

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