Wukong - W

LeagueOfLayton·Aug 12, 2017·2 votes·443 views

Thoughts on putting a small blink similar to Akali's W on Wukong's W?

5 Comments

Lost RAug 12, 20172 votes

No. The entire point of the Decoy is to trick you briefly into attacking the wrong thing (or even pretending to be the decoy to throw off the enemy temporarily). I mean, it'd be rather stupid and counterproductive if Shaco's decoy stood out from the original.

LeagueOfLaytonAug 12, 20171 votes

I feel like Wukong's W is used as more than just a body for people to attack for a second or two, people use it to escape and engage as well, and what I'm trying to say is that his W should teleport him a small distance(not anything too far) towards your cursor, like Akali's does now, not for it to have a telltale sign of the W being a clone.

Lost RAug 12, 20171 votes

So it'd be mechanically exactly like Shaco's cloak?

Once again I'll say no, especially because Wukong already has a dash for his engage. A blink on the cloak would increase the effective range of his engage, which treads on dangerous grounds when he is the kind of champion that dumps all of his skills on the enemy at the same time AND benefits heavily from Sheen items and the Black Cleaver and Dead Man's Plate AND is one of the best crowd brawlers in the game. It gives him even more stealth nuking capabilities that he definitely doesn't need, and trying to rebalance all of that just to give him a blink (presumably so he can go over walls, which would be ever more problematic for balancing) is completely unnecessary.

LeagueOfLaytonAug 12, 20171 votes

You say this is completely unnecessary yet in higher ELO games Wukong fails to do as well due to warding and the enemy team playing safely regardless of the MS buffs you can get from items, I don't believe giving him the ability to just barely w over walls is as game breaking as you think, Akali is also champ that's supposed to be all-in yet she got a blink on her cloak when she already had a ridiculously large gap closer, strong sustain, and a strong AoE ability(that gets a 60% CDR Reduction on kills) which brought her from the shadow-realm into relevancy. This would do the same for Wukong I believe, not "break" him.