Why the hell is Wukong in pretty much every big MOBA?

5G8Nri0B54·8/14/2016, 4:50:09 PM·3 votes·9,470 views

He's in Smite, he's in LoL, he's in HoN, and now...he's in DotA2 as well...

And among all those games, it only made sense in Smite.

19 Comments

GaleWinUnleashed8/14/2016, 5:11:23 PM7 votes

Because Journey to the West is easy to draw inspiration from, and there's no pesky copyright laws to get in the way.

Indelibrius8/15/2016, 12:39:02 AM5 votes

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Chaotic Reks8/14/2016, 4:58:21 PM3 votes

He's a tribute to Harambe

SkyblazeHydraX38/15/2016, 2:08:52 AM1 votes

Son Wukong is a public domain character, meaning anyone and everyone can use their own interpretation of him as they see fit.

Combine that with his story and vast array of abilities, that means there's almost no shortage of different ways to integrate him into a game while still keeping him relatively unique.

Requiemsfire8/15/2016, 7:44:33 AM1 votes

and Warframe which isn't really a MOBA but he is one of the Warframes :P

Darkslayer858/15/2016, 10:23:24 AM1 votes

item 1056 Am I the only one who gets Wukongs who buy 6 of these for 300% mana regen and they just dash big slap and go invsible? I hate it.

ZambieKillah8/14/2016, 4:52:36 PM1 votes

but wukong is a monkey king you cant dis da king and wukong is one of my favorite top laners and I play all those games so I think if 1 game removed dat monkey the fans would not like it at all

KevTheToast6/1/2017, 7:18:49 AM1 votes

WOW THAT NECRO THOUGH

in other news, he's also in paragon now

xXI3ADI3OYXx8/14/2016, 4:53:52 PM1 votes

HOTS too i believe... lol

Catastrop8/14/2016, 5:17:04 PM1 votes

There's a Wukong in Dota 2?