Wukong Passive Rework Idea
In my opinion, Wukong's kit is surprisingly fun for its simplicity. Personally, I would not like to see a full rework of this champions kit, It has enjoyable unique elements and a fair amount of depth to it. I think that if we adjust his boring passive into something more interesting and thematic, we could have a very fun champion with an old-school style kit.
===New Passive Idea===
**Trickery: ** Wukong may cast a mimicked basic ability that has 4 or less seconds of cooldown remaining. The mimicked ability has adjusted qualities, costs 40 mana and does not effect the real abilities cooldown. (Passive cooldown is equal to the mimicked abilities cooldown plus 2 seconds)
**Mimicked Crushing Blow (Q): ** Wukong gains the bonus range, auto-reset, and applies the armor pen. (No bonus damage, armor pen does not stack ) **Mimicked Decoy (W): ** Wukong creates the decoy and gains 1.5 seconds of stealth. (No decoy damage) **Mimicked Nimbus Strike (E): ** Wukong dashes towards a targeted enemy. (No damage or attack speed)
_ Visually, the mimicked abilities look identical to his real abilities_
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I think this new passive could add a lot more creativity and deception to Wukong's kit. The design of the passive tries to avoid adding more burst to wukong's kit (with the acceptation of the auto-reset) and instead focuses on giving Wukong more creative options to mess with his opponent. Wukong can use mimicked Q for small bonus damage or as "ranged" poke, mimicked W for stealth and dodging, and mimicked E for more mobility. Additionally, since the mimicked abilities look identical to his real abilities, Wukong can potentially use this passive to trick his opponent into thinking key cooldowns have been exhausted.
This passive also introduces a new layer of timing to laning as Wukong. For example: the player could wait until his E is less than a second off cooldown, then jump to the minion then jump again to the opponent (This could be problematic / too powerful, but it is counter-able if you pay attention to when Wukong's abilities are coming up). Another example of a timing based combo could be waiting until your Q is nearly just off cooldown, then E'ing in, into mimicked Q (for armor pen) followed by the real Q (which JUST came off cooldown), dealing a little more damage than usual because the armor pen will be applied before the Q bonus damage hits.
Personally I think that a passive like this is very fitting on a deception champion like Wukong, without being gimmicky. The passives cooldown scales with the chosen ability so mimicked W (Decoy) won't be super obnoxious. The scaling cooldown also promotes players to mimic different abilities as its cooldown will never be up before the abilities 2nd rotation.
**Thanks for reading, tell me what you think! < 3 **
