General

• In this Bonus Update we will be nerfing a lot of the top SPL picks in every role. Junglers had their items nerfed instead, but every other class will be seeing nerfs to the top 2 gods. Sun Wukong has steadily risen in performance throughout the year due to some direct buffs and meta shifts. He can dish out a lot of damage while also being extremely evasive for a Warrior. We are taking down the top-end damage on his ult to bring him in line with the rest of the class.

Somersault Cloud

• Decreased Physical Power Scaling from 120% to 100%

General

• The Monkey King has seen a few flickers of strength this Season, but they are usually short lived. Wukong focuses on lane bullying in the early game and then being exceedingly mobile in the late game. To help his core gameplay without pushing him over the top, he is seeing two buffs. First we are adding some quality of life buffs to make sure his passive is effective. Next we are making 72 Transformations more of a 1 point wonder, allowing him to invest in Master's Will and keep up the pressure.

Undefeated Body

• Increased % HP where his passive triggers from 40% to 50%.
• Increased the duration of his passive self buff if he heals above 50% HP from 10s to 12s.

72 Transformations

• Increased Tiger Stun from 1/1.1/1.2/1.3/1.4s to 1.4s at all ranks.

General

• Everyone loves a good Sun Wukong buff. This Warrior is mobile and evasive, but struggles to make an impact on larger team fights. Master's Will is gaining a new component and will now slow the attack speed of enemies hit by it. We are also increasing the damage Somersault Cloud deals, as it was much lower than most Warrior ultimates. These two changes should encourage Sun Wukong to fight to the bitter end of each engagement.

Master's Will

• This ability now applies an attack speed slow along with the movement speed slow.

Somersault Cloud

• Increased Damage from 200/250/300/350/400 to 200/275/350/425/500.

General

• The Monkey King returns in this update! Sun Wukong excels at poking enemies and being evasive, but he has lacked the power to compete in today's solo lane meta. His passive kind of conflicts with his Ultimate, causing him to lose his own buff. This will no longer be the case. Sun Wukong will now be encouraged to dive back into the fight after ulting, where he will be able to continue enjoying the benefits of his passive as well as increased damage on Master's Will.

Undefeated Body

• This effect now persists for 10s after gaining health above the threshold.

Master's Will

• Increased base damage 90/140/190/240/290 to 90/145/200/255/310.

General

• Sun Wukong has traditionally cycled between oppressing the Meta or not being relevant to it. Looking back on previous changes we want to bring some strengths to his kit without overdoing it. The Magic Cudgel is getting a slight boost to its overall clear strength.

The Magic Cudgel

• Increased Bonus Damage to Minions and Jungle Camps from 25% to 30%.

Master's Will

• Decreased Cooldown from 12s to 10s.

72 Transformations

• Increased Damage of Ox form 50/90/130/170/210 to 70/105/140/175/210.

General

• The Monkey King was a force to be reckoned with in early Season 4. After a few cooldown nerfs he quickly fell out of favor. His Magic Cudgel has become quite underwhelming with the loss of Bluestone Pendant and with conquest minions becoming harder to kill. We are increasing the base damage on this (and thus the damage to minions) as well as reducing the mana cost to make SWK able to stand up to the common solo lane opponents.

The Magic Cudgel

• Increase base damage from 80/120/160/200/240 to 90/130/170/210/250.
• Decreased mana cost from 50/60/70/80/90 to 50/55/60/65/70.

General

• Sun Wukong's strength comes from his ability to harass and trade often with little fear of retaliation, especially with a tanky cooldown reduction item like Breastplate of Valor. Magic Cudgel and Master's Will are both seeing Cooldown increases which will limit Sun Wukong's ability to constantly pressure his opponents. Sun Wukong will now need to be more careful of when to use these abilities during a fight.
• Decreased Base Movement Speed from 375 to 370.

The Magic Cudgel

• Increased cooldown from 10s to 12s.

Master's Will

• Increased cooldown from 10s to 12s.

Somersault Cloud

• Updated the description of this Ability with the correct Radius for this Ability.

General

• The Monkey King has long been a solid pick, but didn't bring enough to the table to finish out a game. We are increasing the Physical Power scaling he gets on two of his core abilities. Similar to the changes we made to Osiris in 4.3 , this should open up Sun Wukong's build paths and allow him to be more effective during the mid and late stages of the game.

Magic Cudgel

• Increased Physical Power Scaling from 50% -> 60%.

Master's Will

• Increased Physical Power Scaling from 50% -> 65%.

General

• Sun Wukong has hit the gym and is ready to show off his new Undefeated Body. Instead of providing Critical Strike chance, while at low Health, Sun Wukong receives raw Physical Power, allowing him to better fight at low Health. Additionally, Somersault Cloud has increased Base Damage, allowing players who sacrifice the healing from the ultimate to use it more aggressively.

Undefeated Body

• Increased Health Threshold for the effect from 35% -> 40%.
• No longer grants Critical Strike chance.
• Now provides 10 Physical Power + 2 Physical Power per Level.

Somersault Cloud

• Damage increased from 140/190/240/290/340 -> 200/250/300/350/400.

General

• Sun Wukong was struggling to box efficiently in the very early stages of the game. By bring his base health up slightly we should see him more capable of standing toe to toe with his lane opponents.
• Base Health increased from 450 to 470

General

• Sun Wukong is often seen as a bully in lane, having strong poke power and wave clear. These changes should reduce his ability to take return fire, while increasing the cost of pushing during the laning phase.
• Reduced starting Health from 480 -> 450.

The Magic Cudgel

• Increased Mana cost from 50/55/60/65/70 -> 50/60/70/80/90.

Master's Will

• Increased Mana cost from 50 -> 60.

72 Transformations

• Fixed an issue where quick casting would not work for the Eagle transformation.

The Magic Cudgel

• Increased bonus Minion and Jungle camp damage from +20% to +25%.

Master's Will

• Increased damage from 80/130/180/230/280 to 90/140/190/240/290.

72 Transformations

• Increased Tiger Stun duration from 0.6/0.8/1.0/1.2/1.4 to 1.0/1.1/1.2/1.3/1.4.

Somersault Cloud

• Added timer on the ground targeter indicating when the ability will expire and Sun Wukong will be forced to land.

Somersault Cloud

• Fixed Decoy not being instantly killed by Banish and Knockups/backs.

Somersault Cloud

• Fixed not being able to cast when up against a wall.
• Fixed not dealing damage to jungle camps when landing.

General

• Added minion hit reactions to The Magic Cudgel, Master's Will, and Somersault Cloud.
• Updated the Dark Lord skin to play additional voice lines that were missing.

The Magic Cudgel

• This ability now does an extra +20% damage to minions and jungle camps.

General

• Fixed Dark Lord skin to no longer T-Pose while doing taunts and laughs.

Somersault Cloud

• Fixed an issue which caused jumping from your cloud onto an enemy to activate the CC protections of Magi's Blessing.

Master's Will

• Cooldown decreased from 12 to 10s.
• Mana cost reduced from 60/70/80/90/100 to 50 at all ranks

General

• Added missing sound effects to Dark Lord skin in the lobby.

General

• Attack Speed per level reduced from 1.87 to 0.9.
• In-Hand Power per Level reduced from 2.25 to 2.

The Magic Cudgel

• Base damage reduced from 90/140/190/240/290 to 80/120/160/200/240.

Master's Will

• This ability no longer causes knockback and interrupt, but instead slows 30% for 2s.

General

• Corrected a Basic Attack tooltip error.

72 Transformations

• Eagle form no longer provides knockup Immunity, but still provides slow and root immunity.

The Magic Cudgel

• Reduced mana cost somewhat from 50/60/70/80/90 to 50/55/60/65/70.

The Magic Cudgel

• Mana cost now scales with level. Now costs 50/60/70/80/90 instead of 50 flat for all ranks.

Master’s Will

• Reduced knock up strength slightly. Approx 1.25 > .75 seconds of knock up.

Undefeated Body

• Reduced the health threshold at which the protection and critical strike bonuses apply from 50% to 35%.

Somersault Cloud

• Cooldown increased from 90s at all ranks to 110/105/100/95/90s.

Undefeated Body

• Passive protections reduced from 20 + 1 per level to 10 + 1 per level.

72 Transformations

• Changed the cooldown from 15s to 18/17/16/15/14 per rank.

Somersault Cloud

• The Decoy will now be destroyed immediately if hit by a stun, taunt, fear, mez, or disorient.
• Fixed an issue where Sun Wukong would sometimes be immune to crowd control for the rest of the match.
• Fixed an issue where Sun Wukong’s Decoy now inherits the chosen skin choice.
• Fixed an issue where the decoy name plate would fly around on the map.

General

• Fixed an issue where Sun Wukong would be rooted after using Somersault Cloud.
• Fixed an issue where using tier 3 of Purification Beads was completely resetting the cooldown on 72 Transformations.
• Fixed an issue where Minotaur stops attacking Sun Wukong's decoy during his ultimate and instead remains focused on the invulnerable Sun Wukong on the cloud.
• Fixed an issue where Sun Wukong's decoy would appears as Sun Wukong Decoy when using the game configuration option to “Show God Names”.
• Fixed an issue where killing Sun Wukong's Decoy would count towards god kill stacks.

Fleet Footed (Passive)

• Movement speed is increased by 10%.

Year of the Monkey

• Fear duration is 1/1.25/1.5/1.75/2s.

Furious Monkey

• Physical power scaling has been reduced from 110% to 70% per hit.

Furious Monkey

• Range of the bounces for rank 1 of this ability was shorter than the other ranks. This is now fixed.

General

• Old Sun Wukong
• Overhand Smash: This ability no longer goes on cooldown when it is cancelled by crowd control abilities.

Year of the Monkey

• Sun Wukong no longer pogo’s during his ultimate