Wukong/Abilities

Passive

 Wukong has learned five techniques to avoid death whenever he takes fatal damage. Wukong will be randomly allowed 3 of these techniques per mission to avoid death 3 times. Each technique will make Wukong avoid entering bleedout upon taking fatal damage, invulnerable for 2 seconds, restore 50% health, and provide a unique buff.

• Primal Forces: 300% elemental damage for 60 seconds.
• Heavenly Cloak: Invisibility for 30 seconds.
  • Invisibility does not reveal Wukong when he attacks.
• Cosmic Armour: Invulnerable for 30 seconds.
  • Invulnerability is removed when entering and exiting Operator form (bug).
• Monkey Luck: Enemies killed yield extra loot drops for 60 seconds.
  • Stacks with other loot abilities that loot while alive ( Ivara's  Prowl), loot while petrified ( Atlas's  Ore Gaze), and loot corpse ( Nekros's  Desecrate and Chesa Kubrow's  Retrieve). However, it does not stack with other loot on death abilities ( Hydroid's  Pilfering Swarm and  Khora's  Pilfering Strangledome).
• Sly Alchemy: Orbs 4x more effective for 60 seconds.
• All passive values are not affected by Mods.
• When the passive activates, the three randomly selected buffs are briefly displayed as buff icons at the top center part of the HUD. Passive buff icons and timers are displayed beside the shield and health bars.
• These passive buffs cannot be dispelled even if Wukong's abilities becomes disabled, such as falling out of bounds or crossing a Nullifier bubble.

Abilities 

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	1 25	Celestial Twin Shedding part of himself, Wukong creates a twin to fight by his side. Attack at range and the twin will melee, pull a blade and the twin will lay down covering fire. Use again to command the twin to attack a target with increased damage. Introduced in Update 25.2 (2019-06-19)	Strength:1.5 / 1.6 / 1.75 / 2 x (health multiplier)
			Duration:N/A
			Range:N/A
			Misc: ∞ (twin lifespan) 0.5 x (damage multiplier) 3 x (mark damage multiplier) ? m (twin recall range)

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Info

• Wukong expends 25 energy to split himself into two corporeal forms, creating a loyal Specter armed with all of his weapons. Celestial Twin attracts enemy attention as he follows Wukong, attacks with either gun or melee dependent on the player's currently held weapon, and has a damage multiplier of 0.5x and a health multiplier of 1.5 / 1.6 / 1.75 / 2x. The twin remains at Wukong's side indefinitely until killed or manually dispelled at any time by holding down the ability key (default 1 ).
  • Twin Warframe and weapons stats are affected by Wukong's equipped Mods.
    • Will not utilize Galvanized mod kill bonuses, as the bonus is tied to a buff only players can get.
  • Health multiplier affects both the health and shields of the twin.
  • Celestial Twin specter AI is designed to aggressively attack nearby enemies while also staying close to Wukong's proximity. It will not attempt to parry enemy attacks with its melee weapon, and will also frequently teleport to reposition near Wukong.
  • Celestial Twin will have swirling aura around his body, affected by energy color.
• While active, Wukong can command his twin to prioritize a target on the aiming reticle by tapping the ability key (default 1 ), leaving a mark above the target for no energy cost. Once commanded, the twin will seek and destroy the target, with a damage multiplier of 3x.
  • The twin will teleport to his mark if it cannot reach the target after several attempts.
• Celestial Twin will cycle its weapons depending on Wukong's equipped weapon, if he has them equipped in his arsenal.
  • If Wukong wields a primary or secondary weapon, or an Archgun called down by an Archweapon Deployer, the twin will use a melee weapon.
    • Twin only uses the default/neutral combo of a melee's stance.
    • If Wukong has no melee weapon but has both a primary and secondary weapon, the twin will only use the primary weapon.
    • If Wukong is dual-wielding a one-handed secondary weapon with a Glaive weapon, the twin will only use the Glaive, and as a melee weapon. The twin will never throw the Glaive.
  • If Wukong wields a melee weapon, the twin will use Wukong's last primary or secondary weapon equipped prior to switching.
    • If Wukong has a one-handed secondary weapon and a Glaive equipped, then wields only the melee weapon, the twin will still use Wukong's last primary or secondary weapon equipped prior to switching. If this weapon was the secondary weapon, the twin will visually dual-wield the Glaive and secondary weapon, but will only use the secondary weapon.
  • If Wukong has only one weapon equipped, the twin will use that weapon.
  • On weapons with Alternate Fire, only the primary mode will be used.
  • The twin cannot use an Archgun.
  • The twin is not affected by Sortie weapon restrictions.
  • The twin can trigger weapon-related Warframe Arcanes and Exodia Arcanes, i.e. on critical condition, upon meeting the requirements.
• The Twin shares its ammo reserves with Wukong's and is capable of looting ammo pickups. If it runs out of ammo, it will swap to another gun. If both guns are out of ammo, it will swap to melee while actively searching for ammo pickups.
  • Depleting all ammo reserves displays a red ammunition icon above the Twin's head.
  • Squad Ammo Restores will replenish ammo but only if the player is in range, even if the Twin himself is in range.
• The Twin can be affected by self-stagger.
• If a Celestial Twin crosses a Nullifier bubble, it will not immediately die, but will instead take constant health damage.
  • Wukong himself crossing a Nullifier bubble has no effect on the Twin.
• If a Celestial Twin falls out of bounds, it will immediately die.
• If Wukong's abilities become disabled, such as by the Stalker or falling out of bounds, the twin will immediately die.
  • Equipping Archwing during Landscape mission, which also renders abilities disabled, will kill the twin as well.
• The twin will not be affected by  Stalk or  Ghost, only Wukong will become invisible.
• Ability Synergy:
  • When activating  Cloud Walker, the twin becomes invulnerable to damage and receives its health restore per meter travelled bonus. After Cloud Walker ends, Wukong's twin is teleported to his side instantly.
    •  Enveloping Cloud affects the twin, turning it invisible for its duration.
  • When activating  Defy, the twin will also use Defy, gaining the same increased Threat Level, invulnerability, damage reflection, and armor bonus.
  • When activating  Primal Fury, the twin will also arm itself with the  Iron Staff.
• When using Emotes with a Celestial Twin, the twin will perform the same emote. Wukong can also perform Handshakes with his own twin.
• Triggering the Inactivity Penalty will cause the twin to cease all activity and remain immobile until player activity resumes.
• Kills by the twin are ability kills. Affinity from these go to the warframe, not the weapon that the twin is using.

Augment

Main article: Celestial Stomp

Celestial Stomp is a Warframe Augment Mod for  Wukong that commands his  Celestial Twin to perform a slam attack for 25 Energy when the ability button (default 1 ) is held, suspending nearby enemies in the air.

Celestial Stomp

	2 25	Cloud Walker Evaporate into a cloud of mist and float through the battlefield, dazing any enemy encountered, while healing Wukong and his twin. Introduced in Update 17.12 (2015-11-25)	Strength:0.5% / 0.6% / 0.8% / 1% (health / meter)
			Duration:2 s (cloud duration)
			Range:5 / 6 / 7 / 8 m (stun radius)
			Misc: +300% (movement speed bonus) 100% (status cleanse on cast) 2 s (stun duration)

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Info

• Wukong expends 25 energy to disappear into a cloud, turning Invisible for 2 seconds. In this form, Wukong gains +300% Movement Speed, along with vertical and horizontal flight capabilities using the movement (W A S D ), crouch (Ctrl ), and jump (Spacebar ) hotkeys, similar to Archwing Maneuvers. While traveling in the cloud, Wukong is Invulnerable to damage, cleanses all Status Effects, and restores 0.5% / 0.6% / 0.8% / 1% health per meter travelled. Enemies that come within the cloud's radius of 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 meters are temporarily  Stunned for 2 seconds and opened to Melee Finishers (default X ). Cloud Walker can be manually cancelled by pressing the ability key again (default 2 ) or by attacking.
  • Movement Speed buff is additive to other sources of movement speed such as  Dispatch Overdrive or from infusing  Saryn's  Molt onto Wukong.
    • Buff is not affected by Sprint Speed, such as from  Rush or parkour speed buffs such as  Lightning Dash.
  • Unalerted enemies staggered by Cloud Walker remain unalerted during the stagger animation, and thus can engage Stealth Kill Affinity Bonuses when killed.
• Cloud Walker does not trigger Sensor Bars, Laser Barriers, and Security Cameras, and can pass through Spy defenses without triggering alarms.
• Ability Synergy: When activating Cloud Walker with an active  Celestial Twin, the twin becomes invulnerable to damage and receives its health restore per meter travelled bonus. After Cloud Walker ends, Wukong's twin is teleported to his side instantly.
• Wukong cannot cast other abilities, perform parkour Maneuvers or general interactions while channeling this ability.

Augment

Main article: Enveloping Cloud

Enveloping Cloud is a Warframe Augment Mod for  Wukong's  Cloud Walker that gives allies near the cloud temporary invisibility.

Enveloping Cloud

Tips & Tricks

• An equipped Sentinel with  Vacuum will still collect nearby items and hold onto them for you to collect when Cloud Walker ends.

	3 50	Defy Wukong and his twin become invulnerable and defy enemies to attack. All damage is captured, stored, and dealt back in a single furious strike of Wukong's staff. Bonus Armor is then granted relative to the damage captured. Introduced in Update 17.12 (2015-11-25)	Strength:? / ? / ? / 250 (minimum damage) 4 / 5 / 6 / 7.5 x (damage multiplier) 0.8 / 1 / 1.2 / 1.5 x (armor multiplier)
			Duration:2 s (invulnerability duration) 15 / 18 / 20 / 25 s (armor duration)
			Range:7 / 8 / 10 / 12 m (staff swing radius)
			Misc: -50 % (move speed penalty) 100 % (status cleanse on spin) 50 AP (min. armor bonus) 1,500 AP (armor bonus cap)
			Subsumable to Helminth

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• Wukong expends 50 energy to engage a defiant stance while priming his  Iron Staff, becoming Invulnerable to damage and new Status Effects, increasing his Threat Level to taunt enemies into attacking him, and reducing his Movement Speed by 50% for 2 seconds. Any damage Wukong takes while in this stance is absorbed and multiplied by 4 / 5 / 6 / 7.5, then stored. After the invulnerability period expires, Wukong cleanses himself of any negative Status Effects, spins in place while elongating his staff and deals ? / ? / ? / 250  Impact damage plus the stored damage and  Ragdoll to all enemies within a radius of 7 / 8 / 10 / 12 meters. The spin can be executed earlier by pressing the ability key again (default 3 ) or using melee attack.
• After executing his spin, Wukong gains a variable Armor bonus lasting for 15 / 18 / 20 / 25 seconds or until Defy is recast; Defy armor bonus value depends on the damage absorbed during the taunt, with the stored amount multiplied by 0.8 / 1 / 1.2 / 1.5 times to grant a minimum of 50 armor points, up to a maximum of 1,500 armor points.
  • Armor bonus is removed if Defy is recast before it expires.
  • While the armor bonus is active, a stylized armor bonus counter appears above the ability icons.
• Ability Synergy: When activating Defy with an active  Celestial Twin, the twin engages in Defy, gaining the same increased Threat Level, invulnerability, damage absorption attack, and armor bonus.
• Wukong cannot cast other abilities, perform parkour Maneuvers or general interactions while channeling this ability.
• Subsuming Wukong to the Helminth will offer Defy and its augments to be used by other Warframes.
  • However, Subsumed Defy's armor bonus is capped at 750.

	4 10 +5/s	Primal Fury Summon the Iron Staff and unleash fury. Introduced in Update 17.12 (2015-11-25)	Strength:100 / 125 / 200 / 250 (damage)
			Duration:N/A
			Range:N/A
			Misc: 3.5 m (staff reach)

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Info

• Wukong equips his legendary  Iron Staff as his melee Exalted Weapon. Normal attacks inflict 100 / 125 / 200 / 250 damage within 3.5 meters.
  • Damage is distributed between 68%  Impact damage and 32%  Slash damage.
  • Wall attacks inflict 167 / 208 / 333 / 417 damage.
  • Slide attacks inflict 214 / 267.5 / 428 / 536 damage.
  • Aerial attacks and slam attacks inflict 200 / 250 / 400 / 500 damage, and slam attacks inflict an additional 150  Impact damage within 3 meters.
• Attacks have a 2x critical multiplier, 25% critical chance, and 30% status chance.
• Damage is affected by  Ability Strength and most mods.
  • As an example, with a maxed  Pressure Point,  Shocking Touch and  Intensify, the normal attacks of a rank-3 Primal Fury will deal
    Base Damage × (1 + Damage Mods) × (1 + Elemental Mods) × (1 + Strength Mods) =
    250 × (1 + 1.2) × (1 + 0.9) × (1 + 0.3) = 1,358.5 damage.
  • The mods that affect  Iron Staff include:
    • damage (e.g.,  Steel Charge)
    • physical damage (e.g.,  Jagged Edge)
    • elemental damage (e.g.,  Shocking Touch)
    • faction (e.g.,  Smite Corpus)
    • Critical chance and critical multiplier (e.g.,  True Steel and  Organ Shatter)
    • Status chance (e.g.,  Melee Prowess and  Vicious Frost)
    • Attack speed (e.g.,  Fury and  Berserker Fury)
    • range (e.g.,  Primed Reach)
    • Tennokai (e.g.,  Dreamer's Wrath)
    •  Condition Overload
    •  Drifting Contact
    •  Healing Return
    •  Shattering Impact
      • While officially Set Mod bonuses do not affect Exalted Weapons (with the exception of the Sacrificial Mod Set), the Gladiator Mod Set can still apply if equipped on Melee and not on the Exalted Weapon itself.
  • Each melee attack adds to the Melee Combo Counter while radial damage from slam attacks do not.
  • Iron Staff can not be equipped with weapon augments (e.g.,  Justice Blades), class-specific mods (e.g.,  Covert Lethality), Melee Combo Counter Mods (except  Drifting Contact), Acolyte Mods (e.g.,  Blood Rush), or Amalgam Mods).
  • Riven Mods are not generated for Iron Staff.
  • The combo counter will reset when equipped with  Xoris.
  • Primal Fury's combo counter decay is affected by  Naramon's  Power Spike.
  • Radial damage from slam attacks diminishes with distance, does not have a critical chance, is not affected by the Melee Combo Counter, and will stagger enemies within range.
  • Ground finishers inflict 300% of the total modified damage from normal attacks. Prompted Finishers inflict 2400% of the total modified damage from normal attacks as  True damage.
    • The damage composition of a ground finisher is the same as a modified normal attack.
    • The finisher multipliers for both attacks are affected by  Finishing Touch.
• Ability Synergy: When activating Primal Fury with an active  Celestial Twin, the twin will also equip the Iron Staff.
• Primal Fury costs 10 Energy to activate, then consumes 5 energy per second while active and will remain active until Wukong's energy is depleted, or the ability is deactivated by pressing the ability key again.
  • Activation energy cost is affected by Ability Efficiency, and the energy drain is affected by Ability Efficiency and Ability Duration.
  • Wukong cannot replenish energy using  Energy Vampire,  Rally Point, Rift Plane's innate energy regeneration, Squad Energy Restores,  Energy Siphon,  Energy Nexus,  Dreamer's Bond, and/or  Wellspring while Primal Fury is active.
  • Energy Orbs, Orokin Void Death Orb's energy restores,  Rage,  Hunter Adrenaline,  Spellbound Harvest,  Arcane Energize, and  Emergence Dissipate's Energy Motes can still replenish Wukong's energy while Primal Fury is active.
  • Primal Fury's energy drain is not converted into shields by Augur Mods.
• While Primal Fury is active, Iron Staff is the only melee weapon Wukong can use. However, his other weapons and abilities can still be cast normally.
• Primal Fury comes installed with its own unique stance. Additional combos will be unlocked as Primal Fury increases in rank.
• The ends of Iron Staff have portions made out of energy.
  • These portions are affected by Wukong's energy color.
  • With the range bonus active, these portions are elongated.
• Primal Fury's attacks can damage enemies across the Rift Plane.

Weapon

Main article: Iron Staff

Iron Staff is  Wukong's and  Wukong Prime's signature Exalted Weapon, summoned by activating the ability  Primal Fury. The weapon exclusively uses the Primal Fury stance.

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• This weapon deals primarily  Impact damage.
• Innate and two polarities.
• Combo counter resets when equipped with  Xoris.

Advantages:

• Very high critical chance.
• Highest status chance of all Exalted Melee Weapons.
• Long reach.

Disadvantages:

• Requires energy to activate and keep active.
• Damage isn't affected by the combo counter.
• As an Exalted Weapon, it cannot benefit from, nor contribute to the set bonus of any Set Mods (excluding the Sacrificial Mod Set; the Gladiator Mod Set can still apply if equipped on Warframe, Melee, or Robotic Weapons, and not on the Exalted Weapon itself).
• Cannot equip Melee Combo Counter Mods (except  Drifting Contact), Acolyte Mods (e.g.,  Blood Rush), or Amalgam Mods (e.g.,  Amalgam Organ Shatter).
• Cannot equip Melee Arcane Enhancements.

Stance

Main article: Primal Fury (Stance)

Primal Fury is a unique Stance exclusive to  Iron Staff that can only be acquired and used by activating  Wukong's fourth ability,  Primal Fury. This Stance overrides the Stance on any currently equipped melee weapon for as long as Primal Fury remains active.

Combos

Default Combos of Stance or Weapon (📝 Edit Stance Data)

Combo/Attack	Name	Attack Multipliers and Forced Procs				Avg Dmg Multi/s	Length @ 1.0 Attack Speed	Animation
Neutral (While Not Moving)	Falling Oak Buster	4x 100%	400%	2x 100%    100%   300%    2x 100%		500.0%/s	3.2s
Forward (While Moving)	Spinning Crash Technique	100%	100%	4x 100%	400%   100%	357.1%/s	2.8s
Forward Block (While Blocking & Moving)	Cyclone Lightning Strike	200%	300%			263.2%/s	1.9s
Block (While Blocking)	Rolling Boulder Rush	3x 100%    300%    100%   100%	200%   100%	300%    100%	2x 100%   200%   100%	405.1%/s	4.0s
Heavy (Heavy Attack)	The Way	500%	500%			N / A	N / A
Slide (While Sliding)	Crushing Reach	100%				N / A	N / A
Aerial (While In Air)	Deadly Circle	200%	200%			N / A	N / A
Wall (While Wall Latching)	Guiding Plank	166%				N / A	N / A
Finisher (On Knocked Down Enemy)	Wide Dispatch	1000%				N / A	N / A
Slam (Looking At Ground While In Air)	Slam Attack	300%     100%				N / A	N / A
Default "Sweep" Attack •  360°/Spin Attack •  Direct Slam Attack •  Radial Slam Attack •  Ranged Attack •  "Thrust" Attack View Full Legend Key Inputs  Basic Melee  (PC default LMB or E; XBX, PSN, and NSW default right button)  Heavy Attack (PC default MMB; XBX, PSN, and NSW default left trigger)  Block  (PC default RMB; XBX, PSN, and NSW default right trigger)  Forward Movement  (PC default W; XBX, PSN, and NSW default tilt up right thumbstick) Multipliers and Hits  200%  Attack does double damage   2x 100%  Attack hits twice  Forced Procs  Knockback  Weakened  Bleed  Inaccuracy  Knockdown  Lifted  Stagger  Ragdoll  Finisher (front, back, or ground)   Impair (PvP only)  Melee Attack Explanations A "sweep attack" is an arcing melee strike that intends to hit an enemy with the edge of the blade (the length of obround melee hitbox). A "thrust attack" is a melee strike that intends to hit an enemy with the tip of the blade (the rounded edge of obround melee hitbox). A "360/spin attack" is a sliding sweep attack that hits targets around the player (not always in a 360° arc, but is usually above 180°). A "direct slam attack" is a melee strike that hits a single target at the epicenter of a slam attack. A "radial slam attack" is the area-of-effect component of the melee slam attack. Affected by the Seismic Wave mod. A "ranged attack" is any melee attack that launches a ranged projectile or can hit targets beyond melee range. View Full Legend Average Damage Multiplier per second only applies to single-target DPS calculations. Note that hits marked as "Radial Slam Attack" will not apply at the epicenter of a single target hit so these will not be accounted for in Avg Dmg Multi/s calculations. Combo animation lengths are approximate and are only accurate within a few tenths of a second. Each tile marking in stance preview gifs are 2m apart. Combos labeled with an asterisk (*) are shared between weapons within the same weapon type.

Augment

Main article: Primal Rage

Primal Rage is a Warframe Augment Mod for  Wukong that increases the critical chance of  Primal Fury with every kill, up to a maximum of 150%. The additional critical chance gradually falls off after  Wukong stops killing for 5 seconds.

Primal Rage

Tips & Tricks

• It is preferable to use  Steel Charge over  Growing Power when modding for pure damage as the former adds more damage to Primal Fury than the latter.
  • Even with Steel Charge equipped, using  Power Drift will provide a larger increase in damage than  Coaction Drift.

Bugs

• (Needs further research) At times, Celestial Twin may cease using Iron Staff and default to its normal weapon behavior. Reactivating Primal Fury will not correct this state, though resummoning the Twin might.

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