Monkey King/Guide

Carry
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Ganker
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General

 * Unlike most melee Heroes, Monkey King has an attack range of 300, allowing him to attack other melee opponents without fear of retaliation.
 * Take advantage of Monkey King's ability to hop from tree to tree to retreat into the treeline around the edges of the map whenever he is threatened.
 * More tips needed.


 * Boundless Strike will crit off of the damage from Jingu Mastery. Save Boundless Strike for afterwards to deal incredible damage in the early game.
 * Boundless Strike's damage depends entirely on Monkey King's basic damage, so building up high damage and agility items will tremendously increase the spell's damage output.
 * Increasing levels in Boundless Strike only increases the duration of the stun by 0.5 seconds per point. It may be wise to invest just a single point in this skill for the purpose of interrupting abilities if your team has other heroes with disabling capabilities.
 * Boundless Strike's crit multiplier is not significant until Monkey King has more damage.
 * Use Boundless Strike to hit enemies through trees, high ground, and other obstacles.
 * Use Boundless Strike right after jumping on an enemy with Primal Spring to deal burst damage.
 * Because of its long cooldown, Boundless Strike should be used carefully.
 * Boundless Strike can be used to scout into the Roshan pit.
 * Even when retreating with low health, Monkey King can turn around and land another Boundless Strike to help his allies.
 * More tips needed.


 * Tree Dance has no mana cost as well as a very low cooldown. Use this ability to bypass cliffs and transverse across the map quickly.
 * Tree Dance is placed on cooldown whenever Monkey King takes player-based damage, similar to the mechanics of, making it near impossible to use as an escape mechanism once Monkey King is engaged in combat.
 * While perched in a tree, activating Tree Dance again will highlight nearby trees that are within range of being perched from your current tree with a soft aura.
 * Enemies require flying vision in order to target Monkey King while he is perched in a tree.
 * However, when Monkey King jumps from one tree to another, he can be seen and targeted as if he were on the ground.
 * Monkey King is disarmed while perched, but he is able to use items and his skills without restriction. For example he can use TP scroll or place a wards.
 * Be wary of opponents with items and abilities that can destroy trees, such as and . If Monkey King is perched on top of a tree while it is destroyed, he will be stunned for 4 seconds, which would almost guarantee your demise.
 * More tips needed.


 * This ability cannot be canceled by Monkey King. If the channeling is stopped by Monkey King, he will still cast the spell for a smaller amount of damage.
 * Use Primal Spring as an emergency escape ability.
 * Primal Spring's large particle effect is easily seen by enemies. Make sure Monkey King and his team can follow up after jumping.
 * More tips needed.


 * Save up Jingu Mastery charges for ganking, or before a teamfight.
 * Charge Jingu Mastery on a creep before heading into a fight.
 * More tips needed.


 * Use Mischief at the beginning of the game to transform into an, allowing you to run at 350 speed without any boots.
 * Mischief makes it very difficult to track down Monkey King when juking in trees, especially at the edges of the map.
 * Do not move when transformed unless absolutely necessary, as this will give away Monkey King's disguise.
 * More tips needed.


 * Soldiers from Wukong's Command do not benefit from Jingu Mastery and do not add to the counter of an enemy hero.
 * More tips needed.

Items
Starting items:
 * helps Monkey King stay in lane.
 * can save Monkey King in a pinch.
 * protects Monkey King from lane harassment.

Early-game items:
 * provides a decent early game stats boost.
 * helps Monkey King hit harder, and can be built later into a.
 * helps Monkey King get runes, which he can reach easily by jumping through trees.

Core items:
 * allow Monkey King to catch up to opponents
 * makes it much easier for Monkey King to get Jingu Mastery stacks. Not only due to the double hit, but the slow is very helpful as well. Very good first pick-up.
 * 's active slow helps Monkey King gank. His soldiers from Wukong's Command can also proc attack modifiers.
 * increases the damage done by Monkey King significantly as he is based mainly around physical damage.
 * is useful for ganking with four Jingu Mastery charges, and can be used to escape or to stay inside of Wukong's Command.

Situational items:
 * helps Monkey King build up his Jingu Mastery charges without being interrupted.
 * gives Monkey King more survivability and very slowing effect to help land the multiple hits needed to charge Jingu Mastery.
 * builds into as well as gives Monkey King more survivability earlier on.
 * helps Monkey King lock down his opponents. His soldiers from Wukong's Command can also proc the bash modifier.
 * allows Monkey King to hold enemies down long enough to get Jingu Mastery stacks.
 * is the logical upgrade of, and can be used to stay inside of Wukong's Command without risking death.
 * gives massive attack speed bonus to help Monkey King stack Jingu Mastery charges faster. Moon shard can be consumed later to be replaced by other items which grant attack speed and more utility, such as an or.
 * grants extra attack speed, and its Chain Lightning be procced by the soldiers from Wukong's Command.