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| A powerful staff used by a master warrior. | |||||||||||||
Cost
4975 (675) Bought From
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For the hero, see Monkey King.
The Monkey King Bar is an item purchasable at the Main Shop, under Weapons. However, it can only be completed with items from the Secret Shop.
Ability[]
Notes:
- The proc chances of Pierce from multiple Monkey King Bars do not stack.
- However, Monkey King Bar's pierce works completely independent from Javelin's pierce, fully stacking with it.
- The bonus damage is dealt in one instance together with the attack damage, and counts as attack damage as well.
- Adds an average of 56 magical damage to every attack.
- Pierce uses pseudo-random distribution.
- Attacks which proc Pierce cannot miss.
Recommended Heroes[]
- Heroes whose default item build includes Monkey King Bar as a core item : Windranger, Sniper.
- Heroes whose default item build includes Monkey King Bar as a situational item:
- Strength: Spirit Breaker, Wraith King, Lifestealer, Snapfire.
- Agility: Arc Warden, Bloodseeker, Bounty Hunter, Broodmother, Clinkz, Faceless Void, Gyrocopter, Lone Druid, Luna, Mirana, Pangolier, Phantom Assassin, Shadow Fiend, Troll Warlord, Viper, Weaver.
- Intelligence: Queen of Pain.
- Monkey King Bar is a key item to counter heroes (or items) that have intense evasion: e.g. Phantom Assassin, Windranger, Arc Warden, Brewmaster, and Butterfly.
- Similarly, Monkey King Bar can be purchased to counter some abilities that cause blind: e.g. Smoke Screen, Laser, Blinding Light, and Whirling Axes.
Tips[]
- Monkey King Bar's Pierce works against every form of miss chance, not only evasion. This means it is also a viable pickup when the enemy has sources of blind.
Trivia[]
- The Monkey King, Sun Wukong, is the subject of the Chinese folk novel Journey to the West. His weapon, Ruyi Jingu Bang (如意金箍棒), is a magical iron rod with ends banded with gold. Although it weighs several tons, the Monkey King can change its size at will so he may shrink it and tuck it behind his ear, or grow exponentially and duplicate into an infinite number of individual rods.
- Monkey King's default weapon model is a Monkey King Bar.
Recent Changes[]
Main Article: Monkey King Bar/Changelogs
Version
Description
- Increased attack speed bonus from 35 to 45.
- Reduced attack damage bonus from 42 to 40.
- Pierce
- Proc damage is no longer considered by lifesteal. [?]
- Reduced damage from 100 to 70.
- Increased Recipe cost from 550
to 675 (total cost increases from 4850 to 4975 ).
