Monkey King Bar

Item

 

Old Abilities

 

Changelogs

 

? Monkey King Bar
A powerful staff used by a master warrior.
Cost 4775 (675) Sell Value 2387.5 Passive ? Pierce Bonus ? +40 Attack Damage +35 Attack Speed Shareable Disassemble Usage Alert ? Recipe

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

Pierce

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Ability
Passive

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Magical

Grants each attack a 80% chance to pierce through evasion and deal 70 bonus magical damage.

Proc Chance: 80%

Damage: 70

• 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.
  • However, it is not considered by lifesteal, crit or cleave.
  • It is also not affected by percentage-based attack damage bonuses or reductions, but can be reduced with flat reductions.

• Does not work against buildings, but works against wards and allied units.

• 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, Bounty Hunter, 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

7.35

• Reduced Recipe cost from 800 to 600 (total cost decreases ▼ from 4900 to 4700 ).

7.35

• Item cost changes:
  • Reduced Javelin cost from 1100 to 900 .
  • Increased Recipe cost from 600 to 800 .
  • Total gold cost remains at 4900 .

7.34

• Reduced Recipe cost from 675 to 600 (total cost decreases ▼ from 4975 to 4900 ).

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