INTRODUCTION

This is a more active steel path viable build focused around [Wukong]'s Celestial Twin and giving it both increased damage and crowd control utility. We subsume Eclipse and use the [Total Eclipse] augment to boost damage of both you and the clone, as well as utilizing the [Celestial Stomp] augment for amazing crowd control which even bypasses Overguard. [Enveloping Cloud] is used to make Celestial Twin invisible, which allows it to survive very high levels AND locks its light level so it can always receive a static Eclipse buff (i.e. make the twin invisible while its standing in light to lock a damage buff). Survivability comes from crowd control, shield gating and wukong's passive rather than the normal health/armor tanking route. Roar is a good alternative option that saves an augment slot but provides less overall potential damage and is not spammable for easy shield gating.

Alternate Wukong builds:
Stomp and Pillage with Iron staff: https://overframe.gg/build/382149/
Lazy Tank Monkey: https://overframe.gg/build/217329/wukong-prime/lazy-monkey-king-clone-buff-health-tank-speedrun-wukong/

BUILD SPECIFICS

Duration
Positive duration benefits all abilities, predominantly [Celestial Stomp] stun duration and Eclipse duration.

Efficiency
This stat must be minimum for reliable shield gating since 1, 2 and 4 are all too cheap to cast (39 energy). At 45% efficiency with [Brief Respite] AND TWO augur mods (need ONE extra augur mod on your pistol or burst rifle sentinel), using [Celestial Stomp] or cloudwalker generates 89.7 shield, which is enough for max shield [Regen] with [Catalyzing Shields] (max shields dropped to 89) giving 1.33s iframes when it breaks. Alternatively you can also press deft to turn invulnerable and fully restore shields.

Range
High range gives a [Celestial Stomp] range of 40m+ which is a very large area, as well as wide [Total Eclipse] area , great for buffing other players as well as giving a nice range boost to cloud walker stun and defy explosion.

Strength
Strength boosts Eclipse for damage, clone health,

Aura
[Brief Respite] is important for shield gating.
Alternative auras include [Steel Charge] for mod capacity or [Enemy Radar].
If you decide not to use shield gating, then you can drop both augur mods and use more health, adaptation or strength.

Arcanes

• Energize is useful but not crucial. Helps top up energy so you can spam stomp or defy as needed
• Molt Augmented for more strength
• Damaging arcanes like avenger, acceleration, rage e.t.c

*Archon Shards

• 2 cast speed
• 3 energy max or strength

Helminth
Roar is a very viable alternative to Eclipse. While the flat damage increase potential is much lower compared to eclipse, advantages of roar include:

• Does not require an augment, allowing further duration or power strength
• Snap locks the damage buff so the clone benefits regardless of distance
• More consistent and completely independent of lighting
• Functions similar to faction mods in that it double dips on DoTs such as heat and slash/bleed procs.

PLAYSTYLE

1. Cast 1 to activate your Celestial Twin
2. Switch to melee so your twin holds a primary for nuking (e.g. AOE weapon like Kuva Zarr/Ogris/bramma) or secondary (e.g. Kuva nukor) for nuking/priming OR remove your melee so both your clone and you can use the same AOE weapon.
3. Activate 4 Eclipse to buff yourself and clone
4. Hold 1 to stomp for crowd control (note, this can slow acolytes with a reduced effect)
5. Use 2 to travel, heal or cleanse status (basically [Rolling Guard])
6. Hold 1 or tap 2 or 3 when shields break to regain shields. Use 3 to also become invulnerable and gain armor. (remember you can cancel cloudwalker anytime)

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