The Return to Monke frame, nr.1 choice for people who don’t want to play the game while playing the game - Wukong!
Release date: 2015-11-25
Passive: Avoid fatal damage up to 3 times per mission while getting a buff.
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.
Cloud Walker - Evaporate into a cloud of mist and float through the battlefield, dazing any enemy encountered, while healing Wukong and his twin.
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.
Primal Fury - Summon the Iron Staff and unleash fury.
Acquisition: Blueprints can be researched from the Tenno Lab in the dojo.
I remember when Wukong used to be the extremely niche “invincible” frame with an expandable stick, what a glow-up Pablo gave him! I played him a bunch after that, but got bored of monkeying around eventually and haven’t really touched him much since the ammo Celestial Twin nerf. He is still by far the best Spy frame, ignore all lasers and cameras while being extremely fast. I always bring him out if the weekly Archon Hunt has a Spy in it (subsume Perspicacity to not have to deal with the annoying Narmer hacks). It is an absolute shame the state his Iron Staff is in though, and it just got worse with the addition of melee arcanes and Tennokai. DE really needs to take a look at the state of Exalted weapons, there are like 2 frames with them that are doing OK while all the others are struggling.