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Wukong is a vastayan trickster who uses his strength, agility, and intelligence to confuse his opponents and gain the upper hand. After finding a lifelong friend in the warrior known as 
Master Yi, Wukong became the last student of the ancient martial art known as Wuju. Armed with an enchanted staff, Wukong seeks to prevent 
Ionia from falling to ruin.
 | "My journey is only beginning..." — Wukong |
| Read Biography |
Background
Early Life
Contemporary history
Recent events
Relations
- Wukong was trained in the Art of Wuju by
Master Yi.
- Wukong and Ahri are listed as related champions for unknown reason, possibly because of both being Vastaya.
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Biography
Starring Champion
Short Story • 5 Minute Read
When a life hangs in the balance, there are two options: slow and smart, or fast and dumb.
Starring: Wukong
Mentioned: Master Yi
Mentioned Champion
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Short Story
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There was an age when darkness smothered all hope. A traveler arrived, late into that twilight hour, bearing with him the first light of dawn.
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Udyr, Valor, Vel'Koz, 
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Formare veneficum est formare fatum.
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Swain, Talon, Taric, Teemo, Tibbers, Tristana, Trundle, Tryndamere, Twisted Fate, Twitch, Udyr, Urgot, Veigar, Vladimir, Warwick, Willump, Wukong, Xin Zhao, Yorick, 
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Trivia
- Wukong belongs to the Vastaya race and tribe known as the Shimon. They are the Vastaya inhabitants of Ionia, in its jungle regions.
- As an adult Vastaya, he is over a few hundred years old.[1]
- Wukong's mystical staff was crafted by the legendary blacksmith Master Doran of Ionia.
- The name Wù[2]kōng[3] (悟空, pronounced [wu:˥˩kʰʊ̃ŋ˥]; official Riot's: woo-kohng) is a common Buddhist name that means "awakening to emptiness" in Chinese, after Sun Wukong, the protagonist of the Chinese novel Journey to the West. Wukong is also one of the few champions to be based on a public domain character from real-world mythology and literature in general.
- In Journey to the West, this Buddhist name was bestowed to the nameless Monkey King by his first master Subhuti.
- Wukong's passive, Stone Skin, is possibly a reference to Sun Wukong being born from a stone. He's also said to be born from the earth itself.
- Wukong's original lore is also a nod to Sun Wukong's origin (a stone turned into a monkey, had his own adventures before meeting and later following his Master).
- In-universe, Master Yi himself adds the element Wu to Kong's name, in recognition that Kong was among his best students.
- The fact that Wukong was trained under Master Yi is also another possible reference to Sun Wukong's original master, Subhuti, or Wukong's more famous master during his pilgrimage to the West, the historical Chinese Buddhist pilgrim Xuanzang, who contributed greatly to the translation of Buddhist texts into Chinese, thus earning the byname Tripitaka त्रिपिटक (Mandarin: 三藏 Sānzàng), after the Pali canon.
- In-universe,
- In his updated background, Wukong's Vastayan tribe turns into stone after death.
- Wukong's original lore is also a nod to Sun Wukong's origin (a stone turned into a monkey, had his own adventures before meeting and later following his Master).
- Wukong's abilities, Nimbus Strike and Warrior Trickster, are references to Sun Wukong's ability to ride on clouds via his "Somersault Cloud" (筋斗雲, Jīndǒuyún) technique and to create clones of himself using strands of his hair, respectively.
- Wukong also likes peaches; likewise the original Sun Wukong himself also ate all ripe peaches in the Heavenly Peach Garden at one point in the original novel, greatly increasing his longevity.
- In Japanese server, Wukong is rendered as "ウーコン" (Ūkon [ɯ̟:ᵝkõ̞ɴ]; Oo-kohn) via the pinyin reading of the name instead of on'yomi (which would be rendered as "Gokuu" instead). Due to also being voiced by Masako Nozawa as aforementioned, the voice actress of the character of the same name in the Dragon Ball franchise, this acts an overall actor allusion to the Dragon Ball Wukong/Gokuu's source inspiration.
- In the Chinese servers, Wukong is directly referred to as Sun Wukong himself in the flesh as opposed to being a different character loosely based on him.
Change log
| Character blurb | |
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| 19 Nov 2019 (During V9.23) | Added. |
References
- ↑ Wukong's years old
- ↑ Schuessler A. ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007), p. 520-1
- ↑ http://stedt.berkeley.edu/~stedt-cgi/rootcanal.pl/etymon/820
See also
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