League of Legends: Wild Rift‘s champions pool reached a total of 50 with the introduction of Wukong, The Monkey King. The addition of Wukong was confirmed by Riot while announcing the December 2020 patch of the game. Wukong is a fighter that can clone himself and sneak around to take down prime targets. He is a lifelong friend of Master Yi and is the last student of the ancient martial art known as Wuju. He uses his enchanted staff to take down enemies.
Wukong Abilities
- Passive Ability – Crushing Blows
- Ability 1 – Golden Staff
- Ability 2 – Warrior Trickstar
- Ability 3 – Nimbus Strike
- Ultimate Ability – Cyclone
How to unlock Wukong
You can unlock Wukong for free via the in-game event called Wukong’s Challenge, which is available till January 1, 2021. To unlock the champion, you need to complete the following set of seven challenges.
| MISSION | OBJECTIVE | REWARD |
| Fight Me! | Deal 50,000 damage to enemy champions | 150 Blue Motes |
| Discipline and Patience | Win 3 games OR Play 3 games with at least one Ionian champion on your team | 2 XP Boosts |
| Monkey See, Monkey Do | Get 30 takedowns OR Perform 25 knockups on enemy champions | 150 Blue Motes |
| Stop and Think | Kill 6 elemental drakes as a team OR Play 2 games as a fighter champion | 150 Blue Motes |
| Master and Student | Play 5 games OR Win a game with Master Yi on your team | 50 Poro Coins |
| Seeing Double | Play 5 games OR Win a game with a Vastayan champion (Nami, Ahri, or Wukong) on your team | 150 Blue Motes |
| A Difficult Lesson | Place or destroy 25 wards | Wukong |
If doing these missions is a tiring task for you, then you can unlock Wukong for 5,500 Blue Motes or 725 Wild Cores in the store. Wukong also has two skins that you can unlock after getting Wukong:
General Wukong
General Wukong can be unlocked for 525 Wild Cores.
Volcanic Wukong
Volcanic Wukong can be unlocked for 725 Wild Cores.
Wukong Build
- Summoners Spell – Flash and Ignite
- Runes – Conqueror Keystone, Brutal, Spirit Walk, Hunter Genius
- Best Item Builds
- Trinity Force > Black Cleaver > Teleport Enchant > Steraks Gage > Death’s Dance > Guardian Angel
- Black Cleaver > Boots of Swiftness > Youmuus Ghostblade > Deaths Dance > Guardian Angel > Steraks Gage
- Black Cleaver > Mercurys Tread > Deaths Dance > Steraks Gage > Randiuns Omen> Guardian Angel > Statis Enchant
