Warframe: Wukong, Still Viable? Updated Build Guide (2025)

Warframe: Wukong, Still Viable? Updated Build Guide (2025) Despite several nerfs in recent years, the Warframe Wukong is still powerful. This video explores Wukong's abilities, builds, Archon Shards, Helminth infusions, and more, showing you how to get the most out of Wukong.

1. 🐒 Wukong: Still a Powerful Warframe Despite the Nerfs

✅ Wukong is still an excellent Warframe despite multiple nerfs.
✅ Most of Wukong's nerfs were justified.
✅ Using Wukong's Exalted Weapon is key.
✅ Exalted Weapons scale with Ability Strength.
✅ Wukong's other abilities are also very interesting.

00:00 - 01:11

1. 🐒 Wukong: Still a Powerful Warframe Despite the Nerfs

✅ Wukong is still an excellent Warframe despite multiple nerfs.
✅ Most of Wukong's nerfs were justified.
✅ Using Wukong's Exalted Weapon is key.
✅ Exalted Weapons scale with Ability Strength.
✅ Wukong's other abilities are also very interesting.

01:12 - 01:56

2. 💪 Wukong's Passive: Extra Lives and Bonuses

✅ Wukong's passive provides up to 3 extra lives.
✅ Upon taking fatal damage, become invulnerable for 2 seconds and restore 50% health.
✅ Each activation grants one of the following bonuses:
- 300% Elemental Damage
- 30 seconds of Invisibility
- 30 seconds of Invulnerability
- Enemies drop more loot for 60 seconds
- 4x increased effect of Health and Energy Orbs
✅ Bonuses are granted randomly.
✅ A useful passive in emergency situations.

01:57 - 03:58

3. 👯‍♂️ First Ability: Celestial Twin

✅ Summons a clone of Wukong.
✅ The clone follows Wukong and attacks nearby enemies.
✅ The clone uses Wukong's equipment.
✅ If Wukong uses a primary or secondary weapon, the clone will use melee attacks.
✅ If Wukong uses a melee weapon, the clone will use a primary or secondary weapon.
✅ If Wukong uses an Exalted Weapon, the clone will also use the Exalted Weapon.
✅ The clone's AI could be improved.
✅ The clone is useful for decimating enemies.
✅ The clone cannot use some mods and arcanes.
✅ The clone uses ammo.
✅ The clone does not build combo.

Two main functions:

Applies status effects to enemies.
Distracts enemies.

03:59 - 04:41

4. 🦶 Celestial Stomp Augment Mod

✅ Holding the ability key causes the clone to cast a stomp.
✅ The stomp lifts enemies into the air and applies the 'Lifted' status effect.
✅ The stun range is 20m and increases with Ability Range.
✅ The stun goes through walls.
✅ The stun originates from the clone's location.
✅ This feature can also be activated while using the second ability.
✅ An interesting augment mod that helps with control.

04:42 - 07:34

5. ☁️ Second Ability: Cloud Walker

✅ Transforms into a cloud for 2 seconds.
✅ Duration increases with Ability Duration.
✅ Can move freely in cloud form.
✅ Completely invulnerable in cloud form.
✅ Restores 1% health per 1m traveled.
✅ Recovery amount increases with Ability Strength.
✅ Enemies within an 8m radius of the cloud are stunned and exposed to finishers.
✅ Removes status effects each time the ability is activated.
✅ One of the best abilities in the game.
✅ Enemies cannot see the cloud.
✅ Gain a stealth damage bonus.
✅ An excellent mobility ability.
✅ Useful in all types of missions and maps.
✅ Many people underestimate the stun that the cloud creates.
✅ The stun helps control enemies and aids in survival.
✅ It is not recommended to use negative range on Wukong.
✅ The cloud's movement speed takes into account Wukong's initial speed but is not affected by typical movement speed mods.

07:35 - 09:23

6. 🛡️ Third Ability: Defy

✅ Become invulnerable for 2 seconds.
✅ All damage taken is stored.
✅ At the end of the ability, release the stored damage within a 12m radius.
✅ Gain an armor bonus based on the amount of damage.
✅ Armor can increase up to 10,000.
✅ If the clone is active, the clone also replicates the third ability.
✅ Become invulnerable while activating the ability.
✅ Enemies prefer to attack you.
✅ The base range is 12m and increases with Ability Range.
✅ The clone can also use the ability.
✅ The damage is not sufficient in most situations.
✅ Depends on the amount of damage from enemies.
✅ The ability does not go through walls.
✅ Good for survival, but not as good as the cloud.
✅ Provides armor.

09:24 - 11:23

7. ⚔️ Fourth Ability: Primal Fury

✅ Summons Wukong's staff, an Exalted Weapon.
✅ High status chance.
✅ Base damage is 300 and increases with Ability Strength.
✅ Has 100% attack continuity.
✅ The stats are great, but there are issues with the guard mode.
✅ Wukong's combos are not good.
✅ The combos are fast.
✅ Not the best Exalted Weapon, but it does its job.
✅ Can benefit from melee influence.

11:24 - 12:06

8. 😡 Primal Rage Augment Mod

✅ Increases critical chance by 15% for each enemy killed.
✅ This chance decreases by 1% per second.
✅ This mod is terrible.
✅ Critical chance increases with Ability Strength but is limited to 150%.
✅ This mod works the same as a regular mod.
✅ Sacrificial Steel provides more critical chance.
✅ Helminth abilities provide critical chance much better.

12:07 - 13:44

9. ⚙️ Wukong's Arsenal: Archon Shards, Focus School, Companion

✅ Archon Shards: Use purple shards to increase melee critical damage.
✅ Focus School: Madurai is recommended.
✅ Companion: Panzer Vulphyla is recommended.
- Helps spread the Viral status effect.
- Can use Tenacious Link and Enhanced Link simultaneously.
- Helps with energy.
✅ Nautilus is also a good choice.
- Groups enemies with the Coordinating mod.
✅ Recommend the Teshkor as a companion weapon.
- A beam weapon that binds enemies.
- Helps apply status effects.
- Helps with energy.
✅ Viral electric and magnetic build.

13:45 - 15:06

10. 💉 Helminth Ability: Furious Assault

✅ Use Furious Assault as a Helminth ability.
✅ Furious Assault grants absolute critical chance to melee.
✅ Replaces the first or third ability.
✅ Both abilities are useful, but have problems.
✅ The clone does not deal damage.
✅ The third ability provides armor, but it is irrelevant.
✅ The clone is more useful.

15:07 - 15:49

11. 🛠️ Wukong Build 1: General

✅ Basic Steel Path build.
✅ Defend with Redirection Prime, Adaptation, and Arcane Aegis.
✅ Lower enemy armor with Corrosive Projection.
✅ Prevent knockdowns with Final Stand Prime.
✅ Manage energy with Exilus, Flow Prime, and Equilibrium.
✅ Increase power with Umbral Intensify, Blind Rage, and Augmenter Mutation.
✅ Increase duration with Continuity Prime.
✅ Increase efficiency with Streamline.

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12. 🛡️ Wukong Build 2: Level Cap

✅ Level cap build.
✅ Low power.
✅ Shield charging build.
✅ Uses shield gating.
✅ Uses Shield Hardness, Vigilante Vigor, and Quick Deflection.
✅ Use Auger mods on secondary weapon or companion.
✅ Use positive efficiency.
✅ Use Arcane Energize.
✅ Use the cloud more.

16:16 - 16:35

13. ⚔️ Exalted Weapon Build

✅ Typical melee influence build.
✅ Use Sacrificial Steel to increase critical rating.
✅ Use Amalgam Osron.
✅ Use electric mods to increase electric status effect.

16:36 - 17:22

14. 🔫 Laetum and Combo

✅ Use Dexterity mods on primary and secondary weapons to maintain combo.
✅ Use an Archgun equipped with Dexterity Arcane.
✅ It is recommended to use Laetum.
✅ Laetum increases the combo each time a bullet hits an enemy.
✅ Use Laetum if the Exalted Weapon is disabled.

17:23 - 18:38

15. ⚡ Energy: Grimoire

✅ Use Grimoire to secure more energy.
✅ Grimoire has access to Tomes mods.
✅ Tome mods are activated when Grimoire's secondary fire hits a certain number of enemies.
✅ Use Netra Invocation.
- Increases ability efficiency.
✅ Do not use Sata Invocation.
- Energy regeneration does not work while channeling abilities are active.

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