"Okay!" and Wukong

“Okay!”

Alright, I finally got around to finding a good image hosting service as I previously used Photobucket but they have a “viewed” limit where if you exceed a certain amount of views from visitors, it replaces your pictures everywhere they're shown at with a small box saying basically to upgrade to see it again. I originally was going to use Photobucket anyway but then that came to mind and for the purpose of the blog and my current funds, I've decided to look for an alternative. I found one (by Adam's suggestion) in Imgur which I never really considered as all I see from the site are joke pictures. Not to my surprise, right on the front it also claims that it has the funniest pictures on the internet. However, while I haven't posted a picture yet, I have uploaded a few that I will be trying to show here in someway after I finish writing this, and basically it gives the same options as Photobucket does at least the ones that I used frequently such as providing links to put the picture into various formats on the web, and of course allowing you to sort the pictures into different albums.

So in short, I'll be able to get a album up for the blog soon which will make things a lot more exciting.

Wukong - Nimbus Striker

Today I spent pretty much all of my time trying Wukong out and trying to figure out how he plays, his strengths and weaknesses, and in general to see how he performs in Dominion.

In a Coop game that I started out with like usual for all of my new champions, I thought that Wukong was pretty strong actually, he has very strong harassment abilities and he's able to escape quickly afterward. Last hitting was also very easy with Wukong as after about.. I'd say level 4-5 and definitely higher than that, he has more than enough mana for any of his spells, so you're able to easily use his main strike to aid in last hits on minions without any mana problems at all. So from the laning phase my impression was that Wukong is very strong, he actually even gets better in team fights where he actually becomes more armored and resistant as more enemy champions are around him, and his ult is a AoE knock up as well as heavy damage leading to you basically being able to give your entire team free hits while the enemies are in the air. In summary, Wukong is very good in the classic mode, however the main goal of my experimentation was to find out just how well that holds up in Dominion.

Dominion simply put, is where his usefulness diminishes. His burst damage is still very strong in the early and mid game phases, but he simply can't hold a candle up to Champions with high auto attack end game potential such as Trynadamere or Jax. That isn't to say that he isn't good however, I personally have beaten many Trynadamere and Jax players 1v1 on Dominion through the use of hit and runs, however both of those champions are also capable of multikilling players, Wukong is not unless all of the enemies are at low health.

Onto more positive news about Wukong though, his burst potential does still shine through out the game, and he'll be able to dispose of low armored people very easily as he can out maneuver them and close in quickly to do burst then escape, repeating the process afterward. He can also beat most meleers in small group combat as well, although it requires a lot more mobility than simply running in and attacking, Wukong will always need to use hit and run tactics to be effective in Dominion. The last positive thing is that today is only my first day of actually playing him so I'm very new to him and I don't really know him well enough to create a solid min-max build for him that would possibly put him on the same level as Trynadamere or Jax. While I was also playing Wukong, I saw people playing champions who I normally consider weak such as Shaco, Twitch, and Miss Fortune, and they basically turned them into killing machines that could easily out kill Jax (I also fought a Ashe who did the same thing as Jax, but I was able to get rid of her quickly, but still she hurt quite a bit) so, I suppose more experience is the only way to tell for certain, but for now, Wukong is kind of not exactly a “pick up and get a decent score” champion, at least in Dominion.

Here's a few of the results of the games I played with Wukong, I don't really know if it was me performing poorly individually, or the enemy team was simply outplaying my team, but the results aren't exactly the most positive things around, but all in all, I'm happy with how I did in most of the games.

So in the end, I guess only time will tell, it'll also tell if I want to keep playing Wukong myself or move onto another champion. He's pretty fun honestly, and the fun did override the difficulty for a little bit, but there's only so much of getting one shot that I can take.