Monkey King Staff
The Monkey King Staff is a melee weapon from the Dynasty faction. It is used by the Monkey King.
Characteristics
The Monkey King Staff is a mystical staff with mystical properties. A successful hit on a unit will create a clone of the unit wielding it, along with all their weapons, abilities and stats. The clones will disappear after a few short seconds and cannot create more clones nor be possessed.
The Monkey King Staff also exerts extremely new high knockback, from flinging a unit across the map to be capable of even toppling giants like the Mammoth. It can also grow in length, increasing its reach. The staff will grow after three seconds within 3 WM from an enemy unit. The elongated staff will return to its original size after a few seconds, and will be unable to grow until a hit is landed on a unit, resetting its timer. Apart from that, the Monkey King Staff inflicts low damage, but has a very short cooldown period.
Trivia
- The Monkey King Staff used to spawn exact copies of custom units wielding it, where they can create more clones of themselves and do not disappear.
- It is based on the Ruyi Jingu Bang of Sun Wukong (The Monkey King). In Chinese legend, it can change its size at will.
- In Chinese, staff is referred to as gun (棍, literally rod, stick). The gun is known as one of the four major weapons in Chinese martial arts, along with the qiang (spear), dao (saber), and the jian (straight sword). It is called, in this group, "The Grandfather of all Weapons".
- The Monkey King, also known as Sun Wukong, is a mythological figure who features in a body of legends. He is a monkey born from a stone, and has acquired immense supernatural powers. After rebelling against heaven and being imprisoned under a mountain, he later accompanies a monk on a Journey to the West.
- The Monkey King travels to the oceans in search for a weapon and acquires the Golden-banded staff Ruyi Jingu Bang (如意金箍棒), a treasure of Ao Kuang, the dragon-king of the Eastern Seas. Upon Sun Wukong's approach, the staff glows to signify it has found its true master. It can change its size, multiply, and fight according to its master's whim. It weighs 13,500 jin (8.1 tons).