Wukong rewards aggression. Pick a stance, build a spell kit around control, and punish every opening. Because respecs are free, you can specialise hard for a wall boss and reset afterward.
Core setup
🌀 Smash Stance + Focus
The reliable all-rounder — bank Focus with lights, then unleash a fully charged Smash.
🧊 Immobilize opener
Freeze a boss and land a charged Heavy — the backbone of most kills.
🐾 A clutch Transformation
Keep a transformation (e.g. Red Tides) for a second health bar in tough phases.
🏺 Vessels for your plan
Slot Curios and a Spirit that reinforce Focus, survivability or your damage type.
Boss tips
- Stay aggressive — bosses punish passivity more than mistimed attacks.
- Learn each boss's big wind-up; perfect-dodge it for a free charged Heavy.
- Save Immobilize for when a boss over-extends, not to open a full-health fight.
- Respec freely at Keeper's Shrines to counter a specific Yaoguai King.
Stance pointers
- Smash: bank charges and drop a huge overhead — the default for burst on a frozen boss.
- Pillar: vault onto the staff for invulnerability, then slam — great vs sweeping attacks.
- Thrust: extra reach to poke from just outside a boss's melee range.
- Switch stances mid-fight to match the phase rather than committing to one all game.
A go-to boss build
- Smash stance with maxed Focus generation for the biggest charged Heavies.
- Immobilize to open, Rock Solid or Cloud Step for defence, Pluck of Many for burst.
- A Focus-on-dodge armour set with Focus and survival Curios.
- A reserve Transformation and a stagger Spirit for phase transitions.
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