However, it was a greedy pick, which BOOM Esport’s offlaner Saieful “Fbz” Ilham had to shoulder. This resulted in BOOM Esports having a four-core line-up during the late game. He spent a lot of time in the game ensuring he kept his networth up and prioritized damage items such as Echo Sabre and Skull Basher, shunning standard support items like Force Staff and Glimmer Cape. While Tims played Monkey King as a support, he approached it with a core-like mentality. Monkey King is often played as a carry, so players have a firm understanding of how to maximize his damage in the late game, taking advantage of his Jingu Mastery. These buffs make Tree Dance an extremely effective tool for scouting, chasing, escaping, and providing vision during team fights.īOOM Esports provided a lot of space for Tims Tree Dance cast time was reduced to 0.1 seconds, making it nearly impossible to stop Monkey King from using that ability. Monkey King was effectively given a free Aghanim shard upgrade.

(New) Reduces Mischief cooldown to 8, increases damage immunity duration to 0.5, makes it disjoint on cast, and causes it to no longer reduce Monkey King’s movement speed if it is below the fixed values.

(Old) Reduces Tree Dance cooldown from 1 to 0.3 and cast time from 0.3 to 0.1.

Increased travel speed from 700 to 800.

Here are the buffs he received: Tree Dance Monkey King was undoubtedly one of the biggest winners of the Dota 2 patch 7.30 balance update. Monkey King was significantly buffed in Dota 2 patch 7.30 Credit: Valve

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This was updated quickly after Dota 2 patch 7.06 was released, which ended Monkey King’s career as a support, until Tims came along and demonstrated how strong the hero can be in this role.

As such, Monkey King support preferred items like Skull Basher which allowed him to utilize Wukong Command as a large AoE stun. He had a short stint as soft support when Wukong Command proc’ed items. Monkey King has primarily been picked as a core hero since his release.

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