Sunwuko Lashing Tail Kick Monk Guide

1. Do the Challenge Rift for the materials to cube Legendary Powers. You can complete this once a week for additional resources and we always update the guide for you!

2. Gather the full Monkey King's Garb set. Each piece can be gambled from Kadala for Bloodshards. Do not salvage any duplicate pieces you find! Instead convert them to another part of the set with Recipe 4 in Kanai's Cube. If your last missing set piece is Sunwuko's Shines - don't gamble for it! Instead gamble for a cheap and easy item, like Sunwuko's Balance, and once again convert it with Recipe 4. If you have extra materials you can use Recipe 3 to craft the remaining pieces, but this is expensive and not recommended for new players.

3. Gamble from Kadala in this order:

1. The full Monkey King's Garb set
2. Rivera Dancers
3. Nemesis Bracers
4. Goldwrap
5. Gyana Na Kashu

4. Craft using Recipe 3 in Kanai's Cube in this order:

1. Fist Weapons to get Scarbringer and Vengeful Wind
2. Swords to get In-Geom
3. Anything from the Gamble list in Step 3 that you haven't already acquired.

5. Do Bounties to acquire several important items for this build:

• Act 1: Ring of Royal Grandeur
• Act 2: Gloves of Worship (for your follower)
• Act 3: Avarice Band
• Act 4: Can drop any bounty item from any act
• Bounty Turn In: Recipes for Captain Crimson's Trimmings, Sage's Journey and Cain's Destiny

6. At this point you can somewhat comfortably farm Nephalem or Speed Greater Rifts where you can find all the remaining items you need for different variants of the build. It's better to spend your materials improving your set pieces, getting ancient weapon etc.

7. Use Primordial Ashes in Kanai's Cube with the new Curiosity of Lorath Nahr recipe to obtain a free Crafted Primal Ancient. Since you can only equip one of them, choosing the right item to focus matters! Great candidates are Weapons, Offhands, Jewelry or any item with an important multiplier. With that in mind, we recommend getting one of the following items:

• Scarbringer
• The Crudest Boots
• Bindings of the Lesser Gods

• Bane of the Trapped provides 60% increased damage to slowed enemies. This is a melee build so the secondary effect of the gem is enough to proc it.
• Enforcer provides up to 60% pet damage, which also affects the Rabid Strike clone.
• In T16 build there's no Rabid Strike so Bane of the Powerful is used for a bit of extra damage.
• Boon of the Hoarder makes monsters spray gold everywhere for our Goldwrap and 30% increased movement speed for T16 content.
• Bane of the Stricken gives up to 2.3% increased damage on successive attacks against the same target. We'll need this gem if we want to solo push to kill the Rift Guardian.

• Lashing Tail Kick Sweeping Armada is our main damaging skill. The Physical rune is used for bigger AoE and increased damage.
• Sweeping Wind Inner Storm is needed to gain our massive Sunwuko (6) Bonus. Our maximum stacks are increased by 10 from Vengeful Wind.
• Epiphany gives Spirit regeneration and allows us to teleport to monsters with our melee attacks. It's also necessary to activate Rabid Strike and all the pet bonuses.
• Cyclone Strike Implosion is used to group enemies and to proc Bindings of The Lesser Gods.
• Mystic Ally Air Ally is used to generate even more Spirit.
• Finally Dashing Strike is the staple mobility skill used in every build that can fit it in.

• Beacon of Ytar gives 20% Cooldown Reduction to keep Epiphany up.
• Seize the Initiative gives 30% Attack Speed when hitting enemies above 75% HP.
• Near Death Experience allows us to cheat death.
• The Guardian's Path gives us 35% Dodge chance.
• Other useful passives can include:
  • Harmony
  • Resolve
  • Sixth Sense

¹ Add a bit of Vitality if you feel too squishy (a total of 750,000 Life is recommended).

The Altar of Rites is a tree that grants tremendous powers to your entire account in exchange for sacrifices. It requires you to farm Bounties, kill the Ubers, craft the Staff of Herding, and more. Completing all 26 of these tasks, along with sacrificing 6 Primal Ancients grants you extra Damage, Defense, Quality of Life, Increased Drops and 3 Potion Super Powers. Read the full guides on Unlocking the Altar and the Altar Mechanics by Raxxanterax and Chewingnom to learn everything about this fantastic mechanic!

Optimal Path

Patch 2.7.0 revamped the follower system giving all 3 hirelings new powers and the emanate system. The first thing you should do is read our complete follower guide and remember the key takeaways:

1. The emanation system allows followers to share certain legendary and set powers with you. The most important ones are: The Flavor of Time, Nemesis Bracers, Avarice Band, Sage’s Journey and Cain’s Destiny. Click the guide above for the full list.
2. Follower’s powers are based on their main stat (maxed at 25.000, but they have a 2.5x multiplier so you only need 10.000). This means we stack Intelligence on the Enchantress, Dexterity on the Scoundrel and Strength on the Templar.
3. Guardian's Jeopardy (3) Bonus works for followers by improving their inherent stat multiplier from x2.5 to x3.5, making it slightly easier to hit the 25,000 main stat threshold if needed.
4. Followers share 20% of their Experience, Magic and Gold Find stats with you.
5. Legendary gems do not work on followers, except Esoteric Alteration and Mutilation Guard.
6. Cooldown Reduction does not work for any follower skill except the Templar’s Heal.
7. Followers never deal significant damage; you’re on your own to clear the content.

Select Follower

T16

Here the main focus is going fast. You should always be teleporting forward, either by using Dashing Strike or by casting Lashing Tail Kick on a mob to trigger Epiphany teleport. Ideally, you want to alternate these two means of teleportation: use Dashing Strike when you have charges to go exactly where you want to go, then use Lashing Tail Kick to kill enemies and to let Dashing Strike recharge, all while moving forward, even if a little bit. Your remaining four skills are very easy to use:

1. Spam Epiphany constantly.
2. Activate Sweeping Wind one time. As long as you hit an enemy every 6 seconds, your stacks will refresh. If you're traveling down long hallways or changing floors, make sure you refresh it manually to avoid losing your stacks.
3. Activate Mantra of Healing once every 3 seconds to maintain the shield buff.
4. Use Mystic Ally if you run out of Spirit.

Solo Push

When pushing we have to play around Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac, which means that you should be as conservative as possible with your Cooldown Skills.

1. Activate Sweeping Wind one time. As long as you hit an enemy every 6 seconds, your stacks will refresh. If you're traveling down long hallways or changing floors, make sure you refresh it manually to avoid losing all your stacks.
2. Always keep Epiphany up to proc Rabid Strike which is responsible for 99% of your damage. Do not refresh it early, even if the cooldown is ready in order not to waste any Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac procs.
3. Use Cyclone Strike every 5 seconds and spam Lashing Tail Kick otherwise. Since 99% of your damage comes from the Rabid Strike clone, you don't have to be in the middle of everything. You can dash out after casting Cyclone Strike and let the clone do all the heavy lifting. When you do this, make sure to hit at least one mob with your own Lashing Tail Kick to proc Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac.
4. Cast Mystic Ally when your Spirit goes below 25% to replenish it.
5. Use Dashing Strike when you need to move or every 4 seconds in dangerous situations to keep up the Blinding Speed buff.

In speed content this build is already immortal as long as you pick up gold from Goldwrap + Boon of the Hoarder + Avarice Band. The solo push build is extremely squishy and not recommended for Hardcore. Use Sunwuko Wave of Light or Sunwuko Tempest Rush build instead. Check out our dedicated Hardcore Survival Guide to learn more about how to succeed in this game mode!

• Epiphany needs to be active to get the clone.
• Clone's attacks can proc Area Damage.
• The clone is considered a Mystic Ally. It gets buffed by Enforcer, The Crudest Boots and Bindings of the Lesser Gods, but not Mystic Ally damage.
• Instead of picking a random value between the Minimum and Maximum Damage from your Weapon, the clone always uses the average of their sum.
• When dual wielding, the clone alternates between your Main-Hand and Off-Hand Weapons to calculate its damage.

• The Fireball has proc coefficient of 0.
• The Fireball is affected by all Lashing Tail Kick multipliers.
• The Scarbringer bonus applies to Fireball only if you hit less than 7 targets with the kick.
• The Scarbringer bonus cannot apply to the Fireball against targets that are already hit by buffed Lashing Tail Kick. When fighting a single target, you can either deal 7x Kick damage + 1x Fireball damage if you stay in melee, or 7x Fireball damage if you sit at range and your Kick misses. In most cases the latter deals more damage, but since it cannot proc Bane of the Stricken or Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac you can't use this strategy for the entire bossfight. Still it's important to remember that you have an option to deal damage at range, which may come in handy during the final stages of the bossfight, especially if Power Pylon, Squirts Necklace or Oculus Ring are involved.
• The Lashing Tail Kicks cast by Rabid Strike clones do not trigger the Fireball.

• Applies the debuff to all enemies damaged by Cyclone Strike, i.e. all enemies within 15 yard radius around the monk.
• Cyclone Strike cast by Won Khim Lau can apply the debuff.
• Cyclone Strike cast by Rabid Strike clones cannot apply the debuff.