Wukong — Cloud Taxi
Steel Path build. Cloud Walker is a flying stun-heal. Enveloping Cloud cloaks allies you pass. This is the spy / speedrun / loot monkey.
Codex Checked · Compared against current game data for this update. · Update 43.5 · 5 Sept 2026 · PC · Current
Spy, Capture, loot runs, people who picked Wukong to fly
Wrong drop or mechanic?
Why this build?
Steel Path for Spy, Capture, loot runs, people who picked Wukong to fly
Health: Not yet — Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts still closed. Play the Starter.
- Cloud Walker is the best movement ability in the game that also heals.
- Enveloping Cloud is why Wukong still has a Spy job.
- This is not a Steel Path deleter. It is a taxi with a clone.
Don’t use this for: open combat endurance · open-world / Eidolons · timed Exterminate as the damage · solo level-cap
Stronger mods, Arcanes, real synergy
You don’t need the shards to run the loop. They are a later ceiling, not a gate.
Bring: Movement — A silent secondary for Spy vaults. Cloud is the build. Twin can still be up for the fighting tiles.
Alternative if…
- Star Chart only → First Twin
- This is too much Forma / cost → First Twin — Star Chart
- You wanted to fight, not farm → Twin Farmer
My test
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Readiness
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- Required mods 0/9 · required — 0/9 named
- Forma 0/3 · required — 3 on the card. Codex does not track installed Forma.
- Helminth · optional — Not required
- Arcanes · recommended — 0/1 recommended
- Shards · optional — Optional unless the card says a breakpoint
Investment: 3 Forma · Reactor · 1 shard · 2 specialised mods. Typical farm ~1–2 hours. Trade if a route is vaulted.
Codex Checked · Compared against current game data for this update. · Update 43.5 · 5 Sept 2026 · PC · Current
Medium confidence. A solid recommendation with more situational dependencies. Confidence is not verification. Verification is separate: Codex Checked against Update 43.5.
Your next step
Next: Primal Fury — Optimised
Unlock Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts before this upgrade is honest.
Primal Fury — OptimisedPlan
Today → next → later
Inventory unknown — mark “I own this” on a few mods. Until then this is a plan, not a score of zero.
- NextGet Enemy SenseEnemy drops
- After that3 FormaOne slot at a time. Rank 30 after each polarize.
- LaterAmber · Parkour VelocityHelminth and shards are the last rungs. They are not the Starter.
- FinalCloud TaxiSteel Path · Advanced · 3 Forma
Upgrade from here
Primal Fury — Optimised
Locked behind Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts. Tick those on Progress first.
Open Primal Fury — OptimisedFarm the gap
- Wukong augments — Primal Rage · Enveloping Cloud · Celestial Stomp
Helminth & shards
What to put on the body
- 2 Amber · Parkour Velocity — Cloud is already fast. Lean in.Archon locked
Tonight
What is actually up
30 minutes, one hour, or two — matched to this loadout, not a dump of the Origin System.
30 minutes
Farm Enemy Sense
One named gap. Enemy drops
60 minutes
Enemy Sense, then Forma
Finish the missing named card, then spend a Forma if a polarity is still fighting you.
120 minutes
One Archon Hunt
If you are logging off after this, stop at the named component. Do not start a second Forma session tired.
- Farm Enemy Sense
Enemy drops
Who this is for
Play this build from zero
You want to fly the objective and cloak the kid who keeps getting seen in Spy.
- Time to a playable copy
- After Enveloping Cloud and Duration mods.
- First mission to practice in
- A Spy on Lua or Neptune. Cloud the vault hallway.
2 button drills · 11 parts · tick the lists as you go
Before you start
0 of 3 done
Put it on the Warframe
0 of 4 done
Keep this up
Cloud loop
Pocket card. Stick this on a second screen; the long version is the mission below.
- 1Cloud Walker (2). You are mist. Fly the objective, stun what you pass, heal.
- 2Drop out, Twin (1) if the tile is a fight.
- 3Enveloping Cloud: fly through teammates in a Spy vault so they cloak too.
- 4Defy (3) if you landed badly.
First mission — press these buttons
- 1
Cloud the tile
22. Steer. You stun cameras' owners if you clip them. Drop at the console.
You will know it worked when: A gold cloud. Health ticking up.
- 2
Clip a teammate
They go invisible if Enveloping is on. That is the augment.
Common mistakes
Clouding into a laser in a vault
You are a cloud, not a ghost through Spy lasers. Read the room.
When this feels easy
- 1Parkour shardsFaster cloud, faster extract.
Parts checklist
0 of 11 owned. Tap How on anything you still need.
Dependencies
14 dependencies
Frame → mods → unlocks. Tick Collection and Progress. This is a decision graph, not a wiki tree.
- 1●wukongframe
- 2○Enemy Sensemod
- 3○Cunning Driftmod
- 4○Enveloping Cloudaugment
- 5○Narrow Mindedmod
- 6○Primed Continuitymod
- 7○Streamlinemod
- 8○Primed Flowmod
- 9○Rushmod
- 10○Rolling Guardmod
- 11○Arcane Consequencearcane
- 12○Amber · Parkour Velocityshard
- 13○Steel Pathunlock
- 14○Archon Hunts (shards optional)unlock
Depends on
What this loadout needs
Required is a gate. Recommended is a ceiling. Optional is a later farm — don’t stall the card for it.
Required
- Enemy Sense
missing · Enemy drops
Cunning Driftmissing · Lua Halls of Ascension
- Enveloping Cloud
missing · New Loka / The Perrin Sequence · 25,000 standing
Allies you fly through while Clouded go invisible. The spy augment.
- Narrow Minded
missing · Orokin Vaults
Primed Continuitymissing · Wait for Baro Ki'Teer
Streamlinemissing · Enemy drops and early missions
Primed Flowmissing · Baro Ki'Teer
- Rolling Guard
missing · Arbitrations
Recommended
Optional
Watch it played
YouTube for this loadout
Wukong is amazing!
Celestial Twin, Cloud Walker, Defy, Primal Fury.
Wukong Is BROKEN For No Reason
2026 Twin / Cloud / staff. Why Wukong still solos everything.
Strength
~145%
Duration
200%+
Range
145%
Duration is cloud time and Enveloping Cloud invis on allies. You can traverse a whole tile in one 2.
From the mods
Live power
Additive from max-rank Codex mods. Efficiency clamped 15–175%. Umbral set is +11% Strength per extra piece.
- Strength
- 100%
- Duration
- 254%
- Range
- 49%
- Efficiency
- 130%
- Energy
- +275%
- Capacity
- 53 / 60
Weapon HUD
Arsenal numbers
Base × damage mods × crit expectation × fire rate × multishot. No faction, no quantization. Galvanized kill stacks are a slider, not assumed.
- Damage
- 35
- Crit
- 12% × 2.00
- Status
- 26%
- Fire rate
- 9.58
- Multishot
- 1.00
- Avg hit
- 39
- Arsenal DPS
- 376
Toggle common mods
Wukong mods
- AuraEnemy SenseEnemy drops / Nightwave
- ExilusCunning DriftLua
- 1Enveloping CloudAllies you fly through while Clouded go invisible. The spy augment.New Loka / Perrin Sequence · 25k
- 2Narrow MindedOrokin Vaults
- 3Primed ContinuityBaro
- 4StreamlineDrops
- 5Primed FlowBaro
- 6RushIf you still sprint after the cloud. Optional vs more Duration.Enemy drops
- 7Rolling GuardArbitrations
| Slot | Mod | Source | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aura | Enemy Sense | Enemy drops / Nightwave | |
| Exilus | Cunning Drift | Lua | |
| 1 | Enveloping Cloud Allies you fly through while Clouded go invisible. The spy augment. | New Loka / Perrin Sequence · 25k | |
| 2 | Narrow Minded | Orokin Vaults | |
| 3 | Primed Continuity | Baro | |
| 4 | Streamline | Drops | |
| 5 | Primed Flow | Baro | |
| 6 | Rush If you still sprint after the cloud. Optional vs more Duration. | Enemy drops | |
| 7 | Rolling Guard | Arbitrations |
Movement
A silent secondary for Spy vaults. Cloud is the build. Twin can still be up for the fighting tiles.
Arcanes
Arcane Consequence
Parkour after headshots. Optional on a flyer.
Eidolon / trade
Archon shards
- 1
Amber · Parkour VelocityCloud is already fast. Lean in.2 · EDA
| # | Shard | Qty | Source | How |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amber · Parkour Velocity Cloud is already fast. Lean in. | 2 | EDA |