Wukong
Wukong builds
First Twin
Starter0–2 FormaStarterHigh confidenceStar ChartShards optional

Wukong — First Twin

Starter build. Celestial Twin is a clone that uses the opposite weapon type. Cloud Walker is a heal cloud. Defy is the save. Leave Primal Fury until the staff is modded.

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Star Chart, first Wukong, learning the clone

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Why this build?

Starter for Star Chart, first Wukong, learning the clone

Health: Inventory unknown — Mark what you own. Until then this is a recommendation, not a test you failed.

Play this in Star Chart
  • The Twin is Wukong. Empty 1 is a fake monkey.
  • Passive cheat-death is three uses per mission. Defy is extra. You are allowed to be sloppy on Star Chart.
  • Do not Helminth 1.

Don’t use this for: Steel Path endurance · level-cap content · solo level-cap

0 Forma, basic mods, no Helminth or shards required

You don’t need the shards to run the loop. They are a later ceiling, not a gate.

Bring: A gun and a melee — Twin copies the slot you are not using. If you shoot, Twin melees. If you melee, Twin shoots. Bring both.

Instead: First Twin — Star ChartInstead: Primal Fury — Steel PathInstead: Primal Fury — OptimisedInstead: Primal Fury — Endgame

My test

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Readiness

Inventory unknown

Not checked — add your collection. You have not failed a test.

  • Required mods 0/9 · required — 0/9 named
  • Forma 0/2 · required — 2 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: 2 Forma · Reactor · 1 shard. Typical farm ~1–2 hours. Trade if a route is vaulted.

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Your next step

Open First Twin — Star Chart

The next rung on this frame is unlocked. Mark I run this, then step up.

First Twin — Star Chart

Plan

Today → next → later

Inventory unknown — mark “I own this” on a few mods. Until then this is a plan, not a score of zero.

  1. NextGet Steel ChargeInvasion / Nightwave
  2. After that0–2 FormaOne slot at a time. Rank 30 after each polarize.
  3. LaterAmber · Casting SpeedHelminth and shards are the last rungs. They are not the Starter.
  4. FinalFirst TwinStarter · Starter · 0–2 Forma

Upgrade from here

First Twin — Star Chart

Celestial Twin is a clone that uses the opposite weapon type. Cloud Walker is a heal cloud. Defy is the save. Leave Primal Fury until the staff is modded. Primed Continuity and Primed Flow are the first real upgrade — not Blind Rage.

Open First Twin — Star Chart

Helminth & shards

What to put on the body

  • 1 Amber · Casting Speed — Twin and Cloud on tempo.Archon locked

Tonight

What is actually up

30 minutes, one hour, or two — matched to this loadout, not a dump of the Origin System.

  1. 30 minutes

    Farm Steel Charge

    One named gap. Invasion / Nightwave

  2. 60 minutes

    Steel Charge, then Forma

    Finish the missing named card, then spend a Forma if a polarity is still fighting you.

  3. 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.

Who this is for

Play this build from zero

You just walked out of the Tenno Lab with a monkey.

Time to a playable copy
Same day. Intensify, Continuity, Streamline, Flow, Vitality, Steel Fiber.
First mission to practice in
An Exterminate. Summon Twin, swap weapons, watch the clone do the other job.

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 5 done

Keep this up

Twin loop

Pocket card. Stick this on a second screen; the long version is the mission below.

  1. 1Celestial Twin (1). You now have two Wukongs. Shoot so the Twin melee-clears, or melee so the Twin guns.
  2. 2Cloud Walker (2) through a pack. You are a cloud, you stun, you heal yourself and the Twin.
  3. 3Defy (3) if you are about to die. Invuln, then a slam that spends stored damage as armor.
  4. 4Primal Fury (4) later. Unmodded staff is a stick.

First mission — press these buttons

  1. 1

    Press 1, then shoot

    1

    Twin should pull a melee and start hitting. Recast 1 on a heavy to focus it.

    You will know it worked when: A second Wukong. Opposite weapon of yours.

  2. 2

    Cloud through a pack

    2

    2. You are mist. You heal. They stagger.

Common mistakes

  • Only bringing a gun

    Then Twin is stuck meleeing with whatever sad melee you forgot to equip.

When this feels easy

  1. 1Mod the staffNext melee config.
  2. 2Enveloping CloudIf you spy.

Parts checklist

0 of 11 owned. Tap How on anything you still need.

Dependencies

13 dependencies

Frame → mods → unlocks. Tick Collection and Progress. This is a decision graph, not a wiki tree.

  1. 1●wukongframe
  2. 2○Steel Chargemod
  3. 3○Power Driftmod
  4. 4○Intensifymod
  5. 5○Continuitymod
  6. 6○Streamlinemod
  7. 7○Flowmod
  8. 8○Vitalitymod
  9. 9○Steel Fibermod
  10. 10○Stretchmod
  11. 11○Arcane Energizearcane
  12. 12○Amber · Casting Speedshard
  13. 13○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

Recommended

  • Arcane Energize

    missing · Buy 20–40 Platinum worth

    Optional. Cloud Walker is cheap.

Optional

Strength

~145%

Duration

155%

Range

100–130%

Duration is Twin lifetime and Cloud heal ticks. Strength is Defy armor and later staff damage.

From the mods

Live power

Additive from max-rank Codex mods. Efficiency clamped 15–175%. Umbral set is +11% Strength per extra piece.

Strength
145%
Duration
130%
Range
145%
Efficiency
130%
Energy
+150%
Capacity
43 / 69

Open slots

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

  • AuraSteel ChargeInvasion / Nightwave
  • ExilusPower DriftOrokin Vaults / Lua
  • 1IntensifyMercury / Venus
  • 2ContinuityEnemy drops
  • 3StreamlineEnemy drops
  • 4FlowEnemy drops
  • 5VitalityEarth / drops
  • 6Steel FiberEnemy drops
  • 7StretchEnemy drops

A gun and a melee

Twin copies the slot you are not using. If you shoot, Twin melees. If you melee, Twin shoots. Bring both.

Arcanes

Arcane Energize

Optional. Cloud Walker is cheap.

Eidolon / trade

Archon shards

  • 1Amber · Casting SpeedTwin and Cloud on tempo.1 · Archon Hunt
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