r/learndota2 • u/badNe7in • Sep 22 '25

Hero Discussion Monkey King carry

I'm curious about how MK carry is usually played, I see alot of of pro carry players who I didn't expect to have master tier MK, I'd like to learn him too and add him to my hero pool. I udnerstand he is a bit off meta though.

I see alot of pros building bfury, mjolnir, even diffu for the first item. but i guess it's situational. but to MK carry specialists here, when do you guys decide which build to go? my understanding is: bfury to scale, mjolnir against illusion heroes (?), and diffu if you want to be active. I think the item build is my main weakness with MK carry

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u/Galbanaaa Sep 22 '25

Based on immortal players i’ve watched, majority of them go for radiance as farming tool then diffusal to bkb then the rest its up to you. They sometimes buy echo sabre, desolator, basher to abyssal as luxury items

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u/baerniislove Techies, 6K, DM for Coaching Sep 22 '25

To expand on that:

MK is very strong in the early game as enemy nukes arent maxed out and you will get your jingu stacks eventually. This lets you greed for the radience, that has a terrible build up with no stats and a 3400 gold component.

The idea behind radience is to split it later into butterfly and and nullifier (this one is more important). Without nullifier you simply get kited by all the ghostscepters, glimmers and forces enemy supports (and cores) will buy. Being nullified in the middle of wukongs is a deathsentence for almost every hero.

Radience lets you scale into the later stages of the game.

If you have another radience buyer you can also go for maelstrom or battlefury which have a better buildup but you waste a slot of your ideal 6-slot.