All Black Myth Wukong TRANSFORMATIONS Tier List | Ranking EVERY Single Transformation! |

[@syrobe]

WEAPONS ✅ ARMORS ✅ TRANSFORMATIONS ✅ WHAT TIER LIST NEXT??? YOU DECIDE!

[@Seanlin2002]

Spirit skills pretty much. I.e. Wandering Wight, Mad Tiger, Earth Wolf etc.

[@slming007]

Combo

[@syrobe]

@@Seanlin2002 youre so right but that ones gonna be a b!tch and a half to make HAHA

[@Dwaniel]

I guess Curios and drinks/Gourds/Soaks

[@user-cy7vi5ic8c]

@@syrobegetting all those knots of voidness will make you feel like voidness

[@Yahikos_Pain]

Erlang doesn't attack you cos he knows you build up charge by getting hit so he just leaves you there walking around slowly, it's not a bug it's genius

[@frankiemercado684]

I like to think he considers the chance to roast the fuck outta you worth getting slapped around a little.

[@DarkWanderer666]

Erlang the Fan Cuck

[@syrobe]

i really dont think thats true but its a funny theory lol

[@thaihoanvanvinh1835]

@@syrobe there's some theories that Erlang wont attack Azure Dust, but i saw this one is the most correct. "Erlang wont attack you because he disregard the stone that you turn into remind him Rock Monkey - which mean Sun Wukong when he got out of the stone sealed him, that's when he's the weakest"

[@Yahikos_Pain]

@@syrobe i mean he's programmed to react differently to any transformation and since all other transformations can dodge he tries to knock you out if it. But since the rock can't dodge and powers up by receiving damage it's pretty much useless if the enemy doesn't attack you that's why he doesn't attack you. I mean you can still do a little damage with the rock buy not as much as you do when he powers up and in Erlang's case it takes his shield which is pretty huge

[@notinthemoodfornames8033]

So in the original Journey to the West novel, Erlang famously dueled with Wukong, and part of their fight involved them transforming into various things to try to gain advantages over the other. During this process the novel shows that Erlang is better at transformation magic than even Wukong, as Erlang is able to fully transform into many things when Wukong couldn't fully get rid of his monkey tail, and instead could only transform the tail into various objects (I think one instance is that when Wukong transformed into a house he hid his tail as a flag pole near the house). So, Erlang beats even full-power Wukong at transformation, so he obviously beats the young monkey at it. Whatever you decide to transform into, he can always counter by transforming into something that is especially against your transformation. This is why he has different transformations during the boss fight that cancels your transformation. For example he transforms into a tiger to cancel your horse transformation, and into a bird to cancel... a few others, I don't fully remember. He comments on this, too, during the boss fight, providing a different voice line for each individual transformation as he counters with his own transformation (I'm not sure if this is in English, but the cn voice lines definitely work). The rock transformation is the only one effectively against him for a couple of reasons (only my speculations; in the original novel, wukong never transformed into a rock anyway so this isn't really a part of the original lore): 1) Wukong IS rock. He's a rock monkey that is just born sentient from a huge boulder, so you could argue that transforming into a rock is like fighting without a transformation. He perhaps kinda respect that. He has more voice lines for the rock transformation than other transformations, and the voice lines seem rather pleased or at least humored by your attempt, saying things like "he's born from a rock, now you want to try that too?" 2) Rock is just... Rock. It's not really especially vulnerable against anything in particular. The rock transformation is immune to the four banes and likes being hit by all attacks. So, perhaps even Erlang doesn't know if anything's particularly good against rock, and the fact he couldn't find a counter to your transformation leaves him a bit dumbfounded for a moment. 3) The rock has to "kneel" when attacking (you can't normally get the jump attack against Erlang since he doesn't attack you to build your meter), and it could just be like a joke that Erlang lets you have an advantage if you decide to kneel and supplicate before him. 4) Lastly, a Doylist explanation: the devs wanted to put into some shortcuts for players who struggle especially, so they programmed him to give you a bit of a leeway if you use rock. This is absolutely a design decision and not a bug as can be seen from his voice line comments and the fact that he removed Erlang vulnerability against frost rather quickly with patches already, while the rock interaction remains in the game.

[@pnoodl3s775]

He has voiceline comments for all transformations so it’s not unique to azure dust. IMO there’s no proof that says it’s intentional so why come up with these theories? The devs aren’t infallible

[@davidnewhart2533]

​@@pnoodl3s775 I don't see how a bug can do that.

[@notinthemoodfornames8033]

​@@pnoodl3s775 he has voicelines for most if not all as I mentioned already. What I am still not 100% certain is: whether or not he has MORE voicelines for azure dust. Regardless, we can confirm that the contents are a lot friendlier/more praising as opposed to the other ones that taunt you. As to why "come up with theories" well, the interaction between erlang and azure dust remains in the game to this game when other major bugs that exist in this particular fight has been removed (he had a much higher vulnerability to freezing effects before, allowing you to cheese him much more easily by just spamming freeze spirits; that was removed in like the first patch ever.), so it seems CONSIDERABLY MORE LIKELY that this is a designed feature rather than a bug. Rather, it is your response that I truly do not understand. You mention only one weak evidence, that other transformations also have voicelines, which doesn't invalidate a single point I raised (I already said he had voicelines for them, just speculated if he had MORE VOICELINES for the rock trans), and then you act confused as to why players would want to come up with explanations for an interesting and unique interactions for one of the game's toughest, hidden boss fight with massive story significance? Like, are you of normal human level of intelligence? Have you been to a school in your life? Wanting to explore and understand the world around us is a natural human instinct in case you're not of the species, and schools educate us to try to use our observations and knowledge to come up with explanations that help us better make sense of the world around us. It is only natural that we want to theorize as to why particular interactions exist between objects in the world, or, in this case, in a beautiful game many of us enjoy within the world. This particular boss fight is also probably the single most important in that game. I am curious about why the interaction exists, and came up with a few theories as to why it might be there. Does this offend you? Why would you want me to not come up with theories about these? If you don't find it interesting, no one is forcing you to read it. You may even leave a "TLDR" like many would, if you find that funny, but asking me why I'm hypothesizing and reminding that that the devs aren't infallible, which I obviously know (who the f think of devs as infallible gods?), is just a very bizarre reaction. I'm not even necessarily saying that you're wrong here, as players probably can never entirely confirm if this interaction is designed or a bug, but for being strangely against theorizing and hypothesizing to explain what we see, you're awfully dull as a person.

[@adamsavage5281]

You're avatar looks like Asta's demon from Black Clover. Coincidence? Oh and thank you for the information. I never knew.

[@user-lp4fw2ec5q]

​@@Chrisyburger nobody cares buddy just stay silent😂

[@YureiOni]

I didn’t touch a single transformation upgrade until I had every single other upgrade unlocked to Its fullest potential.

[@corywittamori896]

I’ve only leveled the passives that effect you while not transformed .

[@maccanaise55]

Yea the passives are worth it.

[@IkkiKurogane.]

I'd like to add a bonus to Golden Lining. Even if you dont see through the enemy with him, his basic light heavy heavy combo will stagger lock most enemies and some bosses in the game while also still applying thunder bane. This is incredibly useful as you can usually chunk anywhere from 1/4 to 1/2 an hp bar for free. This is most evident on the scorpionlord boss, he gets repeated looped by light heavy heavy until hes pretty much dead.

[@MrSefiroh]

I feel that Ashen Slumber could move up to A tier for the value it has when you want to farm sparks and will at The Pool of Shattered Jade. Invaluable at a time you really need it.

[@ownage11445]

I think this list is based on general utility of a transformation during a fight and not to cheese xp/will

[@Cazz94]

After new game plus 3-4 you don’t need to farm will, because you naturally gain will that you won’t end up using unless you buy everything at every shrine. I did love this transformation early game but after new game+ 2-3 I haven’t used ashen slumber since because I didn’t need to farm will

[@IsraTheBlack]

If only the Macaque form didn't use so much might it could have been S tier for sure.

[@jessep9929]

Real I love the macaque but he only lasts like 6 seconds

[@jarynlandrum7474]

Easily my Fav Transformation he fit my play style perfect. Transform after building up focus. Immediately due the ice attack and Nuke em. Burst Dps was reliable

[@NCsurvival1]

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[@QuintG-n3l]

@@NCsurvival1resume 🤡

[@JMC1992]

intelligent gamer, no waffle, good video, entertaining and informative. TY.

[@ShisuiSama]

Bro Azur Dust is S Tier and I’m not kidding It can break Erlongs Shield form 100% It’s the most effective against stone monkey and Wu Kong

[@Yahikos_Pain]

It's for lazy people just stand there and get hit and then do an attack and that's it, Erlang doesn't attack you specifically because of that cos he knows you charge up by taking damage

[@wilbarnes7295]

@@Yahikos_Painand? Take advantage of enemies weakness. It’s in the game for a reason. Who gives a fuck how people play as long as they enjoy the game.

[@suhailvirani]

​@Yahikos_Pain how is it for lazy ppl? Its a game mechanic, to be used.

[@ShisuiSama]

@@wilbarnes7295 I also never told at any time that u need to be super skilled to use it I just said it’s the most effective and easiest transformation especially against the 2 last bosses Bro if someone wants a challenge just don’t use transformations at all But not ranking this in S Tier is like not ranking a gun in a knife tier list at S

[@ShisuiSama]

@@Yahikos_Pain u don’t need him to attack just use ur light attack and u still break his shield even if he’s at 100% I never claimd u need skill to use this but if u make a tier list on the most effective transformation this has to be an S tier and it’s not even a question it’s way to strong

[@zhanwenchen9238]

One reason Erlang wouldn’t attack the rock transform is that in the beginning battle scene, Erlang said “if you kneel before me, I’ll let you go back to the heavenly court.” And the main action from the rock is exactly that - kneeling

[@Senketsujin]

I love how everyone had a different experience playing the game. I wish i knew about focus transfer in my first playthrough. I only noticed it when i got Azure Dome.

[@姚孝賢]

The right way to unleash maximum potential of EBON FLOW is to repeat dash + light attack after use skill , bc the first attack has maximum damage and stagger, this way , you should be able to deal way more damge.

[@guojilin]

5:06 the special ability for azure dust the skullcrusher, is insanely powerful. The ability basically stuns the enemy so hard, it may fall down whilst dealing a TON of AOE and base damage. It doesn’t matter you have to take damage, because the stone literally has so much HP. And, you can tank damage while you are charging up skullcrusher, and wait for your spells to get off cooldown.

[@jad1920]

B Tier is fine, we dig B tier 😂

[@leevaughngraves1069]

Great shit. Thanks for the video. Ive been loving BMwukong and its nice to find videos answering questions I had. Like is horse bro literally the GOAT. Your video says YES horse bro is indeed the GOAT.

[@brentgrisier1738]

For the stone monkey transformation, if you have spell binder equipped, it infuses your attacks with lightning.

[@andrewknaff9220]

Fun fact: the transformation upgrades state in their text if they apply to a non transformed state, a transformed state, or both.

[@diegocervantes4977]

Brother you need to get more people involved, your videos are amazing! Keep up the good content, as always!

[@LucidFlameX]

Mightless blocking for Ebon Flow would be amazing.

[@WukongBattle]

Wukong’s combat skills are so smooth, I’m convinced he’s got a personal choreographer!

[@BenjtheStation]

I actually used Ebon Flow the most just using his block and charged heavy attack ability thinking it was already very strong 😂

[@NguniPrince]

Erlang kept attacking me in bird form while in Azure Dust

[@thatdawgrich]

Amazing video bro 🔥 dark thunder an ebon flow have been my personal favorites 🤝🏼

[@WymondTheWerewolf]

Forget the staff, I just need Wukong's confidence to order takeout.

[@CankleBandit-ug5jl]

Thanks for the videos dude, these have been super helpful

[@Matt_Underwood]

Quick update from the latest Black Myth Wukong Patch that was released on the 14th of December. - The Azure Dust Transformation does not work on Erlang Shen anymore. He won't attack you, but when you try to break his shield with Light Attacks, he will dodge any attack you do besides the heavy attack, and he dodges that one sometimes as well, but not enough to dent his shield. In summary, Azure Dust has become more useless unless you use it against weaker enemies

[@cameronclophus7998]

I forgot to switch him before I went into that fight in NG++ and still had Yellow Loong. Erlang didn't cancel him immediately but chose to just straight up fight me. It was intense and kinda awesome

[@Matt_Underwood]

@@cameronclophus7998 Yeah, I played against Erlang Shen again with Azure Dust a week ago, and he also just straight-up attacked me during my transformation, but in some cases, he does not attack. So, he either keeps attacking you during the transformation, or he won't, but he keeps dodging all of your attacks.

[@Volcr4m]

I played with the yin tiger on my first playthrough but on my second i tried the hoarfrost and the best way to use is it just to never press light attack, heavy builds up focus faster and wont miss unlike the lights, and you just mash heavy over the ice sheet to throw the big snowballs, and try and build up frost as you de-trans so you can wail on them while they're still frozen as wukong, yin tiger still my favorite by far through

[@AfkaSound]

Funny how they made the best transformation super easy to miss due to his quest bugging out.

[@chengken000]

great guide with lots of info!

[@LetsWalkWMe]

Hoarfrost is actually one of my favorite.. combine with immobilized, freezing spirits and staff spin. You will get permastun combos

[@12cyberninja]

Thank you for this very helpful video, definitely see how to use transformations now too.

[@zanegamingtv2252]

Fyi, I believed the reason they nerfed Hoarfrost is due to people cheesing Erlang with it. That's why there's an invisible wall in the arena now.

[@Dordordord]

You really underestimated the Yin tiger transformation, its damage is the best and might cost is the lowest as long as you know how to use it properly. Try transform when you have 4 focus point, you will immediately go into red blade mode, and active its special attack, then don't press light attack. Try light attack+backward dodge combo, you will enter into a stealth mode same as cloud steps, repeat this, its damage is huge and might cost is very little. And you will find out your energy's health drop rapidly and they are totally controlled and can't attack you. For your instance, you can beat a full heath bar 2nd phase great sage broken shell within 20s, and with half might bar left. The damage of each 'step cloud attack' can reach 3000 when you equip proper item such as 35% area damage increase spirit and the lantern/red eye curious (no pills)

[@door4281]

oh jesus you know whats up

[@Super434Goku]

Could you post a clip of you doing this and tag me in it

[@Dordordord]

@@Super434Goku the last four or five attacks are the 'cloud step attack' i mentioned

[@hectorperez1705]

Hi for some reason im not getting the red bar after transforming with 4 focus bars am i missing something ?

[@Dordordord]

@@hectorperez1705 without Jingubang, you should transform in 10 seconds when you got 4 focus points, after that, your focus meter will decrease and your focus points will reduce to 3. Jingubang can make you maintain 4 points as long as you want.

[@heheheahwh]

Hoarfrost is very good towards enemies with annoying/high attack and low health. Freezing opponent and using pluck of many beforehand is an easy way to quickly end a fight like that one guy with the red hand head at the beginning of huaguo

[@Ghali-o7p]

The only downside of the thunder horse is how much you have to do and how late you get it . Totally missed it on first playthrough

[@LinktheSamoyed]

I used the frost one in conjunction with pluck of many. Seemed to do really well cos you can freeze and not get in the way of the other monke

[@gregorycanivet7692]

It will help me a lot thanks !

[@ELITEEMPLOYEE-e9v]

thanks for this tier list!

[@choealiac]

great video mate (as always), now do a tier list of the other transformations tier lists u uploaded on discord lmao

[@jaco318]

Absolutely changed my outlook on transformations. Missed the horse on my first run (i was cheated!) so anxiously running through ng+

[@jojods16]

Just here to say we're proud of you

[@Sombersamurai]

Also something to note the stone monkey form can replenish health with combinations of light and heavy attack it seems

[@Attilathepun]

Ashen Slumber's self destruct also makes you invulnerable when it is being performed.

[@Andrew-jq5uw]

Violet hail is potential S for me due to you being able to melt bosses as your clones burst eggs too. So essentially you pluck of many once then use the refresh potion cast it again (use old ginseng guai spirit seal for overkill) activate needle then transform you completely shit on bosses that don't go invincible or fly

[@FCE_Aba]

Violet hail also has a self destruct poison attack that I've been using a lot for a poison build.

[@adawg3032]

Erlang doesn’t attack azure dust because he has a 3rd eye and can see the future basically he lets you walk around and do nothing while in rock form

[@CastielsSol]

The ONLY bad thing about stone monkey is how much you get staggerd out of charging

[@kinggawdxilla1287]

You definitely taught me something

[@Demonic_editzz-px2nc]

I’ve heard a lot of other people say the stone monkey is the best transformation in the game

[@zenoafro]

I was using that fire transformation till the end game just changed it right during the Erlang fight(2nd last boss) then I finally understood Yellow Loong is actually good😆😆

[@hendrickyoung5359]

hoarfrost carried me to defeat yellow loong and yaksha king. transform when 3 focus, use skill then spam heavy attack

[@btkt6464]

its not a glitch, there is a reason why you get these two abilities(the worm transformation and the needle) one right after the other

[@Mazysickly77]

You forgot that the stone monkey can use his clone spell Whatever element you have the clone will have the opposite

[@Dwaniel]

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES NEW VIDEO

[@Mad_fly48]

I like Macaque a lot. It fits my magic burst build very well. Consider that u can unlock this transformation from the start of chapter 4 and almost all the difficult bosses are from the last half of the game.

[@BrandonGrubb-e9i]

Preforming see through stacks for me is the most difficult thing I’m in chapter 5 and I’ve seen through attacks just a handful of times I play all the souls games and parrying has never been this difficult so the looong is d tier for me

[@yashwanthbalakrishnan9100]

I used red tides until I got yellow loong. He’s a legend

[@Bleedthefreak]

I fucking HATE the way violet hail looks it’s awful…couldn’t we have gotten a cobra or something? That being said….i do use it on my centipede spellbinder build, pop the needle, transform poison tf outta things, explode, reapply poison with scorpion prince, spellbinder, death stinger and melt everything but rocks

[@forciventity6]

just saying, yellow loong's dive bomb attack only requires 1 focus point, it just does more damage with 3. I prefer to just get my 1 focus point, dive bomb x3, then repeat the whole thing for 6 total dive bombs before exiting transformation

[@SuperoirXvX]

Yo the monkey has just breezed me thro the late game like destroying bosses

[@paolocassatella5466]

I was waiting for this

[@gregorycanivet7692]

Hi Syrobe What Will be your next game ? It’s very helpful to play the same game as you

[@ueatbetteritrainbetter6706]

I’m on chapter 4 and I didn’t know I could change animals now I need to figure out how to😂 😅

[@LaZeRInfinityy]

Great video Syrobe! Very informative and helpful. I just had a question. What mod did you use to spawn in medicines on your one hit speedrun?

[@joshberg307]

I guess i was playing the game wrong lol i used red tides then hoarfrost lol.

[@happyduke99]

what move is that at 16:42?? how do u do double fire nova?

[@leoultimaupgraded9914]

My current ranking is Red Tides, then Azure Dust I only have 2 transformations and I’ve made it to (I think?) the final boss of chapter 3 lol

[@FlavourForge]

A new tierlist has dropped!

[@JamesJohnsonQ]

The poison transformation should have been a spider or the scorpion lord. Way cooler

[@Ethical228]

Lets gooooo!! New video

[@litness5751]

I’m ngl Macaque to me should be B however I’m biased bc I was able to utilize him during erlang and wukongs broken shell and I liked his agility

[@XiD0]

oh and erlang calls you sluggish when you turn into rock bwai. hahaa

[@jang_mike]

Erlang doesn't attack azur dust he just stand there and mocking

[@MagdiEl-bizri-y4f]

Macaque should be a low b in my opinion it does great damage but too little might would be a mid b if it had more might because it does good damage but I agree with everything else

[@Cosmic_Sage1108]

Red tides saved me 100 times

[@someguy233]

Hoar frost can stunlock for its entire night bar. Easy A tier.

[@Sombersamurai]

Erlong also makes fun of the rock form🤣

[@goldenfruty4291]

bro for azure dome the dmg reduction is a good thing??? wdym it gets worse as the game goes on? edit: they removed the -16% damage cuz i dont have it or might be a ring of fire exclusive debuff as I prefer the ice version

[@jamesdaniel9033]

everytime i play usingg azure dust erlang uses bird to break me out of the form so id say its f tier cause atleast with the rest you can hopefully dodge the breakout

[@Lex_Steal]

11:30 I am a dumb dumb! I was only pressing triangle and not holding it! 🤦‍♂

[@alitaylor3955]

The first b tier transformation is worth to be in S tier ngl

[@TheVDaddyo]

Absolutely amazing video!! Best explanation of transformations I’ve seen *anywhere*. Solid & entertaining commentary. First time visiting your channel… subbed 😎👍💪🏻🔥🙏

[@JasbirSingh-op5vq]

And I thought red tides was only tranformation

[@tubii-fushii1173]

I was with till you put red tides in B tier smh, that transformation carries you through end game lvl

[@RyanWilliams-ez1rh]

Hoarfrost let me beat the flying fish by throwing ice from the ground

[@hurikan04]

THis Video came in clutch i was looking for a good video about transformations, game tells you shit about them

[@OppaHan]

Am i the only one do think hoarfrost looks cool?

[@ReformMsia]

Thank You

[@Its_MTG]

never thought I'd hear Syrobe talk about Erlang being.. formcist.. 😭

[@Cosmic_Sage1108]

i beat erlang shen using hoarfrost ONLY

[@xtxfficial9810]

Do a spirit tier list!!!!

[@graphicmage]

Never switched from stone monkey since i get it :P

[@xli4n609]

I remember hearing that Er Lang doesnt interact with Azure dust bc you are basically „kneeling“ and „begging“ in front of him, and he is kinda showing mercy…kinda disrespecful💀but somehow makes sense

[@SimplyJustDavid]

Are you playing on ng++?

[@planetbizzaro1839]

Ok. The Macaque is the BEST transformation and pretty much the only one I use. Just mash L2 and you crush with it. Excuse me, R2

[@ruskikote5981]

hey you know thad the macaque transformacion can heal you and wukong upon tranformacion

[@Gyno-Mackima]

I thought you said you weren’t gonna be ranking them based off of op builds or any sort of setup to make the transformation better, just the transformation itself. But then you put violet hail in A tier bc of an interaction with weaver’s needle that could potentially be a glitch. That heal is nice tho but this transformation doesn’t push passed B tier on its own. But if we’re looking at actual builds and utilizing any glitches I’d try using clones before transforming. Haven’t tested myself but I’m assuming they’ll also plant eggs AND keep agro while you chill in the back of the arena. Not only would you get massive damage but after your transformation has run out the boss will still be poisoned. Pushing it to A tier but also niche

[@btkt6464]

its not a glitch, there is a reason why you get these two abilities(the worm transformation and the needle) one right after the other

[@y44ctt]

Hoarfrost is actually good 😭😭😭

[@Crispysphinx52]

My goat

[@Zzzjian89]

I'm only getting 1 dive bomb even with 3 stacks on my yellow loong's focus. am i bugging out or is there some kind of RNG to this? (FYI i didn't miss the guy, he just only does 1 dive bomb ==) HELP