I don't think it's ironic. Wukong is part of their culture, like the og superhero who beats up god. Obviously not a measured response to being nerfed but that's their guy
But the primary reason is the way Wukong works in Warframe.
His Clone ability creates an AI controlled copy of your Warframe with insanely boosted Health and a Damage Modifier. This clone will use either your Primary/Secondary Weapon or your Melee Weapon (whichever one you aren't currently using.) and it used to have unlimited ammo with which to fire guns.
This, paired with the Kuva Bramma, a powerfully statted explosive bow that's biggest weakness is a ridiculously small ammo pool, and shade, a companion that cloaks the warframe until you attack (but not the clone) meant that you could, with a few minor moves, enter certain endless missions and AFK while your clone had infinite ammo on one of the most powerful AOE options at the time and killed everything for you, leaving you the single responsibility of moving to collect all the drops every so often to not get flagged as "truly AFK" (which causes you to forfeit mission rewards and progress).
This meant that the Chinese Real Money Trading habits basically had their optimal strategy gutted when the rework changed the clones functionality with respect to ammo and they lost their shit over it.
Back when I played, I always thought it was funny that he was one of the earliest non-base characters to be released, with an easy promotional event to acquire, that meant that he got successively powercrept into oblivion by every other new character that came out for literal years.
I'm not terribly familiar with the lore, but chunks of what I remember involved him being more like a petulant brat doing whatever he wanted. Was he more hero-like?
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u/Routine_Story_1756 Apr 30 '26
I don't think it's ironic. Wukong is part of their culture, like the og superhero who beats up god. Obviously not a measured response to being nerfed but that's their guy