#he could barely yell back against the mayor while wukong made him bleed

[wolfcamellias]

Macaque isn’t that strong; his top move is using illusions, glamors and projections to make himself appear as strong

Even in the book the truth is that if he were more powerful then he wouldn’t have been killed with a single strike by the cudgel — he, most likely, was on par with Wukong because he was using the equivalent of mimic

E.g if a rock shares the same hardness with another rock it will not scratch nor break it

SWK was essentially fighting HIMSELF in that battle not the SIX EARED MACAQUE

Macaque getting easily beaten in the show feels right not because he’s weak but because it parallels to how SWK beat him in JTTW — Macaque is NOT a fighter, he’s a manipulator and a magic user, he relies on his shadows to pin Wukong down, he relies on Xiaotian’s own magic to power boost himself, he wasn’t defeated by Xiaojiao because she hit his SHADOW PUPPET not him

Xiaotian dived through and hit his eye directly, that’s why he recoiled

He’s not a fighter, he’s a support and ranged attacker because out of every single fight he’s had he uses tricks, magic and his shadows to fight, never hand-to-hand because that’s not what his specialty is.

And, no, being one of the four celestial primates doesn’t mean he’s powerful.

#thoughts #hes not even a shapeshifter hes just a glamor magician #🤔 macaque only transforms into an eagle and a wolf #meanwhile SWK has done a tiger bear butterfly turtle eagle and can do plenty others #swk = shapeshifter #macaque = illusionist #case and point hes… just there skcnskxn #i like him. but i think ppl give him too much credit smtimes homeboy’s not that strong #he could barely yell back against the mayor while wukong made him bleed