Monk – Way of The Monkey

Monks of the Way of the Monkey prioritises nimble movement and powerful grips. Practitioners of this style climb and leap around the battlefield, controlling their opponents with grapples and throws. Size, shape, and weight are nothing to masters of the Way of the Monkey, who overpower opponents many times their size and strength with their mystical grips.

Way of The Monkey

Monk Level Feature 3rd Bonus Proficiencies, Monkey Grip 6th Climb the Tree 11th Steal the Fruit 17th Hands of the Monkey King

Bonus Proficiencies

You are as crafty and nimble as the monkey. When you choose this tradition at 3rd level, you gain proficiency in the Acrobatics and Sleight of Hand skills. If you are already proficient in either of these skills, you add double your proficiency bonus to skills you make with them.

Monkey Grip

Starting at 3rd level you gain the following benefits:

When you attempt to grapple or shove a creature, you can make a Dexterity (Acrobatics) check instead of a Strength (Athletics) check.

You can attempt to grapple or shove any time you could make an unarmed strike, including as part of your Martial Arts or Flurry of Blows.

Creatures you are grappling have disadvantage on attacks against you.

If you release a grappled creature or make a successful shove attempt, you can use your Step of the Wind feature without spending a ki point.

Climb the Tree

At 6th level, when a creature misses you with a melee attack roll and you are grappling a creature, you can spend 1 ki point as a reaction to cause that attack to hit the creature you are grappling.

In addition, you gain a climbing speed equal to your walking speed, which increases in line with your Unarmoured Movement.

Steal the Fruit

Starting at 11th level, attacks of opportunity against you have disadvantage. Also, your speed is not halved when you move with a grappled creature

Hands of the Monkey King

Starting at 17th level, you can grapple creatures of any size, and creatures that are immune to the grappled condition. However, creatures more than one size larger than you have advantage on checks made to resist or escape your grapple, and your movement speed while grappling them is halved despite your Steal the Fruit feature.