Brewmaster Monk
Shado-Pan
With the Single-Button Assistant and its cooldowns, Brewmaster Monk (Shado-Pan) deals 91% of perfect manual play in M+ dungeons (rank 1 of 12) and 80% of perfect manual play on a raid boss (rank 4 of 11).
At a glance
4-piece set · SimulationCraft's talents · share of manual DPS kept
| Fight | Manual DPS | SBA + cooldown | SBA alone | Assisted Highlight | Rank (SBA + cooldown) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M+ dungeon | 118,679 | 91.0%−9.03% | 74.2%−25.77% | 87.1%−12.93% | 1 of 12 |
| Raid boss | 113,272 | 79.5%−20.47% | 64.7%−35.26% | 76.7%−23.32% | 4 of 11 |
What the assistant costs
M+ dungeon · 4-piece set · SimulationCraft's talents · data as of 2026-10-23 12:52 UTC
- Manual118.7Kreference
- SBA + cooldown108.0K91% of manual
- SBA alone88.1K74% of manual
- Assisted Highlight103.3K87% of manual
Cooldowns and defensives
Cooldowns in SBA + cooldown
The button alone never presses these. In SBA + cooldown you press them on your own keys, with your potion and on-use trinket, and the simulator presses them on time.
Defensives the button never presses
Checked in game: they are not in the Single-Button Assistant's list. Press them yourself.
Best talents for the button
For one-button play on a raid boss, import this build: +22.9% damage with SBA + cooldown over our standard build.
Best of 350 builds tested with the button on the raid boss (2026-10-22): our standard build, the 3 most played builds on Warcraft Logs for this hero talent, then every single talent swap from the best of them. Defensive talents are locked: the search never trades survival for damage. Found from Warcraft Logs build #2 (5 of 88 runs).
Searched on the raid boss only: SimulationCraft does not support tanks in its dungeon fight, so AoE talents for Mythic+ are not tested.
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Where the damage comes from
M+ dungeon · 4-piece set · SimulationCraft's talents · data as of 2026-10-23 12:52 UTC
Damage per second and casts per ability, averaged over the simulated fights. Pets and summons show their own name in brackets.
| Ability | Manual | SBA + cooldown | SBA + cooldown vs manual |
|---|---|---|---|
 Flurry Strike (Shado Over The Battlefield) | 20.9K17.7% | 17.6K16.3% | −3,321 |
 Keg Smash | 16.5K13.9% · 51.4 casts | 18.3K17.0% · 49.5 casts | +1,824 |
 Tiger Palm | 18.0K15.2% · 85.2 casts | 12.0K11.2% · 56.2 casts | −5,911 |
 Font of Venomous Rage | 8,2046.9% · 2 casts | 5,4005.0% · 2 casts | −2,804 |
 Blackout Kick | 7,0365.9% · 89.1 casts | 6,4716.0% · 80.4 casts | −565 |
| Flurry Strike | 6,5795.6% | 6,3795.9% | −200 |
 Breath of Fire | 5,8374.9% · 54.8 casts | 5,7725.4% · 47.3 casts | −65 |
 Guillotine | 5,4414.6% · 22.2 casts | 5,4025.0% · 22.1 casts | −39 |
| Flurry Strike (Wisdom Of The Wall) | 5,1624.4% | 1,8791.7% | −3,283 |
| Melee (Main Hand) | 4,3243.7% · 129.4 casts | 4,1623.9% · 124.8 casts | −162 |
 Touch of Death | – | 3,8923.6% · 2.8 casts | +3,892 |
 Dragonfire Brew | 2,9992.5% · 99.3 casts | 3,3443.1% · 86.2 casts | +345 |
 Empty Barrel | 2,9262.5% | – | −2,926 |
| Venom Splatter | 2,8312.4% | 2,8452.6% | +14 |
 Fiery Shrapnel | 2,4052.0% | 2,8372.6% | +432 |
| Stomp (Invoke Niuzao, the Black Ox) | 8260.7% · 11.9 casts | 1,8901.8% · 22.4 casts | +1,064 |
 Exploding Keg | 1,4701.2% · 4.9 casts | 1,7961.7% · 2.9 casts | +326 |
 Aflame | 9950.8% | 1,2151.1% | +220 |
| Breath of Fire (DoT) | 9900.8% · 121 casts | 1,1271.0% · 144.5 casts | +137 |
 Rune of Unleashed Fire | 1,0590.9% · 50 casts | 1,0791.0% · 51 casts | +20 |
 Spinning Crane Kick (Tick) | – | 1,0641.0% | +1,064 |
 Jan'alai's Flames | 1,0470.9% · 6 casts | 1,0531.0% · 6.1 casts | +6 |
 Chi Wave (Damage) | 7520.6% | 7780.7% | +26 |
| Flurry Strike (Stand Ready) | 5750.5% | 5930.5% | +18 |
| Special Delivery | 4970.4% · 8.5 casts | – | −497 |
| Melee (Main Hand) (Invoke Niuzao, the Black Ox) | 4190.4% · 52.4 casts | 3960.4% · 49.9 casts | −23 |
 Rune of Lingering | 2980.3% · 50 casts | 3040.3% · 51 casts | +6 |
| Exploding Keg (Proc) | 2160.2% | 1990.2% | −17 |
| Expel Harm | 870.1% | – | −87 |
| Total | 118.4K | 107.9K | −10.5K |
A dash means the ability was never used in that mode. Damage is attributed the way SimulationCraft reports it, so a pet's damage appears under the pet.
Questions about Brewmaster Monk (Shado-Pan)
How much DPS does Brewmaster Monk (Shado-Pan) lose with the Single-Button Assistant?
With the Single-Button Assistant and its cooldowns, Brewmaster Monk (Shado-Pan) deals 91% of perfect manual play in M+ dungeons (rank 1 of 12) and 80% of perfect manual play on a raid boss (rank 4 of 11).
Related builds
Other hero talents of Brewmaster Monk
DPS lost with SBA + cooldown, 4-piece set, SimulationCraft's talents (a top player's build for the hero talents SimulationCraft has no profile for). All specs · Ranking
How it's measured, and its limits
- SBA + cooldown is a best case: the simulator never misplays. It is always better to sim your own character.
- Manual play is SimulationCraft's own rotation executed perfectly, so it is an upper bound for what a person can do, not a typical player.
- Assisted Highlight assumes every suggestion is seen and pressed at once, which is generous for a player reading the highlight.
- The M+ dungeon is SimulationCraft's own DungeonSlice fight style, its approximation of Mythic+ pulls, not a specific dungeon route. Nothing hits the tank there, so SimulationCraft does not support it for tanks.
- The raid boss is SimulationCraft's Patchwerk fight with a boss that hits the tank. Only damage is compared: survival is not measured.
Full method, reliability rule and patches: Sources · Simulated with SimulationCraft 1210-01 (WoW 12.1.5.70575) 710c240 +16 patches, 10,000 iterations per figure.