Wukong

Playstyle Profile

Wukong is a diver — disrupts the backline by committing onto enemy carries

Teamfight Role

Backline Diver

Power Spike

Mid game

Split Threat

None

Backline Access

Low

Wukong's Strengths

• Disrupts the enemy backline — Wukong's dives force carries to reposition instead of dealing damage

How to Play Wukong

Champion-specific pre-match tips

Gameplay tips on Summoner's Rift

Lane Phase

Reset your basic attacks with Q to maximize burst damage when the enemy steps forward to last hit.

Lane Phase

Cast W to instantly drop minion aggro and dodge retaliation damage immediately after committing to an E-auto-Q trade.

Lane Phase

Extend early skirmishes until your passive armor and regeneration fully stack from continuous combat to heavily swing the health trade in your favor.

Mid Game

Flank skirmishes by casting W from the fog of war or over terrain to walk into engage range, saving E to follow enemy flashes.

Mid Game

Cancel your first R cast with Q or E as soon as the priority targets are knocked up, allowing you to burst and reposition before triggering your second R.

Mid Game

Push side waves past the river before grouping for neutral objectives, holding W solely to guarantee your escape if enemies collapse on your split.

Late Game

Cast W close to the enemy formation before pressing R to duplicate your knockup radius and disrupt both the frontline and the backline simultaneously.

Late Game

Strike your primary dive target with Q before activating R to apply the armor reduction, heavily amplifying the physical damage of both your ultimate and your clone.

Late Game

Delay your teamfight engage from the fog of war until the enemy backline uses their primary mobility spells or defensive flashes.

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Gameplay tips in Arena

• Use W to hide the real engage, Q before and after E as cooldowns allow, and save R2 until the enemy lands from the first knock-up. Clone position should confuse focus.
• Build Sundered Sky, Trinity Force, Black Cleaver, and Divine Sunderer. Haste and shred support two Cyclone passes.
• Prioritize Dashing, Mystic Punch, Courage of the Colossus, and It's Killing Time. Mobility and repeated control preserve the clone-assisted brawl.

Wukong Build

This might not be your familiar build. We look at ranked games after each item was bought. If the player or team gained ground in gold, we rate that item higher.

Core

• Trinity Force
• Plated Steelcaps (Boots)
• Sundered Sky

Situational

• Guardian Angel
• Death's Dance
• Sterak's Gage
• Black Cleaver
• Terminus
• Chempunk Chainsword
• Serpent's Fang

Wukong Runes

The most popular rune page and summoner spells for Wukong in ranked games over the last 30 days.

Precision + Inspiration · 52.6% WR · 42,177 games

• Conqueror
• Triumph
• Legend: Alacrity
• Last Stand
• Magical Footwear
• Cosmic Insight
• Attack Speed
• Adaptive Force
• Health Scaling

Summoner spells

Flash, Smite

Wukong Skill Order

The recommended skill order for Wukong from ranked games over the last 90 days: the first three skill points, then the order to max abilities.

1. lvl 1: E
2. lvl 2: Q
3. lvl 3: W
4. max: Q
5. max: E
6. max: W

How to Counter Wukong

Counter strategies and draft context

kite with range, burst before they sustain, or outscale with team-oriented compositions

• Vulnerable to CC during dives — Wukong commits hard and can be punished if locked down
• Ranged champions that maintain distance in trades
• Burst-heavy picks that kill before sustain matters
• Team compositions with strong peel for carries

Wukong's Weaknesses

Layered crowd control and peel lock Wukong down mid-dive.

Best Synergies with Wukong

Team synergies and draft context

A second diver splits enemy focus alongside Wukong, since two divers are harder to peel than one. Engage supports set up skirmishes in your favor. Allies with follow-up crowd control chain onto your initial dive. Split-push compositions let you take 1v1s in a side lane.

Draft Context

• Drafts another diver with no backline carry — Wukong disrupts, but the team has no sustained damage

Learning Curve

Based on 1.2M+ matches across all ranked elos, showing how Wukong's win rate changes with mastery level

Wukong has exceptional depth — there is always something new to learn, but getting results takes patience. Expect lower win rates early while building the experience to unlock this champion's potential.

Skill Cap

Very High

Cost of Learning

High