Karma vs Wukong
How to Beat Wukong as Karma
based on 1,083 Karma vs Wukong matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Wukong Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Wukong Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Wukong as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Wukong
Don't be too conservative with Mantra. Gathering Fire is strongest in teamfights, making it easy to recharge Mantra multiple times.
Gathering Fire rewards aggressive play. Look to land abilities and basic attacks on your opponent to lower Mantra's cooldown and stay on the offensive.
When using Focused Resolve, slow your opponents with Inner Flame or speed yourself up with Inspire if you're having trouble sticking to a target.
Advice to Win Against Wukong
Wukong becomes tougher to kill when surrounded by his enemies. Try to isolate him to gain an advantage.
Wukong will often use Decoy after Nimbus Strike. Try delaying your abilities by a short amount of time to ensure that you're hitting the real Wukong.
Karma vs Wukong Counter Stats
How to Counter Wukong with Karma in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature some significant Karma vs. Wukong counter statistics that may help you grasp the differences between this set of champions. For instance, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Wukong’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Wukong. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Karma usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Wukong. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Karma and Wukong
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Who is Better, Karma or Wukong?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Karma usually fairs equally well when taking on Wukong, with a 49.7% win rate. Thus, Karma makes an ok counter for Wukong.
While Karma does have a lower win rate compared to Wukong, when facing one another, Karma also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Karma into Wukong.
Additionally, Karma also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Wukong. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Karma vs Wukong matchups, Wukong is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Karma is a somewhat poor counter to Wukong. Focus your actions on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Karma against Wukong.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Karma in order to counter Wukong during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma typically picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Wukong. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Karma versus Wukong build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Imperial Mandate, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma bought at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better against Wukong than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Karma had an average win rate of 49.7% battling Wukong with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Wukong as Karma, Karma players should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Karma vs Wukong matchups, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Wukong as Karma are given for all skill levels combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to an individual rank, you should use the selection menu located earlier on the page.