Katarina vs Wukong
How to Beat Wukong as Katarina
based on 1,519 Katarina vs Wukong matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Wukong Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Wukong Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Wukong as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Wukong
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina vs Wukong Counter Stats
How to Counter Wukong with Katarina in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight some valuable Katarina vs. Wukong counter statistics that can help us realize the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Wukong’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Wukong..
Katarina typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she takes less damage than Wukong. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Katarina and Wukong
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Who is Better, Katarina or Wukong?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Katarina usually loses when playing against Wukong, with a 48.7% win rate. As a result, Katarina makes a bad counter to Wukong.
While Katarina does have a lower win rate than Wukong, when facing one another, Katarina also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more complex champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Katarina into Wukongas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Katarina also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Wukong. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Wukong matchups, Wukong is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Katarina is a somewhat poor counter for Wukong. Focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Katarina against Wukong.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Katarina to counter Wukong during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina most often gets more CS compared to Wukong. Champs who on average don't earn much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Katarina versus Wukong build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Katarina used at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting Wukong than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Katarina boasted an average win rate of 48.7% when countering Wukong with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Wukong as Katarina, Katarina players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Katarina vs Wukong counters, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.7% win rate overall.
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