Kindred vs Wukong
How to Beat Wukong as Kindred
based on 803 Kindred vs Wukong matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kindred vs Wukong Matchup Summary
Best Kindred vs Wukong Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Wukong as Kindred
Tips for Playing as Kindred against Wukong
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
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.
Kindred vs Wukong Counter Stats
How to Counter Wukong with Kindred in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize several valuable Kindred vs. Wukong matchup statistics that may help you figure out the distinctions between the two. For instance, Kindred’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Wukong’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Kindred may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Wukong..
Kindred typically has a similar longest kill spree as their counter does. On average, they takes a similar amount of damage to Wukong. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kindred and Wukong
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Who is Better, Kindred or Wukong?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kindred usually loses when playing against Wukong, with a 48.7% win rate. Thus, Kindred makes a bad counter to Wukong.
While Kindred does have a lower win rate than Wukong, when facing one another, Kindred also has a greater learning curve that makes them a more difficult champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Kindred into Wukong.
Furthermore, Kindred also has almost no 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 is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kindred 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 allies during late stage team fights.
Kindred is a somewhat poor counter to Wukong. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kindred against Wukong.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Kindred in order to counter Wukong during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kindred typically gets less CS compared to Wukong. Champions who typically don't take much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Kindred versus Wukong build include Trinity Force, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Kindred combined at least these three items in their build, they performed a lot better when fighting Wukong than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kindred boasted an average winrate of 48.7% when countering Wukong with these items in their kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Wukong as Kindred, Kindred players should equip the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Kindred vs Wukong counters, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.7% winrate overall.
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