Leona vs Wukong
How to Beat Wukong as Leona
based on 1,450 Leona vs Wukong matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Wukong Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Wukong Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Wukong as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Wukong
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona vs Wukong Counter Stats
How to Counter Wukong with Leona in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature some vital Leona versus Wukong matchup stats that may help us distinguish the differences and similarities between these two champs. As an example, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Wukong’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Wukong. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Leona typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Wukong. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Leona and Wukong
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Who is Better, Leona or Wukong?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Leona usually wins when playing against Wukong, with a 52.2% win rate. As a result, Leona makes a good counter to Wukong.
While Leona does have a higher win rate compared to Wukong, when they face off with one another, Leona also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging champion to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Leona into Wukong.
Moreover, Leona also has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Wukong. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Leona vs Wukong matchups, Leona is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Leona is an above average counter for Wukong. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Leona against Wukong.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Leona to counter Wukong during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona often picks up less CS relative to Wukong. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Leona versus Wukong build consist of Thornmail, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona used at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when facing Wukong than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Leona had an average win rate of 52.2% when countering Wukong with this counter build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Wukong as Leona, you should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Leona vs Wukong clashes, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.2% win rate overall.
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