Wukong vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Wukong
based on 1,450 Wukong vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Wukong vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Wukong vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Wukong
Tips for Playing as Wukong against Leona
Decoy and Nimbus Strike work well together to quickly strike your enemy and get out before they can retaliate.
Try using Decoy near brush to make an enemy overreact to your movement.
Advice to Win Against Leona
When Leona activates Eclipse, you have three seconds to get away from her before she deals damage.
Only foes in the center of Solar Flare get stunned, so you can often avoid this if you're quick.
Wukong vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Wukong in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several strategic Wukong vs. Leona counter statistics that can help us figure out the differences between the two. As an example, Wukong’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Leona’s ratio of NaN, showing that Wukong may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Leona. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Wukong often has a much larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he takes more damage than Leona. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Wukong and Leona
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Who is Better, Wukong or Leona?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Wukong usually loses when facing off against Leona, with a 47.8% win rate. Therefore, Wukong makes a poor counter for Leona.
While Wukong does have a lower winrate compared to Leona, when on opposite teams, Wukong also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming character to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Wukong into Leona.
Additionally, Wukong has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Leona. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Wukong vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Wukong is a trash counter to Leona. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Wukong against Leona.
Other Champion Matchups Against Wukong
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Wukong to counter Leona during both the lane 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 listen to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Wukong often racks up more CS as Leona. Champions who typically don't get much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Wukong versus Leona build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Spear of Shojin. When Wukong bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better against Leona than with many other common builds. In fact, Wukong had an average winrate of 47.8% battling Leona with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Leona as Wukong, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Wukong vs Leona fights, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.8% win rate overall.
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