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.
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some influential Nilah against Wukong counter statistics that can help us appreciate the differences between the pair. As an example, Nilah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Wukong’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nilah may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Wukong..
Nilah normally has a similar longest kill spree as their matchup does. Commonly, they takes less damage than Wukong. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nilah usually fairs equally well when facing off against Wukong, with a 49.3% win rate. As a result, Nilah makes an ok counter for Wukong.
While Nilah does have a lower win rate than Wukong, when facing one another, Nilah also has a much greater learning curve that makes them a more difficult character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Nilah into Wukongas their relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash their full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Nilah also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Wukong. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Nilah vs Wukong matchups, Wukong is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Nilah is a somewhat poor counter for Wukong. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Nilah against Wukong.
If you would like to truly master Nilah in order to counter Wukong during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nilah usually racks up more CS relative to Wukong. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Nilah versus Wukong build include Immortal Shieldbow, Navori Quickblades, and The Collector. When Nilah used at least these three pieces in their build, they did much better vs. Wukong than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nilah boasted an average win rate of 49.3% when playing against Wukong with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Wukong as Nilah, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Nilah vs Wukong clashes, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.3% winrate overall.
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