Wukong guide: build, runes, matchups and mistakes to avoid

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Wukong in figures

Games in the jungle

27,69087.5% of its games

Win rate

52.3%

Pick rate

≈ 8.4%

Ban rate

≈ 6.4%

The figures come from 378,251 ranked solo games on EUW (patches 16.18 to 16.21, Riot’s official API, up to 24 October 2026): the same sample as Gankademy’s champion pages. “≈”: a figure the app gives as indicative.

Strengths and weaknesses

When Wukong is strongest

The build that wins most

A build, here, is the order of the first three finished items. Out of the 4,644 Wukong games in the jungle where they are known, the three most-played paths:

Build	Items	Played	Win rate
Death’s Dance	››	48%	≈ 58.1%
Guardian Angel	››	9%	≈ 62.7%
Anti-magic	››	8%	≈ 51.0%

Trinity Force then Black Cleaver open all three most-played builds; only the third item changes. Death’s Dance, by far the most common, is the reference; Guardian Angel wins even more often, on far fewer games, and Maw of Malmortius, bought against magic damage, wins least.

With build 1, the game most often starts with Scorchclaw Pup + Health Potion + Stealth Ward, and the boots are Plated Steelcaps (59% of games).

Depending on the game

What build 1’s players buy next (5% of its games or more):

Item	Bought	Why
Guardian Angel	23%	vs burst (×1.09)
Maw of Malmortius	13%	vs burst (×1.04)
Sterak’s Gage	11%	damage

×: how many times as often it is bought against that need (191,000 games checked by Gankademy).

Skill order

Level by level, the most-played order in the jungle: 77% of the 1,699 games where Wukong reaches level 18.

Q		2		4	5		7		9
W			3											14	15		17	18
E	1							8		10		12	13
R						6					11					16

Runes and summoner spells

The most-played rune pages of Wukong in the jungle, by keystone and trees:

Page	Games	Win rate
ConquerorPrecision + Inspiration	21,597	52.7%
ConquerorPrecision + Domination	4,847	51.5%
ElectrocuteDomination + Precision	618	48.1%
ConquerorPrecision + Resolve	194	53.6%

Conqueror is Wukong’s keystone in almost every game: with Inspiration, it is the most-played and best-winning of the big pages; with Domination, it loses about a point. Electrocute, rare, wins clearly less.

Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Cosmic Insight, Magical Footwear

Summoner spells: Flash + Smite in over 99% of games.

Matchups: the easiest and the hardest

Wukong’s win rate against each opponent in the same role, against the usual 52.3%: the gap in points, from 200 games.

Easiest against

Opponent	Games	Win rate	Gap
Zed	240	≈ 59.6%	+7.3
Lee Sin	863	57.7%	+5.4
Hecarim	608	≈ 57.6%	+5.3
Rengar	518	≈ 56.6%	+4.3

Hardest against

Opponent	Games	Win rate	Gap
Volibear	329	≈ 45.6%	−6.7
Cho’Gath	989	45.9%	−6.4
Lillia	960	46.5%	−5.8
Amumu	543	≈ 47.0%	−5.3

Wukong’s hardest matchups are tanks who soak his dive and answer with crowd control — Volibear, Cho’Gath, Amumu — and Lillia, who runs from his dive and puts to sleep whoever she has marked. Against them, dive only once their control is down. Against Zed, Lee Sin, Hecarim or Rengar, who must come close to fight, your ultimate knocks up whoever dives in: wait for their entry, then spin.

Matchup sheet

The 12 most frequent opponents in the jungle. The difficulty is the app’s: the gap with the usual 52.3%, and whether it holds.

Opponent	Games	Win rate	Difficulty
Viego	1,522	51.6%	Even
Kayn	1,414	53.7%	Even
Master Yi	1,139	50.6%	Even
Shyvana	1,001	49.8%	Even
Cho’Gath	989	45.9%	Hard
Lillia	960	46.5%	Hard
Briar	931	51.2%	Even
Lee Sin	863	57.7%	Easy
Kha’Zix	813	54.0%	Even
Shaco	768	50.4%	Even
Graves	756	≈ 56.0%	Easy
Nocturne	734	≈ 55.3%	Easy

Bans to consider

The opponents Wukong beats least often in the jungle, among those met at least 300 times:

Opponent	Win rate	Games
Volibear	≈ 45.6%	329
Cho’Gath	45.9%	989
Lillia	46.5%	960

What the specialists do

14 players of the sample play Wukong in at least 40% of their games, and at least 30 times. Their 524 games in the jungle, against all its players:

	Specialists	All players
Win rate	≈ 53.8%	52.3%
Build	Same 49%	›› 48%
Rune page	Same 96%	78%
Skills maxed	Same 80%	Q›E›W 88%

Same choices as all the players. Their win rate: 1.5 points higher.

The most frequent mistakes

Two habits measured on the 6,901 games with a timeline, then the champion’s own mistakes. These gaps go with losing without proving the cause.

• Dying before 15 minutes. 52% of games have two or more deaths before the 15th minute; they win only 42.5%, against 64.2% when Wukong dies once or less (48% of games). Instead: early on, Wukong wins skirmishes near his lanes, not long duels in the enemy jungle. Check where their jungler last showed before you invade, close in with your E when you gank, and keep your W to get out.
• Falling behind on farm. At 10 minutes, games with 62 minions and monsters or fewer (28%) win 45.7%; those with 74 or more (25%), 61.7%. Instead: Wukong’s power comes with Trinity Force. Clear full paths before your first gank and between two plays: the sooner you have it, the sooner your dives work.
• Electrocute instead of Conqueror. Electrocute · Domination + Precision is taken in 618 Wukong games and wins 48.1%, against 52.7% for Conqueror · Precision + Inspiration. Instead: Conqueror.
• Spinning on the frontline. Your ultimate knocks up every enemy around you: cast next to their tank alone, it stops the one enemy who can take it. Instead: dash onto their carries with your E, or wait for their team to group, then spin.
• Spending the W to get in. Your W is your best way out: a dash and a moment unseen. Used to enter, it leaves you stuck in their team. Instead: go in with your E, and keep the W to leave or to dodge their key spell.

With Gankademy

These are the figures of Gankademy’s Wukong page: the draft compares your options against your lane opponent and imports your rune page in one click. The draft · The coaches · What it reads.

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