Wukong
Hardest matchups for Wukong in Jungle (Emerald, patch 16.20): 
Lillia, 
Zac, 
Rammus. Easiest: 
Nasus, 
Locke, 
Rengar.
Try it in a draftCountersPower curvesIn the tier listWho wins into WukongOn the pro tier list
Wukong on patch 16.22
- Jungle52.7%#1 of 74S17,464 games
- Top51.6%#14 of 103A2,432 games
- steady since 16.21
Wukong’s main role on patch 16.22 is Jungle: a 52.7% win rate across 17,464 Emerald games, #1 of 74 Jungle champions on the tier list (grade S), picked in 7.0% of games. Wukong is also played Top: a 51.6% win rate across 2,432 games, #14 of 103. Since patch 16.21, Wukong Jungle has not moved by more than chance explains: 0.2 points across 111,593 games in 8 ranks.
Emerald games from every region, as of Nov 9, 2026. The tables below load current numbers. Patch 16.22 tier list
Solo queue
Open in the tier listPatch 16.20, the current one
| Lane | Grade | Win rate | Games | Picked | Mains |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jungle87% of its games | S | 52.0%52.0% raw ±0.4 | 58,324 | 8.4%8.1% banned | 53.2%49.1% first time |
| Top11% of its games | A | 51.1%51.3% raw ±1.2 | 7,034 | 1.0%8.2% banned | 52.1%47.5% first time |
| Support1% of its games | too few games | 48.0%45.1% raw ±3.9 | 638 | 0.1%8.2% banned | 50.8%47.1% first time |
| Mid1% of its games | too few games | 49.1%47.6% raw ±4.0 | 601 | 0.1%8.1% banned | 50.5%46.7% first time |
| Bot0% of its games | too few games | 50.1%51.1% raw ±8.4 | 135 | 0.0%8.2% banned | 51.6%47.5% first time |
Matchups
Every matchupHow to read this
Wukong’s win rate against each champion picked into it in the lane opposite: its hardest matchups, then its easiest. The small number is the matchup’s own effect on Wukong, the part not explained by either champion’s strength.
Hardest for Wukong
Lane leads and team bans
What Wukong’s team bans
Champions a team bans more often when it has Wukong than the other team does in the same games (412,011 games). The other team banned before Wukong was picked, so the gap is the ban spent because Wukong was coming — a sign players see these as counters. Riot does not say which player cast a ban, so this is the team’s choice.
Builds
Every buildHow to read this
How Wukong is built in this lane, most common first, with the items those builds finish and how they win.
- AD bruiser
53.6%55,252 games - Lethality
53.2%2,278 games - Crit
52.2%262 games - On-hit
53.8%28 games - Tank
53.3%5 games
Runes and summoner spells
How to read this
How Wukong does with each summoner-spell pair, keystone and minor rune in this lane, at the rank and region above. These are the win rates of the players who made each choice, not the choice’s own effect: a page is recommended only when a real share of players runs it.
63,281 games · patches 16.20, 16.21 · Sep 10 – Oct 21
Flash + Smite52.0% · 63,184 games
ConquerorPrecision + Inspiration · 52.4%
Triumph · Legend: Alacrity · Last Stand · Magical Footwear · Cosmic InsightShards: Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Start: Scorchclaw Pup + Health Potion · 53.3%
Key items: Trinity Force → Black Cleaver · 53.8%
Boots: Mercury's Treads · 54.1%Every option, with its numbers
Summoner spells
- Flash + Smite52.0%63,184 games · 100% pick rate · the usual choiceRecommended
Keystones
- Conqueror + Inspiration52.4%53,325 games · 84% pick rate · the usual choiceRecommended
Conqueror + Domination50.2%7,989 games · 13% pick rate · same players: −0.4 pts vs the usual
Minor runes with Conqueror
- Triumph52.1%100% take it
- Legend: Alacrity52.0%98% take it
- Last Stand52.2%73% take it
Coup de Grace51.5%17% take it
Cut Down52.1%9.3% take it
- Magical Footwear52.4%97% take it
- Cosmic Insight52.3%93% take it
Triple Tonic53.1%7.0% take it
Cash Back52.4%3.0% take it
- Attack Speed52.0%97% take it
- Adaptive Force51.9%2.5% take it
- Adaptive Force52.0%100% take it
- Health Scaling52.0%90% take it
- Health51.4%5.7% take it
- Tenacity and Slow Resist52.4%4.1% take it
These numbers describe, they do not prove. Each rate is Wukong’s record when its player chose that option, pulled toward Wukong’s own rate by 100 games of prior so a small sample cannot look like a discovery. An uncommon page often wins more because experts run it, and they would win on any page, so only a choice taken in at least 10% of games can be recommended, and spells and keystones are ranked by how the SAME players do with them against the usual choice, not by the raw rate; rarer ones are listed with their numbers and labeled. The build line (opening buy, the two key items in the order they are finished, boots or the support upgrade) is advice in the same sense: how Wukong does when built that way.
The learning curve
Champion pool
On a first game Wukong wins 50.7%; in the hands of players with the most mastery on it, 52.9%. That gap ranks it 161 of 173 for how much practice pays. It is at 50% or better from the first games, under 5,000 mastery points.
Pro play
On the pro tier list
Wukong in the major leagues and international events this season, across 3,434 games: its record, how often it is picked or banned, whether it is taken blind or saved as a counter, its lane at 15 minutes, and the best pro on it.
| Lane | Win rate | Priority | Blind / counter | Lane @15 | Best pro |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jungle | 45.6%226W 299L | 24%24% in any lane | 63% counter | −87 gold | — |
| Top | 50.3%2W 0L | 0%24% in any lane | 100% counter | −662 gold | — |
How much knowing Wukong pays
Players on their Mastery band win 2.1 points more on Wukong than first-timers do: #161 of 173 champions for how much mastery pays.
At 300k+ mastery points, Wukong players win 52.9%: #47 of 173 champions for where mastery ends up. The fitted curve levels off at about 53.4%, and is half-way up by ~25K points.
WukongDots are the six mastery bands, placed at their mastery points. The line is the best-fitting curve that rises and levels off.
This is not a promise about your next game. Players do not reach a mastery band in a random order, and a champion someone loses on tends to get dropped before it reaches the high bands — so the right-hand side of every curve is partly survivors, not only practice.
Text summary of this page as it stood on Nov 9, 2026. The live tables on this page are current.
Wukong ranked-play summary
Most similar champions: Master Yi, Warwick, Briar.
Anonymous public figures recorded on Nov 9, 2026, when this page was built. The interactive tables on this page load current data.