Bard vs Wukong
How to Beat Wukong as Bard
based on 1,136 Bard vs Wukong matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Wukong Matchup Summary
Best Bard vs Wukong Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Wukong as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Wukong
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
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.
Bard vs Wukong Counter Stats
How to Counter Wukong with Bard in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some critical Bard against Wukong matchup stats that may help you figure out the differences and similarities between this set of champions. For instance, Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Wukong’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Wukong. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Bard often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. On average, he takes less damage than Wukong. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Bard and Wukong
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Who is Better, Bard or Wukong?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Bard usually fairs equally well when playing against Wukong, with a 50.5% win rate. Therefore, Bard makes an ok counter to Wukong.
While Bard does have a higher win rate than Wukong, when on opposite teams, Bard also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Bard into Wukongas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Bard has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Wukong. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Bard vs Wukong matchups, Bard is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Bard is a decent counter to Wukong. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Bard against Wukong.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Bard in order to counter Wukong during both the laning 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 listen to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard most often gets a lot less CS relative to Wukong. Champs who typically don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Bard versus Wukong build include Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Bloodsong. When Bard bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs. Wukong than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Bard boasted an average win rate of 50.5% when playing against Wukong with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Wukong as Bard, Bard players should equip the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Relentless Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Bard vs Wukong clashes, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.5% win rate overall.
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