Irelia vs Wukong
How to Beat Wukong as Irelia
based on 1,116 Irelia vs Wukong matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Irelia vs Wukong Matchup Summary
Best Irelia vs Wukong Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Wukong as Irelia
Tips for Playing as Irelia against Wukong
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
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.
Irelia vs Wukong Counter Stats
How to Counter Wukong with Irelia in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight several strategic Irelia against Wukong matchup statistics that can help you figure out the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. As an example, Irelia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Wukong’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Irelia may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Wukong..
Irelia usually has a similar longest kill spree as her matchup does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Wukong. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Irelia and Wukong
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Who is Better, Irelia or Wukong?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Irelia usually loses when playing against Wukong, with a 47.1% win rate. Therefore, Irelia makes a poor counter for Wukong.
While Irelia does have a lower winrate than Wukong, when facing one another, Irelia also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more complex champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Irelia into Wukong.
Moreover, Irelia 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 fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Irelia vs Wukong matchups, Wukong is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Irelia is a bad counter for Wukong. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Irelia against Wukong.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Irelia in order to counter Wukong during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Irelia often accumulates more CS compared to Wukong. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Irelia versus Wukong build include Sterak's Gage, Blade of The Ruined King, and Death's Dance. When Irelia bought at least these three items in her build, she performed much better against Wukong than with most other typical builds. In fact, Irelia boasted an average winrate of 47.1% when playing against Wukong with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of crushing Wukong as Irelia, Irelia players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Irelia vs Wukong battles, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.1% win rate overall.
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