Space out your ability usage to get maximum effect from Petricite Burst.
Clever use of enemy ultimates can open up new possibilities to approach teamfights.
Wait for you or your enemy to reach low health before using Kingslayer for maximum effect.
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.
Wukong becomes tougher to kill when surrounded by his enemies. Try to isolate him to gain an advantage.
The stat comparisons shown here feature some influential Sylas against Wukong matchup stats that may help us explain the distinctions between this pair of champions. Sylas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Wukong’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Sylas may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Wukong..
Sylas typically has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Wukong. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Sylas usually loses when taking on Wukong, with a 45.2% win rate. Thus, Sylas makes a bad counter to Wukong.
While Sylas does have a much lower win rate compared to Wukong, when facing one another, Sylas also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Sylas into Wukong.
Additionally, Sylas also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Wukong. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Sylas vs Wukong matchups, Wukong is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Sylas is a garbage counter to Wukong. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Sylas against Wukong.
If you would like to truly master Sylas in order to counter Wukong during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sylas usually gets more CS as Wukong. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Sylas versus Wukong build include Everfrost, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Cosmic Drive. When Sylas combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs Wukong than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Sylas had an average win rate of 45.2% when countering Wukong with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Wukong as Sylas, you should equip the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Sylas vs Wukong counter picks, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 45.2% winrate overall.
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