Xerath vs Wukong
How to Beat Wukong as Xerath
based on 1,628 Xerath vs Wukong matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Xerath vs Wukong Matchup Summary
Best Xerath vs Wukong Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Wukong as Xerath
Tips for Playing as Xerath against Wukong
If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
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.
Xerath vs Wukong Counter Stats
How to Counter Wukong with Xerath in LoL
The stats provided here show several vital Xerath versus Wukong matchup statistics that may help us interpret the differences and similarities between the two. Xerath’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Wukong’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Xerath may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Wukong..
Xerath typically has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Wukong. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Xerath and Wukong
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Who is Better, Xerath or Wukong?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Xerath usually wins when facing off against Wukong, with a 53.0% win rate. Thus, Xerath makes a good counter for Wukong.
While Xerath does have a higher win rate than Wukong, when they face off with one another, Xerath also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champ to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Xerath into Wukongas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Xerath has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Wukong. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Xerath vs Wukong matchups, Xerath is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Xerath is a good counter to Wukong. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Xerath against Wukong.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Xerath in order to counter Wukong during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xerath typically racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Wukong. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Xerath versus Wukong build consist of Horizon Focus, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Xerath bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs Wukong than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Xerath boasted an average winrate of 53.0% battling Wukong with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Wukong as Xerath, Xerath players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Xerath vs Wukong counter picks, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 53.0% winrate overall.
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