Leona with Wukong
How to Synergize Leona and Wukong
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Leona Wukong Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Wukong
Tips for Playing as Leona with Wukong
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
Advice to Understand How Wukong Will Play
Decoy and Nimbus Strike work well together to quickly strike your enemy and get out before they can retaliate.
Try using Decoy near brush to make an enemy overreact to your movement.
Leona Wukong Synergy Stats
How to Play with Wukong as Leona in LoL
The Leona Wukong synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Wukong, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Leona sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Wukong. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Wukong helps Leona perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Leona is an ally to Wukong, she gets a marginal improvement in her full damage output. This difference could indicate that Wukong supports by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played alongside Wukong on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Wukong. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Wukong.
Moreover, when Leona plays with Wukong on the same side, she on average takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Wukong does a poor job of covering Leona in teamfights.
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Is Leona better when played alongside Wukong?
There is no top champion pairing for Leona that will 100% of the time be her ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Wukong is a very typical companion for Leona. By locking into the same side as Leona, he lowers their win rate by -0.5% to 51.7%. This signals that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Leona and Wukong that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Wukong has a lower difficulty than Leona. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Wukong allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
Working on the same side, Leona players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide utility and CC for your side. Combined, these champs will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Conversely, by bringing Leona and Wukong together, you will not be providing your other allies a great deal of AP. Make sure to include other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Wukong ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Leona in order to work well with Wukong during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Leona and Wukong synergy build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona incorporated at least these three great items in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Wukong than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Leona boasted an average win rate of 51.7% helping carry Wukong with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.7% winrate overall.
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