Leona with Wukong
How to Synergize Leona and Wukong
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Leona Wukong Synergy Summary
Best Leona vs Wukong Counter Build
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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.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
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 large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Wukong. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Wukong helps Leona perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Leona plays on the same team as Wukong, she sees a little increase in her complete damage output. This change could indicate that Wukong helps provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played alongside Wukong on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Wukong. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Wukong.
Additionally, when Leona plays with Wukong on the same side, she typically receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Wukong does a poor job of covering Leona in teamfights.
Synergies between Leona and Wukong
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Is Leona better when played alongside Wukong?
There is no top synergy for Leona that will 100% of the time be her best ally. Yet, overall, Wukong is a not very good ally for Leona. By being on the same side as Leona, he lowers their win rate by -1.8% to 49.3%. This signals that there is a bad bond between Leona and Wukong that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Wukong has a lower difficulty than Leona. That means Leona players don't need to be careful when arranging Wukong allies to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing together, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide a lot of utility for your team. Together, these champions should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
In contrast, by pairing Leona and Wukong together, you probably will not be giving your other allies much magical damage output. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that offsets this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Wukong ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Leona to pair well with Wukong during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to include in your Leona and Wukong synergy build consist of Evenshroud, Thornmail, and Bulwark of the Mountain. When Leona bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Wukong than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Leona boasted an average win rate of 49.3% when playing alongside Wukong with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, Leona players should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Leona and Wukong pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Wukong with Leona are shown for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a specific rank, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.