Wukong with Leona
How to Synergize Wukong and Leona
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Wukong Leona Synergy Summary
Best Wukong vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Wukong and Leona
Tips for Playing as Wukong with Leona
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.
Advice to Understand How Leona Will Play
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.
Wukong Leona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Leona as Wukong in LoL
The Wukong Leona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Leona, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Wukong sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Leona. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Leona helps Wukong perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Wukong plays on the same team as Leona, he observes a little increase in his total damage dealt. This may signal that Leona provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Wukong is played together with Leona on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Leona.
Moreover, when Wukong plays with Leona on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Leona does a poor job of protecting Wukong during team fights.
Synergies between Wukong and Leona
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Is Wukong better when played alongside Leona?
There is no perfect synergy for Wukong that will always be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Leona is a good teammate for Wukong. By locking into the same side as Wukong, she increases their win rate by 2.3% to 51.7%. This demonstrates that there is a somewhat important synergy between Wukong and Leona that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Leona has a greater difficulty than Wukong. That means you need to be cautious when lining up Leona allies to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing alongside, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to buff allies and debuff enemies. Together, these champions may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Wukong and Leona together, you may not be giving your team much AP. Plan to pick other champs on your team that fills this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Leona ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Wukong in order to work well with Leona during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to have in your Wukong and Leona synergy build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Spear of Shojin. When Wukong included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Leona than with most other common builds. In fact, Wukong had an average winrate of 51.7% when playing alongside Leona with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Wukong and Leona pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Leona with Wukong are presented for every ranked division. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a particular division, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.