Xerath with Wukong
How to Synergize Xerath and Wukong
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Xerath Wukong Synergy Summary
Best Xerath vs Wukong Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Xerath and Wukong
Tips for Playing as Xerath with 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 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.
Xerath Wukong Synergy Stats
How to Play with Wukong as Xerath in LoL
The Xerath Wukong synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Wukong, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Xerath sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Wukong. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Wukong helps Xerath perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Xerath plays on the same team as Wukong, he observes a barely noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This change may signal that Wukong does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Xerath is played together with Wukong on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Wukong.
Moreover, when Xerath plays with Wukong on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Wukong does a poor job of protecting Xerath during team fights.
Synergies between Xerath and Wukong
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Is Xerath better when played alongside Wukong?
There is no top companion for Xerath that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, overall, Wukong is a below average teammate for Xerath. By locking into the same side as Xerath, he drops their win rate by -2.5% to 48.1%. This signals that there is a bad bond between Xerath and Wukong that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Wukong has a much lower diffuclty than Xerath. That means Xerath players don't need to be very careful when finding Wukong comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by pairing Xerath and Wukong together, you probably will not be providing your side much cover. We recommend you include other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Wukong teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Xerath in order to pair well with Wukong during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to build first in your Xerath and Wukong synergy build consist of Horizon Focus, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Xerath bought at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Wukong than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Xerath had an average winrate of 48.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Wukong with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Xerath and Wukong pairings, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.1% win rate overall.
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