PASSIVE CRUSHING BLOWS
Wukong and his clones' attacks and abilities apply stacks of Crushing Blows. For each stack, Wukong and his clones deal increased damage to the target.
Wukong Wild Rift champion guide
Champion guide
What the Rift Lab holds on this champion: the kit as Riot publishes it, the build the lab reviewed, and the matchups it has documented. Anything the dataset does not record is left out rather than filled in.
- In-game title
- the Monkey King
- Official role
- FIGHTER, TANK
- Lane
- Jungle
- Difficulty
- Low
- Source tier
- S
Abilities
Riot's own text for each slot, in the order the champion learns them.
1 GOLDEN STAFF
Passively gives Wukong's next attack bonus range after casting an ability. Wukong's next attack deals additional damage and heals him.
2 WARRIOR TRICKSTER
Wukong becomes Invisible and dashes in a direction, leaving behind a clone that will attack enemies for reduced damage, mimicking Golden Staff and Cyclone.
3 NIMBUS STRIKE
Wukong dashes to a targeted enemy and sends out images to attack enemies near his target, dealing damage to each enemy struck, and grants Wukong a temporary Attack Speed increase.
ULTIMATE CYCLONE
Wukong extends his staff and spins it around repeatedly, gaining Movement Speed. Enemies struck take damage and are knocked up. Cyclone can be recast within a short time window.
Reviewed build
The reviewed purchase order and rune page for this champion. Every entry that has a page of its own is linked to it; an item the catalogue holds no page for is printed as a name rather than pointed at a page that does not exist.
Core build order
Runes
- Conqueror
- Unshakeable
- Bone Plating
- Perseverance
- Sudden Impact
Situational answers
One slot, changed when the enemy team changes the problem. These are answers, not automatic purchases.
- Enemy healingThornmail
- Enemy crowd controlMercury's Treads
Matchups
- 5reviewed counter links
- 5reviewed synergy links
Harder matchups
Useful alongside this pick
Ability text and the in-game title follow Riot's official Wild Rift champion pages. The tier letter is the external snapshot shown on the tier list, and the build is the Nexus reviewed snapshot — neither is a win rate.
Quick answers
Who counters Wukong in Wild Rift?
In the matchup data documented in Rift Lab, these are the harder matchups for Wukong: Rammus (Jungle), Kindred (Jungle), Lee Sin (Jungle), Kha'Zix (Jungle), Vi (Jungle). This is a documented matchup list, not a win rate: TheNexus does not publish win-rate or pick-rate figures it cannot source.
How do you play against Wukong in Wild Rift?
Riot's ability text for Wukong describes crowd control (a stun, root, knock-up, pull or similar) in CYCLONE (ultimate); a dash, leap or blink in WARRIOR TRICKSTER (ability 2), NIMBUS STRIKE (ability 3); healing or regeneration in GOLDEN STAFF (ability 1). Plan around those abilities before a trade or a fight. These notes are keyword matches over the ability text only, not a rating of how strong Wukong is, so read the full descriptions on this page.
What is the best build for Wukong in Wild Rift?
The Nexus-reviewed core build for Wukong, in purchase order: Sunfire Aegis then Divine Sunderer then Thornmail then Plated Steelcaps then Goredrinker. Runes: Conqueror, Unshakeable, Bone Plating, Perseverance, Sudden Impact. Situational swaps: against enemy healing: Thornmail; against enemy crowd control: Mercury's Treads. This is a reviewed snapshot (patch 7.2b), not a build ranked by win rate.
Which lane and role does Wukong play in Wild Rift?
Wukong is a Fighter and Tank by Riot's classification and is played in Jungle. Riot rates the difficulty Low. On our tier-list snapshot (patch 7.2b) it shows S tier from its external source, which is a snapshot letter and not a TheNexus win rate.
Every answer here is built from Rift Lab data and Riot's own ability text. Where the data is missing we say so instead of guessing.