Every figure shows its source. Where a source is missing, the number is a placeholder — and it is never written as fact.

By GamGem ResearchLast updated 20 Aug 2026 · 00:00

Wukong

the Monkey King

FighterTank

League of LegendsPatch 26.16TopRanked Solo/DuoEmerald+NA22,031 gamesSample data

Role snapshot (Top)

CTier
46.5%
Win Rate
4.3%
Pick Rate
8.3%
Ban Rate

22,031

Games

Moderate

Confidence

Matchup map (Top) — level 1–18

40%60%
≥ 60%
Nobody in this lane sits here.
55 – 60%
50 – 55%
45 – 50%
40 – 45%
< 40%

Conditional build matrix

vs AP Burstvs AD Assassinsvs Tanksvs Sustain
Mythic / Core
Core 2
Core 3
Boots
Situational

Popular build

10,134 games

46.9%Win Rate

FlashIgnite

Reliable build

7,270 games

45.6%Win Rate

FlashTeleport

High observed win rate

2,644 games

49.0%Win Rate

FlashExhaust

Runes

Primary: Resolve

  • Guardian
  • Shield Bash
  • Conditioning
  • Overgrowth

Secondary: Precision

  • Presence of Mind
  • Legend: Alacrity

Shards

+9 Adaptive Force

+9 Adaptive Force

+10-180 Health (based on level)

Skill order

Skill order
Q123456789101112131415161718
W123456789101112131415161718
E123456789101112131415161718
R123456789101112131415161718

Ability details

  • Stone Skin

    Wukong gains stacking armor and max health regeneration while fighting champions and monsters.

    Passive — never cast

  • Crushing Blow

    Wukong's next attack gains attack range, deals bonus damage, and reduces the target's armor for a few seconds.

    Cost 20 ManaCooldown 8/7.5/7/6.5/6sRange 250/275/300/325/350

  • Warrior Trickster

    Wukong becomes Invisible and dashes in a direction, leaving behind a clone that will attack nearby enemies.

    Cost 60/55/50/45/40 ManaCooldown 22/21/20/19/18sRange 275

  • Nimbus Strike

    Wukong dashes to a targeted enemy and sends out images to attack enemies near his target, dealing damage to each enemy struck.

    Cost 30/35/40/45/50 ManaCooldown 10/9.25/8.5/7.75/7sRange 650

  • Cyclone

    Wukong's extends his staff and spins it around repeatedly, gaining Move Speed.Enemies struck take damage and are knocked up.

    Cost 100 ManaCooldown 130/110/90sRange 315

Scaling — level 1–18

WukongTop average

Win Rate

1918

Damage / Min

1918

Gold / Min

1918

Counter plan — how to beat Wukong

  • Avoid extended fights — its sustain grows with every trade it survives

  • Build percentage damage — flat penetration falls off against the stats it stacks

  • Punish the cooldown — Wukong is exposed while its rotation is down

  • Ward the flank — vision is what turns its best opening into a worse one

  • Respect the spike — Riot rates the kit 3/10, so a practised player gets more out of it than the average

ARAM performance

B
51.3%
Win Rate
▲ 0.5%
3.0%
Pick Rate
▲ 0.6%
0.4%
Ban Rate
▲ 0.0%
Damage dealt
96.3%
Damage taken
106.7%
Healing
105.0%
Shielding
95.5%
Ability Haste
+14

Best ARAM build

Patch timeline

Riot’s notes

We hold the rates, not the balance log. What actually changed each patch is in Riot’s own notes.

  1. 26.16Live now+0.0
  2. 26.14Sample win rate across this patch+0.5
  3. 26.11Sample win rate across this patch-0.7
  4. 26.08Sample win rate across this patch+0.1
  5. 26.05Sample win rate across this patch-0.2

Share cheat sheet

Methodology

Data window
512,340 games on patch 26.16, Ranked Solo/Duo, NA. Last refreshed 20 Aug 2026.
Rank aggregation
Emerald+ and above, pooled. Splitting further leaves samples too small to separate a real effect from noise.
Role assignment
A champion is filed under the lanes it actually plays, not the one class it belongs to — which is why several appear in two.
Counters
A matchup, not a tier gap: how this champion does into that one specifically, over that pairing’s own games.
Minimum sample
The confidence indicator beside every rate is driven by how much of the window this champion appears in. A low reading means read the figure loosely, not that it is wrong.
Why a build is not a cause
The best-scoring build is the one the best-placed players happened to take. Correlation is what a rate can show; it is not evidence that buying those items caused the wins.
Where the numbers come from
Names, classes, lanes, abilities, items and runes are Riot Data Dragon. Win, pick and ban rates are derived samples — Riot publishes none of them, and nothing on this page presents one as measured.