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Wukong - Insanity

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Spells:

Ignite

Flash

Items

Start #1

Start #2

Start #3

Core Items

Boots

Offensive Items

Defensive Items

Doran's

Example Build

Ability Order

Wukong Passive Ability

Hi I'm ShortyHUN from League of Legends EUNE. This is my guide for Season 3 , also my second guide on MOBAFIRE.

is a bruiser champion, capable of both jungling and solo laning. Despite his lack of natural sustain, he's pretty hard to kill thanks to his and . As you progress in a gmae will become harder to kill, while dealing high burst and harass the enemy. Later in the game he is a very good initiator, he can easily CC the whole team and force out enemies from the teamfight. With his skill kit he can chase very effectively and deal high damage to take out the enemy fast.

I. Pros and Cons
III. Masteries
V. Champion Skills
VII. Gameplay
IX. Matchups

II. Runes
IV. Summoner Spells
VI. Itemization
VIII. Using Decoy
X. Credits, Changelog

looks easy to play, but actually he's pretty tactic reliant, you will need lots of practice to master him, but he's really rewarding if played well. Basically he's a pretty safe pick and has only a few weaknesses.

PROS

CONS

+ High burst damage
+ Great escape mechanism from
+ Passive grants high armor and MR
+ AoE CC from
+ Armor reduction from
+ Low mana cost skills
+ Short cooldowns

- CC has kind of long CD
- needs enemies around you
- Low base HP
- Wrong used can make you dead

Recommended Runes

scales insanely well with AD, thus choosing and greatly increase his early game potential. Tried out many other marks and quints, but these were the best for me, however playing styles differ. Solo top champions usually do AD damage, so gives you some extra protection from them, aswell as from minion damage. In case you get an AP top (or hybrid damage) works wonders.

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greater mark of armor penetration

Viable Runes

is another good pick for . These quints increase his roaming and ganking strength, aswell as make chasing easier, while still maintaining high damage.

is maybe a bit less beneficial, it basically helps your early game sustain with some extra HP. They even scale a bit becuse of , but still not as beneficial as other quints.

greater mark of armor penetration is a top tier mark, which makes it probably the strongest mark, the only problem is that just scales too good with AD. Still these runes work for him and stacks nicely with his armor reduction.

is as good as flat ones, these end up giving more MR in the end. Early game AP champions don't deal so much damage anyway so you can run these, also they follow the AP champions in strength pretty nice in my opinion.

is a tanky champion, so in my opinion the best mastery for him is 9-21-0. This mastery build gives him some increased damage, which is pretty high already and increase his tankyness for the best balance and potential.

Offense

In offensive tree, we pick for the cooldown reduction so we can use our abilities more, which increases the damage output. for a little AD boost, since scales really good with AD, as noted before. Also taking which gives 8% armor penetration, not too much but still good, however since reduction goes before penetration it has a bit less effect after s.

is optional, it's good if you go with , or , even then the bonuses are not too big, but they are useful for just 1 point. If you choose spells which are not supported by this masterie, you shouldn't put a point into it.

Running with 21 points in offense is not so viable in my opinion, he benefits much more from defensive tree. Also since is pretty weak for 3 points and doesn't benefit at all you would waste too many points for that few extra AD from . would be nice, but again, too many wasted points.

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Defense

is a really good mastery which gives flat HP, so right from level 1 it gives you a nice boost. on the otherhand gives you more HP level based, not too much but by level 18 it gives 3 times more than . might seem weak, but since it's percentage base, early game it doesn't add too much, but as your health rises it gives more and more.

For extra armor and MR we take and , they give you a fair flat amount of them. gives armor and MR depending on how many enemies are around.

On the other hand damage reducing masteries are really effective. and reduce 5 damage from auto attacks, which is pretty strong early game. reduces the damage by 3%, which is pretty good for just 1 point. Also against those painful crits, works wonders against ADCs.

Recommended Spells

Ignite

Flash

Teleport

deals true damage over time and halves healing effects on the target. It helps getting early kills and dominating your lane. Later in the game it can still be used to secure kills, but healing reduction is the real thing by that time.

is pretty much a must have on any champion. It can be used both offensive and defensive, the utility in this spell is just too much. Flashing over walls is a very strong merit. The only problem is the long CD on it.

Sometimes replacing with is good. You might not dominate your lane with it, but you can assist other lanes really easily with this, or teleport back to your lane to defend and you don't have time to walk back.

Viable Spells

Exhaust

Ghost

The slow and damage reduction can save you or a teammate on many occasions, or it's also helpful when chasing someone. With it also reduces the enemy armor a bit. Not the best, but can easily turn the tables.

can help a lot at escaping or chasing someone. Can't go over walls like flash, but this one doesn't have a visible effect while stealthed, not spoiling your invisibility while . Also covers a longer distance than .

has a relatively unique skill kit, with lots of utility in it. His skill kit lets him fulfill multiple roles effectively. In my opinion tanky and bruiser builds suit him the most, as he can get into the fray easily, disrupt and heavily injure the enemy and get out if he needs or wishes to. With his high damage output with even lesser AD and gap closing ability he's really good at chasing down enemies. The chapter consist of three parts, you can jump to a desired part below.

Jump to explanations
Jump to sequence
Jump to combos

Skill Explanations

Stone Skin

Passive

's passive makes him tankier depending on how many enemy champions are nearby. Gives 4/6/8 armor and MR for each enemy champion nearby, which means in early game you will get atleast 4 while laning. When they try to gank you, your defenses will get a little boost for better survival chances. At higher levels this can mean a +40 armor and MR in teamfights.

Tips

Crushing Blow

Mana Cost: 40 | Cooldown: 9/8/7/6/5

does an overhead smash with his staff which deals heavy damage and reduces enemy armor. This skill is one of your main damage sources, it mostly scales on AD and leveling it decreases the CD. The 30% armor reduction stacks additively with similar effects, example: .

Tips

Decoy

Mana Cost: 50/55/60/65/70 | Cooldown: 18/16/14/12/10

's signature skill, makes you invisible and leaves a clone behind. The clone has the exact same values as the actual but stays still. After 1.5 seconds the clone hits nearby enemies with magic damage and disappears.

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Nimbus Strike

Mana Cost: 45/50/55/60/65 | Cooldown: 8

Your gap closer skill for , has a pretty nice damage, which scales fairly good by leveling. A nice addition to this skill is that it hits 2 other enemies nearby the target. Also it gives an attack speed buff which gets stronger by leveling the skill, this little buff makes 's auto attacks much more effective.

Tips

Cyclone

Mana Cost: 100 | Cooldown: 120/105/90

Your ultimate, the name says pretty much all. starts to spin and knock up each enemy once. The skill itself deals pretty high damage and has one of the most insane AD scaling. During the spin you recieve 5% movement speed for easier chasing. While the skill is active, you cannot use any other skills.

Tips

Skill Sequences

Basically there are two skill sequences for each prioritizing a different damage skill. In both sequence your most important skill is however and your least important skill being . Depending on your personal playstyle you can choose to max or first.

Prioritizing increases your basic combo burst a bit more than maxing . Also since leveling increases the attack speed bonus, this way you can duel other champions more effectively. However this means increased mana cost too.

Prioritizing keeps your mana cost low, but your burst will be a bit weaker, aswell as your attack speed. Instead you can use this skill more often to keep up your damage. If you can time your double attack well, this sequence is better to take objectives, at the cost of not dueling champions so well.

Skill Combos

Combos are your basic source of damage on , i see many Wu players only do EQs but there are so many different combos you can pull of. If you have or don't forget to use the active in your combos to add some extra burst.

The very basic combo, if you are new to you will probably use this most of the time.

Auto
Attack

This is the real thing, since 's animation is only the dash, it will start an auto attack right after it hits, which is actually really fast. Now let that auto attack hit and as soon it lands use for a fast double hit already mentioned in the explanations.

Auto
Attack

Your harassing combo, lets you get away without getting punished in most cases. If there's no threat, or you just don't have yet you can simply run away.

Auto
Attack

Use these for ganking. Pop your in the bush and close up the enemy while stealthed, when you are close enough jump on them.

Auto
Attack

Standard kill/initiate combo. Just try to hit the most possible enemies with this one. Try to aim a squishy champion with when you initiate a teamfight.

Baiting combos can give an upperhand in teamfights if they are pulled off. Basically you position towards the enemy team, either by running or , when close enough pop and let them waste their skills on it (beware of AoE effects), when your clone goes off just on them.

Starting Items

sight ward

Probably has a comeback with this patch, i think this has enough sustain in it and you still have enough gold for a sight ward. Also since it recharges everytime you go back to the shop it will probably work really well.

Another comeback, and s were really popular once, but lately was too effective. This one also has a high sustain, but needs potion restock, also lacks a sight ward.

This start helps you stay on lane longer, also lets you buy a sight ward on start. Also this might need some potion restock. The good part is it's a part for and the item is not wasted. You even spare some gold at the beginning.

Core Items

The Black Cleaver

Giant's Belt

is a really strong item, even without the upgrade, a benefits a lot. This item grants a nice bonus to AD and adds some cooldown reduction to allow you more skill usage. The small flat armor penetration it grants doesn't make too much difference, however it's passive chops off huge amount of armor from the enemes.

can be built into many useful items for thus mentioning this as core instead of one of the upgrades. Depending on the situation and your farm, you cna build it into a , , or a . All these items benefit a lot but and are the two most cost effective.

Boots and Enchants

Mercury's Treads

Ninja Tabi

Ionian Boots of Lucidity

These boots are a must vs CC heavy teamcomps, the MR helps a little against AP carries too. Still the tenacity given by these boots have some flaws, stuns tend to be short so they are reduced by very short time, also knockup/knockback effects totally ignore tenacity. So in the end tenacity effects mostly snares, slows etc.

I consider these the most tanky boots in the game. Right now AD casters and AD carries pose the biggest threat, these boots reduce auto attack damage and give you armor. If you started with you can build them really early, even if started with something else these boots are really cheap.

Mostly using these boots when i can snowball and noone really poses a threat. The 15% CDR in these boots combined with 's 10% and give you enough CDR to use your skills to use your combo around every 4 second and keep up all their buffs/debuffs for maximum damage.

Alacrity

Homeguard

Since needs to kite his enemies many times is the best for him without question. This enchantment gives a flat amount of movement speed, good for both roaming and kiting your enemies.

is for the occasions when the enemy pushed a lane to your inner turrets or further. Lets you recover HP fast at the well, also grants a massive movement speed buff to go back into the fray really fast.

Offensive Items

Last Whisper

Ravenous Hydra

Despite the reduced effectiveness of this item from the high armor reduction, it's still really viable and pushes 's damage close to true damage. It's pretty cheap to build and gives nice amount of AD aswell, making this item really cost effective. If you get this, you can deal unexpectedly high damage to tanks aswell, but there are some better choices for dueling.

is one of the few champion who benefits greatly from . Since he lacks natural sustain both the lifesteal and the HP regen help him a lot, especially since it can steal HP from multiple targets. This item grants a massive AD bonus which goes so well with . The passive and active of the item are beastly too, the active can be used to increase burst, while the passive makes your auto attacks and AoE.

The Bloodthirster

Trinity Force

has the most AD and lifesteal in the game, the AD increases you damage output by a lot, but the lifesteal isn't used too much by making it not so cost effecient as the other items. If you want utility build other items, if you want pure damage buy this. However if you build an assassin like build this item is a must.

is one of the most expensive items in the game. Rushing it used to be really good, but since the new HP meta it's more of a late game item. Overall this item really worth it for , mana for more skills, some AD for more damage, a small crit chance, more movement speed for better kiting, more attack speed for better dueling, and the passive which gives a lot damage to your combo. The only wasted stat is the AP.

Defensive Items

Randuin's Omen

Iceborn Gauntlet

One of the most tanky items in the game, it grants a nice HP boost along with a huge armor. The passive slows the attack speed whoever hits you with an auto attack, which helps dueling enemies a lot. The active slows down both the movement and attack speed of every enemy in an area around you which is great in teamfight or for chasing enemies.

Similar to , but this has a huge armor instead of the HP. This item also has an improved slow effect compared to and gives some AoE effect too. The CDR and mana lets you use more skills. Another good point is that it's cheaper than , however the AP is pretty much wasted again.

Sunfire Cape

Maw of Malmortius

In my opinion is a more offensive version of . It nearly gives the same amount of HP and only a bit less armor, but it is way cheaper and does magic damage around you. The 40 magic doesn't seem too much, but since people stack less MR than armor it does more damage than 40 AD. The only thing is, you must be cautious around turrets since it can attract turret fire.

is a really good offtank item, it gives a nice amount of AD and MR, also has a spell shield, which blocks spell damage when falling below 30% HP. You can build a early to have most of its benefits and upgrade it later in the game for more AD and it's passive that gives you even more AD as your HP drops.

Wit's End

Runic Bulwark

This one seems questionable, however as previously mentioned, people tend to stack less MR than armor, thus 42 magic damage worths more than 42 AD. Also this item further increases you MR with every auto attack. The bonus attack speed in this item increases your dueling strength by a lot. I think this is a very good item for it's price, the problem is that it doesn't scale your skills.

A really great tank item, i think it's one of the best. You can build an early which already grants nice HP and defense bonuses and only upgrade later. The gives you a nearly as much HP as a , nearly the same armor and grants an insane 60 MR. If the enemy team has high AP threat, this item is a must, especially since it's aura gives armor and MR to teammates around you.

Frozen Mallet

Warmog's Armor

A very good tanky item with lots of HP in it with some very good utility and AD. build from a and a , depending on the situation you can choose which to build first. The 30 AD granted might not seem too much, but don't forget 's armor reduction and AD scaling, even that 30 makes difference on him. The slow which applies every hit helps chasing enemies which makes this item even better.

has the most HP in it in the whole game. With HP being one of the most effective stats in the game, this item performs really well. It also gives a % based HP regen which scales with your HP, making HP stacking even more effective. If you can build this early, you gain so much HP your will be close unkillable, however there are other defensive items that have more utility in them, but since lacks sustain, the passive helps him a lot staying alive.

Doran's

Doran's Blade

This item is really cost efficient early game. For 475 gold it has 10 AD (same as ), 80 HP and restores 5 HP on each auto attack. All together it's a pretty nice boost, but the catch is you can't upgrade it into anything. This makes them only worth buying really early game. Stacking them is only effective up to 2 pieces.

Important Note:

I mentioned an example build in the cheat sheet, it works well for newer players, but generally you shouldn't blindly follow an example build. There are plenty of viable items, choose the ones which feel the most comfortable for you and build according to situation.

Example: You are laning vs a , so building armor would be pretty stupid. You will need it later, but early it won't protect against your lane partner so don't waste gold on it.

Early Game

Early game you should play for safety and farm your *** off. By the calculations of Meiyjhe in 20 minutes there are a total of 234 minions on a lane. You must get atleast 60% of that (140 CS) or you pretty much failed. Only harass your opponent or try to force him out of the lane, never dive for a kill unless you are 100% sure you can survive it.

Don't push your lane, the more you push the easier target you are for enemy ganks, also your jungler can't really help you if you derping under the enemy turret. Just try to freeze the lane and farm with last hitting. Last hitting is really important in the laning phase, you wait until the enemy minion goes low enough on HP to kill it in one hit.

Mid Game

At this part taking out objectives is the most important, you can't win a game with all the enemy turrets standing anyway. You should roam around and help your team wherever you can, meanwhile keep an eye on your turrets. Pushing and taking down enemy turrets is not everything, defending your own turrets blocks the enemy from advancing toward your nexus.

Try protecting your own turrets as long as you can, if the 1st turret falls on your lane you become more susceptible to ganks. Leave the lane and help others and only go back to the lane when enemy minions are close to the 2nd turret.

Help any lane you can, roam around the map and help where you see an opportunity to push or to defend their turrets. While roaming keep an eye on your turret and go back if it needs to be defended, or ask someone to defend it. Turrets give gold to the entire team, so taking out more means your whole team gains gold.

Dragon is the objective of the jungler, however if he cannot kill it alone, he can ask for help either from the mid or bot lane. Dragon gives gold to the entire party, just like turrets, but Dragon respawns every 6 minutes.

Warding dragon is really important, it helps you keep track of it, or can spot an enemy heading to kill it. But this appleas for the enemy too, if they warded dragon they can gank you pretty hard and maybe even steal dragon too. When going for dragon, knowing where the enemy is reduces risks by a lot.

Late Game

Mostly teamfights ,the pushing slows down. In this phase your team can push when you win a teamfight or with pushing tactics. With your main role is to focus the carries and either kill them or force them out of the fight.

can backdoor efficiently since he can take down turrets and inhibitors pretty fast, combined with his insane escape abilities he can get away if the enemy comes. For the exact same reason split pushing with is very effective.

is a really tricky skill, there is more to it than just popping and running straight forward. I see many s do so and pretty much waste the skill. First of all, never use it in a straight place, use it at junctions so your enemies have to guess which way you went. Stopping for a moment and waiting for the enemy's reaction can help you decide what to do.

can be used to set up ganks. Using it in a bush grants a brief moment of invisibility, during that time you can cover a relatively long distance and suprise enemies. After you get this can get really devastating when roaming around.

can also be used to block certain skillshots. The clone acts like a champion so many skill shots can be blocked with it (for example: ). The clone is placed behind so you have to face the opposite direction from where the skill shot comes.

When chased you can press "S" (default key bind) to stop, it looks the same way like you used . Stopping at obvious spots will make the enemy ignore you and run past you, however if you stay still too long they will turn back so escape in time. However there are some people who have some kind of grudge against clones and they go all out on s regardless of the situation.

When chased you can also run through a bush and press as you leave it. The enemy will assume you are still in the bush and turn back, giving you some extra distance from them for an easier escape.

Or you can also do the opposite, use as you enter the bush. Right when they loose sight of you, use and escape to where you and your chasers came from. A bit more risky, but if you know where the enemies are you can make great escapes this way.

Easy Opponents

You can outfarm these champions easily and they don't really threat you. Just farm and harass them, they can't really punish you back. You shouldn't have too much trouble with the champions that need to target you actually, skillshots and AOE skills are a bigger threat to .

Ranged Opponents

Ranged opponents are a bit harder, since you lack ranged skills getting closer to minions will result in taking hits, you need to be much more cautios and use to farm sometimes. However they are squishie so you can force them out easily or even kill them.

Medium Opponents

These are the better guys, these champions can harass and punish you, especially if they play good they can be a serious threat. You have to play more defensive against these champions, again use to get some minions. Try to dodge their skill shots and such, because they might hurt, try not to get punished too.

Hard Opponents

They hurt, they don't want to die and is not effective. They can out farm you and if not cautios they can kill you. Play really defensive, use to farm, try to keep up with them. Only engage them if you have a great HP advantage or the jungle is there to help.

I would like to thank:

jhoijhoi for her Making a guide which helped a lot.
OTGBionicArm and MissMaw for lettin me borrow some formatting ideas
Kopi69 for helping with pictures
My former ranked team who helped me get better with Wukong

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Spells:

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Items

Ability Order

Stone Skin (PASSIVE)

Crushing Blow (Q)

Warrior Trickster (W)

Nimbus Strike (E)

Cyclone (R)

Table of Contents

PROS

CONS

Recommended Runes

Viable Runes

Offense

Defense

Recommended Spells

Ignite

Flash

Teleport

Viable Spells

Exhaust

Ghost

Skill Explanations

Stone Skin

Crushing Blow

Decoy

Nimbus Strike

Cyclone

Skill Sequences

Skill Combos

Starting Items

Core Items

The Black Cleaver

Giant's Belt

Boots and Enchants

Mercury's Treads

Ninja Tabi

Ionian Boots of Lucidity

Alacrity

Homeguard

Offensive Items

Last Whisper

Ravenous Hydra

The Bloodthirster

Trinity Force

Defensive Items

Randuin's Omen

Iceborn Gauntlet

Sunfire Cape

Maw of Malmortius

Wit's End

Runic Bulwark

Frozen Mallet

Warmog's Armor

Doran's

Doran's Blade

Important Note:

Early Game

Mid Game

Late Game

Easy Opponents

Ranged Opponents

Medium Opponents

Hard Opponents

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