How to win lane as Graves against Wukong · 55.81% win rate over 43 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | Wukong has only Crushing Blow at Level 1 and so do you, so neither owns it — just deny his last-hits and stay out of Q range. |
| Level 2 | Graves | At 2 you get a second ability and start weaving in; his Crushing Blow strike is blindable by Smoke Screen and his clone isn't online yet. |
| Level 3 | Graves | With E + W up you Quickdraw in for the point-blank shell spread and blind his strike, owning the short-range trade outright. |
| Levels 4-5 | Graves | Your True Grit stat-stacking and twin Quickdraw charges compound faster than his Stone Skin passive, so you win the extended melee fight. |
| Level 6 | Graves | Collateral Damage nukes him the instant his Cyclone spin ends and he's slowed in animation — your hardest all-in window of the lane. |
| First item | Graves | Your Eclipse/Youmuu's tempo spike outpaces his bruiser item path, so force every all-in here before his items pull the lane back to even. |
| Two+ items | Even / skill | He's an item-dependent bruiser with no scaling edge on you, but a fed Wukong's Cyclone knockup can flip you before you reload — keep it a skill matchup. |
Wukong has only Q at Level 1 and so do you, so nobody owns the first window — just last-hit with the tip of your End of the Line powder trail and stay out of his Crushing Blow range. Once you hit Levels 2-3 you take over: Quickdraw in for the point-blank shell spread, and the key is your Smoke Screen — drop the cloud on him so the blind eats his Crushing Blow strike and any Nimbus Strike auto while you DPS him down inside it. Watch for his clone: Wukong's W vanishes him and sends a decoy walking forward, so if a copy strolls at you, hold your shells and your second E charge instead of blowing the combo into the fake.
The full Graves vs Wukong report continues with the mid-game plan, the late-game and teamfight plan, every power spike to play around, and the win conditions for both sides — plus cooldown tracking and the live enemy-jungle tracker inside the app.
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