How to win lane as Karma against Wukong · 41.82% win rate over 55 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Karma | Mantra is up at level 1 — your RQ Soulflare chunks him before he has any E dash to close, your single best window in the lane. |
| Level 2 | Karma | He still has no gap-closer pre-3, so Q poke plus Gathering Fire Mantra refunds keep taxing him while he can only walk up to farm. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | His E (Nimbus Strike) comes online and dashes through your Q, so it becomes a true coinflip on who commits — dodge his dash, hold your tether for when E is down. |
| Levels 4-5 | Wukong | His R (Cyclone) knockup pins you so his Q armor-shred bursts past your low base resists, and the spin shrugs off your single W root — an all-in your E shield can't out-sustain. |
| Level 6 | Wukong | His first-item bruiser spike out-trades your thin AP frame, so every E-in he lands now threatens a kill on you. |
| First item | Wukong | His W clone lets him bait your RQ Soulflare and your W tether onto a decoy, then E-in on the real you with your cooldowns wasted. |
| Two+ items | Wukong | He out-scales and out-itemizes you into the side lane with E-dash re-engage, so you lose the solo 1v1 unless you already snowballed early. |
Levels 1-2 are your only clean window, so use them. Open with RQ Soulflare the instant he walks up to last-hit — he has no E dash yet, so the delayed zone and slow chunk him for free and threaten an early lead. Keep landing Q on the wave: every ability and auto that connects refunds Mantra off your Gathering Fire passive, so aggressive trading literally rebuilds your empowerment. The moment he hits level 3 and gets E (Nimbus Strike), this flips — that dash closes your range gap through your Q, so back off auto range and only tether him with W once his E is down.
The full Karma 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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