How to win lane as Wukong against Karma · 50.21% win rate (705 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Weather the poke — burst with E-Q and clone out before Focused Resolve answers.
Track: Karma's W — Focused Resolve (12s cooldown). Her root tether — breaks if you LoS / outrange it.
Read from Wukong's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Karma.
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Karma | Level 1 is Karma's — Mantra needs no point, so RQ poke lands at 950. |
| Level 2 | Even / skill | Level 2 is even — whoever tracks her 12s Focused Resolve wins it. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | Level 3 is skill as your E gives you the tools to answer her poke. |
| Levels 4-5 | Wukong | Levels 4-5 are yours once you can reliably close and all-in through her shield. |
| Level 6 | Wukong | Level 6 is yours: R hard-counters her lack of escape. |
| First item | Wukong | First item is yours as burst blows past her Mantra shield. |
| Two+ items | Wukong | 2+ items is yours since Wukong massively out-scales the squishy enchanter build. |
Levels 1-2 are Karma's: her Q poke and empowered RQ snare out-range and out-trade you before you have gap-close pressure, so farm safe and avoid the shield-poke pattern.
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Wukong's side, sampled July 2026.
The full Wukong vs Karma 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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Nobody on paper — a 50.21% win rate over 705 games makes this a coin flip decided by play, not champion select.
Yes — Wukong vs Karma is a genuine skill matchup: 50.21% win rate, and the favour swings window to window rather than being set at champion select.
No hard counter either way — the Wukong vs Karma win rate is 50.21%, an even lane decided by execution.
Wukong takes Conqueror on the Precision tree with Triumph, Legend: Alacrity and Last Stand, and Resolve secondary (Second Wind and Bone Plating) vs Karma.
Start Doran's Shield + Health Potion (vs her poke) and back for Core component + boots (≈1300g). Build Black Cleaver (shred + HP tempo) first, then Sterak's Gage, with Mercury's Treads.
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