How to win lane as Wukong against Locke · 54.89% win rate (1,166 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
You stat-check him in every honest window — his only outs are the mark tax and the totem, so give him neither and Wukong runs the lane.
Track: Locke's Q — Ritual Nails (10–6s cooldown). The nail marks are his whole engine — without 2-3 stacks on you his blink-in barely dents; sidestep the recasts and punish the ten seconds of nothing.
Read from Wukong's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Locke.
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Wukong | Level-1 Crushing Blow shred and Q-reset autos out-trade his Soul Nails. |
| Level 2 | Wukong | At 2 your armor-shred trades plus his W self-damage make every exchange yours. |
| Level 3 | Wukong | Level 3 Warrior Trickster baits his E and W, then you reappear and punish. |
| Levels 4-5 | Wukong | Levels 4-5 your Q-reset all-in with clone outdamages his grey-health steroid. |
| Level 6 | Wukong | Level 6 Cyclone still lands, but Purgatory grounds your dash out. |
| First item | Wukong | First-item armor and clone-baiting keep you winning the all-in. |
| Two+ items | Wukong | Cyclone as a reset and your passive sustain keep you ahead into every teamfight. |
Levels 1-3 you dictate everything: Crushing Blow shreds his armor while Q-reset autos win the exchange his Q Soul Nails starts, and once W Warrior Trickster is up you bait his E and his W onto the clone, then reappear and take the trade against empty cooldowns — his E is a flat 10s.
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Wukong's side, sampled July 2026.
The full Wukong vs Locke 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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Wukong, slightly — a 54.89% win rate edge over 1,166 games; execution can flip it.
Mostly — Wukong has a small statistical edge (54.89% win rate), but execution decides this lane far more than the pick does.
Not a hard counter — Wukong has a slight edge (54.89% win rate), and play quality decides the rest.
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