Everything for Wukong Top on patch 16.11, pulled from real Emerald+ ranked games — the build path, rune pages, the counters worth banning, the strongest teammates, and Wukong's win conditions.
Wukong is an AD bruiser in the top, and on patch 16.11 they grade out as a solid mid-tier pick — a 53.0% win rate, 1.0% pick rate, 12,062 ranked games sampled. On the power curve, Wukong spikes hardest in the mid game around the two-to-three-item mark — that is the window to force fights and objectives.
How Wukong wins: landing engage and starting fights on Wukong's terms, and grouped 5-v-5 teamfights, where Wukong tips the fight. The kit grades 8/10 engage, 8/10 teamfighting, 7/10 roaming. Wukong's soft spots are siege and disengage (3/10, 2/10) — avoid fights that hinge on them.
The most-played core build is Trinity Force, Black Cleaver, Sundered Sky, which holds a 62.8% win rate across 290 games this patch. Item order and defensive swaps update against whichever enemy comp you select.
The matchup to respect is Sion, where Wukong sits at just 44.2%, the lane swings the other way into Naafiri (58.5%), and on the team side, Wukong gains the most from a Naafiri (+9.8% pair win rate).
Wukong's highest-volume core items and rune page this patch. Select the enemy composition above and the build re-optimizes for that exact matchup.
The picks Wukong Top struggles into most this patch, sorted by your in-matchup win rate. These are your priority bans.
Who Wukong Top wants on the team: partners with the biggest positive swing on Wukong's win rate this patch.
Wukong is also played in this other role this patch.
Take Wukong into the Team Builder to plan around every pick, or check the Tier List to see exactly where Wukong ranks this patch.