Vi vs Wukong Counter Pick

Across 1,847 games on patch 16.13.1, this jungle matchup is one of the most thoroughly sampled, and Vi loses it with a 45.4% win rate. Both champions deal physical damage, both shred armor, and both open with a dash, so the real question is whose version of that plan lasts longer.

• Stone Skin layers armor and max health regen onto Wukong as he fights champions and monsters, a passive built for the drawn-out trade she is hoping to get.
• Warrior Trickster makes him invisible and sends a clone to attack in his place, while Cease and Desist is a single-target lockdown, so using it on the wrong target ends the fight right away.
• Crushing Blow adds attack range and strips armor, doing to her 30 base armor what Denting Blows is supposed to do to his 31.
• Cyclone launches everything around him into the air and grants movement speed, whereas Vault Breaker only pushes enemies back.
• He sits at difficulty 3 to her 4 and begins with 66 attack damage to her 63, so the opening clash already favors him before either passive comes into play.
• Nimbus Strike dashes him onto a target and fires off images at everything nearby, letting him commit from a safer angle than Vault Breaker permits.
• Both spend mana at short range, 175 against 125, and his 2,293 health at level 18 trails her 2,440, so late-game durability is not what decides the loss.