Talk:Wukong/@comment-24343325-20150116105248/@comment-26330875-20150420204515

runes to run: full ad red/purple. armor/hp yellow. mr blue

start flask and nimbus strike. Unless it's an orianna, their level AA does 0 damage. Try to take out the first 3 minions as quick as possible. This causes your melee minions to move up and put more damage on the range minion. At this point, the 2nd wave should not have arrived yet. Most of the time, the mid mage is range and standing near the range minion. When one or two of their range minion is low, use your nimbus strike (still level 1) to gap close to the minion (killing it) and hit your opponent with the AOE. Use flask while fighting. Auto attack him until he runs. If he runs immediately, you can maybe pull of two autos. If he fights you, you are most like outrading him; so continue to fight. If guys 1v1 till the point where your nimbus strike is off cooldown; ignite - nimbus - auto and your opponent should be dead. If he does not fight, repeat with the 2nd wave. There is no meta mid champions that can outtrade your level 1 unless you take too much minion damage or get seriously outplayed.

Whether you get a kill or not, you should reach level 2 before your opponent at this stage. Once you hit level 2 (opponent still level 1), do another all in harass. Once you are level 3, i'm assuming you are now familiar with wukong's trademark harass combo. The first two levels are the most important for mid wukong; you want to gain your advantage during this point. Once you are ahead, build full damage and all in whenever you have the opportunity to. You should be able to outdamage your opponenet the entire laning phase.

You want to rush hydra. On your first back, you want to buy at least two items (in order from worst to optimal): 1x longsword, 1x dorans; 2x dorans; 1x pickaxe, 1x longsword. Make sure you have enough for pots.