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Morgana Jungle Wild Rift Guide
Morgana jungle counters include Lee Sin, Kha'Zix, and Rengar. See the best build, runes, matchups, and game plan for Wild Rift Patch 7.3.
How to play
- Keep your damage pool under camps Place your 2nd ability under monsters to damage them while clearing. Gank when you can land your 1st ability to root an enemy.
- Shield before the enemy stun lands Cast your 3rd ability on yourself or an ally before a stun or root hits to block it while the shield holds.
- Use your ultimate when enemies commit Your ultimate links you to nearby enemies and stuns them if you stay in range until the chains finish. Use it when they approach rather than chasing several enemies alone.
Strengths
- Black Shield (3rd) is the best anti-engage button in the role, eating a key gank or pick and wasting the enemy's fight-starter.
- Her bind and her ultimate give two layers of hard lockdown, removing the enemy's most important body from a fight.
- A low-effort clear lets her farm to her item spike without ever needing to win a duel.
Weaknesses
- Missing Dark Binding (1st) removes her ranged setup and exposes her lack of mobility until the cooldown returns.
- She is slow and fragile, so mobile early junglers run her down before her utility comes online.
- Her solo kill pressure stays low all game, so a bad early leaves her farming for relevance instead of carrying.
Build Snapshot
Rune Setup
Summoner Spells
Morgana Jungle Counters
Who counters Morgana Jungle in Wild Rift (WR)? These champions beat Morgana in the jungle matchup, with how each one wins. Learn to play around them or ban them in ranked.
- Lee Sin: Lee Sin wins scuttle, invades, and snowballs while your kit is still one skillshot, and his dashes let him hop past your bind angle and kick you out of your own setup.
- Kha'Zix: Leap (3rd) crosses Morgana's Dark Binding (1st) angle, and Taste Their Fear (1st) gains isolation damage when he finds her alone at a camp. Black Shield (3rd) blocks magic damage and crowd control, not the physical isolation burst that finishes his invade.
- Rengar: Rengar's brush leap one-shots a slow, squishy jungler who needs to land a skillshot to do anything, and he is on top of you before a shield or a bind matters.
Champions Morgana Is Strong Against
Morgana's best matchups in Wild Rift. Morgana holds an edge against these picks in the jungle role, so look to press the advantage and contest objectives.
- Amumu: Amumu is all crowd control, so Black Shield (3rd) blanks his game: the bandage toss (1st) that starts every gank and the ultimate that wins every fight both die on one bubble, and he is too immobile to do anything else.
- Skarner: Black Shield (3rd) can block Impale (Ult) on one protected ally, removing that champion from the pull even if Skarner catches others. Dark Binding (1st) also punishes the telegraphed approach, but spread out because one shield cannot protect the whole team from a three-person Impale (Ult).
- Vi: Point-and-click engage is exactly what Black Shield (3rd) punishes: shield Vi's target and her ultimate, knockup, and gap-close all land for nothing, leaving a bruiser with no follow-up.
Early Game
Center Tormented Shadow (2nd) under the large monster and keep it damaging the camp while you reposition, which lets Morgana clear without spending much health. That reliable route is usually worth finishing, but a lane with guaranteed allied control can justify an earlier Dark Binding (1st) visit. Do not race an early duelist into an unsupported river fight just because your camps fell quickly. Approach a gank from an angle that puts the target's escape behind the minion wave, land Dark Binding (1st), then place Tormented Shadow (2nd) for the full root duration. Black Shield (3rd) is often more valuable in a counter-gank, where it can deny the enemy's opening control and let your laner turn. Track the opposing jungler and keep Binding (1st) available near contested entrances, because Morgana has no dash when that spell misses.
Mid Game
Soul Shackles (Ult) turns a crowded objective entrance into a choice between scattering and being stunned. Set vision at dragon and Herald, then choose between Herald's immediate tower pressure and progressing toward a Dragon Soul based on which lanes can move first. Between objectives you out-utility most slow farmers: shield a teammate through their gank and turn it around, or chain an invading duo with your ultimate. Keep clearing between plays so you stay on the item curve, since your value is the cooldowns you bring to a fight.
Late Game
Late game your job is control, and your damage is the least interesting thing about you. Your solo kill pressure has not improved, so stop hunting picks alone and use your tools: a bind on the carry who steps forward, a shield on your own carry the moment the enemy assassin commits, and a chained stun when the teams collide. Black Shield (3rd) wins late games on its own by eating the one piece of crowd control a fight is built around. Around Baron and Elder you are both the disengage and the lockdown: root the initiator before they reach the pit, or shield the teammate they were about to delete. Patience is the skill here. Hold your bind for the body that matters, because a root wasted on a tank is a fight handed back.
Teamfights
You are the controller: you either start the fight with a pick or decide it by blanking theirs. The clean opener is a bind on a priority target that your team folds onto before the root ends, with your pool dropped underneath. Soul Shackles (Ult) is your engage and your zone at once: walk or flash into the cluster, chain everyone, and force them to scatter or eat the stun, which buys your carries a free damage window. The button that actually wins the fight is Black Shield (3rd). Read the enemy's engage, find the ally they are about to lock down, and bubble them just before the crowd control lands, because an engage that hits a shielded target achieves nothing. Never spend your bind on the frontline just because the fight started; hold it for the carry, the assassin, or the initiator.