Alistar vs Pyke
How to Beat Pyke as Alistar
based on 2,442 Alistar vs Pyke matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Pyke Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Pyke Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Pyke as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Pyke
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Advice to Win Against Pyke
Pyke regenerates a significant amount of damage he has taken from enemy champions, but only when you can't see him!
When Pyke is hidden nearby in his Ghostwater Dive, sharks will circle underneath your feet.
Try not to stand near low health allies. If Pyke executes them using Death From Below, you might be next on the list.
Alistar vs Pyke Counter Stats
How to Counter Pyke with Alistar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several valuable Alistar against Pyke counter stats that may help you distinguish the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Pyke’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Pyke. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Alistar often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Pyke. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Alistar and Pyke
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Who is Better, Alistar or Pyke?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Alistar usually fairs equally well when playing against Pyke, with a 50.7% win rate. As a result, Alistar makes an ok counter to Pyke.
While Alistar does have a higher winrate compared to Pyke, when they face off with one another, Alistar also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Alistar into Pykeas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Alistar has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Pyke. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Pyke matchups, Alistar is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Alistar is a decent counter to Pyke. Focus your play on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Alistar against Pyke.
Other Champion Matchups Against Alistar
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Alistar to counter Pyke during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar often picks up a similar amount of CS as Pyke. Champs who on average don't take much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Alistar versus Pyke build include Zeke's Convergence, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs. Pyke than with many other typical builds. In fact, Alistar had an average winrate of 50.7% battling Pyke with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Pyke as Alistar, Alistar players should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Alistar vs Pyke face-offs, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.7% winrate overall.
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