Pyke vs Amumu
How to Beat Amumu as Pyke
based on 3,072 Pyke vs Amumu matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Pyke vs Amumu Matchup Summary
Best Pyke vs Amumu Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Amumu as Pyke
Tips for Playing as Pyke against Amumu
The Tap version of Bone Skewer is much faster and deals additional damage.
A lot of your agressive spells are also your escapes. Make sure you always have a plan to get out of the fight.
Hitting an enemy with the Hold version of Bone Skewer will always pull them the same distance. Use it in melee range to throw targets behind you.
Pyke is very fragile so don't be afraid to temporarily run from a fight. You can regenerate a significant amount of health from Gift of the Drowned Ones when enemies can't see you.
Advice to Win Against Amumu
Amumu's Despair makes purchasing primarily Health items a risky proposition.
Erratic movement, or hiding behind creep waves can make it difficult for Amumu to instigate a fight with Bandage Toss.
Avoid bunching up with other allies when Amumu has his ultimate available.
Pyke vs Amumu Counter Stats
How to Counter Amumu with Pyke in LoL
The stats shown here feature several strategic Pyke against Amumu matchup statistics that can help you grasp the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. As an example, Pyke’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Amumu’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Pyke may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Amumu..
Pyke normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Amumu. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Pyke and Amumu
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Who is Better, Pyke or Amumu?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Pyke usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Amumu, with a 49.2% win rate. As a result, Pyke makes an ok counter for Amumu.
While Pyke does have a lower win rate compared to Amumu, when on opposite teams, Pyke also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Pyke into Amumuas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Pyke has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Amumu. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Pyke vs Amumu matchups, Amumu is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Pyke is a somewhat poor counter for Amumu. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Pyke against Amumu.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Pyke to counter Amumu during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Pyke typically picks up a similar amount of CS as Amumu. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Pyke versus Amumu build consist of Umbral Glaive, Hubris, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Pyke used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when facing Amumu than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Pyke boasted an average winrate of 49.2% when countering Amumu with this build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Amumu as Pyke, Pyke players should equip the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Zombie Ward, Ingenious Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Pyke vs Amumu clashes, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.2% winrate overall.
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