Pyke vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Pyke
based on 3,881 Pyke vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Pyke vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Pyke vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Pyke
Tips for Playing as Pyke against Bard
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 Bard
You can crush Bard's healing shrines just by walking over them. Don't let his allies take them without a fight.
Bard's ultimate, Tempered Fate, affects allies, enemies, monsters, and turrets alike. Sometimes it can be to your advantage to jump into it!
Bard's opponents can also travel through his Magical Journey doorways. You can follow him, if you think it's safe.
Pyke vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Pyke in LoL
The stats provided here clarify some important Pyke vs. Bard counter stats that may help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. Pyke’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Bard’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Pyke may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Bard. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Pyke normally has a much larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Bard. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Pyke and Bard
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Who is Better, Pyke or Bard?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Pyke usually loses when trying to fight Bard, with a 47.6% win rate. Thus, Pyke makes a poor counter for Bard.
While Pyke does have a lower win rate than Bard, when facing one another, Pyke also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult champ to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Pyke into Bardas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Pyke has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Bard. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Pyke vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Pyke is a terribly counter to Bard. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Pyke against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Pyke in order to counter Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Pyke often picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Bard. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Pyke versus Bard build include Umbral Glaive, Hubris, and Opportunity. When Pyke bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better versus Bard than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Pyke boasted an average win rate of 47.6% when playing against Bard with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Bard as Pyke, you should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Pyke vs Bard counter picks, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.6% winrate overall.
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