Pyke vs Brand
How to Beat Brand as Pyke
based on 7,626 Pyke vs Brand matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Pyke vs Brand Matchup Summary
Best Pyke vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Brand as Pyke
Tips for Playing as Pyke against Brand
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 Brand
Brand's passive allows him to excel against teams that cluster together. Be sure to split up against him.
Brand must land an ability before his combo is able to get started. Dodging his Sear or Pillar of Flame will disrupt his rhythm.
Try to move away from allies when you see Pyroclasm being cast. The initial missile speed is slow, which should give your team time to react.
Pyke vs Brand Counter Stats
How to Counter Brand with Pyke in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several important Pyke vs. Brand counter statistics that may help us grasp the differences between the two. As an example, Pyke’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Brand’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Pyke may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Brand..
Pyke typically has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Brand. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Pyke and Brand
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Who is Better, Pyke or Brand?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Pyke usually loses when facing off against Brand, with a 48.3% win rate. As a result, Pyke makes a poor counter to Brand.
While Pyke does have a lower winrate than Brand, when they face off with one another, Pyke also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Pyke into Brandas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Pyke also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Brand. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Pyke vs Brand matchups, Brand is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Pyke is a somewhat poor counter for Brand. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Pyke against Brand.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Pyke to counter Brand during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Pyke on average racks up less CS compared to Brand. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have 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 large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Pyke versus Brand build include Umbral Glaive, Axiom Arc, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Pyke bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better countering Brand than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Pyke had an average win rate of 48.3% when playing against Brand with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Brand as Pyke, Pyke players should use the Hail of Blades, Cheap Shot, Zombie Ward, Ultimate Hunter, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Pyke vs Brand face-offs, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.3% win rate overall.
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