Pyke vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Pyke
based on 4,463 Pyke vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Pyke vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Pyke vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Pyke
Tips for Playing as Pyke against Garen
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 Garen
Be careful about attacking Garen in brush. It often will lead to taking full damage from Judgment.
Stack armor items to lower the large amount of physical damage that Garen deals out.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. If getting out of its radius isn't possible, move through allied minions to reduce damage taken.
Try to run away from Garen as your health gets lower, as he can execute you quickly with Demacian Justice.
Pyke vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Pyke in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several vital Pyke versus Garen matchup statistics that can help you interpret the differences between the two. As an example, Pyke’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Garen’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Pyke may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Garen. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Pyke normally has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. On average, he takes less damage than Garen. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Pyke and Garen
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Who is Better, Pyke or Garen?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Pyke usually fairs equally well when taking on Garen, with a 49.8% win rate. As a result, Pyke makes an ok counter to Garen.
While Pyke does have a lower winrate than Garen, when facing one another, Pyke also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Pyke into Garenas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Pyke has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Garen. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Pyke vs Garen matchups, Garen is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Pyke is a somewhat poor counter to Garen. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Pyke against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Pyke to counter Garen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Pyke most often gets a lot less CS compared to Garen. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Pyke versus Garen build include Bloodsong, Hubris, and Opportunity. When Pyke incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs Garen than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Pyke boasted an average winrate of 49.8% when countering Garen with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of beating Garen as Pyke, Pyke players should take 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 Garen counter picks, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.8% winrate overall.
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