Pyke vs Illaoi
How to Beat Illaoi as Pyke
based on 2,344 Pyke vs Illaoi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Pyke vs Illaoi Matchup Summary
Best Pyke vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Illaoi as Pyke
Tips for Playing as Pyke against Illaoi
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 Illaoi
Killing Tentacles whenever possible will make it much easier to win a fight against Illaoi.
When your spirit gets pulled out, fight back if you can. Dealing damage to Illaoi reduces the spirit's duration.
Avoid grouping up for Leap of Faith to reduce the number of Tentacles available to Illaoi.
Pyke vs Illaoi Counter Stats
How to Counter Illaoi with Pyke in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature several critical Pyke vs. Illaoi counter stats that can help us interpret the differences and similarities between these two champs. Pyke’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Illaoi’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Pyke may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Illaoi. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Pyke typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives less damage than Illaoi. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Pyke and Illaoi
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Who is Better, Pyke or Illaoi?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Pyke usually loses when facing off against Illaoi, with a 48.8% win rate. Thus, Pyke makes a bad counter for Illaoi.
While Pyke does have a lower win rate compared to Illaoi, when facing one another, Pyke also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Pyke into Illaoias his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Pyke has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Illaoi. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Pyke vs Illaoi matchups, Illaoi 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 to Illaoi. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Pyke against Illaoi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Pyke in order to counter Illaoi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Pyke on average picks up a lot less CS as Illaoi. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Pyke versus Illaoi build include Edge of Night, Bloodsong, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Pyke combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better against Illaoi than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Pyke had an average win rate of 48.8% when countering Illaoi with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Illaoi as Pyke, Pyke players should take the Hail of Blades, Cheap Shot, Zombie Ward, Ultimate Hunter, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Pyke vs Illaoi matchups, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.8% winrate overall.
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