Pyke vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Pyke
based on 4,910 Pyke vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Pyke vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Pyke vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Pyke
Tips for Playing as Pyke against Leona
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 Leona
When Leona activates Eclipse, you have three seconds to get away from her before she deals damage.
Only foes in the center of Solar Flare get stunned, so you can often avoid this if you're quick.
Pyke vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Pyke in LoL
The stats provided here feature several vital Pyke versus Leona counter statistics that may help us understand the distinctions between the pair. Pyke’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Leona’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Pyke may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Leona. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Pyke normally has a much larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Leona. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Pyke and Leona
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Who is Better, Pyke or Leona?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Pyke usually loses when taking on Leona, with a 45.8% win rate. Thus, Pyke makes a bad counter for Leona.
While Pyke does have a much lower winrate compared to Leona, when they face off with one another, Pyke also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging character to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Pyke into Leonaas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Pyke also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Leona. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Pyke vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Pyke is a bad counter to Leona. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Pyke against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Pyke to counter Leona during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Pyke typically gets a similar amount of CS compared to Leona. Champions who on average don't get much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions 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 exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Pyke versus Leona build include Edge of Night, Bloodsong, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Pyke combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better against Leona than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Pyke had an average winrate of 45.8% battling Leona with this counter build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Leona as Pyke, Pyke players should equip 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 sets that we analyzed for Pyke vs Leona clashes, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 45.8% win rate overall.
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