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.
Trundle is very powerful at location-based combat. Try to draw him off of his Frozen Domain.
Make sure to get out of his Pillar of Ice as quickly as possible, as it significantly slows you down.
The stats shown here clarify some valuable Pyke versus Trundle counter stats that may help us realize the differences between this pair of champions. As an example, Pyke’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Trundle’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Pyke may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Trundle..
Pyke typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his counter does. On average, he receives less damage than Trundle. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Pyke usually loses when taking on Trundle, with a 47.2% win rate. Therefore, Pyke makes a poor counter to Trundle.
While Pyke does have a lower winrate compared to Trundle, when facing one another, Pyke also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Pyke into Trundleas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Pyke has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Trundle. This often 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 Trundle matchups, Trundle is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Pyke is a garbage counter for Trundle. 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 Trundle.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Pyke in order to counter Trundle during both the laning 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 listen to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Pyke usually picks up a lot less CS relative to Trundle. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Pyke versus Trundle build include Axiom Arc, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Pyke used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when facing Trundle than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Pyke had an average win rate of 47.2% when playing against Trundle with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Trundle as Pyke, you should take the Hail of Blades, Cheap Shot, Zombie Ward, Relentless Hunter, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Pyke vs Trundle face-offs, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Trundle as Pyke are presented for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you may use the selection menu located earlier on the page.