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.
The stats provided here show several important Pyke vs. Yone counter statistics that may help you explain the distinctions between these two champs. Pyke’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Yone’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Pyke may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Yone..
Pyke often has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Yone. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Pyke usually fairs equally well when taking on Yone, with a 49.6% win rate. Thus, Pyke makes an ok counter for Yone.
While Pyke does have a lower win rate compared to Yone, when facing one another, Pyke also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Pyke into Yoneas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Pyke also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Yone. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Pyke vs Yone matchups, Yone is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Pyke is a somewhat poor counter for Yone. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Pyke against Yone.
To learn all of the intricacies of Pyke in order to counter Yone during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Pyke most often gets a lot less CS as Yone. Champs who on average don't take much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Pyke versus Yone build include Umbral Glaive, Celestial Opposition, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Pyke combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when facing Yone than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Pyke had an average win rate of 49.6% battling Yone with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Yone as Pyke, you should equip 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 chose for Pyke vs Yone counters, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Yone as Pyke are given for all ranked divisions. To filter the statistics and builds to a specific division, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.