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 shown on this page feature several strategic Pyke against Yuumi matchup stats that can help us realize the distinctions between these two champs. For instance, Pyke’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Yuumi’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Pyke may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Yuumi. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Pyke often has a much larger longest kill spree than his foe does. On average, he takes more damage than Yuumi. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Pyke usually wins when facing off against Yuumi, with a 56.8% win rate. Therefore, Pyke makes a fantastic counter for Yuumi.
While Pyke does have a much higher winrate than Yuumi, when facing one another, Pyke also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champion to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Pyke into Yuumias his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Pyke also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Yuumi. 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 in League of Legends, in Pyke vs Yuumi matchups, Pyke is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Pyke is a great counter for Yuumi. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Pyke against Yuumi.
If you would like to truly master Pyke in order to counter Yuumi during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Pyke typically accumulates more CS compared to Yuumi. Champs who typically don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Pyke versus Yuumi build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Umbral Glaive, and Bloodsong. When Pyke combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs. Yuumi than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Pyke had an average win rate of 56.8% battling Yuumi with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of beating Yuumi as Pyke, you should use the Hail of Blades, Cheap Shot, Zombie Ward, Ultimate Hunter, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Pyke vs Yuumi counterpicks, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 56.8% winrate overall.
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