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Viele deiner aggressiven Fähigkeiten dienen auch zur Flucht. Plane immer schon im Voraus, wie du dich wieder in Sicherheit bringen kannst.
Hältst du „Knochenspieß“ gedrückt, ziehst du den Gegner immer gleich weit zu dir. Befindest du dich in Nahkampfreichweite, kannst du dein Ziel hinter dich werfen.
Pyke hält nicht viel aus, also solltest du du vorübergehend Kampfpausen einlegen. Du kannst einen erheblichen Teil deines Lebens durch „Gabe der Ertrunkenen“ regenerieren, wenn die Gegner dich nicht sehen können.
Zilean ist sehr schwach, wenn er von einem Team angegriffen wird, ansonsten aber sehr schwer zu töten. Versuche ihn daher als Team anzugreifen.
Wenn du Zilean auf den Fersen bleiben kannst, dann ist es manchmal sinnvoll zu warten, bis seine ultimative Fähigkeit nicht mehr wirkt, bevor du ihm den Todesstoß versetzt.
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several influential Pyke vs. Zilean counter stats that can help you realize the differences between the pair. Pyke’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zilean’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Pyke may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Zilean. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Pyke usually has a much larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives more damage than Zilean. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Pyke usually wins when playing against Zilean, with a 51.9% win rate. As a result, Pyke makes a good counter for Zilean.
While Pyke does have a higher win rate than Zilean, when facing one another, Pyke also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Pyke into Zileanas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Pyke also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zilean. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Pyke vs Zilean matchups, Pyke is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Pyke is a decent counter for Zilean. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Pyke against Zilean.
If you would like to truly master Pyke to counter Zilean during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Pyke usually picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Zilean. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Pyke versus Zilean build include Youmus Geistklinge, Schattengleve, and Blutgesang. When Pyke used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better countering Zilean than with many other common builds. In fact, Pyke boasted an average winrate of 51.9% when countering Zilean with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating Zilean as Pyke, Pyke players should use the Klingenhagel, Plötzlicher Einschlag, Zombie-Auge, Raffinierter Jäger, Kosmische Einsicht, and Magisches Schuhwerk runes from the Dominanz and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Pyke vs Zilean counterpicks, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.9% winrate overall.
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