Kai'Sa vs Pyke
How to Beat Pyke as Kai'Sa
based on 5,396 Kai'Sa vs Pyke matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kai'Sa vs Pyke Matchup Summary
Best Kai'Sa vs Pyke Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Pyke as Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa against Pyke
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
Advice to Win Against Pyke
Pyke regenerates a significant amount of damage he has taken from enemy champions, but only when you can't see him!
When Pyke is hidden nearby in his Ghostwater Dive, sharks will circle underneath your feet.
Try not to stand near low health allies. If Pyke executes them using Death From Below, you might be next on the list.
Kai'Sa vs Pyke Counter Stats
How to Counter Pyke with Kai'Sa in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature several significant Kai'Sa against Pyke matchup stats that may help us explain the distinctions between this pair of champs. For instance, Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Pyke’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Pyke..
Kai'Sa often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Pyke. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kai'Sa and Pyke
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Who is Better, Kai'Sa or Pyke?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kai'Sa usually fairs equally well when taking on Pyke, with a 49.6% win rate. As a result, Kai'Sa makes an ok counter to Pyke.
While Kai'Sa does have a lower win rate than Pyke, when facing one another, Kai'Sa also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Kai'Sa into Pyke.
Additionally, Kai'Sa also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Pyke. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa vs Pyke matchups, Pyke is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Kai'Sa is a somewhat poor counter to Pyke. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Kai'Sa against Pyke.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kai'Sa to counter Pyke during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa usually gets much more CS compared to Pyke. Champions who typically don't acquire 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 properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Kai'Sa versus Pyke build consist of Statikk Shiv, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Terminus. When Kai'Sa included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting Pyke than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Kai'Sa had an average winrate of 49.6% when countering Pyke with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Pyke as Kai'Sa, you should equip the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Kai'Sa vs Pyke counter picks, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.6% win rate overall.
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