Pyke vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Pyke
based on 2,861 Pyke vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Pyke vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Pyke vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Pyke
Tips for Playing as Pyke against Aphelios
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.
Advice to Win Against Aphelios
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different weaknesses, try to exploit the ones that work best for your champion. Watch out for the purple Gravity gun, it can root you.
Pyke vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Pyke in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some critical Pyke against Aphelios counter stats that may help you realize the distinctions between this pair of champions. Pyke’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Aphelios’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Pyke may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Aphelios..
Pyke normally has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Aphelios. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Pyke and Aphelios
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Who is Better, Pyke or Aphelios?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Pyke usually wins when taking on Aphelios, with a 51.0% win rate. Therefore, Pyke makes a good counter for Aphelios.
While Pyke does have a higher winrate than Aphelios, when they face off with one another, Pyke also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Pyke into Apheliosas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Pyke has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Aphelios. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Pyke vs Aphelios matchups, Pyke is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Pyke is a decent counter for Aphelios. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Pyke against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Pyke in order to counter Aphelios during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Pyke usually racks up a lot less CS compared to Aphelios. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Pyke versus Aphelios build include Umbral Glaive, Hubris, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Pyke combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better countering Aphelios than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Pyke had an average win rate of 51.0% battling Aphelios with this build.
To have the best probability of beating Aphelios as Pyke, you should take the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Zombie Ward, Ingenious Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Pyke vs Aphelios counters, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.0% win rate overall.
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