Pyke vs Azir
How to Beat Azir as Pyke
based on 2,105 Pyke vs Azir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Pyke vs Azir Matchup Summary
Best Pyke vs Azir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Azir as Pyke
Tips for Playing as Pyke against Azir
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 Azir
Try to think of Sand Soldiers as fire. Don't stand in the fire.
Azir relies on his soldiers to deal damage and can only move them so often. Try to capitalize on windows of time when his soldiers are stationary.
Azir has immense damage over a prolonged amount of time but lacks the upfront burst of other mages. Try to burst him out before he can turn a confrontation around.
Pyke vs Azir Counter Stats
How to Counter Azir with Pyke in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize some valuable Pyke against Azir counter statistics that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Pyke’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Azir’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Pyke may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Azir..
Pyke often has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Azir. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Pyke and Azir
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Who is Better, Pyke or Azir?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Pyke usually wins when taking on Azir, with a 51.5% win rate. Therefore, Pyke makes a good counter for Azir.
While Pyke does have a higher win rate than Azir, when on opposite teams, Pyke also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Pyke into Aziras his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Pyke also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Azir. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Pyke vs Azir matchups, Pyke is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Pyke is a decent counter to Azir. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Pyke against Azir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Pyke in order to counter Azir during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Pyke often picks up a lot less CS compared to Azir. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly 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 surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Pyke versus Azir build include Umbral Glaive, Edge of Night, and Axiom Arc. When Pyke included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better against Azir than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Pyke had an average win rate of 51.5% battling Azir with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Azir as Pyke, Pyke players should use 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 that we analyzed for Pyke vs Azir counters, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.5% winrate overall.
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