Pyke vs Blitzcrank
How to Beat Blitzcrank as Pyke
based on 5,324 Pyke vs Blitzcrank matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Pyke vs Blitzcrank Matchup Summary
Best Pyke vs Blitzcrank Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Blitzcrank as Pyke
Tips for Playing as Pyke against Blitzcrank
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 Blitzcrank
Staying behind creeps can prevent you from being Rocket Grabbed. Blitzcrank's Rocket Grab only pulls the first enemy target it encounters.
Blitzcrank's passive Mana Barrier grants him a shield when he is low on health.
Pyke vs Blitzcrank Counter Stats
How to Counter Blitzcrank with Pyke in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several critical Pyke versus Blitzcrank matchup stats that may help us explain the differences between the two. As an example, Pyke’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Blitzcrank’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Pyke may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Blitzcrank. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Pyke typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Blitzcrank. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Pyke and Blitzcrank
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Who is Better, Pyke or Blitzcrank?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Pyke usually loses when trying to fight Blitzcrank, with a 46.1% win rate. Therefore, Pyke makes a bad counter for Blitzcrank.
While Pyke does have a lower winrate compared to Blitzcrank, when on opposite teams, Pyke also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Pyke into Blitzcrankas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Pyke also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Blitzcrank. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Pyke vs Blitzcrank matchups, Blitzcrank is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Pyke is a trash counter for Blitzcrank. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Pyke against Blitzcrank.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Pyke in order to counter Blitzcrank during both the early game 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 mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Pyke most often picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Blitzcrank. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often 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 most important items to focus on in your Pyke versus Blitzcrank build include Edge of Night, Bloodsong, and Opportunity. When Pyke combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs. Blitzcrank than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Pyke boasted an average winrate of 46.1% battling Blitzcrank with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Blitzcrank 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 runes players used for Pyke vs Blitzcrank battles, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.1% win rate overall.
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