Pyke vs Cassiopeia
How to Beat Cassiopeia as Pyke
based on 1,175 Pyke vs Cassiopeia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Pyke vs Cassiopeia Matchup Summary
Best Pyke vs Cassiopeia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Cassiopeia as Pyke
Tips for Playing as Pyke against Cassiopeia
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 Cassiopeia
Be wary of Cassiopeia's damage potential with Twin Fang when she has you poisoned.
Turn away from Cassiopeia when she is casting Petrifying Gaze to get slowed instead of stunned.
Pyke vs Cassiopeia Counter Stats
How to Counter Cassiopeia with Pyke in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize several valuable Pyke versus Cassiopeia counter stats that can help you distinguish the distinctions between these two champions. As an example, Pyke’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Cassiopeia’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Pyke may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Cassiopeia..
Pyke often has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. On average, he receives less damage than Cassiopeia. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Pyke or Cassiopeia?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Pyke usually loses when taking on Cassiopeia, with a 48.2% win rate. Thus, Pyke makes a bad counter for Cassiopeia.
While Pyke does have a lower winrate compared to Cassiopeia, when they face off with one another, Pyke also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Pyke into Cassiopeiaas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Pyke also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Cassiopeia. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Pyke vs Cassiopeia matchups, Cassiopeia is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Pyke is a somewhat poor counter to Cassiopeia. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Pyke against Cassiopeia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Pyke to counter Cassiopeia during both the early game 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 mind the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Pyke most often gets a lot less CS relative to Cassiopeia. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Pyke versus Cassiopeia build include Bloodsong, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Pyke combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs. Cassiopeia than with most other common builds. In fact, Pyke boasted an average winrate of 48.2% battling Cassiopeia with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of beating Cassiopeia as Pyke, Pyke players should equip the Hail of Blades, Cheap Shot, Zombie Ward, Ultimate Hunter, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Pyke vs Cassiopeia matchups, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.2% win rate overall.
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