Pyke vs Elise
How to Beat Elise as Pyke
based on 975 Pyke vs Elise matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Pyke vs Elise Matchup Summary
Best Pyke vs Elise Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Elise as Pyke
Tips for Playing as Pyke against Elise
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 Elise
Rappel has a long cooldown. Elise is vulnerable after she has used it.
Elise's Spider Form is more dangerous when you are at low health, and her Human Form more potent when you are at high health.
Rappel will only move Elise straight up and down unless she can descend upon an enemy unit.
Pyke vs Elise Counter Stats
How to Counter Elise with Pyke in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore several influential Pyke versus Elise counter statistics that may help you distinguish the differences between this pair of champions. Pyke’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Elise’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Pyke may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Elise..
Pyke typically has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Elise. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Pyke and Elise
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Who is Better, Pyke or Elise?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Pyke usually wins when trying to fight Elise, with a 51.8% win rate. Therefore, Pyke makes a good counter to Elise.
While Pyke does have a higher win rate compared to Elise, when facing one another, Pyke also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champ to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Pyke into Eliseas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Pyke has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Elise. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Pyke vs Elise matchups, Pyke is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Pyke is a decent counter to Elise. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Pyke against Elise.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Pyke in order to counter Elise during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Pyke on average accumulates a similar amount of CS as Elise. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They 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, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Pyke versus Elise build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Umbral Glaive, and Bloodsong. When Pyke combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better vs Elise than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Pyke boasted an average winrate of 51.8% when countering Elise with this build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Elise 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. Of all the rune builds players used for Pyke vs Elise counter picks, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.8% winrate overall.
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