Pyke vs Irelia
How to Beat Irelia as Pyke
based on 3,370 Pyke vs Irelia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Pyke vs Irelia Matchup Summary
Best Pyke vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Irelia as Pyke
Tips for Playing as Pyke against Irelia
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 Irelia
Pay attention to Ionian Fervor stacks and try to engage Irelia when it is down.
Minion waves greatly enhance Irelia's mobility, beware fighting her inside one.
Beware of wasting your high impact spells on Defiant Dance.
Pyke vs Irelia Counter Stats
How to Counter Irelia with Pyke in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify several strategic Pyke vs. Irelia matchup stats that can help you understand the distinctions between these two champions. Pyke’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Irelia’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Pyke may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Irelia. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Pyke often has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. Typically, he takes less damage than Irelia. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Pyke and Irelia
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Who is Better, Pyke or Irelia?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Pyke usually loses when playing against Irelia, with a 48.6% win rate. Therefore, Pyke makes a poor counter to Irelia.
While Pyke does have a lower win rate compared to Irelia, when they face off with one another, Pyke also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Pyke into Ireliaas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Pyke also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Irelia. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Pyke vs Irelia matchups, Irelia is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Pyke is a somewhat poor counter for Irelia. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Pyke against Irelia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Pyke in order to counter Irelia during both the lane 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Pyke usually accumulates a lot less CS as Irelia. Champs who on average don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Pyke versus Irelia build include Umbral Glaive, Edge of Night, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Pyke used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when facing Irelia than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Pyke had an average winrate of 48.6% when countering Irelia with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating Irelia 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. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Pyke vs Irelia battles, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.6% win rate overall.
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