Pyke vs Ivern
How to Beat Ivern as Pyke
based on 1,435 Pyke vs Ivern matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Pyke vs Ivern Matchup Summary
Best Pyke vs Ivern Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ivern as Pyke
Tips for Playing as Pyke against Ivern
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 Ivern
Be careful when fighting Ivern alone if he has Daisy ready to help!
Ivern's brush has a long duration. Watch out for ambushes!
Ivern can be deceptively slippery. Be careful chasing him too far.
Pyke vs Ivern Counter Stats
How to Counter Ivern with Pyke in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature some significant Pyke against Ivern matchup stats that may help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Pyke’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Ivern’s ratio of NaN, showing that Pyke may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Ivern. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Pyke typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his foe does. On average, he takes more damage than Ivern. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Pyke and Ivern
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Who is Better, Pyke or Ivern?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Pyke usually fairs equally well when playing against Ivern, with a 50.4% win rate. Therefore, Pyke makes an ok counter for Ivern.
While Pyke does have a higher win rate than Ivern, when facing one another, Pyke also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Pyke into Ivernas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Pyke has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ivern. This 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 overall in League of Legends, in Pyke vs Ivern matchups, Pyke is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Pyke is a decent counter for Ivern. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Pyke against Ivern.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Pyke in order to counter Ivern during both the lane 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 pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Pyke typically racks up more CS relative to Ivern. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Pyke versus Ivern build include Bloodsong, Hubris, and Opportunity. When Pyke combined at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better vs Ivern than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Pyke had an average winrate of 50.4% battling Ivern with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Ivern 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 sets that we analyzed for Pyke vs Ivern matchups, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.4% win rate overall.
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