Pyke vs Janna
How to Beat Janna as Pyke
based on 3,262 Pyke vs Janna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Pyke vs Janna Matchup Summary
Best Pyke vs Janna Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Janna as Pyke
Tips for Playing as Pyke against Janna
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 Janna
Janna's at her strongest when buffing another ally. If you can harass her ally, it will weaken her ability to fight you.
Save an interrupt ability for when Janna uses her ultimate.
Listen for the charge up sound on Howling Gale in case Janna is trying to hit you with it from off screen or from brush.
Pyke vs Janna Counter Stats
How to Counter Janna with Pyke in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some critical Pyke vs. Janna matchup stats that may help us interpret the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Pyke’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Janna’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Pyke may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Janna. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Pyke often has a much larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Janna. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Pyke and Janna
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Who is Better, Pyke or Janna?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Pyke usually loses when taking on Janna, with a 48.4% win rate. As a result, Pyke makes a poor counter for Janna.
While Pyke does have a lower win rate compared to Janna, when facing one another, Pyke also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Pyke into Jannaas his relative depth means 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 Janna. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Pyke vs Janna matchups, Janna is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Pyke is a somewhat poor counter to Janna. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Pyke against Janna.
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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 Janna during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Pyke most often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Janna. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The top items to use in your Pyke versus Janna build include Bloodsong, Axiom Arc, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Pyke bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better when facing Janna than with many other common item sets. In fact, Pyke boasted an average winrate of 48.4% when playing against Janna with this counter build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Janna as Pyke, Pyke players should use 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 runes players used for Pyke vs Janna counterpicks, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.4% winrate overall.
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