Pyke vs Kai'Sa
How to Beat Kai'Sa as Pyke
based on 5,396 Pyke vs Kai'Sa matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Pyke vs Kai'Sa Matchup Summary
Best Pyke vs Kai'Sa Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kai'Sa as Pyke
Tips for Playing as Pyke against Kai'Sa
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 Kai'Sa
Kai'Sa is very vulnerable to getting outranged by mages and long range carries.
Make sure to place wards in your blind spots so you can see Kai'Sa coming.
Kai'Sa is very good at picking off isolated enemies. Stick together against her.
Pyke vs Kai'Sa Counter Stats
How to Counter Kai'Sa with Pyke in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature some influential Pyke versus Kai'Sa matchup stats that can help you understand the distinctions between this pair of champions. Pyke’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kai'Sa’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Pyke may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Kai'Sa..
Pyke often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Kai'Sa. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Pyke or Kai'Sa?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Pyke usually fairs equally well when facing off against Kai'Sa, with a 50.4% win rate. Therefore, Pyke makes an ok counter to Kai'Sa.
While Pyke does have a higher winrate than Kai'Sa, when they face off with one another, Pyke also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Pyke into Kai'Saas 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 utility and CC, a similar amount to Kai'Sa. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Pyke vs Kai'Sa matchups, Pyke is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Pyke is a decent counter for Kai'Sa. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Pyke against Kai'Sa.
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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 Kai'Sa during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Pyke often accumulates a lot less CS relative to Kai'Sa. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Pyke versus Kai'Sa build include Edge of Night, Bloodsong, and Opportunity. When Pyke incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting Kai'Sa than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Pyke boasted an average win rate of 50.4% when countering Kai'Sa with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Kai'Sa as Pyke, Pyke players should use the Hail of Blades, Cheap Shot, Zombie Ward, Relentless Hunter, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Pyke vs Kai'Sa battles, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.4% winrate overall.
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