Pyke vs K'Sante
How to Beat K'Sante as Pyke
based on 2,046 Pyke vs K'Sante matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Pyke vs K'Sante Matchup Summary
Best Pyke vs K'Sante Counter Build
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Guide to Countering K'Sante as Pyke
Tips for Playing as Pyke against K'Sante
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 K'Sante
Stay spread out to minimize the impact of Lee Sin's ultimate, Dragon's Rage.
Lee Sin relies heavily on following up with his abilities. Use disables to prevent him from chaining together his abilities and attacks.
Lee Sin has powerful tools to combat physical damage in Iron Will and Cripple but he is still vulnerable to magic damage.
Pyke vs K'Sante Counter Stats
How to Counter K'Sante with Pyke in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize some vital Pyke against K'Sante matchup statistics that may help you grasp the differences between the pair. For instance, Pyke’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than K'Sante’s ratio of NaN, showing that Pyke may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than K'Sante..
Pyke normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives less damage than K'Sante. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Pyke and K'Sante
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Who is Better, Pyke or K'Sante?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Pyke usually wins when playing against K'Sante, with a 51.7% win rate. As a result, Pyke makes a good counter for K'Sante.
While Pyke does have a higher winrate compared to K'Sante, when they face off with one another, Pyke also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Pyke into K'Santeas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Pyke has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to K'Sante. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Pyke vs K'Sante matchups, Pyke is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Pyke is a decent counter for K'Sante. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Pyke against K'Sante.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Pyke in order to counter K'Sante during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Pyke typically accumulates a lot less CS as K'Sante. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Pyke versus K'Sante build consist of Edge of Night, Bloodsong, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Pyke included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when facing K'Sante than with many other common builds. In fact, Pyke had an average winrate of 51.7% when countering K'Sante with this counter build.
To have the best probability of beating K'Sante as Pyke, Pyke players should equip the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Zombie Ward, Ingenious Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Pyke vs K'Sante fights, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.7% winrate overall.
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