Pyke vs Lee Sin
How to Beat Lee Sin as Pyke
based on 4,002 Pyke vs Lee Sin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Pyke vs Lee Sin Matchup Summary
Best Pyke vs Lee Sin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lee Sin as Pyke
Tips for Playing as Pyke against Lee Sin
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 Lee Sin
Lee Sin relies heavily on following up with his abilities. Use disables to prevent him from chaining together his abilities and attacks.
Stay spread out to minimize the impact of Lee Sin's ultimate, Dragon's Rage.
Lee Sin has powerful tools to combat physical damage in Iron Will and Cripple but he is still vulnerable to magic damage.
Pyke vs Lee Sin Counter Stats
How to Counter Lee Sin with Pyke in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore some influential Pyke versus Lee Sin counter stats that can help us explain the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Pyke’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lee Sin’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Pyke may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Lee Sin..
Pyke normally has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Lee Sin. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Pyke or Lee Sin?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Pyke usually wins when taking on Lee Sin, with a 52.9% win rate. Thus, Pyke makes a good counter to Lee Sin.
While Pyke does have a higher winrate than Lee Sin, when on opposite teams, Pyke also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Pyke into Lee Sinas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Pyke also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lee Sin. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Pyke vs Lee Sin matchups, Pyke is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Pyke is an above average counter to Lee Sin. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Pyke against Lee Sin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Pyke in order to counter Lee Sin during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Pyke most often gets a similar amount of CS as Lee Sin. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to have in your Pyke versus Lee Sin build include Umbral Glaive, Celestial Opposition, and Opportunity. When Pyke combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting Lee Sin than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Pyke had an average win rate of 52.9% when countering Lee Sin with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Lee Sin as Pyke, Pyke players 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 runes players used for Pyke vs Lee Sin matchups, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.9% winrate overall.
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