Pyke vs Orianna
How to Beat Orianna as Pyke
based on 1,678 Pyke vs Orianna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Pyke vs Orianna Matchup Summary
Best Pyke vs Orianna Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Orianna as Pyke
Tips for Playing as Pyke against Orianna
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 Orianna
Orianna can only affect the area the Ball is around. Use this to your advantage.
Watch out for Orianna's Ball returning to her due to leashing. This may cause some unexpected situations.
Pyke vs Orianna Counter Stats
How to Counter Orianna with Pyke in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize several vital Pyke against Orianna counter statistics that may help you explain the differences and similarities between the two. Pyke’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Orianna’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Pyke may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Orianna..
Pyke usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes more damage than Orianna. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Pyke and Orianna
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Who is Better, Pyke or Orianna?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Pyke usually wins when trying to fight Orianna, with a 53.0% win rate. As a result, Pyke makes a good counter to Orianna.
While Pyke does have a higher winrate compared to Orianna, when on opposite teams, Pyke also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Pyke into Oriannaas 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 Orianna. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Pyke vs Orianna matchups, Pyke is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Pyke is a good counter to Orianna. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Pyke against Orianna.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Pyke to counter Orianna during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Pyke often racks up a lot less CS as Orianna. Champs who typically don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Pyke versus Orianna build consist of Umbral Glaive, Edge of Night, and Bloodsong. When Pyke bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs Orianna than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Pyke boasted an average winrate of 53.0% when playing against Orianna with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Orianna as Pyke, Pyke players should use 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 combinations that we analyzed for Pyke vs Orianna face-offs, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 53.0% winrate overall.
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