Pyke vs Seraphine
How to Beat Seraphine as Pyke
based on 5,863 Pyke vs Seraphine matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Pyke vs Seraphine Matchup Summary
Best Pyke vs Seraphine Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Seraphine as Pyke
Tips for Playing as Pyke against Seraphine
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.
Pyke vs Seraphine Counter Stats
How to Counter Seraphine with Pyke in LoL
The stats provided here feature some strategic Pyke versus Seraphine matchup statistics that can help us grasp the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Pyke’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Seraphine’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Pyke may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Seraphine. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Pyke usually has a much larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Seraphine. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Pyke and Seraphine
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Who is Better, Pyke or Seraphine?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Pyke usually fairs equally well when facing off against Seraphine, with a 50.5% win rate. As a result, Pyke makes an ok counter for Seraphine.
While Pyke does have a higher winrate compared to Seraphine, when they face off with one another, Pyke also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Pyke into Seraphineas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash 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 Seraphine. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Pyke vs Seraphine matchups, Pyke is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Pyke is a decent counter to Seraphine. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Pyke against Seraphine.
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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 Seraphine during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Pyke most often gets less CS as Seraphine. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Pyke versus Seraphine build include Umbral Glaive, Solstice Sleigh, and Opportunity. When Pyke used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better countering Seraphine than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Pyke had an average winrate of 50.5% when playing against Seraphine with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Seraphine as Pyke, you should take the Hail of Blades, Cheap Shot, Zombie Ward, Ultimate Hunter, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Pyke vs Seraphine face-offs, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.5% winrate overall.
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