Pyke vs Sylas
How to Beat Sylas as Pyke
based on 4,520 Pyke vs Sylas matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Pyke vs Sylas Matchup Summary
Best Pyke vs Sylas Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sylas as Pyke
Tips for Playing as Pyke against Sylas
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 Sylas
Try to fight Sylas when he isn't able to take your ultimate.
Sylas's healthbar can be deceptive, watch out for his Kingslayer!
Pyke vs Sylas Counter Stats
How to Counter Sylas with Pyke in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several critical Pyke versus Sylas counter stats that may help you distinguish the differences between the two. Pyke’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Sylas’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Pyke may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Sylas..
Pyke usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Sylas. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Pyke and Sylas
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Who is Better, Pyke or Sylas?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Pyke usually fairs equally well when playing against Sylas, with a 50.6% win rate. As a result, Pyke makes an ok counter for Sylas.
While Pyke does have a higher winrate than Sylas, when on opposite teams, Pyke also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Pyke into Sylasas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Pyke has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Sylas. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Pyke vs Sylas 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 team fights.
Pyke is a decent counter to Sylas. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Pyke against Sylas.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Pyke in order to counter Sylas during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Pyke most often racks up a lot less CS relative to Sylas. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling 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 exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Pyke versus Sylas build consist of Bloodsong, Axiom Arc, and Opportunity. When Pyke incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when facing Sylas than with most other common item sets. In fact, Pyke had an average winrate of 50.6% when countering Sylas with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing Sylas 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 sets that we analyzed for Pyke vs Sylas battles, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.6% winrate overall.
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