Pyke vs Taric
How to Beat Taric as Pyke
based on 1,429 Pyke vs Taric matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Pyke vs Taric Matchup Summary
Best Pyke vs Taric Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taric as Pyke
Tips for Playing as Pyke against Taric
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 Taric
Taric reduces his spell cooldowns by basic attacking enemies with Bravado. Try to kite him in teamfights and punish him for approaching the minion wave in lane.
Taric's ultimate, Cosmic Radiance, has a long delay before its effect. Try to quickly assess whether to disengage the fight or attempt to kill his allies before it goes off.
Pyke vs Taric Counter Stats
How to Counter Taric with Pyke in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some vital Pyke versus Taric matchup stats that may help us distinguish the differences between these two champions. For instance, Pyke’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Taric’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Pyke may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Taric. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Pyke normally has a much larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Taric. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Pyke and Taric
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Who is Better, Pyke or Taric?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Pyke usually loses when trying to fight Taric, with a 48.1% win rate. Therefore, Pyke makes a poor counter to Taric.
While Pyke does have a lower win rate than Taric, when on opposite teams, Pyke also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Pyke into Taricas 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 utility and CC, a similar amount to Taric. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Pyke vs Taric matchups, Taric is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Pyke is a somewhat poor counter for Taric. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Pyke against Taric.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Pyke in order to counter Taric during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Pyke on average gets a similar amount of CS relative to Taric. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Pyke versus Taric build include Umbral Glaive, Edge of Night, and Bloodsong. When Pyke included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting Taric than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Pyke boasted an average winrate of 48.1% battling Taric with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Taric as Pyke, you 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 rune builds players picked for Pyke vs Taric fights, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.1% winrate overall.
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