Pyke vs Thresh
How to Beat Thresh as Pyke
based on 5,591 Pyke vs Thresh matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Pyke vs Thresh Matchup Summary
Best Pyke vs Thresh Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Thresh as Pyke
Tips for Playing as Pyke against Thresh
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 Thresh
Intentionally breaking a wall of The Box can allow a vulnerable ally to escape unscathed.
Thresh's Death Sentence has a long cast time. Watch for the cast to begin to take evasive actions.
Thresh relies on collecting souls for a portion of his defense and damage. Try punishing him when he moves to collect them.
Pyke vs Thresh Counter Stats
How to Counter Thresh with Pyke in LoL
The stats provided here feature some strategic Pyke against Thresh counter stats that may help you distinguish the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Pyke’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Thresh’s ratio of NaN, showing that Pyke may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Thresh. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Pyke typically has a much larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Thresh. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Pyke and Thresh
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Who is Better, Pyke or Thresh?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Pyke usually fairs equally well when facing off against Thresh, with a 49.5% win rate. Thus, Pyke makes an ok counter for Thresh.
While Pyke does have a lower win rate than Thresh, when they face off with one another, Pyke also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Pyke into Threshas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Pyke also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Thresh. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Pyke vs Thresh matchups, Thresh is the better champion with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Pyke is a somewhat poor counter to Thresh. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Pyke against Thresh.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Pyke in order to counter Thresh during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Pyke usually accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Thresh. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions 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, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Pyke versus Thresh build include Bloodsong, Axiom Arc, and Opportunity. When Pyke incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when facing Thresh than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Pyke had an average winrate of 49.5% when playing against Thresh with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Thresh 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. Out of all the runes players picked for Pyke vs Thresh counterpicks, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.5% win rate overall.
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