Pyke vs Tristana
How to Beat Tristana as Pyke
based on 4,236 Pyke vs Tristana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Pyke vs Tristana Matchup Summary
Best Pyke vs Tristana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tristana as Pyke
Tips for Playing as Pyke against Tristana
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 Tristana
Stand away from your creeps in a lane to take less collateral damage from Explosive Charge.
If you see Tristana activate Rapid Fire in a fight, stun her and try to back off until the spell dissipates.
Pyke vs Tristana Counter Stats
How to Counter Tristana with Pyke in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight some important Pyke versus Tristana matchup statistics that may help you grasp the differences between the two. As an example, Pyke’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Tristana’s ratio of NaN, showing that Pyke may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Tristana..
Pyke normally has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Tristana. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Pyke and Tristana
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Who is Better, Pyke or Tristana?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Pyke usually fairs equally well when playing against Tristana, with a 50.1% win rate. Thus, Pyke makes an ok counter for Tristana.
While Pyke does have a higher winrate than Tristana, when on opposite teams, Pyke also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Pyke into Tristanaas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Pyke has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Tristana. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Pyke vs Tristana matchups, Pyke is the better champion 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 Tristana. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Pyke against Tristana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Pyke in order to counter Tristana 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 mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Pyke most often picks up a lot less CS compared to Tristana. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions 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 a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The top items to use in your Pyke versus Tristana build include Solstice Sleigh, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Pyke combined at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs Tristana than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Pyke had an average win rate of 50.1% when countering Tristana with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of beating Tristana as Pyke, you should use the Hail of Blades, Cheap Shot, Zombie Ward, Ultimate Hunter, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Pyke vs Tristana counters, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.1% winrate overall.
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