Pyke vs Viktor
How to Beat Viktor as Pyke
based on 1,781 Pyke vs Viktor matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Pyke vs Viktor Matchup Summary
Best Pyke vs Viktor Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Viktor as Pyke
Tips for Playing as Pyke against Viktor
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 Viktor
Be careful about how close you let Viktor get to you. Viktor's control of the battlefield increases with his proximity to his opponent.
Be aware of how many augments Viktor has upgraded by looking at the color of the light on his staff (purple, yellow, blue, red).
Pyke vs Viktor Counter Stats
How to Counter Viktor with Pyke in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several important Pyke against Viktor counter stats that may help you grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. Pyke’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Viktor’s ratio of NaN, showing that Pyke may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Viktor..
Pyke normally has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. Typically, he takes more damage than Viktor. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Pyke and Viktor
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Who is Better, Pyke or Viktor?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Pyke usually wins when facing off against Viktor, with a 51.8% win rate. Thus, Pyke makes a good counter for Viktor.
While Pyke does have a higher winrate than Viktor, when on opposite teams, Pyke also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Pyke into Viktoras his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Pyke also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Viktor. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Pyke vs Viktor matchups, Pyke is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Pyke is a decent counter to Viktor. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Pyke against Viktor.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Pyke in order to counter Viktor during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Pyke most often gets a lot less CS compared to Viktor. Champs who on average don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Pyke versus Viktor build consist of Umbral Glaive, Edge of Night, and Celestial Opposition. When Pyke included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better against Viktor than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Pyke boasted an average win rate of 51.8% when playing against Viktor with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Viktor as Pyke, Pyke players 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 that we analyzed for Pyke vs Viktor matchups, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.8% winrate overall.
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