Pyke vs Yorick
How to Beat Yorick as Pyke
based on 2,814 Pyke vs Yorick matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Pyke vs Yorick Matchup Summary
Best Pyke vs Yorick Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Yorick as Pyke
Tips for Playing as Pyke against Yorick
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 Yorick
You can cast Smite on Mist Walkers and the Maiden of the Mist to damage or kill them.
You can attack Dark Procession to break the wall down.
Try to thin out Yorick's minions before you engage him, Mist Walkers will die from a basic attack or a single target spell.
Pyke vs Yorick Counter Stats
How to Counter Yorick with Pyke in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several critical Pyke versus Yorick matchup stats that can help us realize the differences and similarities between these two champs. As an example, Pyke’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Yorick’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Pyke may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Yorick. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Pyke usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his foe does. On average, he receives less damage than Yorick. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Pyke and Yorick
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Who is Better, Pyke or Yorick?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Pyke usually fairs equally well when facing off against Yorick, with a 50.3% win rate. Thus, Pyke makes an ok counter to Yorick.
While Pyke does have a higher win rate compared to Yorick, when they face off with one another, Pyke also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Pyke into Yorickas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Pyke has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Yorick. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Pyke vs Yorick matchups, Pyke is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Pyke is a decent counter for Yorick. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Pyke against Yorick.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Pyke in order to counter Yorick during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats 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 accumulates a lot less CS compared to Yorick. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Pyke versus Yorick build consist of Hubris, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Pyke bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when facing Yorick than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Pyke boasted an average winrate of 50.3% when playing against Yorick with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Yorick as Pyke, Pyke players should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Pyke vs Yorick LoL games, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.3% winrate overall.
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