Pyke vs Ziggs
How to Beat Ziggs as Pyke
based on 1,779 Pyke vs Ziggs matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Pyke vs Ziggs Matchup Summary
Best Pyke vs Ziggs Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ziggs as Pyke
Tips for Playing as Pyke against Ziggs
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 Ziggs
Many of Ziggs' abilities have long cooldowns. Try catching him just after he's used his abilities.
Don't step on Ziggs' mines! They'll slow you and make it much easier for him to hit you with his other abiltiies.
Ziggs' ultimate, Mega Inferno Bomb, deals more damage in the center of the explosion.
Pyke vs Ziggs Counter Stats
How to Counter Ziggs with Pyke in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore some important Pyke vs. Ziggs counter statistics that may help us grasp the differences and similarities between the two. Pyke’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Ziggs’s ratio of NaN, showing that Pyke may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Ziggs..
Pyke usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his foe does. On average, he receives more damage than Ziggs. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Pyke and Ziggs
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Who is Better, Pyke or Ziggs?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Pyke usually wins when playing against Ziggs, with a 52.6% win rate. As a result, Pyke makes a good counter to Ziggs.
While Pyke does have a higher winrate than Ziggs, when on opposite teams, Pyke also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champ to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Pyke into Ziggsas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Pyke has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ziggs. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Pyke vs Ziggs matchups, Pyke is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Pyke is a good counter to Ziggs. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Pyke against Ziggs.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Pyke in order to counter Ziggs during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Pyke on average racks up a lot less CS relative to Ziggs. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Pyke versus Ziggs build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Umbral Glaive, and Bloodsong. When Pyke incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Ziggs than with many other common builds. In fact, Pyke boasted an average win rate of 52.6% when playing against Ziggs with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Ziggs as Pyke, Pyke players 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. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Pyke vs Ziggs counter picks, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.6% win rate overall.
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