Thresh vs Pyke
How to Beat Pyke as Thresh
based on 5,591 Thresh vs Pyke matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Thresh vs Pyke Matchup Summary
Best Thresh vs Pyke Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Pyke as Thresh
Tips for Playing as Thresh against Pyke
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
Advice to Win Against Pyke
Pyke regenerates a significant amount of damage he has taken from enemy champions, but only when you can't see him!
When Pyke is hidden nearby in his Ghostwater Dive, sharks will circle underneath your feet.
Try not to stand near low health allies. If Pyke executes them using Death From Below, you might be next on the list.
Thresh vs Pyke Counter Stats
How to Counter Pyke with Thresh in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some influential Thresh versus Pyke matchup stats that may help us figure out the differences between the two. For instance, Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Pyke’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Pyke. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Thresh normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Pyke. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Thresh and Pyke
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Who is Better, Thresh or Pyke?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Thresh usually fairs equally well when taking on Pyke, with a 50.5% win rate. Therefore, Thresh makes an ok counter to Pyke.
While Thresh does have a higher win rate compared to Pyke, when facing one another, Thresh also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Thresh into Pykeas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Thresh also has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Pyke. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Thresh vs Pyke matchups, Thresh is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Thresh is a decent counter for Pyke. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Thresh against Pyke.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Thresh to counter Pyke during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh on average accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Pyke. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Thresh versus Pyke build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Celestial Opposition. When Thresh used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Pyke than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Thresh had an average winrate of 50.5% when countering Pyke with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Pyke as Thresh, Thresh players should use the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Thresh vs Pyke face-offs, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.5% winrate overall.
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