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.
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight several influential Pyke against Fiddlesticks matchup stats that can help us appreciate the differences between these two champs. Pyke’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Fiddlesticks’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Pyke may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Fiddlesticks..
Pyke often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives less damage than Fiddlesticks. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Pyke usually wins when playing against Fiddlesticks, with a 51.0% win rate. Thus, Pyke makes a good counter to Fiddlesticks.
While Pyke does have a higher winrate than Fiddlesticks, when facing one another, Pyke also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Pyke into Fiddlesticksas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Pyke has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Fiddlesticks. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Pyke vs Fiddlesticks matchups, Pyke is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Pyke is a decent counter for Fiddlesticks. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Pyke against Fiddlesticks.
If you would like to truly master Pyke in order to counter Fiddlesticks during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Pyke most often accumulates a similar amount of CS as Fiddlesticks. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Pyke versus Fiddlesticks build include Umbral Glaive, Edge of Night, and Opportunity. When Pyke combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when facing Fiddlesticks than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Pyke had an average winrate of 51.0% battling Fiddlesticks with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Fiddlesticks as Pyke, you should equip 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 combinations players picked for Pyke vs Fiddlesticks battles, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.0% win rate overall.
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