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.
Be careful when casting immobilizing disables on Fiora. If her Riposte is available, she can turn their power against you.
Duelist's Dance shows you where Fiora will try to attack from, so be ready to punish her when she tries.
The stat comparisons shown here show some strategic Pyke versus Fiora matchup stats that may help you distinguish the distinctions between these two champs. For instance, Pyke’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Fiora’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Pyke may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Fiora. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Pyke usually has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Fiora. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Pyke usually loses when facing off against Fiora, with a 48.7% win rate. As a result, Pyke makes a poor counter for Fiora.
While Pyke does have a lower win rate than Fiora, when on opposite teams, Pyke also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult character to learn. You should be careful when picking Pyke into Fioraas 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 Fiora. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Pyke vs Fiora matchups, Fiora is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Pyke is a somewhat poor counter for Fiora. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Pyke against Fiora.
If you would like to truly master Pyke in order to counter Fiora during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Pyke often accumulates a lot less CS compared to Fiora. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Pyke versus Fiora build consist of Umbral Glaive, Hubris, and Opportunity. When Pyke incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better against Fiora than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Pyke boasted an average win rate of 48.7% battling Fiora with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Fiora as Pyke, you 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 sets players picked for Pyke vs Fiora face-offs, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.7% winrate overall.
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