Pyke vs Hwei
How to Beat Hwei as Pyke
based on 5,969 Pyke vs Hwei matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Pyke vs Hwei Matchup Summary
Best Pyke vs Hwei Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Hwei as Pyke
Tips for Playing as Pyke against Hwei
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 Hwei
After Hwei paints a Torment spell he is vulnerable to being rushed down.
Hwei needs to predict your positioning and take time to cast, catch him by surprise.
Hwei's lightning is deadly but slow; it deals more damage when you are alone or unable to move.
Pyke vs Hwei Counter Stats
How to Counter Hwei with Pyke in LoL
The stats shown on this page show several critical Pyke vs. Hwei matchup statistics that may help us realize the differences between the pair. For instance, Pyke’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Hwei’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Pyke may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Hwei..
Pyke often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Hwei. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Pyke and Hwei
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Who is Better, Pyke or Hwei?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Pyke usually wins when trying to fight Hwei, with a 53.9% win rate. Therefore, Pyke makes a great counter for Hwei.
While Pyke does have a higher winrate than Hwei, when they face off with one another, Pyke also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging champion to learn. You should be be fine when picking Pyke into Hweias his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Pyke also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Hwei. This often 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 Hwei matchups, Pyke is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Pyke is a great counter for Hwei. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Pyke against Hwei.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Pyke in order to counter Hwei during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Pyke often picks up a lot less CS relative to Hwei. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Pyke versus Hwei build include Edge of Night, Bloodsong, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Pyke incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better versus Hwei than with most other common builds. In fact, Pyke boasted an average winrate of 53.9% battling Hwei with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Hwei as Pyke, you should take the Hail of Blades, Cheap Shot, Zombie Ward, Relentless Hunter, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Pyke vs Hwei counters, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 53.9% winrate overall.
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