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.
Catching Milio with no allies around severely inhibits his mobility. Try to find him alone.
Champions with crowd control that can be applied quickly excel against Milio.
Milio's movement abilities forecast their destination. Try to use this to your advantage.
The stats shown here clarify some vital Pyke vs. Milio counter stats that may help us distinguish the differences between the two. Pyke’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Milio’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Pyke may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Milio. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Pyke typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes more damage than Milio. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Pyke usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Milio, with a 50.1% win rate. As a result, Pyke makes an ok counter for Milio.
While Pyke does have a higher win rate compared to Milio, when facing one another, Pyke also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Pyke into Milioas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Pyke also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Milio. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Pyke vs Milio matchups, Pyke is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Pyke is a decent counter for Milio. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Pyke against Milio.
To truly master Pyke to counter Milio during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Pyke on average picks up a similar amount of CS as Milio. Champs who typically don't earn much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They 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, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Pyke versus Milio build consist of Umbral Glaive, Edge of Night, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Pyke incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Milio than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Pyke had an average win rate of 50.1% battling Milio with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating Milio as Pyke, Pyke players should use the Hail of Blades, Cheap Shot, Zombie Ward, Ultimate Hunter, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Pyke vs Milio counter picks, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Milio as Pyke are displayed for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a particular division, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.