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.
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize several influential Yuumi vs. Pyke matchup stats that can help us interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Yuumi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Pyke’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Yuumi may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Pyke. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Yuumi usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Pyke. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Yuumi usually loses when trying to fight Pyke, with a 43.2% win rate. Therefore, Yuumi makes a poor counter for Pyke.
While Yuumi does have a much lower win rate than Pyke, when facing one another, Yuumi also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Yuumi into Pyke.
Moreover, Yuumi also has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Pyke. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Yuumi vs Pyke matchups, Pyke is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Yuumi is a trash counter to Pyke. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Yuumi against Pyke.
If you would like to truly master Yuumi to counter Pyke during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yuumi on average accumulates a lot less CS relative to Pyke. Champs who typically don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Yuumi versus Pyke build include Ardent Censer, Dream Maker, and Imperial Mandate. When Yuumi bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better against Pyke than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Yuumi boasted an average winrate of 43.2% when playing against Pyke with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Pyke as Yuumi, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Font of Life, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Yuumi vs Pyke counter picks, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 43.2% win rate overall.
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