Pyke
Computed from 150,817 ranked Solo/Duo games collected through the Riot API · patch 26.21.
| Role | Win Rate | Pick Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Support | 48.7% | 5.8% |
Pyke is banned in about 18.7% of games at this tier, one figure for the whole champion since bans happen before roles are picked. What ban rate measures.
Pyke's Support win rate is 1.3 percentage points below an even 50% — Should I Dodge's win-probability model varies by about 4.8 percentage points of standard deviation from lobby to lobby across all ranks, purely from which champions get drawn, so this gap is smaller than that noise, not solid evidence the champion is unusually strong or weak right now.
Pyke is tracked in exactly one role at this tier scope, Support — so there's no ambiguity below about which lane the rest of this page's per-tier, threat, and counters reporting describes.
Pyke's Support Build
In Emerald+ games on patch 26.21 (including games from other ranks or the previous patch, as Emerald+ on this patch alone had too few), Pyke's most common Support setup runs Flash and Ignite with Hail of Blades, maxes Q first, and builds Umbral Glaive, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Voltaic Cyclosword — 49.5% win rate over 48,230 games.
- Summoner spells
Flash + Ignite
49.5%44,533 games - Runes
Hail of Blades + Resolve
51.6%2,179 games - Skill priority Q > E > W 49.8%43,412 games
- Starter
Health Potion ×2
49.4%45,030 games - Boots
Mercury's Treads
52.4%3,130 games - First three items
Umbral Glaive → Youmuu's Ghostblade → Voltaic Cyclosword
56.6%497 games
Pyke's Support Win Rate By Tier
| Tier | Win Rate | Pick Rate | Games | Edge (noise-widths) | Clears 0.5σ? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iron | 47.6% | 7.1% | 16,275 | 0.32σ | No |
| Bronze | 48.2% | 6.3% | 18,246 | 0.30σ | No |
| Silver | 48.3% | 5.6% | 20,627 | 0.29σ | No |
| Gold | 48.6% | 5.5% | 22,775 | 0.26σ | No |
| Platinum | 49.4% | 5.5% | 24,705 | 0.12σ | No |
| Emerald | 49.6% | 5.8% | 20,246 | 0.10σ | No |
| Diamond | 49.2% | 5.7% | 18,232 | 0.19σ | No |
| Master | 50.8% | 5.6% | 8,539 | 0.16σ | No |
| Grandmaster | 46.1% | 6.8% | 655 | 0.51σ | Yes |
Pyke's Support win rate ranges from 46.1% at Grandmaster to 50.8% at Master across the 9 of 10 ranked tiers with at least 200 games in this role — a 4.6-point spread. Measured against each tier's own noise floor, that's 0.16σ at Master and 0.51σ at Grandmaster, with only the Grandmaster figure clearing the 0.5σ bar Should I Dodge itself requires before calling a reading anything but Neutral. 1 tier under 200 games not shown.
- Power curve
- Early game
- Threats
- Hard crowd control, burst, and stealth
Curated reads, not measured: how we judge these
Who Counters Pyke in Support?
Champions That Counter Pyke
| Champion | Win Rate vs Pyke | Edge (noise-widths) |
|---|---|---|
Kennen |
56.7% | 1.41σ |
Vex |
56.7% | 1.41σ |
Maokai |
54.8% | 1.01σ |
Sion |
54.7% | 0.99σ |
Rell |
54.6% | 0.97σ |
Champions Pyke Counters
| Champion | Win Rate vs Pyke | Edge (noise-widths) |
|---|---|---|
Aatrox |
41.6% | 1.75σ |
Ornn |
42.0% | 1.67σ |
Twitch |
42.5% | 1.56σ |
Volibear |
42.6% | 1.54σ |
Nasus |
43.4% | 1.39σ |
At most five champions are listed in each direction for Pyke: the 5 that counter it here lean control-heavy, with a tight, 2-point spread — none of them stand out much from the others among them, while 5 favourable matchups round out the picture — most matchups you could actually face simply aren't covered.