Pyke
Hardest matchups for Pyke in Support (Emerald, patch 16.20): 
Leona, 
Braum, 
Thresh. Easiest: 
Ezreal, 
Twitch, 
Mel.
Try it in a draftCountersPower curvesIn the tier listWho wins into PykeOn the pro tier list
Pyke on patch 16.22
- Support49.4%#37 of 77B13,400 games
- steady since 16.21
Pyke’s main role on patch 16.22 is Support: a 49.4% win rate across 13,400 Emerald games, #37 of 77 Support champions on the tier list (grade B), picked in 5.5% of games. Since patch 16.21, Pyke Support has not moved by more than chance explains: 0.2 points across 92,790 games in 8 ranks.
Emerald games from every region, as of Nov 9, 2026. The tables below load current numbers. Patch 16.22 tier list
Solo queue
Open in the tier listPatch 16.20, the current one
| Lane | Grade | Win rate | Games | Picked | Mains |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support99% of its games | B | 49.3%49.3% raw ±0.5 | 39,448 | 5.7%24.2% banned | 51.4%47.2% first time |
| Mid1% of its games | too few games | 49.1%45.8% raw ±6.2 | 251 | 0.0%24.0% banned | 50.6%47.1% first time |
| Bot0% of its games | too few games | 48.8%34.2% raw ±11.2 | 76 | 0.0%24.0% banned | 51.1%46.5% first time |
| Top0% of its games | too few games | 49.8%45.7% raw ±16.6 | 35 | 0.0%24.1% banned | 51.4%47.2% first time |
| Jungle0% of its games | too few games | 49.7%38.5% raw ±19.2 | 26 | 0.0%24.1% banned | 51.2%47.4% first time |
Matchups
Every matchupHow to read this
Pyke’s win rate against each champion picked into it in the lane opposite: its hardest matchups, then its easiest. The small number is the matchup’s own effect on Pyke, the part not explained by either champion’s strength.
Hardest for Pyke
Lane leads and team bans
What Pyke’s team bans
Champions a team bans more often when it has Pyke than the other team does in the same games (308,102 games). The other team banned before Pyke was picked, so the gap is the ban spent because Pyke was coming — a sign players see these as counters. Riot does not say which player cast a ban, so this is the team’s choice.
Builds
Every buildHow to read this
How Pyke is built in this lane, most common first, with the items those builds finish and how they win.
- Lethality
51.2%34,769 games - AD bruiser
50.8%206 games - Tank
51.6%150 games - Enchanter
51.5%40 games - Crit
50.9%37 games
Runes and summoner spells
How to read this
How Pyke does with each summoner-spell pair, keystone and minor rune in this lane, at the rank and region above. These are the win rates of the players who made each choice, not the choice’s own effect: a page is recommended only when a real share of players runs it.
42,523 games · patches 16.20, 16.21 · Sep 10 – Oct 21
Flash + Ignite49.2% · 39,295 games
Hail of BladesDomination + Inspiration · 49.7%
Sudden Impact · Deep Ward · Relentless Hunter · Magical Footwear · Cosmic InsightShards: Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health
Support item: Celestial Opposition · 50.9%
Key items: Umbral Glaive → Youmuu's Ghostblade · 49.9%
Boots: Boots of Swiftness · 51.1%Every option, with its numbers
Summoner spells
- Flash + Ignite49.2%39,295 games · 92% pick rate · the usual choiceRecommended
Exhaust + Flash50.8%2,550 games · 6.0% pick rate · same players: −0.3 pts vs the usualRare: not recommended
Keystones
- Hail of Blades + Inspiration49.7%5,862 games · 14% pick rate · same players: +2.2 pts vs the usualRecommended
Electrocute + Precision48.3%1,179 games · 2.8% pick rate · same players: +0.6 pts vs the usualRare: not recommended
Hail of Blades + Sorcery51.4%4,875 games · 11% pick rate · same players: +0.2 pts vs the usual
Hail of Blades + Resolve48.8%28,193 games · 66% pick rate · the usual choice
Minor runes with Hail of Blades
- Sudden Impact50.7%39% take it
Cheap Shot48.4%61% take it
- Deep Ward51.9%28% take it
Sixth Sense48.0%67% take it
Grisly Mementos52.1%5.8% take it
- Relentless Hunter52.2%28% take it
Ultimate Hunter48.0%58% take it
Treasure Hunter49.4%14% take it
- Cosmic Insight49.5%94% take it
- Magical Footwear49.2%85% take it
Cash Back52.0%9.0% take it
Biscuit Delivery51.2%4.5% take it
Jack Of All Trades51.4%2.4% take it
Hextech Flashtraption49.1%2.3% take it
- Adaptive Force49.0%93% take it
- Attack Speed52.1%4.0% take it
- Ability Haste52.1%3.2% take it
- Adaptive Force49.0%93% take it
- Move Speed53.3%6.6% take it
- Health52.2%23% take it
- Health Scaling48.1%68% take it
- Tenacity and Slow Resist50.9%9.4% take it
These numbers describe, they do not prove. Each rate is Pyke’s record when its player chose that option, pulled toward Pyke’s own rate by 100 games of prior so a small sample cannot look like a discovery. An uncommon page often wins more because experts run it, and they would win on any page, so only a choice taken in at least 10% of games can be recommended, and spells and keystones are ranked by how the SAME players do with them against the usual choice, not by the raw rate; rarer ones are listed with their numbers and labeled. The build line (opening buy, the two key items in the order they are finished, boots or the support upgrade) is advice in the same sense: how Pyke does when built that way.
The learning curve
Champion pool
On a first game Pyke wins 44.9%; in the hands of players with the most mastery on it, 52.4%. That gap ranks it 33 of 173 for how much practice pays. It crosses 50% at about 180K mastery points.
Pro play
On the pro tier list
Pyke in the major leagues and international events this season, across 3,434 games: its record, how often it is picked or banned, whether it is taken blind or saved as a counter, its lane at 15 minutes, and the best pro on it.
| Lane | Win rate | Priority | Blind / counter | Lane @15 | Best pro |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support | 50.5%44W 40L | 6%6% in any lane | 77% counter | +85 gold | — |
How much knowing Pyke pays
Players on their Mastery band win 7.5 points more on Pyke than first-timers do: #33 of 173 champions for how much mastery pays.
At 300k+ mastery points, Pyke players win 52.4%: #88 of 173 champions for where mastery ends up. The curve is still rising there: its fitted ceiling of about 54.9% lies beyond the data and is an estimate, not a measurement.
PykeDots are the six mastery bands, placed at their mastery points. The line is the best-fitting curve that rises and levels off.
This is not a promise about your next game. Players do not reach a mastery band in a random order, and a champion someone loses on tends to get dropped before it reaches the high bands — so the right-hand side of every curve is partly survivors, not only practice.
Text summary of this page as it stood on Nov 9, 2026. The live tables on this page are current.
Pyke ranked-play summary
Most similar champions: Nautilus, Alistar, Braum.
Anonymous public figures recorded on Nov 9, 2026, when this page was built. The interactive tables on this page load current data.