Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
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.
The Ahri Pyke synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Pyke, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Ahri sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Pyke. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Pyke helps Ahri perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Ahri is an ally to Pyke, she gets a little increase in her complete damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Pyke provides cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Ahri is played with Pyke on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Pyke.
Moreover, when Ahri plays with Pyke on the same team, she usually takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Pyke does a poor job of covering Ahri in team fights.
There is no top champion pairing for Ahri that will 100% of the time be her ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Pyke is a very typical ally for Ahri. By playing on the same team as Ahri, he drops their win rate by -0.1% to 48.1%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong bond between Ahri and Pyke that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Pyke has a greater difficulty than Ahri. That means you must be cautious when enlisting Pyke teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to do well with you.
When playing on the same side, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by aligning Ahri and Pyke together, you may not be granting your team enough engage potential. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Pyke teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Ahri in order to work well with Pyke during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to get in your Ahri and Pyke synergy build include Cryptbloom, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Ahri combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better when fighting alongside Pyke than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Ahri boasted an average win rate of 48.1% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Pyke with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, Ahri players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.1% winrate overall.
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