Akali with Pyke
How to Synergize Akali and Pyke
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Akali Pyke Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Akali and Pyke
Tips for Playing as Akali with Pyke
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Advice to Understand How Pyke Will Play
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.
Akali Pyke Synergy Stats
How to Play with Pyke as Akali in LoL
The Akali 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, Akali sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Pyke. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Pyke helps Akali perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Akali plays on the same team as Pyke, she gets a small increase in her complete damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Pyke helps provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played together with Pyke on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Pyke.
Moreover, when Akali plays with Pyke on the same side, she on average receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Pyke does a decent job of protecting Akali during teamfights.
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Is Akali better when played alongside Pyke?
There is no perfect synergy for Akali that will always be her best ally. Yet, overall, Pyke is a not very good ally for Akali. By locking into the same side as Akali, he drops their win rate by -2.7% to 46.4%. This signals that there is a negative bond between Akali and Pyke that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Pyke has a lower difficulty than Akali. That means Akali players don't need to be careful when finding Pyke teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing alongside, Akali players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Akali and Pyke together, you will not be providing your side enough cover. Make sure to include other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Pyke ally's ability, 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 anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Akali in order to pair well with Pyke during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to include in your Akali and Pyke synergy build include Cryptbloom, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Akali included at least these three great items in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Pyke than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Akali had an average win rate of 46.4% helping carry Pyke with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.4% winrate overall.
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