Amumu with Pyke
How to Synergize Amumu and Pyke
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Amumu Pyke Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Amumu and Pyke
Tips for Playing as Amumu with Pyke
Despair is very effective against other tanks, so make sure you're in range of opponents with the highest Health.
Amumu is highly dependent on teammates, so try laning with your friends for maximum effectiveness.
Cooldown Reduction on Amumu is very strong, but it's often difficult to itemize for it. Grab the Golem buff whenever possible to gain Cooldown Reduction without sacrificing stats.
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.
Amumu Pyke Synergy Stats
How to Play with Pyke as Amumu in LoL
The Amumu Pyke synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Pyke, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Amumu sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Pyke. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Pyke helps Amumu perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Amumu plays on the same team as Pyke, he gets a small increase in his full damage output. This may indicate that Pyke helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Amumu is played with Pyke on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Pyke.
Additionally, when Amumu plays with Pyke on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Pyke does a poor job of covering Amumu during team fights.
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Is Amumu better when played alongside Pyke?
There is no one best companion for Amumu that will no matter what be his top teammate. However, overall, Pyke is a very typical ally for Amumu. By playing on the same team as Amumu, he drops their win rate by -1.0% to 48.0%. This proves that there is only a small bond between Amumu and Pyke that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Pyke has a much greater difficulty compared to Amumu. That means you need to be very careful when finding Pyke allies to play with, as they will need a much higher level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Amumu players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide utility and CC for your side. Combined, these champions should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Although, by pairing Amumu and Pyke together, you will not be providing your team enough AP. Plan to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Pyke ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Amumu in order to synergize with Pyke during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to use in your Amumu and Pyke synergy build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Liandry's Torment. When Amumu combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Pyke than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Amumu boasted an average win rate of 48.0% when playing alongside Pyke with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, Amumu players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.0% winrate overall.
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