Annie with Pyke
How to Synergize Annie and Pyke
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Annie Pyke Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Annie and Pyke
Tips for Playing as Annie with Pyke
Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
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.
Annie Pyke Synergy Stats
How to Play with Pyke as Annie in LoL
The Annie 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, Annie sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Pyke. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Pyke helps Annie perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Annie is an ally to Pyke, she sees a little increase in her complete damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Pyke supports by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Annie is played alongside Pyke on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Pyke. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Pyke.
Moreover, when Annie plays with Pyke on the same side, she often takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Pyke does a poor job of protecting Annie during teamfights.
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Is Annie better when played alongside Pyke?
There is no one best companion for Annie that will 100% of the time be her #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Pyke is a very typical ally for Annie. By being on the same team as Annie, he decreases their win rate by -0.1% to 49.2%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Annie and Pyke that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Pyke has a greater difficulty than Annie. That means you need to be very careful when enlisting Pyke allies to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Working on the same side, Annie players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to support your allies. Together, these champs should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Although, by pairing Annie and Pyke together, you may not be granting your team a lot of protection for burst damage. Make sure to include other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Pyke ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Annie in order to synergize with Pyke during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to have in your Annie and Pyke synergy build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Annie used at least these three great items in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Pyke than with most other common item sets. In fact, Annie had an average win rate of 49.2% when playing alongside Pyke with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Absolute Focus runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.2% win rate overall.
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