Garen with Pyke
How to Synergize Garen and Pyke
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Garen Pyke Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Pyke
Tips for Playing as Garen with Pyke
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
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.
Garen Pyke Synergy Stats
How to Play with Pyke as Garen in LoL
The Garen 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, Garen sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Pyke. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Pyke helps Garen perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Garen plays on the same team as Pyke, he sees a barely noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This could indicate that Pyke does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played with Pyke on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Pyke.
Additionally, when Garen plays with Pyke on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Pyke does a decent job of protecting Garen during team fights.
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Is Garen better when played alongside Pyke?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Garen that will no matter what be his top synergy. However, overall, Pyke is a very typical teammate for Garen. By playing on the same team as Garen, he drops their win rate by -0.7% to 48.0%. This demonstrates that there is only a small bond between Garen and Pyke that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Pyke has a greater difficulty than Garen. That means Garen players need to be careful when enlisting Pyke allies to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by grouping Garen and Pyke together, you will not be giving your team a lot of magical damage output. Plan to include other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Pyke teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Garen in order to synergize with Pyke during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to focus on in your Garen and Pyke synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Garen combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Pyke than with many other common builds. In fact, Garen boasted an average win rate of 48.0% helping carry Pyke with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Celerity runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.0% winrate overall.
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