Gnar with Pyke
How to Synergize Gnar and Pyke
based on 1,250 Gnar with Pyke pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gnar Pyke Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Pyke
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Pyke
Position yourself next to walls to bait your enemies into getting stunned by your ultimate.
Know your strengths! Mini Gnar is fast, squishy, and has high sustained damage. Mega Gnar is slow, tough, and has high burst.
Managing your Rage is very important. Try to time out your transformations so you can get maximum benefit from both forms.
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.
Gnar Pyke Synergy Stats
How to Play with Pyke as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar 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, Gnar sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Pyke. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Pyke helps Gnar perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gnar is an ally to Pyke, he sees a little decrease in his total damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Pyke does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played alongside 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 with Pyke.
Additionally, when Gnar plays with Pyke on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Pyke does a decent job of covering Gnar during teamfights.
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Pyke?
There is no one best champion pairing for Gnar that will always be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Pyke is a below average teammate for Gnar. By locking into the same side as Gnar, he drops their win rate by -1.8% to 46.2%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Gnar and Pyke that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Pyke has a lower difficulty than Gnar. That means Gnar players don't need to be very careful when lining up Pyke comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by grouping Gnar and Pyke together, you may not be granting your side very much magic damage. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Pyke teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Gnar to pair well with Pyke during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to have in your Gnar and Pyke synergy build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Gnar combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Pyke than with most other common builds. In fact, Gnar had an average winrate of 46.2% when playing alongside Pyke with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.2% winrate overall.
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