Graves with Pyke
How to Synergize Graves and Pyke
based on 5,306 Graves with Pyke pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Graves Pyke Synergy Summary
Best Graves vs Pyke Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Pyke
Tips for Playing as Graves with Pyke
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
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.
Graves Pyke Synergy Stats
How to Play with Pyke as Graves in LoL
The Graves 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, Graves 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 negative change shows that Pyke helps Graves perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Graves is an ally to Pyke, he gets a little decrease in his complete damage dealt. This could signal that Pyke does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played together 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 synergisticly with Pyke.
Additionally, when Graves plays with Pyke on the same side, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Pyke does a decent job of protecting Graves during team fights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Pyke?
There is no ideal companion for Graves that will always be his best ally. However, overall, Pyke is a below average ally for Graves. By locking into the same team as Graves, he lowers their win rate by -1.2% to 49.3%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Graves and Pyke that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Pyke has a much greater difficulty compared to Graves. That means you need to be very careful when arranging Pyke comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much higher level of skill to fight well with you.
Working cooperatively, Graves players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. When paired, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by bringing Graves and Pyke together, you probably will not be giving your other allies a great deal of AP. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Pyke ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Graves to pair well with Pyke during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to use in your Graves and Pyke synergy build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Maw of Malmortius, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Graves included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Pyke than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Graves boasted an average win rate of 49.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Pyke with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Graves players should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Graves and Pyke pairings, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.3% win rate overall.
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