Illaoi with Pyke
How to Synergize Illaoi and Pyke
based on 2,319 Illaoi with Pyke pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Illaoi Pyke Synergy Summary
Best Illaoi vs Pyke Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Illaoi and Pyke
Tips for Playing as Illaoi with Pyke
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a 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.
Illaoi Pyke Synergy Stats
How to Play with Pyke as Illaoi in LoL
The Illaoi 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, Illaoi 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 negative change shows that Pyke helps Illaoi perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Illaoi plays on the same team as Pyke, she observes a barely noticable drop in her full damage dealt. This change may indicate that Pyke does not help protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Illaoi is played alongside Pyke on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Pyke.
Additionally, when Illaoi plays with Pyke on the same side, she often receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Pyke does a decent job of covering Illaoi in teamfights.
Synergies between Illaoi and Pyke
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Is Illaoi better when played alongside Pyke?
There is no one best companion for Illaoi that will always be her ideal ally. However, Pyke is a very typical teammate for Illaoi. By locking into the same team as Illaoi, he lowers their win rate by -0.6% to 49.0%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong bond between Illaoi and Pyke that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Pyke has a greater difficulty than Illaoi. That means you must be very careful when finding Pyke teammates to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, Illaoi players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by aligning Illaoi and Pyke together, you will not be granting your other teammates much magic damage. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Pyke ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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 Illaoi to work well with Pyke during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to have in your Illaoi and Pyke synergy build consist of Black Cleaver, Hullbreaker, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi bought at least these three great items in her build, she did significantly better as an ally of Pyke than with many other typical builds. In fact, Illaoi had an average win rate of 49.0% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Pyke with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.0% winrate overall.
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