Katarina with Pyke
How to Synergize Katarina and Pyke
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Katarina Pyke Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Pyke
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Pyke
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina Pyke Synergy Stats
How to Play with Pyke as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina 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, Katarina 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 Katarina perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Katarina is an ally to Pyke, she sees a little increase in her complete damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Pyke supports by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played together with Pyke on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Pyke. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Pyke.
Moreover, when Katarina plays with Pyke on the same team, she on average takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Pyke does a decent job of protecting Katarina in team fights.
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Pyke?
There is no perfect ally for Katarina that will 100% of the time be her ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Pyke is a below average ally for Katarina. By locking into the same side as Katarina, he lowers their win rate by -1.9% to 46.9%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful bond between Katarina and Pyke that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Pyke has a lower difficulty than Katarina. That means Katarina players don't need to be very careful when finding Pyke teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working alongside, Katarina players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by bringing Katarina and Pyke together, you may not be providing your other allies much crowd control. Make sure to have other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Pyke ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down 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 Katarina to synergize with Pyke during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to use in your Katarina and Pyke synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Katarina incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Pyke than with many other common item sets. In fact, Katarina had an average winrate of 46.9% helping carry Pyke with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.9% winrate overall.
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