Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
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.
The Lissandra 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, Lissandra sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Pyke. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Pyke helps Lissandra perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Lissandra is an ally to Pyke, she sees a little increase in her complete damage output. This difference could indicate that Pyke supports by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Lissandra is played alongside 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 with Pyke.
Moreover, when Lissandra plays with Pyke on the same team, she usually takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Pyke does a decent job of covering Lissandra in team fights.
There is no universally accepted best companion for Lissandra that will no matter what be her #1 ally. However, Pyke is a very typical ally for Lissandra. By playing on the same team as Lissandra, he increases their win rate by 0.9% to 50.4%. This demonstrates that there is a weak bond between Lissandra and Pyke that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Pyke has a greater difficulty than Lissandra. That means Lissandra players must be cautious when lining up Pyke teammates to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Playing alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Lissandra and Pyke together, you will not be providing your team a great deal of protection for burst damage. Plan to have other champions on your team that offsets this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Pyke teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Lissandra to work well with Pyke during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to have in your Lissandra and Pyke synergy build include Malignance, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Lissandra included at least these three finished items in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Pyke than with most other common item sets. In fact, Lissandra had an average win rate of 50.4% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Pyke with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.4% winrate overall.
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