Master Yi with Pyke
How to Synergize Master Yi and Pyke
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Master Yi Pyke Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Master Yi and Pyke
Tips for Playing as Master Yi with Pyke
If you're in a lane against ranged players, leveling up Meditate can allow you to stay in the lane longer and gain levels faster than they will.
Try using Alpha Strike on a minion in front of an enemy champion so you are placed at a safe distance at the end of the spell.
Wuju Style is very strong early for last hitting minions.
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.
Master Yi Pyke Synergy Stats
How to Play with Pyke as Master Yi in LoL
The Master Yi 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, Master Yi sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Pyke. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Pyke helps Master Yi perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Master Yi plays on the same team as Pyke, he sees a small increase in his full damage dealt. This change may indicate that Pyke supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Master Yi is played together with Pyke on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Pyke. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Pyke.
Moreover, when Master Yi plays with Pyke on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Pyke does a poor job of covering Master Yi during teamfights.
Synergies between Master Yi and Pyke
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Is Master Yi better when played alongside Pyke?
There is no perfect synergy for Master Yi that will always be his #1 teammate. However, overall, Pyke is a relatively poor companion for Master Yi. By playing on the same team as Master Yi, he drops their win rate by -1.9% to 48.7%. This shows that there is a negative synergy between Master Yi and Pyke that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Pyke has a greater difficulty than Master Yi. That means you need to be cautious when arranging Pyke teammates to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Master Yi players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Master Yi and Pyke together, you may not be giving your other teammates a lot of magic damage. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Pyke ally's ability, 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 should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Master Yi in order to synergize with Pyke during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to have in your Master Yi and Pyke synergy build include Wit's End, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Kraken Slayer. When Master Yi bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Pyke than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Master Yi boasted an average win rate of 48.7% when playing alongside Pyke with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Eyeball Collection, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Master Yi and Pyke pairings, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.7% win rate overall.
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