Naafiri with Pyke
How to Synergize Naafiri and Pyke
based on 1,306 Naafiri with Pyke pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Naafiri Pyke Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Naafiri and Pyke
Tips for Playing as Naafiri with Pyke
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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.
Naafiri Pyke Synergy Stats
How to Play with Pyke as Naafiri in LoL
The Naafiri Pyke synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Pyke, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Naafiri sees a large worsening in their 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 Naafiri perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Naafiri is paired with Pyke, they sees a little drop in their total damage output. This may signal that Pyke does not help protection for them to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Naafiri is played with Pyke on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing with Pyke.
Moreover, when Naafiri plays with Pyke on the same team, they often receives a little more damage than when they fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Pyke does a poor job of covering Naafiri during teamfights.
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Is Naafiri better when played alongside Pyke?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Naafiri that will no matter what be their #1 ally. However, overall, Pyke is a below average ally for Naafiri. By being on the same team as Naafiri, he drops their win rate by -3.0% to 47.2%. This proves that there is a harmful synergy between Naafiri and Pyke that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Pyke has a much greater difficulty compared to Naafiri. That means Naafiri players need to be cautious when lining up Pyke comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a much greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Naafiri players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by pairing Naafiri and Pyke together, you probably will not be giving your other allies a lot of magical damage output. We recommend you have other champions on your team that offsets this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Pyke teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Naafiri in order to work well with Pyke during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to include in your Naafiri and Pyke synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Serylda's Grudge, and Profane Hydra. When Naafiri included at least these three finished items in their build, they performed a lot better when fighting alongside Pyke than with many other common builds. In fact, Naafiri had an average winrate of 47.2% when synergizing their build and playstyle to Pyke with these items in their kit.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.2% winrate overall.
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