Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
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 Nidalee 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, Nidalee sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Pyke. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Pyke helps Nidalee perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nidalee plays on the same team as Pyke, she observes a small increase in her total damage output. This change may signal that Pyke helps provide cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Nidalee is played together with Pyke on the same team, 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 synergisticly with Pyke.
Moreover, when Nidalee plays with Pyke on the same side, she often takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Pyke does a poor job of covering Nidalee during teamfights.
There is no perfect synergy for Nidalee that will no matter what be her best ally. However, overall, Pyke is a very typical ally for Nidalee. By being on the same team as Nidalee, he improves their win rate by 0.7% to 45.5%. This shows that there is a weak bond between Nidalee and Pyke that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Pyke has a lower difficulty than Nidalee. That means Nidalee players don't need to be cautious when arranging Pyke allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing on the same side, Nidalee players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. When paired, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by pairing Nidalee and Pyke together, you will not be granting your other teammates a great deal of protection for burst damage. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that offsets this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Pyke ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee to pair well with Pyke during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to build first in your Nidalee and Pyke synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee included at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better when paired up with Pyke than with many other common builds. In fact, Nidalee had an average winrate of 45.5% when playing alongside Pyke with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, you should use the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Nidalee and Pyke pairings, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 45.5% win rate overall.
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