Pyke with Alistar
How to Synergize Pyke and Alistar
based on 371 Pyke with Alistar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Pyke Alistar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Pyke and Alistar
Tips for Playing as Pyke with Alistar
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.
Advice to Understand How Alistar Will Play
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Pyke Alistar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Alistar as Pyke in LoL
The Pyke Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Pyke sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Alistar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Alistar helps Pyke perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Pyke tries to synergize with Alistar, he sees a big jump in his complete damage dealt. This change could signal that Alistar supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Pyke is played alongside Alistar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Alistar.
Additionally, when Pyke plays with Alistar on the same team, he typically receives more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Alistar does a poor job of covering Pyke during teamfights.
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Is Pyke better when played alongside Alistar?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Pyke that will 100% of the time be his top ally. However, overall, Alistar is a very bad ally for Pyke. By locking into the same side as Pyke, he decreases their win rate by -4.6% to 44.5%. This demonstrates that there is a very bad strategic relationship between Pyke and Alistar that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Alistar has a lower difficulty than Pyke. That means Pyke players don't need to be very careful when arranging Alistar allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Pyke players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by bringing Pyke and Alistar together, you may not be giving your other allies much magical damage output. Make sure to have other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Alistar ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Pyke in order to synergize with Alistar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to use in your Pyke and Alistar synergy build include Umbral Glaive, Bloodsong, and Opportunity. When Pyke bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Alistar than with most other typical builds. In fact, Pyke boasted an average winrate of 44.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Alistar with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, you should use the Hail of Blades, Cheap Shot, Zombie Ward, Ultimate Hunter, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 44.5% win rate overall.
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