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.
Timing Flash Frost with Frostbite can lead to devastating combinations.
It can be very difficult for enemy champions to kill her egg early in game. Seize the advantage by playing aggressively.
Anivia is extremely reliant on Mana for Glacial Storm. Try getting items with Mana or going for a Crest of the Ancient Golem buff on Summoner's Rift.
The Pyke Anivia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Anivia, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Anivia. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Anivia helps Pyke perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Pyke is an ally to Anivia, he gets a small increase in his full damage output. This change may signal that Anivia provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Pyke is played together with Anivia on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Anivia.
Moreover, when Pyke plays with Anivia on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Anivia does a decent job of covering Pyke during team fights.
There is no universally accepted best companion for Pyke that will always be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Anivia is a pretty good companion for Pyke. By being on the same team as Pyke, she improves their win rate by 2.4% to 51.5%. This clearly indicates that there is pretty good bond between Pyke and Anivia that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Anivia has a greater difficulty than Pyke. That means you should be cautious when arranging Anivia teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Pyke players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Together, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Pyke and Anivia together, you probably will not be giving your side enough engage potential. We recommend you include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Anivia ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Pyke in order to synergize with Anivia during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to focus on in your Pyke and Anivia synergy build consist of Umbral Glaive, Bloodsong, and Hubris. When Pyke bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Anivia than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Pyke boasted an average winrate of 51.5% helping carry Anivia with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Pyke players should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Pyke and Anivia pairings, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.5% win rate overall.
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