Pyke with Briar
How to Synergize Pyke and Briar
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Pyke Briar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Pyke and Briar
Tips for Playing as Pyke with Briar
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.
Pyke Briar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Briar as Pyke in LoL
The Pyke Briar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Briar, 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 Briar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Briar helps Pyke perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Pyke tries to synergize with Briar, he observes a little decrease in his complete damage dealt. This difference could signal that Briar does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that their support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Pyke is played alongside Briar 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 synergisticly with Briar.
Additionally, when Pyke plays with Briar on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Briar does a decent job of protecting Pyke in teamfights.
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Is Pyke better when played alongside Briar?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Pyke that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. Yet, Briar is a very typical ally for Pyke. By locking into the same side as Pyke, they raises their win rate by 0.7% to 49.8%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Pyke and Briar that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Briar has a much lower diffuclty than Pyke. That means Pyke players don't need to be careful when lining up Briar allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
When playing together, you should 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.
Conversely, by grouping Pyke and Briar together, you probably will not be giving your side much magical damage output. We recommend you have other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Briar ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Pyke to pair well with Briar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to focus on in your Pyke and Briar synergy build include Umbral Glaive, Solstice Sleigh, and Axiom Arc. When Pyke incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Briar than with most other typical builds. In fact, Pyke had an average win rate of 49.8% when playing alongside Briar with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, you should take the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Zombie Ward, Ingenious Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.8% win rate overall.
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