Pyke with Caitlyn
How to Synergize Pyke and Caitlyn
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Pyke Caitlyn Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Pyke and Caitlyn
Tips for Playing as Pyke with Caitlyn
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 Caitlyn Will Play
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
Pyke Caitlyn Synergy Stats
How to Play with Caitlyn as Pyke in LoL
The Pyke Caitlyn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Caitlyn, 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 Caitlyn. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Caitlyn helps Pyke perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Pyke is an ally to Caitlyn, he sees a little drop in his total damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Caitlyn does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Pyke is played alongside Caitlyn on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Caitlyn. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Caitlyn.
Additionally, when Pyke plays with Caitlyn on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Caitlyn does a poor job of covering Pyke during teamfights.
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Is Pyke better when played alongside Caitlyn?
There is no top companion for Pyke that will no matter what be his best synergy. However, Caitlyn is a very typical ally for Pyke. By playing on the same side as Pyke, she drops their win rate by -0.5% to 48.6%. This proves that there is not really a strong bond between Pyke and Caitlyn that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Caitlyn has a lower difficulty than Pyke. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Caitlyn allies to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working cooperatively, Pyke players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Pyke and Caitlyn together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates very much magical damage output. We recommend you have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Caitlyn ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Pyke in order to pair well with Caitlyn during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to use in your Pyke and Caitlyn synergy build include Guardian Angel, Umbral Glaive, and Bloodsong. When Pyke incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Caitlyn than with most other typical builds. In fact, Pyke boasted an average win rate of 48.6% when playing alongside Caitlyn with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Hail of Blades, Cheap Shot, Zombie Ward, Ultimate Hunter, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Pyke and Caitlyn pairings, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.6% win rate overall.
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