Pyke with Darius
How to Synergize Pyke and Darius
based on 4,219 Pyke with Darius pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Pyke Darius Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Pyke and Darius
Tips for Playing as Pyke with Darius
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 Darius Will Play
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
Pyke Darius Synergy Stats
How to Play with Darius as Pyke in LoL
The Pyke Darius synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Darius, 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 Darius. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Darius helps Pyke perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Pyke plays on the same team as Darius, he observes a little decrease in his total damage dealt. This could indicate that Darius does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Pyke is played together with Darius on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Darius.
Additionally, when Pyke plays with Darius on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Darius does a decent job of protecting Pyke in team fights.
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Is Pyke better when played alongside Darius?
There is no ideal synergy for Pyke that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. Yet, overall, Darius is a very bad teammate for Pyke. By being on the same team as Pyke, he drops their win rate by -3.9% to 45.2%. This signals that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Pyke and Darius that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Darius has a much lower diffuclty than Pyke. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Darius comrades to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Working on the same side, Pyke players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by grouping Pyke and Darius together, you probably will not be providing your other allies a great deal of AP. Plan to include other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Darius teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Pyke to pair well with Darius during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Pyke and Darius synergy build consist of Hubris, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Pyke included at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Darius than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Pyke had an average winrate of 45.2% when playing alongside Darius with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Pyke players should use 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 that we analyzed for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 45.2% winrate overall.
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