Pyke with Gangplank
How to Synergize Pyke and Gangplank
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Pyke Gangplank Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Pyke and Gangplank
Tips for Playing as Pyke with Gangplank
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 Gangplank Will Play
Try placing Cannon Barrage on the path of escape to cut off fleeing enemies.
Parrrley applies On Hit effects like Frozen Mallet or Black Cleaver.
Paying attention to low-health enemies on the map can land you a surprise kill with Cannon Barrage.
Pyke Gangplank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gangplank as Pyke in LoL
The Pyke Gangplank synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gangplank, 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 Gangplank. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Gangplank helps Pyke perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Pyke is paired with Gangplank, he gets a little increase in his full damage dealt. This may signal that Gangplank helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Pyke is played together with Gangplank 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 alongside Gangplank.
Additionally, when Pyke plays with Gangplank on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Gangplank does a poor job of protecting Pyke in teamfights.
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Is Pyke better when played alongside Gangplank?
There is no perfect synergy for Pyke that will no matter what be his top teammate. Yet, Gangplank is a very typical ally for Pyke. By locking into the same team as Pyke, he drops their win rate by -0.2% to 48.9%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small bond between Pyke and Gangplank that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Gangplank has a greater difficulty than Pyke. That means Pyke players must be very careful when finding Gangplank teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Pyke players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by grouping Pyke and Gangplank together, you may not be giving your team a great deal of magic damage. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Gangplank ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 to pair well with Gangplank during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to use in your Pyke and Gangplank synergy build include Edge of Night, Bloodsong, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Pyke incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Gangplank than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Pyke boasted an average winrate of 48.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Gangplank with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, you 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 runes players picked for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.9% win rate overall.
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