Pyke with Gnar
How to Synergize Pyke and Gnar
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Pyke Gnar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Pyke and Gnar
Tips for Playing as Pyke with Gnar
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 Gnar Will Play
Position yourself next to walls to bait your enemies into getting stunned by your ultimate.
Know your strengths! Mini Gnar is fast, squishy, and has high sustained damage. Mega Gnar is slow, tough, and has high burst.
Managing your Rage is very important. Try to time out your transformations so you can get maximum benefit from both forms.
Pyke Gnar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gnar as Pyke in LoL
The Pyke Gnar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gnar, 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 Gnar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Gnar helps Pyke perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Pyke is paired with Gnar, he sees a little increase in his total damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Gnar provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Pyke is played alongside Gnar 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 alongside Gnar.
Additionally, when Pyke plays with Gnar on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Gnar does a poor job of protecting Pyke in team fights.
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Is Pyke better when played alongside Gnar?
There is no one best ally for Pyke that will always be his top synergy. Yet, overall, Gnar is a relatively poor teammate for Pyke. By being on the same team as Pyke, he lowers their win rate by -2.9% to 46.2%. This demonstrates that there is a negative bond between Pyke and Gnar that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Gnar has a greater difficulty than Pyke. That means Pyke players need to be cautious when arranging Gnar teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by pairing Pyke and Gnar together, you may not be giving your other teammates much magic damage. Make sure to include other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Gnar teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Pyke to synergize with Gnar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to prioritize in your Pyke and Gnar synergy build include Umbral Glaive, Bloodsong, and Axiom Arc. When Pyke bought at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Gnar than with many other common item sets. In fact, Pyke had an average winrate of 46.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Gnar with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Hail of Blades, Cheap Shot, Zombie Ward, Ultimate Hunter, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.2% win rate overall.
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