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Pyke with Gragas

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How to Synergize Pyke and Gragas

based on 2,331 Pyke with Gragas pairs
Win Rate
46.8 %
K/D/A
2.23
Pick Rate
1.8 %

How We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL

Our servers take in data from from millions of League of Legends rounds straight from Riot Games each and every week. Pyke has fought alongside Gragas in 2331 recently played, ranked games. By amassing so much relevant data straight from the developers of LoL, we have complete confidence that we can give you high-quality, usable builds to help Pyke synergize with Gragas. It is relatively rare for Pyke to play with Gragas as teammates. This pairing has only taken place in approximately 1.8% of rounds with Pyke.

Pyke Gragas Synergy Summary

Unfortunately, Pyke does a awful job of teaming up with Gragas. Usually, he wins a lowly 46.8% of games the champs fight together on the same side. If you want to play better as Pyke when playing alongside Gragas by figuring out how to better synergize your strategy with him, then dig into the full build (with items, runes, summoner spells, and skills) below!

Best Pyke vs Gragas Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Health PotionWorld Atlas

Early Items

~5 Mins
Long SwordSerrated Dirk

Core Pyke Items

~22 Mins
Edge of NightBloodsongVoltaic Cyclosword

Optional Items

HubrisAxiom ArcOpportunityCelestial Opposition

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonerdot summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Pyke to level upq
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Second ability for Pyke to level upe
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Last skill for Pyke to max outw

Runes

DominationHail of BladesSudden ImpactZombie WardIngenious Hunter
InspirationMagical FootwearCosmic Insight
Adaptive ForceAdaptive ForceHealth Scaling
Pyke's passive ability p
Pyke's q ability q
Pyke's w ability w
Pyke's e ability e
Pyke's ultimate ability r
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Q
2
E
3
W
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Q
5
Q
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R
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Q
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Guide to Synergizing Pyke and Gragas

Tips for Playing as Pyke with Gragas

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 Gragas Will Play

Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.

Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.

The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.

Pyke Gragas Synergy Stats

Pyke Image
Win Rate
46.8 %
VS
Win Rate
53.2 %
Gragas Image
7
< Kills >
6.9
7.1
< Deaths >
7.2
8.8
< Assists >
8.7
1.61
< Killing Sprees >
1.61
40
< Minions Killed >
39
0.06
< Dragons Killed >
0.06
0.35
< Inhibitors >
0.34
10,166
< Physical Damage >
9,950
66
< Magic Damage >
66
2,411
< True Damage >
2,396
12,644
< Damage Dealt >
12,413
22,321
< Damage Taken >
22,241
10,275
< Gold Earned >
10,226
1.17
< Towers >
1.15
0.01
< Baron Takedowns >
0.01
4,994
< Total Healing >
4,937
10,664
< Experience >
10,661
71
< Vision Score >
67
32
< Wards Placed >
30
98
< Time Dealing CC >
97

How to Play with Gragas as Pyke in LoL

The Pyke Gragas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gragas, 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 Gragas. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Gragas helps Pyke perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.

When Pyke plays on the same team as Gragas, he observes a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This could demonstrate that Gragas supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Pyke is played together with Gragas on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Gragas.

Additionally, when Pyke plays with Gragas on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Gragas does a poor job of covering Pyke in teamfights.

Synergies between Pyke and Gragas

Damage Types Compared

Pyke
Gragas
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Contrasted

Pyke
Gragas

Is Pyke better when played alongside Gragas?

There is no universally accepted best synergy for Pyke that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. However, overall, Gragas is a below average ally for Pyke. By being on the same side as Pyke, he lowers their win rate by -2.3% to 46.8%. This shows that there is a bad synergy between Pyke and Gragas that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.

Gragas has a lower difficulty than Pyke. That means Pyke players don't need to be cautious when finding Gragas teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to do well with you.

When playing cooperatively, Pyke players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.

In contrast, by grouping Pyke and Gragas together, you probably will not be giving your other allies a great deal of magical damage output. Plan to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.

Regardless of your Gragas ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.

Additional Information for Pyke Players

How We Calculated Our Pyke Gragas Synergy Build and Stats

For this guide on pairing Pyke and Gragas, we analyzed 2,331 ranked and recent League of Legends matches. We perform advanced data cleaning and statistical methods to guarantee that our team synergy stats are accurate and reliable. You can be confident that our recommended build to pair Pyke with Gragas comes from actual data and is not the fabrication of some random LoL player, as some other sites provide. You can use the filters at the top of the page to view your division's most relevant stats and build.

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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing

To learn all of the intricacies of Pyke to synergize with Gragas during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.

The most crucial items to get in your Pyke and Gragas synergy build include Edge of Night, Bloodsong, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Pyke included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Gragas than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Pyke had an average winrate of 46.8% when playing alongside Gragas with these items in his kit.

To have the highest probability of beating 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 sets players used for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.8% winrate overall.

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