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.
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.
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.
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.
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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