Pyke with Graves
How to Synergize Pyke and Graves
based on 5,306 Pyke with Graves pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Pyke Graves Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Pyke and Graves
Tips for Playing as Pyke with Graves
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 Graves Will Play
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
Pyke Graves Synergy Stats
How to Play with Graves as Pyke in LoL
The Pyke Graves synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Graves, 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 Graves. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Graves helps Pyke perform worse in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Pyke is paired with Graves, he sees a little drop in his full damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Graves does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Pyke is played together with Graves on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Graves.
Moreover, when Pyke plays with Graves on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Graves does a decent job of protecting Pyke in team fights.
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Is Pyke better when played alongside Graves?
There is no perfect ally for Pyke that will always be his best synergy. However, Graves is a very typical teammate for Pyke. By being on the same side as Pyke, he improves their win rate by 0.2% to 49.3%. This demonstrates that there is a weak bond between Pyke and Graves that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Graves has a much lower diffuclty than Pyke. That means Pyke players don't need to be very careful when finding Graves teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working cooperatively, Pyke players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by pairing Pyke and Graves together, you will not be granting your team a great deal of magic damage. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Graves ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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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 work well with Graves during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to use in your Pyke and Graves synergy build include Edge of Night, Bloodsong, and Opportunity. When Pyke combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Graves than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Pyke boasted an average winrate of 49.3% helping carry Graves with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Pyke players should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.3% win rate overall.
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