Pyke with Heimerdinger
How to Synergize Pyke and Heimerdinger
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Pyke Heimerdinger Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Pyke and Heimerdinger
Tips for Playing as Pyke with Heimerdinger
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 Heimerdinger Will Play
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
Pyke Heimerdinger Synergy Stats
How to Play with Heimerdinger as Pyke in LoL
The Pyke Heimerdinger synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Heimerdinger, 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 Heimerdinger. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Heimerdinger helps Pyke perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Pyke is paired with Heimerdinger, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This change could signal that Heimerdinger supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Pyke is played with Heimerdinger on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Heimerdinger. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Heimerdinger.
Additionally, when Pyke plays with Heimerdinger on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could mean that Heimerdinger does a poor job of protecting Pyke in team fights.
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Is Pyke better when played alongside Heimerdinger?
There is no one best ally for Pyke that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. However, overall, Heimerdinger is a good teammate for Pyke. By locking into the same side as Pyke, he raises their win rate by 1.3% to 50.4%. This signals that there is pretty good bond between Pyke and Heimerdinger that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Heimerdinger has a greater difficulty than Pyke. That means Pyke players should be very careful when lining up Heimerdinger teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, Pyke players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by bringing Pyke and Heimerdinger together, you will not be granting your side a lot of AP. Plan to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Heimerdinger ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Pyke in order to pair well with Heimerdinger during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to use in your Pyke and Heimerdinger synergy build consist of Umbral Glaive, Edge of Night, and Bloodsong. When Pyke used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Heimerdinger than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Pyke boasted an average winrate of 50.4% when playing alongside Heimerdinger with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance 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 used for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.4% win rate overall.
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