Pyke with Illaoi
How to Synergize Pyke and Illaoi
based on 2,319 Pyke with Illaoi pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Pyke Illaoi Synergy Summary
Best Pyke vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Pyke and Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Pyke with Illaoi
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 Illaoi Will Play
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
Pyke Illaoi Synergy Stats
How to Play with Illaoi as Pyke in LoL
The Pyke Illaoi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Illaoi, 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 Illaoi. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Illaoi helps Pyke perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Pyke is an ally to Illaoi, he observes a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This change may indicate that Illaoi helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Pyke is played with Illaoi on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Illaoi. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Illaoi.
Moreover, when Pyke plays with Illaoi on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Illaoi does a decent job of covering Pyke in teamfights.
Synergies between Pyke and Illaoi
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Is Pyke better when played alongside Illaoi?
There is no ideal companion for Pyke that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. However, Illaoi is a very typical ally for Pyke. By locking into the same side as Pyke, she decreases their win rate by -0.1% to 49.0%. This signals that there is a weak bond between Pyke and Illaoi that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Illaoi has a much lower diffuclty than Pyke. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Illaoi comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Pyke players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by grouping Pyke and Illaoi together, you probably will not be granting your team a lot of magical damage output. We recommend you include other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Illaoi teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Pyke in order to pair well with Illaoi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to use in your Pyke and Illaoi synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Umbral Glaive, and Bloodsong. When Pyke included at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Illaoi than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Pyke had an average win rate of 49.0% helping carry Illaoi with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, Pyke players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Pyke and Illaoi pairings, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.0% winrate overall.
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