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.
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
The Pyke Irelia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Irelia, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Irelia. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Irelia helps Pyke perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Pyke tries to synergize with Irelia, he observes a little drop in his complete damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Irelia doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Pyke is played together with Irelia on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Irelia.
Additionally, when Pyke plays with Irelia on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Irelia does a decent job of covering Pyke during team fights.
There is no perfect champion pairing for Pyke that will no matter what be his best synergy. However, Irelia is a relatively poor ally for Pyke. By locking into the same team as Pyke, she drops their win rate by -1.3% to 47.8%. This proves that there is a negative bond between Pyke and Irelia that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Irelia has a lower difficulty than Pyke. That means Pyke players don't need to be careful when enlisting Irelia comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by grouping Pyke and Irelia together, you will not be granting your other teammates a lot of magic damage. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that offsets this hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Irelia ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Pyke to work well with Irelia during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Pyke and Irelia synergy build include Umbral Glaive, Hubris, and Opportunity. When Pyke included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Irelia than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Pyke boasted an average win rate of 47.8% when playing alongside Irelia with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, Pyke players should use the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Zombie Ward, Ingenious Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Pyke and Irelia pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.8% win rate overall.
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