Pyke with Janna
How to Synergize Pyke and Janna
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Pyke Janna Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Pyke and Janna
Tips for Playing as Pyke with Janna
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 Janna Will Play
Timing Janna's ultimate can push enemies away from a wounded ally or even separate enemies.
Eye of the Storm can be used on allied turrets.
Quickly firing a Howling Gale without the charge up can be used to heavily disable the other team.
Pyke Janna Synergy Stats
How to Play with Janna as Pyke in LoL
The Pyke Janna synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Janna, 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 Janna. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Janna helps Pyke perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Pyke tries to synergize with Janna, he observes a big jump in his total damage dealt. This could indicate that Janna supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Pyke is played with Janna on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Janna.
Moreover, when Pyke plays with Janna on the same side, he often receives much more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Janna does a poor job of protecting Pyke during teamfights.
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Is Pyke better when played alongside Janna?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Pyke that will no matter what be his best synergy. However, overall, Janna is a not very good companion for Pyke. By playing on the same team as Pyke, she lowers their win rate by -2.0% to 47.1%. This signals that there is a negative synergy between Pyke and Janna that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Janna has a lower difficulty than Pyke. That means Pyke players don't need to be cautious when lining up Janna comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to support your allies. Together, these champions will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Although, by aligning Pyke and Janna together, you will not be providing your team very much AP. We recommend you include other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Janna ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 in order to work well with Janna during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to prioritize in your Pyke and Janna synergy build consist of Guardian Angel, Edge of Night, and Celestial Opposition. When Pyke bought at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Janna than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Pyke boasted an average winrate of 47.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Janna with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Pyke players should use the Hail of Blades, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.1% winrate overall.
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