Pyke with Karma
How to Synergize Pyke and Karma
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Pyke Karma Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Pyke and Karma
Tips for Playing as Pyke with Karma
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 Karma Will Play
Don't be too conservative with Mantra. Gathering Fire is strongest in teamfights, making it easy to recharge Mantra multiple times.
Gathering Fire rewards aggressive play. Look to land abilities and basic attacks on your opponent to lower Mantra's cooldown and stay on the offensive.
When using Focused Resolve, slow your opponents with Inner Flame or speed yourself up with Inspire if you're having trouble sticking to a target.
Pyke Karma Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karma as Pyke in LoL
The Pyke Karma synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Karma, 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 Karma. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Karma helps Pyke perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Pyke tries to synergize with Karma, he sees a little increase in his total damage output. This change could demonstrate that Karma helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Pyke is played with Karma on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Karma. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Karma.
Additionally, when Pyke plays with Karma on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Karma does a decent job of covering Pyke during team fights.
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Is Pyke better when played alongside Karma?
There is no ideal synergy for Pyke that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. However, Karma is a relatively poor teammate for Pyke. By locking into the same side as Pyke, she lowers their win rate by -1.4% to 47.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad bond between Pyke and Karma that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Karma has a lower difficulty than Pyke. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Karma teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to support your allies. Together, these champions may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Pyke and Karma together, you probably will not be granting your team enough AP. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that fills this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Karma ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Pyke to work well with Karma during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to have in your Pyke and Karma synergy build include Bloodsong, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Pyke combined at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Karma than with most other common item sets. In fact, Pyke had an average winrate of 47.7% when playing alongside Karma with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Pyke players should take 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 runes players used for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.7% win rate overall.
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