Pyke with Katarina
How to Synergize Pyke and Katarina
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Pyke Katarina Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Pyke and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Pyke with Katarina
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 Katarina Will Play
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Pyke Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Pyke in LoL
The Pyke Katarina synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Katarina, 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 Katarina. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Katarina helps Pyke perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Pyke is paired with Katarina, he gets a small decrease in his full damage output. This may indicate that Katarina does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Pyke is played together with Katarina on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Katarina.
Moreover, when Pyke plays with Katarina on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Katarina does a decent job of protecting Pyke during team fights.
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Is Pyke better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no one best synergy for Pyke that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Katarina is a relatively poor ally for Pyke. By being on the same team as Pyke, she drops their win rate by -2.2% to 46.9%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful synergy between Pyke and Katarina that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Katarina has a greater difficulty than Pyke. That means Pyke players should be cautious when finding Katarina teammates to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by aligning Pyke and Katarina together, you will not be granting your other teammates a great deal of utility. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Katarina ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Pyke to work well with Katarina during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to have in your Pyke and Katarina synergy build include Edge of Night, Bloodsong, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Pyke used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Katarina than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Pyke boasted an average win rate of 46.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Katarina with this build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, you should take 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 players picked for Pyke and Katarina pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.9% winrate overall.
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