Pyke with Kindred
How to Synergize Pyke and Kindred
based on 2,419 Pyke with Kindred pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Pyke Kindred Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Pyke and Kindred
Tips for Playing as Pyke with Kindred
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 Kindred Will Play
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
Pyke Kindred Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kindred as Pyke in LoL
The Pyke Kindred synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kindred, 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 Kindred. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Kindred helps Pyke perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Pyke is paired with Kindred, he observes a small decrease in his total damage output. This may signal that Kindred does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that their allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Pyke is played together with Kindred on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Kindred.
Additionally, when Pyke plays with Kindred on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Kindred does a decent job of protecting Pyke during teamfights.
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Is Pyke better when played alongside Kindred?
There is no perfect companion for Pyke that will no matter what be his top synergy. However, overall, Kindred is a very typical teammate for Pyke. By playing on the same side as Pyke, they drops their win rate by -0.5% to 48.6%. This proves that there is not really a strong synergy between Pyke and Kindred that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Kindred has a much lower diffuclty than Pyke. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Kindred teammates to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
When playing on the same side, Pyke players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by pairing Pyke and Kindred together, you probably will not be providing your team very much AP. Plan to include other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Kindred ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Pyke to pair well with Kindred during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to use in your Pyke and Kindred 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 when paired up with Kindred than with most other common item sets. In fact, Pyke had an average win rate of 48.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kindred with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, Pyke players should equip the Hail of Blades, Cheap Shot, Zombie Ward, Ultimate Hunter, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Pyke and Kindred pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.6% winrate overall.
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