Pyke with Leona
How to Synergize Pyke and Leona
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Pyke Leona Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Pyke and Leona
Tips for Playing as Pyke with Leona
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 Leona Will Play
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
Pyke Leona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Leona as Pyke in LoL
The Pyke Leona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Leona, 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 Leona. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Leona helps Pyke perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Pyke plays on the same team as Leona, he gets a very large increase in his complete damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Leona provides protection for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Pyke is played together with Leona 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 synergisticly with Leona.
Moreover, when Pyke plays with Leona on the same team, he usually takes more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Leona does a poor job of covering Pyke in team fights.
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Is Pyke better when played alongside Leona?
There is no perfect companion for Pyke that will no matter what be his best synergy. However, overall, Leona is a terrible teammate for Pyke. By playing on the same side as Pyke, she decreases their win rate by -3.2% to 45.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a terrible synergy between Pyke and Leona that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Leona has a much lower diffuclty than Pyke. That means Pyke players don't need to be very careful when lining up Leona teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Working alongside, Pyke players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to support your allies. Combined, these champs will help their other teammates secure a victory.
In contrast, by bringing Pyke and Leona together, you probably will not be granting your other allies much AP. Plan to include other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Leona ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Pyke in order to pair well with Leona during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to prioritize in your Pyke and Leona synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Axiom Arc, and Opportunity. When Pyke incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Leona than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Pyke had an average win rate of 45.9% when playing alongside Leona with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, you should take 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 builds players chose for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 45.9% winrate overall.
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