Pyke with Naafiri
How to Synergize Pyke and Naafiri
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Pyke Naafiri Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Pyke and Naafiri
Tips for Playing as Pyke with Naafiri
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 Naafiri Will Play
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Pyke Naafiri Synergy Stats
How to Play with Naafiri as Pyke in LoL
The Pyke Naafiri synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Naafiri, 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 Naafiri. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Naafiri helps Pyke perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Pyke is paired with Naafiri, he gets a little drop in his complete damage dealt. This difference may signal that Naafiri doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that their allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Pyke is played together with Naafiri on the same team, 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 synergisticly with Naafiri.
Additionally, when Pyke plays with Naafiri on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Naafiri does a decent job of protecting Pyke in teamfights.
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Is Pyke better when played alongside Naafiri?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Pyke that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. However, Naafiri is a not very good ally for Pyke. By playing on the same side as Pyke, they drops their win rate by -1.9% to 47.2%. This signals that there is a bad synergy between Pyke and Naafiri that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Naafiri has a much lower diffuclty than Pyke. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Naafiri comrades to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by grouping Pyke and Naafiri together, you will not be providing your team a great deal of magical damage output. Plan to bring other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Naafiri ally, you should focus on increasing 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 in order to work well with Naafiri during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to get in your Pyke and Naafiri synergy build include Umbral Glaive, Bloodsong, and Axiom Arc. When Pyke used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Naafiri than with most other common item sets. In fact, Pyke had an average winrate of 47.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Naafiri with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating 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 builds players chose for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.2% winrate overall.
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