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.
Command: Protect can be used on yourself to return the Ball back to you quickly. Combine this with Command: Attack for a quick harassment.
Command: Dissonance is a very powerful escape tool if Orianna has the Ball. The combination of speed and leaving a slowing obstacle can be quite powerful.
Command: Shockwave can be used to drag enemies towards you or away from you if you position the Ball properly.
The Pyke Orianna synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Orianna, 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 Orianna. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Orianna helps Pyke perform worse in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Pyke is paired with Orianna, he observes a small increase in his total damage dealt. This difference could signal that Orianna helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Pyke is played alongside Orianna on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Orianna.
Moreover, when Pyke plays with Orianna on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Orianna does a poor job of protecting Pyke during team fights.
There is no universally accepted best companion for Pyke that will always be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Orianna is a very typical ally for Pyke. By playing on the same side as Pyke, she lowers their win rate by -0.2% to 48.9%. This shows that there is not really a strong synergy between Pyke and Orianna that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Orianna has a lower difficulty than Pyke. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Orianna teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by grouping Pyke and Orianna together, you probably will not be granting your other allies a lot of engage. Plan to include other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Orianna ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Pyke to work well with Orianna during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to get in your Pyke and Orianna synergy build consist of Bloodsong, Hubris, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Pyke combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Orianna than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Pyke had an average winrate of 48.9% helping carry Orianna with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Pyke players 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 Orianna pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Orianna with Pyke are presented for all skill levels combined. To filter the stats and builds to a particular skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier on the page.