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.
Volcanic Rupture can be used to set up zoning areas to threaten enemies.
Learning build paths of items can help quickly select upgrades in lane.
The order of your abilties matters! Try to optimize Brittle usage.
The Pyke Ornn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ornn, 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 Ornn. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Ornn helps Pyke perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Pyke is paired with Ornn, he gets a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This difference could indicate that Ornn supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Pyke is played together with Ornn on the same side, 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 Ornn.
Moreover, when Pyke plays with Ornn on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Ornn does a poor job of covering Pyke during team fights.
There is no ideal synergy for Pyke that will always be his best teammate. Yet, Ornn is a pretty good companion for Pyke. By being on the same team as Pyke, he raises their win rate by 2.5% to 51.6%. This clearly indicates that there is pretty good synergy between Pyke and Ornn that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Ornn has a lower difficulty than Pyke. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Ornn allies to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing alongside, Pyke players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by aligning Pyke and Ornn together, you will not be providing your team much magical damage output. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Ornn ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Pyke in order to synergize with Ornn during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Pyke and Ornn synergy build include Umbral Glaive, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Pyke incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Ornn than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Pyke boasted an average win rate of 51.6% helping carry Ornn with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, you 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 runes players chose for Pyke and Ornn pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Ornn with Pyke are displayed for all ranked divisions. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a distinct division, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.