Pyke with Riven
How to Synergize Pyke and Riven
based on 3,770 Pyke with Riven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Pyke Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Pyke and Riven
Tips for Playing as Pyke with Riven
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 Riven Will Play
Riven lacks a source of healing or strong defense and must compensate with burst combos. Lead into fights with Broken Wings and Ki Burst, while using Valor to escape and absorb counter-harass.
Riven's Broken Wings locks onto the champion your cursor is over at the time of cast. If you want to move past your opponent, make sure that your cursor is past your opponent as well.
Pyke Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Pyke in LoL
The Pyke Riven synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Riven, 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 Riven. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Riven helps Pyke perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Pyke tries to synergize with Riven, he observes a small decrease in his total damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Riven doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Pyke is played together with Riven 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 Riven.
Additionally, when Pyke plays with Riven on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Riven does a decent job of protecting Pyke during team fights.
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Is Pyke better when played alongside Riven?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Pyke that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Riven is a very typical companion for Pyke. By being on the same team as Pyke, she lowers their win rate by -0.4% to 48.7%. This demonstrates that there is only a small bond between Pyke and Riven that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Riven has a greater difficulty than Pyke. That means you should be cautious when lining up Riven teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to work well with you.
When playing on the same side, Pyke players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by grouping Pyke and Riven together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a lot of magic damage. Plan to have other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Riven ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing 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
If you would like to truly master Pyke to work well with Riven during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to use in your Pyke and Riven synergy build include Edge of Night, Bloodsong, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Pyke bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when paired up with Riven than with most other typical builds. In fact, Pyke had an average winrate of 48.7% helping carry Riven with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, Pyke players should use 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 players chose for Pyke and Riven pairings, this set of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.7% win rate overall.
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