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.
Try and keep targets in the range of your Flamespitter. It can deal a lot of damage overtime.
If you are winning a fight you can use your ultimate to wall off an escape path.
Try and pace yourself to stay in the Danger Zone to maximize your effectiveness. It is easy to overheat if you rapidly use your abilities.
The Pyke Rumble synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rumble, 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 Rumble. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Rumble helps Pyke perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Pyke tries to synergize with Rumble, he observes a small increase in his total damage output. This may signal that Rumble helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Pyke is played together with Rumble 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 Rumble.
Moreover, when Pyke plays with Rumble on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Rumble does a poor job of protecting Pyke during team fights.
There is no universally accepted best companion for Pyke that will always be his top ally. However, Rumble is a very typical teammate for Pyke. By locking into the same team as Pyke, he drops their win rate by -0.7% to 48.4%. This signals that there is a weak strategic relationship between Pyke and Rumble that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Rumble has a greater difficulty than Pyke. That means Pyke players should be careful when finding Rumble teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing on the same side, Pyke players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Pyke and Rumble together, you may not be giving your other allies enough utility. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Rumble ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Pyke to pair well with Rumble during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to prioritize in your Pyke and Rumble synergy build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Umbral Glaive, and Bloodsong. When Pyke combined at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Rumble than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Pyke had an average win rate of 48.4% helping carry Rumble with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of defeating your oponents, you 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. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.4% winrate overall.
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