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.
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
The Pyke Shaco synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shaco, 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 Shaco. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Shaco helps Pyke perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Pyke is paired with Shaco, he gets a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This change could signal that Shaco helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Pyke is played together with Shaco on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Shaco. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Shaco.
Additionally, when Pyke plays with Shaco on the same team, he usually takes more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Shaco does a poor job of protecting Pyke during teamfights.
There is no ideal synergy for Pyke that will always be his top ally. Yet, Shaco is a very typical companion for Pyke. By locking into the same team as Pyke, he lowers their win rate by -0.9% to 48.2%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small synergy between Pyke and Shaco that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Shaco has a greater difficulty than Pyke. That means Pyke players need to be very careful when lining up Shaco comrades to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to work well with you.
When playing on the same side, Pyke players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by grouping Pyke and Shaco together, you will not be giving your other teammates a lot of AP. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Shaco teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
To truly master Pyke in order to synergize with Shaco during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to have in your Pyke and Shaco synergy build consist of Solstice Sleigh, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Pyke bought at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Shaco than with most other common item sets. In fact, Pyke had an average win rate of 48.2% when playing alongside Shaco with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, Pyke players should use 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 sets players used for this champion pairing, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.2% win rate overall.
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