Pyke with Shen
How to Synergize Pyke and Shen
based on 1,918 Pyke with Shen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Pyke Shen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Pyke and Shen
Tips for Playing as Pyke with Shen
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 Shen Will Play
Leverage your Energy to get a long-term advantage over Mana users.
Keep an eye on allies and be ready to save them with your teleport.
Pyke Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Pyke in LoL
The Pyke Shen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shen, 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 Shen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Shen helps Pyke perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Pyke is paired with Shen, he observes a small increase in his complete damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Shen supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Pyke is played alongside Shen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Shen.
Moreover, when Pyke plays with Shen on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Shen does a decent job of covering Pyke in team fights.
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Is Pyke better when played alongside Shen?
There is no ideal synergy for Pyke that will no matter what be his ideal ally. However, overall, Shen is a decent companion for Pyke. By playing on the same team as Pyke, he increases their win rate by 2.0% to 51.1%. This proves that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Pyke and Shen that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Shen has a much lower diffuclty than Pyke. That means Pyke players don't need to be careful when arranging Shen teammates to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, Pyke players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to support your allies. Together, these champs should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Although, by bringing Pyke and Shen together, you probably will not be providing your other allies a great deal of AP. We recommend you have other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Shen ally, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Pyke to pair well with Shen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to prioritize in your Pyke and Shen synergy build consist of Umbral Glaive, Edge of Night, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Pyke bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Shen than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Pyke had an average winrate of 51.1% when playing alongside Shen with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you 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 runes that we analyzed for Pyke and Shen pairings, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.1% win rate overall.
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