Pyke with Skarner
How to Synergize Pyke and Skarner
based on 428 Pyke with Skarner pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Pyke Skarner Synergy Summary
Best Pyke vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Pyke and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Pyke with Skarner
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 Skarner Will Play
Impale is extremely powerful when you use it to position an enemy so your allies can attack them.
Basic attacks reduce the cooldown of Crystal Slash. Use them as often as possible for maximum damage.
Capturing Crystal Spires before attempting neutral objectives or team fights around them improves Skarner's performance in said fights dramatically.
Pyke Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Pyke in LoL
The Pyke Skarner synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Skarner, 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 Skarner. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Skarner helps Pyke perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Pyke tries to synergize with Skarner, he gets a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This difference could signal that Skarner helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Pyke is played alongside Skarner on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Skarner. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Skarner.
Additionally, when Pyke plays with Skarner on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Skarner does a decent job of covering Pyke in teamfights.
Synergies between Pyke and Skarner
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Is Pyke better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no one best ally for Pyke that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Skarner is a not very good teammate for Pyke. By being on the same team as Pyke, he decreases their win rate by -1.7% to 47.4%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Pyke and Skarner that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Skarner has a lower difficulty than Pyke. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Skarner teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to do well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by bringing Pyke and Skarner together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates very much magical damage output. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Skarner ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Pyke to pair well with Skarner during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to get in your Pyke and Skarner synergy build include Bloodsong, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Pyke included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Skarner than with most other common item sets. In fact, Pyke had an average winrate of 47.4% when playing alongside Skarner with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, Pyke players should equip the Hail of Blades, Cheap Shot, Zombie Ward, Ultimate Hunter, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Pyke and Skarner pairings, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.4% winrate overall.
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