Pyke with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Pyke and Vel'Koz
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Pyke Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
Best Pyke vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Pyke and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Pyke with Vel'Koz
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 Vel'Koz Will Play
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
Shooting Plasma Fission diagonally and splitting at maximum range allows you to hit opponents that are out of the range of the initial missile, but is more challenging to pull off.
When laning, use Void Rift to kill minions while building stacks of Organic Deconstruction on your opponent. You can then follow up with your other abilities.
Pyke Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Pyke in LoL
The Pyke Vel'Koz synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vel'Koz, 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 Vel'Koz. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Vel'Koz helps Pyke perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Pyke is an ally to Vel'Koz, he gets a small increase in his full damage dealt. This difference may signal that Vel'Koz supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Pyke is played together with Vel'Koz on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Vel'Koz.
Moreover, when Pyke plays with Vel'Koz on the same team, he usually receives more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Vel'Koz does a poor job of protecting Pyke in team fights.
Synergies between Pyke and Vel'Koz
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Is Pyke better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no perfect companion for Pyke that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Vel'Koz is a very typical ally for Pyke. By being on the same team as Pyke, he drops their win rate by -0.3% to 48.8%. This demonstrates that there is a weak strategic relationship between Pyke and Vel'Koz that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Vel'Koz has a greater difficulty than Pyke. That means Pyke players should be cautious when arranging Vel'Koz comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Pyke players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Pyke and Vel'Koz together, you probably will not be providing your team enough engage potential. We recommend you have other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Vel'Koz ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, 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 synergize with Vel'Koz during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to have in your Pyke and Vel'Koz synergy build consist of Umbral Glaive, Bloodsong, and Axiom Arc. When Pyke bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Vel'Koz than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Pyke boasted an average win rate of 48.8% when playing alongside Vel'Koz with this build.
To have the best chance 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 rune sets we have analyed for Pyke and Vel'Koz pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.8% winrate overall.
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