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.
A fully charged Vault Breaker will deal double damage. It's great for catching and finishing off fleeing enemies.
Relentless Force does full damage to anyone caught in the shockwave. Use it on minions in lane to hit enemies hiding behind them.
Cease and Desist is a powerful initiation tool, just remember not to get too far ahead of the rest of your team.
The Pyke Vi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vi, 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 Vi. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Vi helps Pyke perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Pyke plays on the same team as Vi, he observes a little increase in his total damage output. This change could indicate that Vi helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Pyke is played together with Vi on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Vi.
Moreover, when Pyke plays with Vi on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Vi does a poor job of protecting Pyke during teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Pyke that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. However, Vi is a good companion for Pyke. By being on the same side as Pyke, she increases their win rate by 1.5% to 50.6%. This signals that there is a somewhat important strategic relationship between Pyke and Vi that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Vi has a much lower diffuclty than Pyke. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Vi teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by pairing Pyke and Vi together, you probably will not be giving your team very much magical damage output. Make sure to include other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Vi ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Pyke in order to synergize with Vi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Pyke and Vi synergy build include Bloodsong, Axiom Arc, and Opportunity. When Pyke incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Vi than with many other common item sets. In fact, Pyke boasted an average win rate of 50.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Vi with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against 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 combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.6% win rate overall.
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