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.
Transfusion instantly deals damage to the enemy before healing Vladimir, making it one of the best last hitting tools in the game.
Cast Hemoplague where it will afflict the most units.
Sanguine Pool pops incoming missiles, so it can be used to dodge disables.
The Pyke Vladimir synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vladimir, 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 Vladimir. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Vladimir helps Pyke perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Pyke tries to synergize with Vladimir, he gets a little decrease in his total damage dealt. This could indicate that Vladimir doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Pyke is played with Vladimir on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Vladimir. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Vladimir.
Additionally, when Pyke plays with Vladimir on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Vladimir does a decent job of protecting Pyke during team fights.
There is no top champion pairing for Pyke that will always be his best ally. Yet, Vladimir is a good companion for Pyke. By being on the same team as Pyke, he raises their win rate by 1.7% to 50.8%. This demonstrates that there is pretty good bond between Pyke and Vladimir that results in them performing better together than alone.
Vladimir has a lower difficulty than Pyke. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Vladimir comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
Playing together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by bringing Pyke and Vladimir together, you probably will not be providing your team a great deal of crowd control. We recommend you have other champions on your team that fills this hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Vladimir ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
To truly master Pyke in order to pair well with Vladimir during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to use in your Pyke and Vladimir synergy build consist of Edge of Night, Bloodsong, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Pyke combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Vladimir than with many other common builds. In fact, Pyke boasted an average win rate of 50.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Vladimir with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you 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 combinations we have analyed for Pyke and Vladimir pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.8% winrate overall.
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