Pyke with Yorick
How to Synergize Pyke and Yorick
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Pyke Yorick Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Pyke and Yorick
Tips for Playing as Pyke with Yorick
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 Yorick Will Play
You do not need to cast Awakening to regain the ability to cast Last Rites.
You can send the Maiden down a lane alone, be careful though, as she represents a large portion of your combat power.
The Maiden will attempt to assist you in a fight, so choose your targets well.
Pyke Yorick Synergy Stats
How to Play with Yorick as Pyke in LoL
The Pyke Yorick synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Yorick, 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 Yorick. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Yorick helps Pyke perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Pyke plays on the same team as Yorick, he gets a barely noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Yorick does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Pyke is played together with Yorick on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Yorick. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Yorick.
Additionally, when Pyke plays with Yorick on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Yorick does a decent job of covering Pyke in teamfights.
Synergies between Pyke and Yorick
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Is Pyke better when played alongside Yorick?
There is no top companion for Pyke that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Yorick is a very typical companion for Pyke. By playing on the same team as Pyke, he increases their win rate by 0.5% to 49.6%. This shows that there is not really a strong bond between Pyke and Yorick that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Yorick has a lower difficulty than Pyke. That means Pyke players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Yorick comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to play well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by aligning Pyke and Yorick together, you may not be granting your team much AP. We recommend you include other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Yorick teammate, you need to 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
If you would like to truly master Pyke in order to work well with Yorick during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Pyke and Yorick synergy build include Bloodsong, Hubris, and Opportunity. When Pyke combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Yorick than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Pyke boasted an average win rate of 49.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Yorick with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood 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 runes players chose for Pyke and Yorick pairings, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.6% winrate overall.
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