Pyke with Zac
How to Synergize Pyke and Zac
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Pyke Zac Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Pyke and Zac
Tips for Playing as Pyke with Zac
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 Zac Will Play
Picking up goo chunks is very important to staying alive.
When Cell Division is ready, try to die in a position that makes it difficult for the enemy team to kill your bloblets.
Charging Elastic Slingshot from the fog of war will give opponents less time to react.
Pyke Zac Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zac as Pyke in LoL
The Pyke Zac synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zac, 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 Zac. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Zac helps Pyke perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Pyke plays on the same team as Zac, he observes a little increase in his complete damage output. This difference may indicate that Zac helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Pyke is played alongside Zac on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Zac.
Additionally, when Pyke plays with Zac on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Zac does a poor job of protecting Pyke in teamfights.
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Is Pyke better when played alongside Zac?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Pyke that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. Yet, Zac is a pretty good teammate for Pyke. By being on the same side as Pyke, he improves their win rate by 1.7% to 50.8%. This clearly indicates that there is a somewhat important synergy between Pyke and Zac that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Zac has a greater difficulty than Pyke. That means you must be cautious when enlisting Zac comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Pyke players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Together, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Pyke and Zac together, you probably will not be giving your team much AP. Plan to include other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Zac ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Pyke in order to synergize with Zac during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to have in your Pyke and Zac synergy build consist of Umbral Glaive, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Pyke bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Zac than with many other common builds. In fact, Pyke had an average win rate of 50.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Zac with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Pyke and Zac pairings, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.8% winrate overall.
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