Pyke with Zed
How to Synergize Pyke and Zed
based on 3,758 Pyke with Zed pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Pyke Zed Synergy Summary
Best Pyke vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Pyke and Zed
Tips for Playing as Pyke with Zed
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 Zed Will Play
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
Pyke Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Pyke in LoL
The Pyke Zed synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zed, 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 Zed. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Zed helps Pyke perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Pyke plays on the same team as Zed, he observes a little decrease in his complete damage dealt. This change could signal that Zed doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Pyke is played alongside Zed on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Zed.
Moreover, when Pyke plays with Zed on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Zed does a poor job of covering Pyke during teamfights.
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Is Pyke better when played alongside Zed?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Pyke that will always be his top synergy. However, Zed is a not very good ally for Pyke. By being on the same team as Pyke, he lowers their win rate by -1.5% to 47.6%. This signals that there is a harmful synergy between Pyke and Zed that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Zed has a lower difficulty than Pyke. That means Pyke players don't need to be cautious when arranging Zed comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working together, Pyke players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by grouping Pyke and Zed together, you may not be giving your side a great deal of AP. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Zed ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Pyke in order to work well with Zed during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to have in your Pyke and Zed synergy build include Umbral Glaive, Axiom Arc, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Pyke included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Zed than with most other common item sets. In fact, Pyke boasted an average win rate of 47.6% when playing alongside Zed with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, Pyke players should take 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 rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.6% winrate overall.
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