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.
Even if you're far from a fight you can still help from afar with Mega Inferno Bomb.
Slowing your enemies with Hexplosive Minefield makes it easier to land other abilities.
Knocking yourself over walls with Satchel Charge can be great when chasing after or escaping from enemies.
The Pyke Ziggs synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ziggs, 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 Ziggs. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Ziggs helps Pyke perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Pyke plays on the same team as Ziggs, he sees a little increase in his total damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Ziggs provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Pyke is played together with Ziggs on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Ziggs. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Ziggs.
Moreover, when Pyke plays with Ziggs on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Ziggs does a poor job of covering Pyke during teamfights.
There is no ideal companion for Pyke that will always be his best ally. However, Ziggs is a very typical teammate for Pyke. By playing on the same side as Pyke, he lowers their win rate by -0.8% to 48.3%. This proves that there is not really a strong synergy between Pyke and Ziggs that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Ziggs has a much lower diffuclty than Pyke. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Ziggs allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Pyke players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by bringing Pyke and Ziggs together, you probably will not be granting your side much tankyness. Plan to pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Ziggs ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Pyke to work well with Ziggs during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to get in your Pyke and Ziggs synergy build include Umbral Glaive, Solstice Sleigh, and Opportunity. When Pyke included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Ziggs than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Pyke boasted an average win rate of 48.3% when playing alongside Ziggs with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating 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. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.3% winrate overall.
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