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.
Sleepy Trouble Bubble travels further over walls. Find a hiding spot to set up for a long distance kill.
Break Sleep with your biggest damage source, since enemies who are asleep take double damage.
Paddle Star deals more damage the further it has flown. Casting it behind yourself before redirecting can deal tons of damage.
The Pyke Zoe synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zoe, 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 Zoe. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Zoe helps Pyke perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Pyke plays on the same team as Zoe, he observes a small decrease in his total damage output. This change could demonstrate that Zoe does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Pyke is played together with Zoe on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Zoe.
Additionally, when Pyke plays with Zoe on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Zoe does a decent job of protecting Pyke during teamfights.
There is no one best champion pairing for Pyke that will no matter what be his #1 ally. However, overall, Zoe is a very bad ally for Pyke. By locking into the same side as Pyke, she lowers their win rate by -3.9% to 45.2%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Pyke and Zoe that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Zoe has a lower difficulty than Pyke. That means Pyke players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Zoe teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by grouping Pyke and Zoe together, you will not be giving your side much support. Plan to have other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Zoe teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Pyke to pair well with Zoe during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to have in your Pyke and Zoe synergy build include Bloodsong, Hubris, and Opportunity. When Pyke incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Zoe than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Pyke had an average winrate of 45.2% when playing alongside Zoe with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, you should equip 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 that we analyzed for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 45.2% win rate overall.
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