Sylas with Pyke
How to Synergize Sylas and Pyke
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Sylas Pyke Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Sylas and Pyke
Tips for Playing as Sylas with Pyke
Clever use of enemy ultimates can open up new possibilities to approach teamfights.
Wait for you or your enemy to reach low health before using Kingslayer for maximum effect.
Space out your ability usage to get maximum effect from Petricite Burst.
Advice to Understand How Pyke Will Play
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.
Sylas Pyke Synergy Stats
How to Play with Pyke as Sylas in LoL
The Sylas Pyke synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Pyke, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Sylas sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Pyke. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Pyke helps Sylas perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Sylas is an ally to Pyke, he sees a little increase in his total damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Pyke provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Sylas is played together with Pyke on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Pyke. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Pyke.
Moreover, when Sylas plays with Pyke on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Pyke does a poor job of covering Sylas during teamfights.
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Is Sylas better when played alongside Pyke?
There is no one best champion pairing for Sylas that will no matter what be his top synergy. Yet, overall, Pyke is a below average teammate for Sylas. By being on the same team as Sylas, he decreases their win rate by -2.8% to 46.2%. This signals that there is a negative strategic relationship between Sylas and Pyke that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Pyke has a greater difficulty than Sylas. That means you should be cautious when arranging Pyke teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working alongside, Sylas players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by aligning Sylas and Pyke together, you will not be giving your side enough tankyness. Plan to include other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Pyke teammate, 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, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Sylas in order to pair well with Pyke during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to have in your Sylas and Pyke synergy build include Cryptbloom, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Sylas incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Pyke than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Sylas boasted an average winrate of 46.2% when playing alongside Pyke with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Sylas and Pyke pairings, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.2% winrate overall.
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