Varus with Pyke
How to Synergize Varus and Pyke
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Varus Pyke Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Varus and Pyke
Tips for Playing as Varus with Pyke
Try to take advantage of Piercing Arrow's very long range to snipe at enemy champions before a fight or as they're trying to flee.
An early point in Blighted Quiver helps harass enemy champions and get killing blows on minions.
During short range fights it's sometimes best to fire Piercing Arrow quickly, rather than charging it to full power.
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.
Varus Pyke Synergy Stats
How to Play with Pyke as Varus in LoL
The Varus 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, Varus sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Pyke. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Pyke helps Varus perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Varus is paired with Pyke, he sees a clear improvement in his total damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Pyke provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Varus 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 alongside Pyke.
Additionally, when Varus plays with Pyke on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could mean that Pyke does a poor job of covering Varus in teamfights.
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Is Varus better when played alongside Pyke?
There is no top synergy for Varus that will no matter what be his best synergy. However, Pyke is a very typical companion for Varus. By playing on the same team as Varus, he drops their win rate by -1.0% to 47.4%. This shows that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Varus and Pyke that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Pyke has a much greater difficulty compared to Varus. That means Varus players should be careful when lining up Pyke allies to play with, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by grouping Varus and Pyke together, you will not be granting your other teammates a great deal of AP. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Pyke ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Varus in order to synergize with Pyke during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Varus and Pyke synergy build consist of Guardian Angel, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Varus included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Pyke than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Varus had an average win rate of 47.4% helping carry Pyke with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating your oponents, Varus players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.4% win rate overall.
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