Veigar with Pyke
How to Synergize Veigar and Pyke
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Veigar Pyke Synergy Summary
Best Veigar vs Pyke Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Veigar and Pyke
Tips for Playing as Veigar with Pyke
Veigar is extremely Mana and Cooldown Reduction dependent. Try buying items with these stats in order to increase the effectiveness of your passive and Baleful Strike.
Veigar is very fragile. It is valuable to select at least one summoner spell that can be used defensively.
Use Event Horizon to increase your chances of landing Dark Matter.
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.
Veigar Pyke Synergy Stats
How to Play with Pyke as Veigar in LoL
The Veigar 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, Veigar sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Pyke. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Pyke helps Veigar perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Veigar tries to synergize with Pyke, he observes a little increase in his total damage dealt. This may signal that Pyke helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Veigar is played with Pyke on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Pyke. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Pyke.
Moreover, when Veigar plays with Pyke on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Pyke does a poor job of covering Veigar during team fights.
Synergies between Veigar and Pyke
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Is Veigar better when played alongside Pyke?
There is no one best companion for Veigar that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Pyke is a very typical companion for Veigar. By locking into the same team as Veigar, he increases their win rate by 0.8% to 50.1%. This shows that there is only a small strategic relationship between Veigar and Pyke that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Pyke has a lower difficulty than Veigar. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Pyke teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
When playing alongside, Veigar players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide utility and CC for your side. Together, these champions should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Although, by bringing Veigar and Pyke together, you will not be providing your team enough cover. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Pyke teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Veigar to work well with Pyke during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to get in your Veigar and Pyke synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Cryptbloom, and Luden's Companion. When Veigar used at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Pyke than with most other typical builds. In fact, Veigar boasted an average win rate of 50.1% helping carry Pyke with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.1% win rate overall.
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