Vladimir with Pyke
How to Synergize Vladimir and Pyke
based on 3,804 Vladimir with Pyke pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Vladimir Pyke Synergy Summary
Best Vladimir vs Pyke Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Vladimir and Pyke
Tips for Playing as Vladimir with Pyke
Transfusion instantly deals damage to the enemy before healing Vladimir, making it one of the best last hitting tools in the game.
Cast Hemoplague where it will afflict the most units.
Sanguine Pool pops incoming missiles, so it can be used to dodge disables.
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.
Vladimir Pyke Synergy Stats
How to Play with Pyke as Vladimir in LoL
The Vladimir 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, Vladimir 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 negative change shows that Pyke helps Vladimir perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Vladimir tries to synergize with Pyke, he sees a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Pyke provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Vladimir is played with Pyke on the same team, 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 Vladimir plays with Pyke on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Pyke does a poor job of protecting Vladimir in teamfights.
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Is Vladimir better when played alongside Pyke?
There is no ideal synergy for Vladimir that will always be his top ally. Yet, overall, Pyke is a very typical teammate for Vladimir. By playing on the same side as Vladimir, he raises their win rate by 0.8% to 50.8%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small bond between Vladimir and Pyke that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Pyke has a lower difficulty than Vladimir. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Pyke comrades to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting together, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by bringing Vladimir and Pyke together, you may not be providing your team a lot of utility. Make sure to have other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Pyke ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Vladimir to pair well with Pyke during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to prioritize in your Vladimir and Pyke synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Cosmic Drive, and Riftmaker. When Vladimir bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Pyke than with many other common builds. In fact, Vladimir boasted an average win rate of 50.8% when playing alongside Pyke with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, you should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.8% winrate overall.
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