You do not need to cast Awakening to regain the ability to cast Last Rites.
You can send the Maiden down a lane alone, be careful though, as she represents a large portion of your combat power.
The Maiden will attempt to assist you in a fight, so choose your targets well.
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.
The Yorick 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, Yorick 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 fall shows that Pyke helps Yorick perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Yorick plays on the same team as Pyke, he gets a little increase in his total damage dealt. This change may signal that Pyke supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Yorick is played with Pyke on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Pyke.
Additionally, when Yorick plays with Pyke on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Pyke does a poor job of covering Yorick in teamfights.
There is no one best synergy for Yorick that will always be his best synergy. However, overall, Pyke is a very typical ally for Yorick. By playing on the same side as Yorick, he lowers their win rate by -0.7% to 49.6%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong bond between Yorick and Pyke that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Pyke has a greater difficulty than Yorick. That means Yorick players need to be very careful when arranging Pyke teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to play well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Yorick players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by aligning Yorick and Pyke together, you will not be giving your other teammates very much magic damage. Make sure to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Pyke ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Yorick in order to pair well with Pyke during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to build first in your Yorick and Pyke synergy build include Trinity Force, Hullbreaker, and Titanic Hydra. When Yorick combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Pyke than with most other typical builds. In fact, Yorick had an average winrate of 49.6% when playing alongside Pyke with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Legend: Bloodline, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.6% winrate overall.
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