Zed with Pyke
How to Synergize Zed and Pyke
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Zed Pyke Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Pyke
Tips for Playing as Zed with Pyke
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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.
Zed Pyke Synergy Stats
How to Play with Pyke as Zed in LoL
The Zed 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, Zed sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Pyke. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Pyke helps Zed perform worse in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zed is paired with Pyke, he sees a little increase in his full damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Pyke helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played alongside Pyke on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Pyke.
Moreover, when Zed plays with Pyke on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Pyke does a poor job of covering Zed in teamfights.
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Is Zed better when played alongside Pyke?
There is no ideal ally for Zed that will always be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Pyke is a very typical teammate for Zed. By playing on the same side as Zed, he decreases their win rate by -0.8% to 47.6%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong synergy between Zed and Pyke that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Pyke has a lower difficulty than Zed. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Pyke comrades to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by grouping Zed and Pyke together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates enough AP. Plan to include other champions on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Pyke ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing 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 truly master Zed in order to pair well with Pyke during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to focus on in your Zed and Pyke synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Zed used at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Pyke than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Zed had an average win rate of 47.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Pyke with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.6% win rate overall.
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