Alistar with Pyke
How to Synergize Alistar and Pyke
based on 371 Alistar with Pyke pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Alistar Pyke Synergy Summary
Best Alistar vs Pyke Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Pyke
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Pyke
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
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.
Alistar Pyke Synergy Stats
How to Play with Pyke as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar 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, Alistar sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Pyke. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Pyke helps Alistar perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Alistar tries to synergize with Pyke, he gets a massive increase in his total damage dealt. This could indicate that Pyke helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played together with Pyke on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Pyke.
Additionally, when Alistar plays with Pyke on the same team, he often takes more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Pyke does a poor job of covering Alistar during teamfights.
Synergies between Alistar and Pyke
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Pyke?
There is no top champion pairing for Alistar that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Pyke is a terrible companion for Alistar. By playing on the same team as Alistar, he drops their win rate by -4.9% to 44.5%. This shows that there is a terrible bond between Alistar and Pyke that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Pyke has a lower difficulty than Alistar. That means Alistar players don't need to be cautious when arranging Pyke allies to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Alistar and Pyke together, you probably will not be giving your other allies enough magic damage. Make sure to include other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Pyke ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Alistar to work well with Pyke during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to use in your Alistar and Pyke synergy build include Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Frozen Heart. When Alistar used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Pyke than with most other typical builds. In fact, Alistar boasted an average win rate of 44.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Pyke with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, Alistar players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Cosmic Insight, and Hextech Flashtraption runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 44.5% winrate overall.
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