Aphelios with Pyke
How to Synergize Aphelios and Pyke
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Aphelios Pyke Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Pyke
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Pyke
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
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.
Aphelios Pyke Synergy Stats
How to Play with Pyke as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios 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, Aphelios sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Pyke. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Pyke helps Aphelios perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Aphelios tries to synergize with Pyke, he observes a small increase in his complete damage output. This may signal that Pyke supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played with Pyke on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Pyke. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Pyke.
Moreover, when Aphelios plays with Pyke on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Pyke does a poor job of covering Aphelios during teamfights.
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Is Aphelios better when played alongside Pyke?
There is no perfect companion for Aphelios that will always be his top ally. However, overall, Pyke is a very typical ally for Aphelios. By playing on the same team as Aphelios, he increases their win rate by 0.3% to 48.9%. This shows that there is only a small bond between Aphelios and Pyke that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Pyke has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means Aphelios players don't need to be careful when finding Pyke comrades to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Aphelios and Pyke together, you will not be providing your side a lot of magical damage output. Make sure to include other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Pyke ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Aphelios to work well with Pyke during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to get in your Aphelios and Pyke synergy build include Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and The Collector. When Aphelios included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Pyke than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Aphelios boasted an average win rate of 48.9% helping carry Pyke with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, Aphelios players should take the Lethal Tempo, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Pyke with Aphelios are given for all ranked divisions. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a distinct skill level, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.