Bard with Pyke
How to Synergize Bard and Pyke
based on 224 Bard with Pyke pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Bard Pyke Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Pyke
Tips for Playing as Bard with Pyke
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
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.
Bard Pyke Synergy Stats
How to Play with Pyke as Bard in LoL
The Bard 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, Bard 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 worsening shows that Pyke helps Bard perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Bard is an ally to Pyke, he gets a noticable increase in his total damage dealt. This may signal that Pyke supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played together with Pyke on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Pyke.
Additionally, when Bard plays with Pyke on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Pyke does a poor job of covering Bard in team fights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Pyke?
There is no top synergy for Bard that will always be his ideal ally. However, overall, Pyke is a terrible ally for Bard. By being on the same side as Bard, he decreases their win rate by -9.4% to 42.9%. This signals that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Bard and Pyke that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Pyke has a lower difficulty than Bard. That means Bard players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Pyke allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by grouping Bard and Pyke together, you may not be granting your other teammates very much magical damage output. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
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 will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Bard to work well with Pyke during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to get in your Bard and Pyke synergy build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Bloodsong. When Bard included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Pyke than with most other common builds. In fact, Bard boasted an average winrate of 42.9% helping carry Pyke with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, Bard players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 42.9% winrate overall.
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