Caitlyn with Pyke
How to Synergize Caitlyn and Pyke
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Caitlyn Pyke Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Caitlyn and Pyke
Tips for Playing as Caitlyn with Pyke
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
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.
Caitlyn Pyke Synergy Stats
How to Play with Pyke as Caitlyn in LoL
The Caitlyn Pyke synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Pyke, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Caitlyn sees a large worsening in her 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 Caitlyn perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Caitlyn is paired with Pyke, she observes a small increase in her full damage output. This could demonstrate that Pyke helps provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Caitlyn is played together with Pyke on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Pyke. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Pyke.
Moreover, when Caitlyn plays with Pyke on the same team, she on average receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Pyke does a poor job of protecting Caitlyn during teamfights.
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Is Caitlyn better when played alongside Pyke?
There is no ideal companion for Caitlyn that will 100% of the time be her best teammate. Yet, overall, Pyke is a very typical companion for Caitlyn. By playing on the same side as Caitlyn, he decreases their win rate by -0.7% to 48.6%. This proves that there is a weak bond between Caitlyn and Pyke that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Pyke has a greater difficulty than Caitlyn. That means Caitlyn players need to be very careful when finding Pyke allies to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing together, Caitlyn players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by pairing Caitlyn and Pyke together, you probably will not be providing your team very much magic damage. Plan to pick other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Pyke teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Caitlyn in order to pair well with Pyke during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to have in your Caitlyn and Pyke synergy build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Axiom Arc. When Caitlyn included at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better as an ally of Pyke than with most other common builds. In fact, Caitlyn had an average win rate of 48.6% when playing alongside Pyke with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, Caitlyn players should take the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for this champion pairing, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.6% win rate overall.
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