Gragas with Pyke
How to Synergize Gragas and Pyke
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Gragas Pyke Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Pyke
Tips for Playing as Gragas with Pyke
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
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.
Gragas Pyke Synergy Stats
How to Play with Pyke as Gragas in LoL
The Gragas 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, Gragas sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Pyke. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Pyke helps Gragas perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gragas is paired with Pyke, he sees a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This may signal that Pyke supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played together with Pyke on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Pyke. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Pyke.
Moreover, when Gragas plays with Pyke on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Pyke does a poor job of covering Gragas in teamfights.
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Is Gragas better when played alongside Pyke?
There is no ideal synergy for Gragas that will no matter what be his top synergy. However, Pyke is a relatively poor ally for Gragas. By being on the same team as Gragas, he lowers their win rate by -1.1% to 46.8%. This signals that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Gragas and Pyke that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Pyke has a greater difficulty than Gragas. That means Gragas players need to be cautious when finding Pyke comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Gragas and Pyke together, you will not be giving your team much magic damage. Plan to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Pyke ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down 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 Gragas in order to work well with Pyke during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to have in your Gragas and Pyke synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Pyke than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Gragas had an average win rate of 46.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Pyke with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Gragas players should use the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.8% win rate overall.
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