Kassadin with Pyke
How to Synergize Kassadin and Pyke
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Kassadin Pyke Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kassadin and Pyke
Tips for Playing as Kassadin with Pyke
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
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.
Kassadin Pyke Synergy Stats
How to Play with Pyke as Kassadin in LoL
The Kassadin 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, Kassadin sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Pyke. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Pyke helps Kassadin perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kassadin tries to synergize with Pyke, he sees a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This difference could signal that Pyke supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Kassadin is played together 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 Kassadin plays with Pyke on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Pyke does a decent job of protecting Kassadin in teamfights.
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Is Kassadin better when played alongside Pyke?
There is no top companion for Kassadin that will always be his ideal ally. However, Pyke is a very typical companion for Kassadin. By playing on the same side as Kassadin, he decreases their win rate by -0.5% to 49.5%. This demonstrates that there is only a small bond between Kassadin and Pyke that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Pyke has a lower difficulty than Kassadin. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Pyke teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting together, Kassadin players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by grouping Kassadin and Pyke together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates a great deal of engage potential. Plan to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Pyke ally's skill level, you need to 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 Kassadin in order to pair well with Pyke during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to use in your Kassadin and Pyke synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Rod of Ages. When Kassadin combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Pyke than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Kassadin had an average win rate of 49.5% when playing alongside Pyke with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Kassadin players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Kassadin and Pyke pairings, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.5% win rate overall.
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