Kayn with Pyke
How to Synergize Kayn and Pyke
based on 5,660 Kayn with Pyke pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kayn Pyke Synergy Summary
Best Kayn vs Pyke Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kayn and Pyke
Tips for Playing as Kayn with Pyke
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
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.
Kayn Pyke Synergy Stats
How to Play with Pyke as Kayn in LoL
The Kayn 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, Kayn sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Pyke. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Pyke helps Kayn perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kayn plays on the same team as Pyke, he observes a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This difference could signal that Pyke helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Kayn is played together with Pyke on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Pyke.
Additionally, when Kayn plays with Pyke on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Pyke does a decent job of covering Kayn during team fights.
Synergies between Kayn and Pyke
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Is Kayn better when played alongside Pyke?
There is no one best champion pairing for Kayn that will always be his ideal teammate. However, Pyke is a relatively poor companion for Kayn. By locking into the same team as Kayn, he drops their win rate by -2.3% to 46.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative synergy between Kayn and Pyke that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Pyke has a lower difficulty than Kayn. That means Kayn players don't need to be cautious when arranging Pyke allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing on the same side, Kayn players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by bringing Kayn and Pyke together, you probably will not be providing your side a great deal of magic damage. Make sure to include other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Pyke teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Kayn to synergize with Pyke during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to build first in your Kayn and Pyke synergy build include Edge of Night, Axiom Arc, and Opportunity. When Kayn combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Pyke than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Kayn had an average win rate of 46.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Pyke with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, Kayn players should equip the Summon Aery, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.9% winrate overall.
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