Wukong with Pyke
How to Synergize Wukong and Pyke
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Wukong Pyke Synergy Summary
Best Wukong vs Pyke Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Wukong and Pyke
Tips for Playing as Wukong with Pyke
Decoy and Nimbus Strike work well together to quickly strike your enemy and get out before they can retaliate.
Try using Decoy near brush to make an enemy overreact to your movement.
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.
Wukong Pyke Synergy Stats
How to Play with Pyke as Wukong in LoL
The Wukong 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, Wukong 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 fall shows that Pyke helps Wukong perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Wukong is an ally to Pyke, he gets a little increase in his complete damage output. This change could indicate that Pyke provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Wukong is played 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 with Pyke.
Additionally, when Wukong 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 mean that Pyke does a decent job of covering Wukong during team fights.
Synergies between Wukong and Pyke
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Is Wukong better when played alongside Pyke?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Wukong that will always be his top ally. However, overall, Pyke is a very typical companion for Wukong. By playing on the same team as Wukong, he decreases their win rate by -1.0% to 48.4%. This signals that there is a weak strategic relationship between Wukong and Pyke that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Pyke has a much greater difficulty compared to Wukong. That means you need to be careful when arranging Pyke allies to play with, as they will need a much higher level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by pairing Wukong and Pyke together, you probably will not be granting your other allies much AP. Plan to pick other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Pyke ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Wukong in order to work well with Pyke during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to build first in your Wukong and Pyke synergy build consist of Trinity Force, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Wukong incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Pyke than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Wukong boasted an average win rate of 48.4% when playing alongside Pyke with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.4% winrate overall.
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