Nasus with Pyke
How to Synergize Nasus and Pyke
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Nasus Pyke Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nasus and Pyke
Tips for Playing as Nasus with Pyke
Paying attention to last hitting with Siphoning Strike will have a large impact at the end of a game.
If you're solo, Spirit Fire is a great way to farm a lane. It can be bad if you're in a lane with 2 and you push too far. Find the right balance between Siphoning Strike last hits and AoE farming.
If you have low defenses, people will focus you down even during your ultimate. Try buying some survivability items even in your DPS builds.
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.
Nasus Pyke Synergy Stats
How to Play with Pyke as Nasus in LoL
The Nasus 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, Nasus 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 worsening shows that Pyke helps Nasus perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nasus tries to synergize with Pyke, he sees a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This may signal that Pyke provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Nasus is played alongside Pyke on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Pyke.
Moreover, when Nasus plays with Pyke on the same side, he often 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 protecting Nasus in team fights.
Synergies between Nasus and Pyke
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Is Nasus better when played alongside Pyke?
There is no top ally for Nasus that will 100% of the time be his top ally. Yet, Pyke is a very typical companion for Nasus. By playing on the same team as Nasus, he lowers their win rate by -0.1% to 50.2%. This proves that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Nasus and Pyke that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Pyke has a greater difficulty than Nasus. That means Nasus players must be careful when lining up Pyke allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting together, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by pairing Nasus and Pyke together, you probably will not be granting your team very much magical damage output. Plan to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Pyke ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Nasus to synergize with Pyke during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to have in your Nasus and Pyke synergy build consist of Spirit Visage, Frozen Heart, and Sundered Sky. When Nasus included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Pyke than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Nasus had an average winrate of 50.2% when playing alongside Pyke with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Nasus players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Pyke with Nasus are given for every ranked division. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to an individual rank, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.