Pyke with Aphelios
How to Synergize Pyke and Aphelios
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Pyke Aphelios Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Pyke and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Pyke with Aphelios
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.
Advice to Understand How Aphelios Will Play
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Pyke Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Pyke in LoL
The Pyke Aphelios synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aphelios, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Pyke sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aphelios. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Aphelios helps Pyke perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Pyke is paired with Aphelios, he sees a little drop in his full damage dealt. This change may signal that Aphelios does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Pyke is played together with Aphelios 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 synergisticly with Aphelios.
Additionally, when Pyke plays with Aphelios on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Aphelios does a decent job of covering Pyke in team fights.
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Is Pyke better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no one best companion for Pyke that will no matter what be his top ally. However, overall, Aphelios is a very typical ally for Pyke. By locking into the same team as Pyke, he lowers their win rate by -0.2% to 48.9%. This proves that there is a weak bond between Pyke and Aphelios that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Aphelios has a greater difficulty than Pyke. That means Pyke players need to be very careful when arranging Aphelios comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by bringing Pyke and Aphelios together, you may not be providing your other teammates very much AP. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Aphelios ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Pyke to work well with Aphelios during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to build first in your Pyke and Aphelios synergy build include Umbral Glaive, Edge of Night, and Opportunity. When Pyke used at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Aphelios than with many other common builds. In fact, Pyke had an average win rate of 48.9% helping carry Aphelios with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, you should use the Hail of Blades, Cheap Shot, Zombie Ward, Ultimate Hunter, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Pyke and Aphelios pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.9% winrate overall.
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