Pyke with Bard
How to Synergize Pyke and Bard
based on 224 Pyke with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Pyke Bard Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Pyke and Bard
Tips for Playing as Pyke with Bard
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 Bard Will Play
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
Pyke Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Pyke in LoL
The Pyke Bard synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Bard, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Bard helps Pyke perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Pyke is an ally to Bard, he gets a massive increase in his complete damage output. This may indicate that Bard supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Pyke is played alongside Bard on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Bard. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Bard.
Additionally, when Pyke plays with Bard on the same side, he usually receives significantly more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Bard does a poor job of protecting Pyke in team fights.
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Is Pyke better when played alongside Bard?
There is no perfect companion for Pyke that will always be his best ally. Yet, Bard is a very bad teammate for Pyke. By playing on the same side as Pyke, he drops their win rate by -6.2% to 42.9%. This demonstrates that there is a terrible synergy between Pyke and Bard that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Bard has a greater difficulty than Pyke. That means you must be cautious when finding Bard teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working on the same side, Pyke players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by pairing Pyke and Bard together, you will not be providing your side enough magic damage. We recommend you include other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Bard ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Pyke to work well with Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to build first in your Pyke and Bard synergy build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Axiom Arc, and Opportunity. When Pyke combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Bard than with many other common item sets. In fact, Pyke boasted an average win rate of 42.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Bard with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, you should take 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 rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 42.9% win rate overall.
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