Pyke with Kalista
How to Synergize Pyke and Kalista
based on 1,286 Pyke with Kalista pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Pyke Kalista Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Pyke and Kalista
Tips for Playing as Pyke with Kalista
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 Kalista Will Play
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
Pyke Kalista Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kalista as Pyke in LoL
The Pyke Kalista synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kalista, 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 Kalista. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Kalista helps Pyke perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Pyke is paired with Kalista, he observes a small increase in his complete damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Kalista supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Pyke is played together with Kalista on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Kalista.
Additionally, when Pyke plays with Kalista on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Kalista does a decent job of covering Pyke in team fights.
Synergies between Pyke and Kalista
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Is Pyke better when played alongside Kalista?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Pyke that will no matter what be his best ally. However, overall, Kalista is a terrible companion for Pyke. By playing on the same side as Pyke, she decreases their win rate by -3.1% to 46.0%. This demonstrates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Pyke and Kalista that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Kalista has a lower difficulty than Pyke. That means Pyke players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Kalista teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working alongside, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by bringing Pyke and Kalista together, you probably will not be granting your side very much magic damage. Make sure to include other champs on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Kalista teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold 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
If you would like to truly master Pyke in order to work well with Kalista during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to focus on in your Pyke and Kalista synergy build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Umbral Glaive, and Bloodsong. When Pyke combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Kalista than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Pyke boasted an average winrate of 46.0% helping carry Kalista with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, Pyke players should take the Hail of Blades, Cheap Shot, Zombie Ward, Ultimate Hunter, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.0% win rate overall.
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