Pyke with Karthus
How to Synergize Pyke and Karthus
based on 1,767 Pyke with Karthus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Pyke Karthus Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Pyke and Karthus
Tips for Playing as Pyke with Karthus
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 Karthus Will Play
Lay Waste is very strong at farming minions and harassing enemy champions.
Ask your allies to help point out when you should use Requiem to get kills in different lanes.
Pyke Karthus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karthus as Pyke in LoL
The Pyke Karthus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Karthus, 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 Karthus. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Karthus helps Pyke perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Pyke is an ally to Karthus, he observes a little increase in his complete damage output. This could indicate that Karthus helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Pyke is played with Karthus on the same team, 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 with Karthus.
Additionally, when Pyke plays with Karthus on the same team, he typically receives more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Karthus does a poor job of covering Pyke during teamfights.
Synergies between Pyke and Karthus
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Is Pyke better when played alongside Karthus?
There is no one best champion pairing for Pyke that will always be his ideal teammate. However, Karthus is a very typical companion for Pyke. By being on the same team as Pyke, he drops their win rate by -0.8% to 48.3%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak bond between Pyke and Karthus that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Karthus has a lower difficulty than Pyke. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Karthus allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing together, Pyke players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Pyke and Karthus together, you probably will not be granting your side a great deal of protection for burst damage. Plan to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Karthus teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down 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 learn all of the intricacies of Pyke to synergize with Karthus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Pyke and Karthus synergy build include Umbral Glaive, Hubris, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Pyke bought at least these three great items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Karthus than with many other common item sets. In fact, Pyke boasted an average winrate of 48.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Karthus with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, Pyke players should use the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Zombie Ward, Ingenious Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.3% winrate overall.
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