Pyke with Kassadin
How to Synergize Pyke and Kassadin
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Pyke Kassadin Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Pyke and Kassadin
Tips for Playing as Pyke with Kassadin
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 Kassadin Will Play
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
Pyke Kassadin Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kassadin as Pyke in LoL
The Pyke Kassadin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kassadin, 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 Kassadin. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Kassadin helps Pyke perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Pyke plays on the same team as Kassadin, he sees a barely noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This could indicate that Kassadin does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Pyke is played together with Kassadin on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Kassadin.
Moreover, when Pyke plays with Kassadin on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Kassadin does a decent job of protecting Pyke in team fights.
Synergies between Pyke and Kassadin
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Is Pyke better when played alongside Kassadin?
There is no top synergy for Pyke that will always be his #1 synergy. However, overall, Kassadin is a very typical ally for Pyke. By locking into the same team as Pyke, he increases their win rate by 0.4% to 49.5%. This signals that there is a weak bond between Pyke and Kassadin that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Kassadin has a greater difficulty than Pyke. That means you must be very careful when lining up Kassadin allies to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Working alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by grouping Pyke and Kassadin together, you probably will not be giving your side a lot of protection for burst damage. Plan to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Kassadin ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, 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 in order to synergize with Kassadin during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Pyke and Kassadin synergy build consist of Bloodsong, Hubris, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Pyke used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Kassadin than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Pyke had an average win rate of 49.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kassadin with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating 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. Out of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Kassadin with Pyke are displayed for all skill levels combined. To narrow the stats and builds to a specific division, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.