Pyke with K'Sante
How to Synergize Pyke and K'Sante
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Pyke K'Sante Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Pyke and K'Sante
Tips for Playing as Pyke with K'Sante
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 K'Sante Will Play
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Pyke K'Sante Synergy Stats
How to Play with K'Sante as Pyke in LoL
The Pyke K'Sante synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with K'Sante, 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 K'Sante. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that K'Sante helps Pyke perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Pyke is an ally to K'Sante, he gets a small increase in his total damage dealt. This difference may signal that K'Sante helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that their allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Pyke is played with K'Sante on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with K'Sante.
Moreover, when Pyke plays with K'Sante on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that K'Sante does a poor job of protecting Pyke during teamfights.
Synergies between Pyke and K'Sante
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Is Pyke better when played alongside K'Sante?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Pyke that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. However, overall, K'Sante is a relatively poor teammate for Pyke. By being on the same side as Pyke, they drops their win rate by -3.0% to 46.1%. This shows that there is a bad synergy between Pyke and K'Sante that results in them performing worse together than alone.
K'Sante has a greater difficulty than Pyke. That means Pyke players must be cautious when arranging K'Sante teammates to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to work well with you.
When playing alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by pairing Pyke and K'Sante together, you probably will not be granting your team a great deal of magical damage output. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your K'Sante teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Pyke to synergize with K'Sante during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to focus on in your Pyke and K'Sante synergy build include Bloodsong, Hubris, and Opportunity. When Pyke used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside K'Sante than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Pyke had an average win rate of 46.1% helping carry K'Sante with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Zombie Ward, Ingenious Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Pyke and K'Sante pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.1% winrate overall.
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