Pyke with Malphite
How to Synergize Pyke and Malphite
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Pyke Malphite Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Pyke and Malphite
Tips for Playing as Pyke with Malphite
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 Malphite Will Play
Despite his abilities scaling on Armor, some games require Malphite to get Magic Resist. When those games occur, try getting Aegis of the Legion, Mercury's Treads, and Guardian Angel.
Armor naturally reduces the rate that attacks go through Granite Shield, so Brutal Strikes will strengthen the shield against physical damage.
Pyke Malphite Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malphite as Pyke in LoL
The Pyke Malphite synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Malphite, 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 Malphite. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Malphite helps Pyke perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Pyke plays on the same team as Malphite, he sees a little increase in his full damage dealt. This may signal that Malphite provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Pyke is played together with Malphite on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Malphite. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Malphite.
Additionally, when Pyke plays with Malphite on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Malphite does a poor job of covering Pyke during team fights.
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Is Pyke better when played alongside Malphite?
There is no perfect ally for Pyke that will always be his best ally. Yet, Malphite is a very typical ally for Pyke. By locking into the same side as Pyke, he drops their win rate by -0.3% to 48.8%. This shows that there is a weak bond between Pyke and Malphite that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Malphite has a much lower diffuclty than Pyke. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Malphite teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, Pyke players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by aligning Pyke and Malphite together, you will not be granting your team much AP. Plan to include other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Malphite ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Pyke in order to synergize with Malphite during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Pyke and Malphite synergy build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Bloodsong, and Opportunity. When Pyke included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Malphite than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Pyke boasted an average winrate of 48.8% helping carry Malphite with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of defeating 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 runes players picked for Pyke and Malphite pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.8% winrate overall.
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