Pyke with Malzahar
How to Synergize Pyke and Malzahar
based on 4,032 Pyke with Malzahar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Pyke Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Pyke and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Pyke with Malzahar
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 Malzahar Will Play
Use Call of the Void and Nether Grasp to renew the duration of Malefic Visions on enemies.
Wait to cast Void Swarm until there are nearby enemies for the Voidling to attack or kill.
Avoiding damage in lane maximizes the uptime on Void Shift, increasing Malzahar's safety dramatically.
Pyke Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Pyke in LoL
The Pyke Malzahar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Malzahar, 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 Malzahar. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Malzahar helps Pyke perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Pyke plays on the same team as Malzahar, he sees a small increase in his total damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Malzahar supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Pyke is played alongside Malzahar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Malzahar. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Malzahar.
Moreover, when Pyke plays with Malzahar on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Malzahar does a poor job of covering Pyke during team fights.
Synergies between Pyke and Malzahar
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Is Pyke better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no perfect synergy for Pyke that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Malzahar is a pretty good ally for Pyke. By locking into the same team as Pyke, he raises their win rate by 1.6% to 50.7%. This signals that there is a good bond between Pyke and Malzahar that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Malzahar has a lower difficulty than Pyke. That means Pyke players don't need to be cautious when lining up Malzahar comrades to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing on the same side, Pyke players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by pairing Pyke and Malzahar together, you will not be giving your other allies a great deal of engage. Plan to include other champions on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Malzahar ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Pyke to work well with Malzahar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Pyke and Malzahar synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Umbral Glaive, and Bloodsong. When Pyke combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Malzahar than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Pyke boasted an average win rate of 50.7% when playing alongside Malzahar with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, Pyke players should equip 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 combinations we have analyed for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.7% winrate overall.
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