Pyke with Maokai
How to Synergize Pyke and Maokai
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Pyke Maokai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Pyke and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Pyke with Maokai
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 Maokai Will Play
Maokai's passive makes him extremely durable against focus fire from spells - so long as he can still basic attack something.
Try looking for flanks or other situations where Nature's Grasp is unavoidable or takes enemies by surprise.
Saplings can be tossed into brush for empowered effect - but don't stack well.
Pyke Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Pyke in LoL
The Pyke Maokai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Maokai, 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 Maokai. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Maokai helps Pyke perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Pyke plays on the same team as Maokai, he observes a clear improvement in his complete damage dealt. This change may signal that Maokai supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Pyke is played together with Maokai 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 Maokai.
Moreover, when Pyke plays with Maokai on the same side, he usually receives more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Maokai does a poor job of covering Pyke in teamfights.
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Is Pyke better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no one best champion pairing for Pyke that will always be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Maokai is a relatively poor companion for Pyke. By being on the same team as Pyke, he decreases their win rate by -1.4% to 47.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful synergy between Pyke and Maokai that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Pyke. That means Pyke players don't need to be careful when lining up Maokai comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to support your allies. When paired, these champs will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Although, by aligning Pyke and Maokai together, you will not be granting your other teammates much AP. Make sure to include other champions on your team that fills this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Maokai ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Pyke to synergize with Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to get in your Pyke and Maokai synergy build include Hubris, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Pyke bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Maokai than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Pyke had an average win rate of 47.7% when playing alongside Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing 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. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.7% win rate overall.
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