Pyke with Nasus
How to Synergize Pyke and Nasus
based on 3,711 Pyke with Nasus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Pyke Nasus Synergy Summary
Best Pyke vs Nasus Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Pyke Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Synergizing Pyke and Nasus
Tips for Playing as Pyke with Nasus
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 Nasus Will Play
Paying attention to last hitting with Siphoning Strike will have a large impact at the end of a game.
If you're solo, Spirit Fire is a great way to farm a lane. It can be bad if you're in a lane with 2 and you push too far. Find the right balance between Siphoning Strike last hits and AoE farming.
If you have low defenses, people will focus you down even during your ultimate. Try buying some survivability items even in your DPS builds.
Pyke Nasus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nasus as Pyke in LoL
The Pyke Nasus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nasus, 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 Nasus. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Nasus helps Pyke perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Pyke is an ally to Nasus, he sees a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This difference could signal that Nasus does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Pyke is played together with Nasus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Nasus. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Nasus.
Additionally, when Pyke plays with Nasus on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Nasus does a decent job of covering Pyke during teamfights.
Synergies between Pyke and Nasus
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Contrasted
Is Pyke better when played alongside Nasus?
There is no one best synergy for Pyke that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, overall, Nasus is a good companion for Pyke. By being on the same side as Pyke, he raises their win rate by 1.1% to 50.2%. This shows that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Pyke and Nasus that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Nasus has a lower difficulty than Pyke. That means Pyke players don't need to be cautious when arranging Nasus allies to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to do well with you.
Working together, Pyke players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by pairing Pyke and Nasus together, you may not be granting your other teammates a great deal of magic damage. We recommend you include other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Nasus teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
Other Champion Matchups Against Pyke
Other Top Synergies by Role
Additional Information for Pyke Players
How We Calculated Our Pyke Nasus Synergy Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Pyke to synergize with Nasus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to get in your Pyke and Nasus synergy build include Umbral Glaive, Edge of Night, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Pyke used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Nasus than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Pyke boasted an average winrate of 50.2% when playing alongside Nasus with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against 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 runes players picked for Pyke and Nasus pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.2% winrate overall.
If you would like to view Pyke and Nasus cooperations tips and builds for a an individual division rank, please select one from the selection menu displayed above. At first, the statistics and guides given are calculated using every game completed with these champions.