Pyke with Olaf
How to Synergize Pyke and Olaf
based on 1,105 Pyke with Olaf pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Pyke Olaf Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Pyke and Olaf
Tips for Playing as Pyke with Olaf
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 Olaf Will Play
Olaf can combine Berserker Rage, Vicious Strikes, and Ragnarok at low life to become deceptively strong.
The bonus healing granted by Vicious Strikes amplifies your Life Steal from all sources as well as heals from allies.
Pyke Olaf Synergy Stats
How to Play with Olaf as Pyke in LoL
The Pyke Olaf synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Olaf, 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 Olaf. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Olaf helps Pyke perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Pyke is an ally to Olaf, he observes a little drop in his complete damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Olaf doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Pyke is played alongside Olaf on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Olaf. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Olaf.
Additionally, when Pyke plays with Olaf on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Olaf does a decent job of protecting Pyke during teamfights.
Synergies between Pyke and Olaf
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Is Pyke better when played alongside Olaf?
There is no ideal companion for Pyke that will always be his top teammate. However, overall, Olaf is a very bad teammate for Pyke. By locking into the same side as Pyke, he drops their win rate by -3.1% to 46.0%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Pyke and Olaf that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Olaf has a much lower diffuclty than Pyke. That means Pyke players don't need to be careful when arranging Olaf teammates to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by grouping Pyke and Olaf together, you may not be providing your other allies very much magic damage. Make sure to have other champs on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Olaf ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should 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 in order to work well with Olaf during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to have in your Pyke and Olaf synergy build consist of Umbral Glaive, Bloodsong, and Axiom Arc. When Pyke incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Olaf than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Pyke had an average win rate of 46.0% helping carry Olaf with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against 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. Of all the rune sets players used for Pyke and Olaf pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Olaf with Pyke are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to an individual skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.