Pyke with Swain
How to Synergize Pyke and Swain
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Pyke Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Pyke and Swain
Tips for Playing as Pyke with Swain
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 Swain Will Play
While laning, try to use Death's Hand's piercing damage to damage opponents from a safe distance.
Vision of Empire is quite difficult to land on its own, look for skirmishes around the map where enemies may be distracted or crowd controlled so you can land it more easily.
If you're having trouble rooting an enemy with Nevermove, try throwing it at opponents when they are near their minions so the explosion surprises them.
Demonic Ascension may make Swain very hard to kill but he's pretty easy to get away from. Try building items that can slow opponents to keep them in range if their mobility is overwhelming.
Pyke Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Pyke in LoL
The Pyke Swain synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Swain, 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 Swain. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Swain helps Pyke perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Pyke plays on the same team as Swain, he sees a little increase in his total damage dealt. This change may signal that Swain provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Pyke is played with Swain on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Swain.
Additionally, when Pyke plays with Swain on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Swain does a decent job of protecting Pyke in teamfights.
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Is Pyke better when played alongside Swain?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Pyke that will always be his #1 synergy. Yet, Swain is a great teammate for Pyke. By locking into the same team as Pyke, he increases their win rate by 3.7% to 52.8%. This clearly indicates that there is an important synergy between Pyke and Swain that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Swain has a greater difficulty than Pyke. That means you must be cautious when enlisting Swain teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to play well with you.
When playing together, Pyke players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by grouping Pyke and Swain together, you will not be granting your other allies much cover. We recommend you include other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Swain ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Pyke to pair well with Swain during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to use in your Pyke and Swain synergy build consist of Umbral Glaive, Hubris, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Pyke combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better as an ally of Swain than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Pyke had an average win rate of 52.8% when playing alongside Swain with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should take 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 rune combinations players picked for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.8% win rate overall.
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