Pyke with Xerath
How to Synergize Pyke and Xerath
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Pyke Xerath Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Pyke and Xerath
Tips for Playing as Pyke with Xerath
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 Xerath Will Play
If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
Pyke Xerath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xerath as Pyke in LoL
The Pyke Xerath synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xerath, 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 Xerath. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Xerath helps Pyke perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Pyke is paired with Xerath, he sees a small increase in his complete damage output. This change may indicate that Xerath provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Pyke is played alongside Xerath on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Xerath. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Xerath.
Additionally, when Pyke plays with Xerath on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Xerath does a poor job of covering Pyke during teamfights.
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Is Pyke better when played alongside Xerath?
There is no perfect ally for Pyke that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. However, Xerath is a very typical ally for Pyke. By playing on the same team as Pyke, he increases their win rate by 0.2% to 49.3%. This demonstrates that there is only a small bond between Pyke and Xerath that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Xerath has a greater difficulty than Pyke. That means Pyke players must be careful when finding Xerath teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, Pyke players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Pyke and Xerath together, you probably will not be granting your side much tankyness. We recommend you have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Xerath ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, 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 Xerath during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to have in your Pyke and Xerath synergy build include Bloodsong, Hubris, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Pyke combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Xerath than with most other typical builds. In fact, Pyke had an average winrate of 49.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Xerath with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Zombie Ward, Ingenious Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.3% win rate overall.
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