Pyke with Zilean
How to Synergize Pyke and Zilean
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Pyke Zilean Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Pyke and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Pyke with Zilean
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 Zilean Will Play
Time Warp is an effective way to enable allies to finish off enemies, or escape from a losing battle.
Chronoshift is a powerful deterrent to attacking your carries, but casting Chronoshift too early in a fight can cause the enemy to switch targets too soon, making it less effective.
You can combine the use of Time Bomb and Rewind to place two Time Bombs on a target quickly. Placing the second bomb will detonate the first and stun all nearby enemies.
Pyke Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Pyke in LoL
The Pyke Zilean synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zilean, 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 Zilean. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Zilean helps Pyke perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Pyke tries to synergize with Zilean, he gets a noticable increase in his full damage dealt. This change could signal that Zilean helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Pyke is played alongside Zilean on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Zilean.
Moreover, when Pyke plays with Zilean on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Zilean does a poor job of covering Pyke during team fights.
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Is Pyke better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no one best companion for Pyke that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. However, Zilean is a great companion for Pyke. By playing on the same side as Pyke, he improves their win rate by 3.4% to 52.5%. This shows that there is a very strong bond between Pyke and Zilean that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Zilean has a lower difficulty than Pyke. That means Pyke players don't need to be cautious when arranging Zilean allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Pyke players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to support your allies. Together, these two will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Conversely, by pairing Pyke and Zilean together, you will not be providing your side a lot of cover. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Zilean ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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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 synergize with Zilean during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to get in your Pyke and Zilean synergy build include Umbral Glaive, Bloodsong, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Pyke used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Zilean than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Pyke boasted an average win rate of 52.5% when playing alongside Zilean with this build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you 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 players chose for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.5% winrate overall.
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