Rakan with Pyke
How to Synergize Rakan and Pyke
based on 222 Rakan with Pyke pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Rakan Pyke Synergy Summary
Best Rakan vs Pyke Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Rakan and Pyke
Tips for Playing as Rakan with Pyke
Rakan's dash speeds increase with his Move Speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
Rakan requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
Advice to Understand How Pyke Will Play
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.
Rakan Pyke Synergy Stats
How to Play with Pyke as Rakan in LoL
The Rakan Pyke synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Pyke, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Rakan sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Pyke. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Pyke helps Rakan perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Rakan is paired with Pyke, he gets a great improvement in his full damage dealt. This difference may signal that Pyke supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Rakan is played alongside Pyke on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Pyke. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Pyke.
Additionally, when Rakan plays with Pyke on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Pyke does a poor job of protecting Rakan during team fights.
Synergies between Rakan and Pyke
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Is Rakan better when played alongside Pyke?
There is no one best ally for Rakan that will always be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Pyke is a relatively poor companion for Rakan. By being on the same team as Rakan, he drops their win rate by -1.1% to 49.5%. This shows that there is a bad synergy between Rakan and Pyke that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Pyke has a greater difficulty than Rakan. That means Rakan players need to be careful when finding Pyke comrades to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Rakan players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to buff allies and debuff enemies. When paired, these champs should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Conversely, by pairing Rakan and Pyke together, you will not be giving your team a lot of tankyness. Plan to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Pyke ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Rakan in order to synergize with Pyke during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to build first in your Rakan and Pyke synergy build consist of Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Solstice Sleigh. When Rakan included at least these three items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Pyke than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Rakan boasted an average winrate of 49.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Pyke with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, Rakan players should use the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Zombie Ward, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.5% winrate overall.
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