Shaco with Pyke
How to Synergize Shaco and Pyke
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Shaco Pyke Synergy Summary
Best Shaco vs Pyke Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shaco and Pyke
Tips for Playing as Shaco with Pyke
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
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.
Shaco Pyke Synergy Stats
How to Play with Pyke as Shaco in LoL
The Shaco 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, Shaco sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Pyke. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Pyke helps Shaco perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shaco is paired with Pyke, he gets a barely noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This change could indicate that Pyke doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Shaco is played together with Pyke 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 alongside Pyke.
Additionally, when Shaco plays with Pyke on the same side, he often takes more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Pyke does a poor job of covering Shaco in team fights.
Synergies between Shaco and Pyke
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Is Shaco better when played alongside Pyke?
There is no one best ally for Shaco that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. Yet, Pyke is a relatively poor teammate for Shaco. By being on the same side as Shaco, he lowers their win rate by -1.2% to 48.2%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative synergy between Shaco and Pyke that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Pyke has a lower difficulty than Shaco. That means Shaco players don't need to be cautious when finding Pyke allies to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by bringing Shaco and Pyke together, you probably will not be granting your other allies a great deal of AP. Make sure 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 gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, 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 Shaco to work well with Pyke during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to get in your Shaco and Pyke synergy build include Serylda's Grudge, Profane Hydra, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Shaco included at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Pyke than with many other common builds. In fact, Shaco had an average win rate of 48.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Pyke with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Shaco players should use the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Legend: Alacrity, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.2% winrate overall.
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