Talon with Pyke
How to Synergize Talon and Pyke
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Talon Pyke Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Talon and Pyke
Tips for Playing as Talon with Pyke
Shadow Assault is a powerful escape tool, but can also be offensively used to assault a group.
You can use Assassin's Path to get behind the enemy and set up for Noxian Diplomacy's melee attack.
Remember to pick your target before the fight. Focusing all of Talon's abilities on one target can be very rewarding, but splitting them up between many may leave you helpless.
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.
Talon Pyke Synergy Stats
How to Play with Pyke as Talon in LoL
The Talon 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, Talon 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 drop shows that Pyke helps Talon perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Talon is an ally to Pyke, he sees a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This change could indicate that Pyke provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Talon is played with 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 Talon plays with Pyke on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Pyke does a poor job of protecting Talon during teamfights.
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Is Talon better when played alongside Pyke?
There is no top synergy for Talon that will no matter what be his ideal ally. However, overall, Pyke is a below average teammate for Talon. By being on the same team as Talon, he decreases their win rate by -2.6% to 46.4%. This demonstrates that there is a negative bond between Talon and Pyke that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Pyke has a lower difficulty than Talon. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Pyke teammates to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by aligning Talon and Pyke together, you may not be providing your other allies much AP. Plan to have other champions on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Pyke ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should 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 Talon to work well with Pyke during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Talon and Pyke synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Edge of Night, and Axiom Arc. When Talon included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Pyke than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Talon boasted an average winrate of 46.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Pyke with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, Talon players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.4% win rate overall.
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