Taric with Pyke
How to Synergize Taric and Pyke
based on 250 Taric with Pyke pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Taric Pyke Synergy Summary
Best Taric vs Pyke Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Taric and Pyke
Tips for Playing as Taric with Pyke
The cooldown reducing component of Bravado makes Cooldown Reduction items like Frozen Heart, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Spirit Visage exceptionally powerful on Taric.
Using Starlight's Touch at lower charges makes its healing less Mana efficient, but can greatly increase Taric's sustained damage via Bravado.
Rather than saving Cosmic Radiance for the last moment and risking someone dying during the delay, it can be more beneficial to cast it as soon as you know a teamfight is guaranteed to start.
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.
Taric Pyke Synergy Stats
How to Play with Pyke as Taric in LoL
The Taric 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, Taric sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Pyke. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Pyke helps Taric perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Taric is paired with Pyke, he observes a massive increase in his total damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Pyke supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Taric is played 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 synergisticly with Pyke.
Moreover, when Taric plays with Pyke on the same team, he on average receives much more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Pyke does a poor job of covering Taric in team fights.
Synergies between Taric and Pyke
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Is Taric better when played alongside Pyke?
There is no one best synergy for Taric that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. However, Pyke is a terrible ally for Taric. By locking into the same team as Taric, he decreases their win rate by -3.4% to 48.8%. This demonstrates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Taric and Pyke that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Pyke has a much greater difficulty compared to Taric. That means you need to be cautious when enlisting Pyke allies to play with, as they will need a much greater level of skill to do well with you.
Working together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by pairing Taric and Pyke together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a great deal of AP. We recommend you include other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Pyke ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold 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
To learn all of the intricacies of Taric in order to work well with Pyke during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to prioritize in your Taric and Pyke synergy build include Knight's Vow, Frozen Heart, and Bloodsong. When Taric incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Pyke than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Taric boasted an average win rate of 48.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Pyke with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Glacial Augment, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Taric and Pyke pairings, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.8% winrate overall.
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