Vi with Pyke
How to Synergize Vi and Pyke
based on 3,310 Vi with Pyke pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Vi Pyke Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Vi and Pyke
Tips for Playing as Vi with Pyke
A fully charged Vault Breaker will deal double damage. It's great for catching and finishing off fleeing enemies.
Relentless Force does full damage to anyone caught in the shockwave. Use it on minions in lane to hit enemies hiding behind them.
Cease and Desist is a powerful initiation tool, just remember not to get too far ahead of the rest of your team.
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.
Vi Pyke Synergy Stats
How to Play with Pyke as Vi in LoL
The Vi Pyke synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Pyke, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Vi sees a large worsening in her 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 Vi perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vi tries to synergize with Pyke, she sees a barely noticable drop in her total damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Pyke does not provide cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Vi is played together with Pyke on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Pyke.
Moreover, when Vi plays with Pyke on the same team, she often takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Pyke does a decent job of protecting Vi during teamfights.
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Is Vi better when played alongside Pyke?
There is no one best synergy for Vi that will 100% of the time be her best teammate. However, Pyke is a very typical companion for Vi. By playing on the same side as Vi, he drops their win rate by -1.0% to 50.6%. This proves that there is not really a strong bond between Vi and Pyke that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Pyke has a greater difficulty than Vi. That means Vi players should be very careful when lining up Pyke teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Vi players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by bringing Vi and Pyke together, you probably will not be giving your team a lot of magical damage output. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that offsets this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Pyke ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Vi to work well with Pyke during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to focus on in your Vi and Pyke synergy build consist of Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Vi incorporated at least these three great items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Pyke than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Vi boasted an average winrate of 50.6% when playing alongside Pyke with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Vi players should equip the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.6% winrate overall.
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