Xin Zhao with Pyke
How to Synergize Xin Zhao and Pyke
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Xin Zhao Pyke Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Xin Zhao and Pyke
Tips for Playing as Xin Zhao with Pyke
Try to position yourself so your ultimate's knockback is most effective.
Xin Zhao is a great initiator to combat. Lead the front to start a fight and use your ultimate to do the most damage possible.
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.
Xin Zhao Pyke Synergy Stats
How to Play with Pyke as Xin Zhao in LoL
The Xin Zhao 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, Xin Zhao 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 worsening shows that Pyke helps Xin Zhao perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Xin Zhao plays on the same team as Pyke, he gets a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This could demonstrate that Pyke doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Xin Zhao is played with Pyke on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Pyke. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Pyke.
Additionally, when Xin Zhao plays with Pyke on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Pyke does a decent job of protecting Xin Zhao in team fights.
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Is Xin Zhao better when played alongside Pyke?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Xin Zhao that will no matter what be his ideal ally. However, overall, Pyke is a not very good companion for Xin Zhao. By locking into the same team as Xin Zhao, he decreases their win rate by -2.0% to 48.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative bond between Xin Zhao and Pyke that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Pyke has a much greater difficulty compared to Xin Zhao. That means you should be cautious when finding Pyke teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working on the same side, Xin Zhao players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Together, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by pairing Xin Zhao and Pyke together, you may not be giving your other allies a lot of AP. Plan to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Pyke ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Xin Zhao to work well with Pyke during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to get in your Xin Zhao and Pyke synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Xin Zhao included at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Pyke than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Xin Zhao had an average win rate of 48.9% when playing alongside Pyke with this build.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.9% win rate overall.
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