Yasuo with Pyke
How to Synergize Yasuo and Pyke
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Yasuo Pyke Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Yasuo and Pyke
Tips for Playing as Yasuo with Pyke
Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
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.
Yasuo Pyke Synergy Stats
How to Play with Pyke as Yasuo in LoL
The Yasuo 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, Yasuo sees a very large drop 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 Yasuo perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Yasuo plays on the same team as Pyke, he sees a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Pyke provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Yasuo is played together with Pyke on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Pyke.
Moreover, when Yasuo plays with Pyke on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Pyke does a poor job of protecting Yasuo in team fights.
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Is Yasuo better when played alongside Pyke?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Yasuo that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. Yet, Pyke is a not very good ally for Yasuo. By locking into the same team as Yasuo, he decreases their win rate by -2.3% to 48.3%. This proves that there is a bad bond between Yasuo and Pyke that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Pyke has a much lower diffuclty than Yasuo. That means Yasuo players don't need to be careful when lining up Pyke allies to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Yasuo players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by pairing Yasuo and Pyke together, you probably will not be granting your other allies very much magic damage. Make sure to include other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Pyke ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Yasuo to pair well with Pyke during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to use in your Yasuo and Pyke synergy build include Guardian Angel, Kraken Slayer, and Immortal Shieldbow. When Yasuo used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Pyke than with many other common builds. In fact, Yasuo had an average winrate of 48.3% when playing alongside Pyke with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.3% win rate overall.
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