Using Distortion can help your positioning to land Ethereal Chains.
You can chain Sigil of Malice and Ethereal Chains to prevent characters with blink from escaping for up to 4 seconds.
Distortion allows you to be aggressive with your other spells while being able to return to safety.
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.
The LeBlanc 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, LeBlanc sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Pyke. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Pyke helps LeBlanc perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When LeBlanc plays on the same team as Pyke, she sees a little increase in her complete damage output. This difference may indicate that Pyke helps provide cover for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when LeBlanc is played with Pyke on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Pyke.
Additionally, when LeBlanc plays with Pyke on the same side, she on average receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Pyke does a decent job of protecting LeBlanc during teamfights.
There is no perfect synergy for LeBlanc that will always be her top ally. Yet, overall, Pyke is a below average teammate for LeBlanc. By playing on the same side as LeBlanc, he drops their win rate by -1.1% to 45.7%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful synergy between LeBlanc and Pyke that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Pyke has a lower difficulty than LeBlanc. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Pyke allies to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Together, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by aligning LeBlanc and Pyke together, you probably will not be giving your team a great deal of cover. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Pyke ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master LeBlanc in order to synergize with Pyke during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to build first in your LeBlanc and Pyke synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When LeBlanc included at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Pyke than with many other typical builds. In fact, LeBlanc had an average win rate of 45.7% when playing alongside Pyke with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 45.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Pyke with LeBlanc are presented for every ranked division. To narrow the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you can use the selection menu located at the top of this page.