Pyke with Garen
How to Synergize Pyke and Garen
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Pyke Garen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Pyke and Garen
Tips for Playing as Pyke with Garen
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.
Advice to Understand How Garen Will Play
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
Pyke Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Pyke in LoL
The Pyke Garen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Garen, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Pyke sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Garen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Garen helps Pyke perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Pyke is an ally to Garen, he observes a small decrease in his full damage output. This change may signal that Garen does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Pyke is played with Garen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Garen.
Additionally, when Pyke plays with Garen on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Garen does a decent job of covering Pyke during teamfights.
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Is Pyke better when played alongside Garen?
There is no perfect companion for Pyke that will always be his top synergy. However, Garen is a below average companion for Pyke. By being on the same side as Pyke, he drops their win rate by -1.1% to 48.0%. This signals that there is a bad strategic relationship between Pyke and Garen that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Garen has a lower difficulty than Pyke. That means Pyke players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Garen comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting alongside, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Pyke and Garen together, you probably will not be giving your team much magical damage output. Plan to include other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Garen teammate, you need to 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, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Pyke in order to work well with Garen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to build first in your Pyke and Garen synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Bloodsong, and Opportunity. When Pyke combined at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Garen than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Pyke had an average winrate of 48.0% helping carry Garen with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Zombie Ward, Ingenious Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.0% win rate overall.
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