Pyke with Jhin
How to Synergize Pyke and Jhin
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Pyke Jhin Synergy Summary
Best Pyke vs Jhin Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Pyke and Jhin
Tips for Playing as Pyke with Jhin
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 Jhin Will Play
Your ultimate deals significantly less damage to enemies with full health. Look to pick off weakened targets as they run away.
Deadly Flourish has incredible range. When approaching a fight be sure to look ahead for enemies that could be rooted.
You can still cast your spells while reloading. Use them to fill the down time.
Pyke Jhin Synergy Stats
How to Play with Jhin as Pyke in LoL
The Pyke Jhin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Jhin, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Jhin. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Jhin helps Pyke perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Pyke is paired with Jhin, he sees a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This could demonstrate that Jhin provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Pyke is played with Jhin on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Jhin. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Jhin.
Additionally, when Pyke plays with Jhin on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Jhin does a poor job of covering Pyke in team fights.
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Is Pyke better when played alongside Jhin?
There is no ideal companion for Pyke that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, overall, Jhin is a very typical ally for Pyke. By being on the same team as Pyke, he drops their win rate by -0.8% to 48.3%. This demonstrates that there is a weak bond between Pyke and Jhin that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Jhin has a lower difficulty than Pyke. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Jhin teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working alongside, Pyke players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by aligning Pyke and Jhin together, you will not be granting your other teammates enough cover. Plan to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Jhin 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
If you would like to truly master Pyke to synergize with Jhin during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to include in your Pyke and Jhin synergy build include Guardian Angel, Umbral Glaive, and Bloodsong. When Pyke included at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Jhin than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Pyke boasted an average win rate of 48.3% when playing alongside Jhin with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Pyke players should equip the Hail of Blades, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Pyke and Jhin pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.3% winrate overall.
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