Skarner with Pyke
How to Synergize Skarner and Pyke
based on 428 Skarner with Pyke pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Skarner Pyke Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Pyke Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Pyke
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Pyke
Impale is extremely powerful when you use it to position an enemy so your allies can attack them.
Basic attacks reduce the cooldown of Crystal Slash. Use them as often as possible for maximum damage.
Capturing Crystal Spires before attempting neutral objectives or team fights around them improves Skarner's performance in said fights dramatically.
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.
Skarner Pyke Synergy Stats
How to Play with Pyke as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner 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, Skarner 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 negative change shows that Pyke helps Skarner perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Skarner plays on the same team as Pyke, he sees a little decrease in his complete damage output. This could signal that Pyke does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played together with Pyke on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Pyke.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Pyke on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Pyke does a decent job of protecting Skarner in team fights.
Synergies between Skarner and Pyke
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Pyke?
There is no ideal synergy for Skarner that will always be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Pyke is a very typical teammate for Skarner. By locking into the same side as Skarner, he decreases their win rate by -0.9% to 47.4%. This shows that there is not really a strong bond between Skarner and Pyke that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Pyke has a greater difficulty than Skarner. That means Skarner players must be very careful when finding Pyke allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Working on the same side, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by grouping Skarner and Pyke together, you will not be granting your other teammates a great deal of magical damage output. Make sure to include other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Pyke teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Skarner to pair well with Pyke during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to have in your Skarner and Pyke synergy build consist of Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Pyke than with many other common item sets. In fact, Skarner had an average win rate of 47.4% when playing alongside Pyke with this build.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Skarner and Pyke pairings, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.4% win rate overall.
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