Hi bobo, thank you for commenting and sharing your concerns with me. I'll answer you by saying that first of all 9 adaptive force is not 9 ad, but 5.4ad, it's worth 9 ap only for mages. So we are already talking about 13 ad vs 5.4 ad, which according to my calculations after level 8 there is a significant increase in stats compared to the meta which has not yet adapted.. (level 8=80/14=5.7ad>5.4 ad) or level 8 (80+80=11.4ad is > than 5.4ad + 10% cc resist??) honestly in my opinion I happen to play very long games, I won one recently with 48 minutes in which I reached the level 18, and I noticed that using the profane hydra on pyke support it's easier to get to that level if you "steal the farm" and "split pushing" (maybe isnt a correct way for a support), yes kills werent enough xDDD if u look my opgg I have 80% win rate and 4.35 kda with these runes xd I'm fine with them but you're right to try something that suits you. The guide is just a way to show you something that perhaps you wouldn't understand immediately and it helps you to do better than I could once you have assimilated it.
I hope I was able to fully answer your questions.
Lately I've been uploading videos on youtube, so if you have any other doubts, you can come and see me how I play draft with my pyke.

the randuin is not a waste of gold.. as I explained in my guide.. you have to exploit its slow potential.. which is a game changer.. it allows you to get an almost certain kill in battles and is useful for pyke spacing .. not only this but allowing you to survive pyke against champions with high AD rate, you are not obliged to build it.. this is my playstyle.. I advise you to continue with the item like opportunity and voltaic sword if you are not interested
if you have any other questions or criticisms I'm here.
ps the guide is only a road that is passable out of the 100 that are practicable

Hey nico, thanks for your comment with very interesting questions that I myself in my experience of pyke have asked myself in the past.
I'll tell you my point of view which is just my personal opinion:
Dark Harvest I feel is not a good rune on pyke for a few reasons. The first is that to build DH you are giving up the Hail of Blades, the second reason which is much harder to see is that it is based on his ultimate. The dark harvest does not in any way enhance pyke's ultimate by adding damage, because the enemy will only be executed if his hp bar is below the red bar. DH could be useful in aram if and only if you are building crit instead of lethality or both let's say (collector etc) in that case it could make sense because in on hit builds dark harvest plays a more important role and so so though you're giving more priority to auto attacks than his spells.
Summary.. even against a squishi team it's always worthwhile Hail of Blades an alternative to this can only be the Lethal Tempo.
As for pyke top and why I didn't add it in the guide.. is the problem that pyke has with dealing with enemies with high HP rate.. having big HP counters pyke because he needs huge damage somewhere. .or rook or jungler to finally be able to execute an enemy. Pyke Top is highly discouraged.. the only way to win the lane is only if the enemy top is trolling. If you want to play him in a different role than support.. I assure you it's much more fun jungle or mid where you get a lot more kills.. another thing.. to pick pyke top your team is like giving up a front laner or a tank in future team fights.. so either you win the game in 15 min.. or you lose.. (pyke's late game is horrible) I don't think I'll ever make a guide on pyke top.. the guide was initially thought for the support role first and then mid/adc... I added the jungler role after realizing how much pyke worked from that point of view.. because he manages to gank and take huge amounts of kills and help the team... I hope I was exhaustive XD
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Thank you as a math enthusiast xD I can appreciate your words so much and yes, you are absolutely right. For the ion boots the cdr ones, I built them from time to time, and I might see them again since they removed the cdr from the death's dance, so avoiding building the mobility ones for the cdr ones after the death's dance nerf is correct. For the relentless hunter I do not recommend it because since pyke needs to scale quickly to be useful and survive a minimum, the treasure hunter is the object that is best for him. There were games where I could barely build the draktar, and that alone wasn't enough of course. But if you want to build it as a rune you do it xd I've been happy with the treasure hunter for months. As far as skins are concerned, however, there are visual effect distortions that can make it more difficult to play one skin rather than another (like ashen knight or empyrean ) but there are some skins that in my opinion are better to play than others this conditions:
1) when I use my grab 0.5 seconds before the grab hits, can I predict that I will grab it?
2) when I roll my R, am I 98% sure my ulti will hit?
3) when I use my e to stun, does the visual effect distortion allow me to stun them better by calibrating with small mouse cursor movements?
if the answers are yes, then it's a good skin otherwise pay attention xd there are skins in my opinion from try harding and those for fun
Tier 0: Sands ( chroma purple ) + Project
Tier 1: Ashen Knight (chroma or not) + sentinel
Tier 2: Psyops
Tier 3: moon + empirean + standard no skin xd
If you will have other questions you can find me here or in private :)

Hi jijy, I really appreciate your words, and I will answer you in a very honest way, I got to silver 4 in the last season, not because after 400 games I was stuck, but because after 30 games I got bored of playing ranked, and I was playing 95% of the time in draft or aram that 5%. Not only my experience on pyke was born from the drafts, but also from my unbridled desire to know much more about the champion, informing myself on the various websites and via you tube by watching Davemon who would be the top 1 global on pyke xD and my style gameplay is very close to his. I can assure you that knowing everything about pyke in detail makes you better than others, because knowing how to deal with certain situations at the limit of the thinkable, like ulting on the w of fiora and being able to exe her, which even davemon doesn't know xD is satisfying. But for this season 13, I'm aiming at least for gold and hopefully for platinum. So wait and see just give me some time xD

Both in the rune section, and in the rune notes, I have explained quite well the reason for this choice, after pyke's nerf on the gold obtained by his own R .. during patch 12.9, he was no longer able to snowball and build himself as quickly as before. I tried several times building first umbrail glaive and then the draktar, and using other runes to try to remedy this nerf, but it was all useless, at the end of the game I almost never reached the mythical even playing well (usually only 2 times out of 5 ) then I started thinking about which runes could give me more snowballing in the early stages of the game, so that once I take a decent advantage, I can kill better, multiply the money (one of pyke's jobs) and win the 1vs9 game. This build and runes are for those who play pyke without wanting to do 3-16 every game, as I often see some do. If you want to be a 15-1-3 like I happened yesterday playing pyke adc, it's the best setting because the only way to remedy pyke's nerf was to provide him with money from the runes. In the same patch 12.9, the cd of the R was reduced, this made me reflect and I thought that in this way I could avoid putting in fact the supreme hunter, which reduces the cd of the R, this because the cd is enough to be able to do enough R during the course of an entire game. Relentless Hunter this is useless on pyke, because it is enough to have boots mobility, youmuu and the w, to roam sufficiently .. and these are things that pyke builds often and that I do myself as soon as I can. Try to re-read the notes and my explanations. There is always a deep reason behind important choices.
Also on the choice of the ghost pore I wrote something, re-read that part because I don't like being repetitive xD.
I suggest u too to play with all this build/rune/tips in game XD.. and to see if it works :) if u play enough safe / aggressive.. u will get always a good KDA.. too if u lose match... ( sometimes yes.. sometimes no depend.. )