hola chironex thank you for your message.. I will answer your questions one at a time.
Pyke is one of the two most mechanically and macroscopically difficult supports in the game... (another is thresh) so it's normal that you found it difficult.
macroscopically because an assassin needs to snowball to avoid going behind.. you can achieve this by having a strategy in mind.. these strategies depend on the matchups but I can tell you one that is always valid in general.
if the botlane is 60/40 in your favor.. try to gain an advantage either with the help of your jungler especially if you don't have first or if you have it by divading.. or by using your mechanics as best as possible.. this can only be achieved with the experience.
If the botlane is 40/60 not in your favor.. then try to get at least to 6 to see if it's possible how to back.. the ultimate is an excellent powerspike for pyke and can sometimes change the matchup.. sometimes it happens that after 6 you get kill after kill.. and sometimes not.. when that doesn't happen it's time to roam..
You never roam randomly, it all depends on your wave management ability... when you have it you can roam for 30-60 seconds... putting wards around the map, for example in deep vision or ganking the mid or helping the your jungler to invade.
If your midlaner doesn't have prio and you know that he won't recall your enemy midlaner you can gank him, if instead you think he will recall it is useless to move because you will waste time... another important factor is "tempo", you have to learn not to go never out of tempo.
An example of "time" is when you, after taking 2 kills in bot, push the whole wave to crash it under the tower and recall instantly, in this way your opponent loses exp and you lose nothing and you will return to base at almost the same time of your opponents.. this is a great tempo.
Most of the errors that are made are always of a positioning and spacing nature.. try to cure those too.
Electrocute is a correct rune but not ideal for pyke, because the natural exchange of pyke is Q+AA+AA+AA (of hail of blades) + E or Q+E behind + AA+AA+AA (of hail of blades) when you have electrocute you cannot give all those basics, and that damage will always be less than the bonus one provided by electrocute.. so in total you will always do more damage with a hail of blades

What do you think about Ferrari Pyke, who uses boots of swiftness and all the movement speed runes and sorcery with abilities that increase movement speed?

thank you this guide was not only created to learn the champion but also to know how to counter it... sometimes I happen to play against a pyke, and I aim for its weaknesses.. I'm glad you like leona's graphics xD.. try looking at the others too, rell and leblanc

let's start from the fact that you made this comment with a new mobafire account.. so you could have done it on purpose to expose your comment in these tones xd.. let's go in order: my guide was written for 2 years with my hands analyzing thousands of my games and those of other pro players with a higher elo than mine... some grand master players judged me as plat/emerald elo just by commenting on one of my games. The guide has been translated more fluidly with gpt chat but only to facilitate understanding, it has been read and reread for months by the undersigned to ensure that not even 1 line is inconsistent. you focused a lot on the runes.. you think they are wrong etc.. well there has been an important change in this split in terms of runes/items etc and we are understanding what is best at the moment.. your runes can also work of course.. it all depends on how you like to play.. I don't force anyone to play the way I want (well for that matter I'm the only one in the world who maxes E first) everyone has their own style of play .. there are ways and ways to criticize a guide and it's clear from how you write that you haven't read it all.. and you don't understand what you're saying xd.. if it's your jealousy that's talking.. I'm sorry, the your comment doesn't bother me at all... if you have other things to comment on, say something constructive to improve the guide. behind it there are 20000 lines of programming BBcode if not more and lists upon lists of things that could not have been written with gpt... be careful what you say

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