Hi, I'm a solo-queue Gold, 500k Mastery, Pyke Support 1-trick -- from the Philippines.

Ever since the Death's Dance rework, I've made the item essential to my kit putting it in my build 90% of the time and only ignoring the item when I'm feeling the need to adapt to a match-up (usually for more Anti-Tank or MR items) or when I want go full lethality / damage.

Pyke is a fun and interesting Champion in my opinion because he can have diverse itemization and can adapt to what is needed of him. He's good for snipes, picks and full-on engages. He can even protect and allow his allies to peel away from a bad engage or ambush. He's good for protecting and invading the jungle and his kit allows him to roam pretty easily depending on the situation.

Most information are found in the notes of each section and I won't be writing an extensive guide down here or fill-out the match ups -- mainly because I don't know how to annotate all his match-up nice and tidily.

If Pyke can get an enemy support or ADC out of position (with the help of his own ADC) -- I've never completely struggled in a match up. Basically if I went against a Viegar, Lux, Zyra, Brandt bot I'd rush QSS into Death's Dance and the laning phase becomes less oppressive. If I'm against a Thresh, Alistar, Taric or Tanky Support, I'd check if there's another Tank or Bruiser which would determine whether Black Cleaver would be a viable item for match. If I'm against a Jhin, MF, Draven or oppressed by fast-hitting/hard-hitting ADCs, I'd grab a Warden's Mail early. A lot of it has always been adapting and from there, trying to stall until laning ends.

So... because of that I can't fully articulate how I feel about per-champion match ups.

Anyway, I'm not trying to make an extensive guide since I'm still only in Low ELO -- I just wanted to share what I've had success with and been building in season 10.

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NOTES FOR 10.14
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Conditioning, and the additional 6 armor from runes negates half of Pyke's 10.14 nerf. He is left with less than 12 armor and 9 MR loss by level 18. His damage buff more than compensates for the 9 adaptive force he lost from changing his runes.

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Thanks for checking this and feel free to comment some advice for me or ask for any clarification.