Pyke Build Guide by TheFwnK

Yup, I'm back after a long time and now I'm working on the guide.
Yes, I'm working on all the lanes.

...Working and updating on Runes chapter...

Hey, I'm TheFwnK, a player that's been playing since season 8 (I played in the past but I didn't know how to play and left the game behind). I love Pyke because he is the most fun champion in the game (in my opinion). And because he is my main and I play with him every lane. He can do a lot of stuff! Taking your kills. ^.^

A few clips that I had saved and I made a montage out of it, sort off. Not really that good on editing, even on making montages. I tried my best. <.<

Pyke is a strong champion with high mobility, damage and he can execute 5 enemies with Death from Below. Pyke is a killing monster. He is the counter of many champions (ex. Zed, Talon). He can easily escape from fights. And I think that's it... My brain does not work for thinking... '-'

PROS + Can escape fights + Fun to play + High chance for Pentakill/Quadra + Abilities with stuns + Counters many champions Pyke is known as one of the annoying assassins in the game. Pretty dangerous when against him but he can almost one shot every squishy without any problems.

CONS - Passive changes killed him - Fail E + Flash = dead - Very squishy in late - Hard to get back when behind - Struggles when pushing lane solo Pyke is like other assassins, weak if falls behind, not that great on dealing damage on early, must get the lead on early.

[Bad] Grasp of the Undying Grasp of the Undying: Every 4 seconds in combat, your next attack will deal magic damage, heals you and permanently increases your health by 5. Which means that is useless and definetly not recommended to take Grasp of the Undying on Pyke.

[Good] Aftershock Aftershock: Perfect on Pyke when you want to go as Support , it increase your armor and magic resist by 35 + 80% of your Bonus Resists for 2.5 seconds. Then it will explode by dealing magic damage.

[Bad] Guardian Guardian: Guard allies you cast spells on those that are nearby. If you or an ally that is guarded would take damage, both gain a shield and hasted for 1.5 seconds. Conclusion that Guardian is useless for Pyke.

[Good] Demolish Demolish: Is just for destroying turrets. Perfect for Pyke when being a Support or a Tank . Or you can take it whenever you want.

[Ok] Font of Life Font of Life: Heals an ally who attacked the marked enemies.

[Good] Bone Plating Bone Plating: After you took damage, the next 3 spells or attack will deal 30-60 less damage.

[Bad] Shield Bash Shield Bash: While shielded, gain 1 - 10 (based on level) bonus armor and bonus magic resistance. Whenever you gain a shield, your next basic attack against a champion deals 5 - 30 (based on level) (+ 1.5% bonus health) (+ 8.5% shield amount) bonus Adaptive damage. The empowered attack lasts up to 2 seconds after the shield expires. Useless as we don't get shields.

[Good] Conditioning Conditioning: After 12 minutes, gain +9 bonus armor and magic resistance and increases your Armor and Magic Resist by 5%. Having a little bonus from this rune with Armor and MR helps Pyke very well, since he's squishy...

[Good] Second Wind Second Wind: After taking damage from an enemy, gain health regeneration equal to 6 (heal for 4% of your missing health over 10 seconds). Its like a 2nd Passive but a weaker version.

[Bad] Overgrowth Overgrowth: For every 8 monsters or enemy minions that die near you grants 3 bonus health. At 120 minions or monsters deaths, you gain an additional +3.5% max health. Just useless.

[Good] Revitalize Revitalize: Outgoing and incoming heals and shields are 5% stronger and increased by 10% on targets below 40%.

[Good] Unflinching Unflinching: Gain 10% slow resist and tenacity. It increases based on your missing health, up to 30% at 30% maximum health or below.

[Bad] Press the Attack Press the Attack: Hitting an enemy champion 3 consecutive times makes them vulnerable, dealing bonus damage and causing them to take more damage for 6 seconds. Useless for Pyke because you need to have a high attack speed which it cannot be affordable for him this season with these items...

[Bad] Lethal Tempo Lethal Tempo: Gain a large amount of attack speed after damaging an enemy. Just no. Don't take it. You can take it in 1000 years when Pyke will shoot bullets with his harpoon.

[Ok] Fleet Footwork Fleet Footwork: Attacking and moving generates Energy stacks. At 100 stack, the next basic attack you hit is Energized. Somehow helpful?

[Bad] Conqueror Conqueror: Damaging attacks and abilities grant 1.2-3 attack damage for 8 seconds, stacking up to 6 times to a max of 14.4-36 bonus attack damage. This keystone is useless and does nothing good for Pyke. Just don't take it. Fleet Footwork is better for Pyke if you want to take Precision.

[Ok] Overheal Overheal: Excess healing on you becomes a shield for up to 10% of your total health + 10.

[Good] Triumph Triumph: This rune makes you staying alive in fights when a winning close 1v1.

[Ok] Presence of Mind Presence of Mind: Since the nerfs hit this rune it only refills your mana bar with an amount of mana. That's it... No more 10% CDR on Ultimate per kill/assist. But it doesn't hurt to take this rune since Pyke has problems with mana.

[Good] Legend: Alacrity Legend: Alacrity: Gain 3% bonus attack speed (1.5% per Legend stack), up to 18% with 10 stacks. Since Pyke's rework killed him, he became more on a only hit champion. Attack Speed is the best thing for him.

[Good] Legend: Tenacity Legend: Tenacity: Gain 5% tenacity plus and additional 2.5% for every Legend stack (max 10 stacks). It helps Pyke a lot against CC champions.

[Ok] Legend: Bloodline Legend: Bloodline: Gain 0.6% life steal for every Legend stack (max 20 stack). I don't think its useful on Pyke.

[Good] Coup de Grace Coup de Grace: More damage to help you killing your enemy.

[Good] Cut Down Cut Down: Deal 5%-15% bonus damage vs champions with 10%-100% more max health than you. In my opinion this rune is good for Pyke. Is like Coup de Grace and Last Stand combined. Example as when vs Akali is a great choice to go with Cut Down.

[Bad] Last Stand Last Stand: Deal 5-11% increased damage to champions while below 60% health. Not good to take for Pyke.

[Ok] Electrocute Electrocute: After hitting (or using skills) an enemy within 3 seconds, he will be electrocuted by God dealing 30-180 damage (based on level). Well, this rune was Old School Pyke rune. But is it good? It's not like how it was before... But it's still ok...

[Good] Predator Predator: Enchants your boots with the effect Predator. Gain 45% movement speed for 10 seconds. Damaging will end this effect, dealing 40-120 (+0.2 bonus AD) bonus adaptive damage.

[Good] Hail of Blades Hail of Blades: Attacking an enemy grants bonus attack (110% attack speed) for your next 3 basic attack. While is active, Hail of Blades will end the effect. A great choice for Pyke.

[Ok] Dark Harvest Dark Harvest: After damaging an enemy below 50% HP deals 20-60 damage (+5 per Soul). It's not that good...

[Good] Cheap Shot Cheap Shot: Damaging champions with impaired movement or actions deals 10-45 bonus true damage (based on level). A perfect choice for Pyke when fighting with a Tank .

[Ok] Taste of Blood Taste of Blood: Every 20 seconds damaging an enemy heals you for 18-35 (+ 20% bonus AD)(+ 10% AP) health (based on level). Again, better for a lifesteal build.

[Good] Sudden Impact Sudden Impact: This rune gives you 7 lethality and 6 magic penetration.

[Good] Zombie Ward Zombie Ward: Scoring a takedown on an enemy ward summons a friendly Zombie Ward in its place. If the brush where you killed the enemy ward already contains an allied ward, you instead gain a Zombie Ward in your Trinket Slot that can be placed at any location within the next 30 seconds. This rune, oh boy. The best rune for him when going as Support . You'll always have vision and that's important!

[Ok] Ghost Poro Ghost Poro: When your wards expire, leaves behind a cute little Ghost Poro, which grants vision for 60 seconds. The Poro will get scared away if an enemy gets in his range. Somehow a good choice after his recent buffs, but not really good for Pyke. Still a choice!

[Good] Eyeball Collection Eyeball Collection: The more eyes you collect, the more damage you will deal through the match.

[Ok] Ravenous Hunter Ravenous Hunter: Gain 1% (+1.7% per Bounty Hunter stack) omnivamp, up to 9.5% at 5 stacks. Not really a good choice for him because Pyke is more based on runes that can give him Ability Haste on Death from Below, but still a choice.

[Bad] Ingenious Hunter Ingenious Hunter: Gain 10 Item haste plus and +5 per bounty Hunter stack. Useless for Pyke because he has no trinkets in his build.

[Good] Relentless Hunter Relentless Hunter: You gain 5 out-of-combat(8+ per stack) movement speed per Bounty. Perfect for roaming or ganking a lane.

[Good] Ultimate Hunter Ultimate Hunter: Gain 5% cooldown reduction, 4% per stack. This rune is very good on Pyke. Why wouldn't take this rune with you? This will make your ultimate shorter, so take it with you!

[Ok] Glacial Augment Glacial Augment: Your first attack on an enemy slows them for 2 seconds. The slow increases up to maximum strength over its duration. Is an ok choice if you go on top with Pyke.

[Good] Unsealed Spellbook Unsealed Spellbook: This is my favorite rune for Pyke! Helps you through the game. It gives you spell to choose for an amount of time.

[Bad] Prototype: Omnistone Prototype: Omnistone: Never tried this rune on Pyke but I'm not sure if I'll try it. It doesn't seem like a good choice since mostly of the runes that Pyke will get has 70% of worst runes for him.

[Bad] Hextech Flashtraption Hextech Flashtraption: While your Flash is on cooldown it will be replaced with Hexflash. Was a good choice if you we're Thresh, but as always... Useless for Pyke.

[Good] Magical Footwear Magical Footwear: Good to take but you are forced to make some kills.

[Good] Perfect Timing Perfect Timing: After 14 minutes, you unlock a stopwatch. Takedowns will reduce this timer by 2 minutes. Helps you when in a pickle and you make profit for Guardian Angel.

[Good] Future's Market Future's Market: You enter debt to buy items. The amount you can borrow increases over time. Really helpful for Pyke.

[Good] Minion Dematerializer Minion Dematerializer: 3 Minion Dematerializers to kill some minions instantly. Helps you when you cannot farm really good on your lane.

[Good] Biscuit Delivery Biscuit Delivery: Gain free snacks at 2:00, 4:00 and 6:00. Perfect combination with Time Warp Tonic.

[Ok] Cosmic Insight Cosmic Insight: 15 Spummoner Spell Haste and 10 Item Haste.

[Bad] Aproach Velocity Approach Velocity: Gain 7.5% movement speed towards nearby allies that are movement impaired or the enemy that you impair. This bonus is doubled to 15% toward enemy champions whose movement you have impaired. It's... umm, bad...

[Good] Time Warp Tonic Time Warp Tonic: You get 50% of its health and mana, that's it. You also gain movement by 5% when using a potion. Helps you in lane.

[Bad] Summon Aery Summon Aery: You send Aery to target the enemy when damaging them. Would be helpful if Pyke was based on range, but that means is useless for him.

[Ok] Arcane Comet Arcane Comet: Damaging an enemy with an ability hurls a comet at their location. Somehow useful.

[Bad] Phase Rush Phase Rush: Hitting an enemy with 3 attack os abilities within 3 seconds you'll gain 40%-60% (based on level) movement speed and 75% slow resistance for the duration.

[Ok] Nullifying Orb Nullifying Orb: Gain a shield that absorbs 40-120 magic damage when below 30% health. More chances to survive!

[Ok] Manaflow Band Manaflow Band: Hitting an enemy champion with an ability will permanently increase your maximum mana by 25, up to 250 mana.

[Good] Nimbus Cloak Nimbus Cloak: After using a spell, gain a movement speed increase that lasts for 2 seconds and allows to pass through units. Pretty neat! Helps in sticky situations!

[Good] Transcendence Transcendence: Level 5: 5 ability haste Level 8: 5 ability haste Level 11: On champions takedowns, reduce the remaining cooldown of you abilities by 20%.

[Good] Celerity Celerity: You will gain 1% movement speed. Speed bonuses are 7% more effective. Wich mean is a perfect choice for roaming, good combination with Relentless Hunter.

[Ok] Absolute Focus Absolute Focus: You will gain an adaptive bouns of 1.8-18 attack damage when 70% health (based on level).

[Ok] Scorch Scorch: Sets your enemy on fire (only on ability hits], by dealing 15-35 magic damage (based on the level).

[Good] Waterwalking Waterwalking: Gain 25 movement speed and an adaptive bonus of up to 18 attack damage when in the river. Yet again, another rune perfect for roaming or ganking. Perfect combination with Relentless Hunter and Celerity.

[Good] Gathering Storm Gathering Storm: Gain AD or AP every 10 minutes.

PASSIVE ABILITY

Gift of the Drowned Ones ✦ Pyke's health cannot be improved except through growth (per level). Instead, he gains (7.145% bonus health) bonus attack damage. ✦ Pyke also stores 10% (+0.25% per 1 lethality) of the damage he takes from enemy champions as Grey Health on his health bar, increased to 35% (+0.5% per 1 lethality) if there are two or more enemy champions nearby and up to a maximum of 80 (+8.0 per bonus attack damage), with an upper cap of 60% of his maximum health. ✦ Pyke also converts his bonus health into bonus attack damage instead. ✦ When Pyke is unseen by enemies, he rapidly consumes his Grey Health to heal for the same amount. Play Video

Q

Bone Skewer ✦ Tap: Pyke stabs and giving slowness to all enemies in front of him. ✦Hold: Pyke readies his harpoon and then throws it impailing the first enemy pulling them towards him. Play Video

W

Ghostwater Dive ✦ Pyke enters camouflaged and gains increasing to his movement speed while using the ability. ✦ Pyke can be seen by Control Ward. Play Video

E

Phantom Undertow ✦ Pyke dashes leaving behind himself as phantom when he drowned. After the short delay, the phantom comes back to Pyke, damaging and stunning enemies. Play Video

R

Death from Below ✦ Pyke strikes in an X-shaped area, blinking to the enemy and executing them from a certain amount of health. If the enemies are not executed in the X area, they will take normal damage. ✦ If Pyke executes an enemy, the last ally to assist gains full kill gold, and Pyke's Ultimate can be used again for a short period of time. ✦ Death from Below ignores shields. Play Video

SUMMONER SPELLS - FLASH: This is the best spell in the game. Why won't you take this spell? Are you out of your mind? This spell will save your life! Sometimes... Or use it as an advantage to reach your enemy and going for a kill or die. IGNITE: Take ignite to kill your enemy when you cannot fight with him anymore or when you don't have mana. Let them die slowly. TELEPORT: Take Teleport if you want, good choice for roaming on other lanes. Or if you want to play safe on your lane. EXHAUST: Exhausts the enemy, reducing their damage by 40% and movement speed by 30% for 3 seconds.

Steel Shoulderguards

Steel Shoulderguards is like a small version of the old Relic Shield but it does not give you HP to you and your ADC per minion when killed. You can take Minion Dematerializer too, if you want.

Umbral Glaive

Umbral Glaive is a great item for Pyke. Has the same ability as Duskblade of Draktharr before it got removed. It gives you the ability to do triple damage on wards.

Duskblade of Draktharr

Duskblade of Draktharr gives you a lot of Lethality and AD. The ability of seeing wards got removed.

Boots of Mobility

Mobility Boots are perfect for Pyke. Perfect for roaming too. These boots can help you from escaping from enemies too.

Youmuu's Ghostblade

Youmuu's Ghostblade is helpful on roaming. Gain movement speed and some lethality.

Ravenous Hydra

Ravenous Hydra is the best item for Pyke. Great combo with it by resetting your attack. Just play it with this item and you'll see what is capable of. :)

Guardian Angel

Guardian Angel gives you 1 life. If they killed you, you'll respawn again to escape or die again. Take Stopwatch when you want to make Guardian Angel.

Dead Man's Plate

Edge of Night gives you some lethality and a shield. A great item for solo laning.

Dead Man's Plate

Dead Man's Plate gives you a lot of armor and is very good for Pyke. If you have Dead Man's Plate's Passive it increases your movement speed by up to 60 at 100 stacks.

Maw of Malmortius

Maw of Malmortius is helpful against enemies based on AP.

From here the Gameplay chapter contains everything you need! What spells are important to take, where to put wards, when to use Pyke's ultimate ( Death from Below), what to do if an enemy on your lane or other lanes is feeded, about roaming and ganking.

If you wonder what roles are in this chapter, here you have it.

- Support
- Mid
- Top
- Jungler
- Bot/ADC


Where do I put my wards?

Here is a screenshot. Red dots is when you are in the RED team. Blue dots is when you are in the BLUE team.

Should I take risk to put wards in the enemy side?

It depends. You have a big chance to get in heaven. But if you want to risk your life and get bullied by your teammates. Yes, you can take your risk. :)

When do I use my ultimate ( Death from Below)?

The question as I understand is for 2 choices. Maybe you are asking when you need to use your ultimate on the enemy or when do you use your ultimate if the your ADC is too feeded and you need some gold in your pockets. I'll answer both.
Use your ultimate when the enemy has the red bar. Or use it for making damage to the enemy to feed your ADC more.
When your ADC is too feeded. Your enemies will give him less gold. Take the kills so you can have some gold to buy some items. Or, be the real ADC and take every kill.

What do I do if the enemy BOT lane is feeded?

Ask your Jungler and your Mid laner to come on bot. You may get some money if you have your ultimate ready. If you take the kills. Big payday because of the bounty. If you get the assist when ulting, you'll get 600 gold each from both enemies if you used your ultimate on both.


Should I roam other lanes?

Yes. You need to roam. Even when your teammate can't deal with his enemy and needs some help. Roam MID and TOP to help your allies. A little hand of gold isn't that bad for them. Help your Jungler too.

WARNING!!!

If they got Nasus on the enemy team, you are forced to roam TOP!
If they got Veigar on the enemy team, you are forced to roam MID! Or if you get him as a Support on the enemy team.
If they got Kassadin on the enemy team, you are forced to roam MID!
If your teammates got counter picked, roam and help them!

That's all on Support ?

Yes. Just be careful on how you play Pyke, you can screw up very easily.

At least on this lane is not much to write. :D

Ah... My favorite lane when I play as Pyke.


Where do I put my wards?

Here is a screenshot. Red dots is when you are in the RED team. Blue dots is when you are in the BLUE team.

Should I roam?

Yes! On BOT you have to roam mostly. If your BOT lane is destroying them, help TOP then. Tanks will be farming most of the times. But if you get a bruiser like Jax, try to help him sometimes, because he is weak in early since he scales into late. He needs one kill to get on his feet or two for him to win the lane. After the TOP buys the first item, will be enough. But that doesn't mean to stop roaming and feed yourself.


What do I do if the enemy from TOP or BOT lane is feeded?

Get your Jungler and help the ally from TOP or the BOT lane.

That's all as Assassin ? Or as a MID Laner?

Yes. Just don't feed. Play safe if you want. :)


This lane is my favorite too. But you have a lot of counters as TOP Laner…


Where do I put my wards?

Here is a screenshot. Red dots is when you are in the RED team. Blue dots is when you are in the BLUE team.

Should I roam?

It depends on your spells. If you took Ignite, you have to roam on your foot. If you have Teleport, go with that spell on BOT, roam MID on your foot only, because is more closer to you.

What do I do if the enemy from MID or BOT lane is feeded?

Well... On bot is a piece of cake because they are very squishy. But on MID... Oh boy... Get your Jungler. Don't let the enemy MID Laner focus on you. Just let your allies to make the damage and use your ultimate. Or if you want to kill him quick. Go in and deal some damage too.

That's all as Tank ? Or as TOP Laner?

I think that's all on this lane. Because on this lane you are just farming. Just be careful if you get a broken champion as Illaoi or Vladimir. As said, you'll get mostly Tanks or Bruisers that most of them counters you. :)

This role is quite struggling for Pyke. Why? Pyke gets out farmed by the enemy jungler because he has clear wave in his abilities while Pyke struggles. After making Tiamat, Jungling will be no more a problem for him. Sanguine Blade is great to take too for fast Jungle clear and to do Drakes solo.

Is Pyke good as Jungler ?

Yes. He is really good. Mostly because Pyke gets 1 movement speed in the river and is perfect with these runes that I made as Jungler . You can steal the enemy's buff monsters easily.
Oh, I forgot. You have to start with your E ( Phantom Undertow) at level 1 as Jungler .


Where do I put my wards?

Here is a screenshot. Red dots is when you are in the RED team. Blue dots is when you are in the BLUE team.

When do I need to gank a lane?

It depends. If every lanes are alright on holding their lanes, just farm. If they have problems on their lanes or they got a counter, then you know when to gank.
Mostly you should gank TOP when you killed RED buff. Why? Can get a kill (or you ally can get the kill) or you can get a Flash out of the list. If you want to level 2 gank BOT. Well... Is a little bit risky.

That's all as Jungler ?

I don't think that's all. If I'm missing something you can comment with a suggestion. Just try to feed yourself. :)

Oh... This lane. Uhm...

Is Pyke good as Marksman ? Or ADC/BOT Laner?

Yes. He is quite good as ADC. But his early will be a pain since he has to farm and the ADC or Support will poke you.

What spells do I need to take?

Go with Ignite mostly of the matches because your Support can take Heal or Exhaust. If you have Yuumi, Lulu, Nami, you'll have an advantage on the lane since they are good Synergy with Pyke.
I love Yuumi <3 ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Where do I put my wards?

Here is a screenshot. Red dots is when you are in the RED team. Blue dots is when you are in the BLUE team.

Should I roam?

Sometimes if you see a red bar on a lane, go for it.

What do I do when I won my lane?

If your TOP Laner has problems. Switch the lanes. Take the turret if you can. Kill the enemy TOP Laner if you are more feeded than him.

What do I the if the enemy from MID or TOP lane is feeded?

Tell him to go BOT and stay with your Support and you'll take care of the enemy. But if you are on your lane and you see the enemy on MID has his health bar RED go instantly and kill him with your ultimate ( Death from Below)!

That's all as Marksman ? Or as BOT Laner?

I think? Just don't feed and be careful.

"Big Thanks to Wicked Cherry for making the banners and helping in some BBCodes that I almost gave up on. No idea how you managed to make the banners with the Bilgewater vibe."
Let's see what guides are on Pyke's list to execute. Ah, Lulu, Yuumi, Soraka and Nami. I think we should start with the Yuumi one first and then we'll stop on the others. Or we can stop at every guide and execute them all. ;>
"Psst, press on the photos to go on a guide. >.>"



Thank you for reading my guide!
Hopefully it was helpful. You can comment if it was helpful if you want. :D
If you notice any outdated sections I will do my best to fix them as fast as possible.
I will keep an eye on the guide too for some updates on the topics or for some updates on the runes (or to add new runes).

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Pyke: ;)
Yuumi: You smell good Fizz. Meow! :3
Fizz: Oh no... :(