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Runes:








Spells:

Flash

Teleport
Items
Ability Order

Gift of the Drowned Ones
Pyke Passive Ability
Threats & Synergies





Welcome to the Deep Seas of Pyke Top!
I like to think of myself as the master of thinking outside the box and often find all sorts of fun gimmicks that are super fun and effective at the same time such as my Ryze Jg, Caitlyn Sup, Rammus Top, Nidalee Mid, Kai'Sa full ap jg, etc.
Why I'm so hyped about Pyke:
One of the most exciting mechanics about Pyke is his passive completely plundering the way we look at the shop when playing him and picking items. Basically, take all the hp stats and divide them by 14, that number is now your new ad you will get from the item!
This turns Frozen Mallet into an 80 ad item w/ an ashe passive for just 3100 gold, turns Black Cleaver and Trinity Force into very efficient and scary damage items with huge ways of making Pyke even more elusive and threatening.
His passive regenerating hp allows him to make trades with champions always "cheated" as 30% at lvl1 and growing to beyond 50% of the damage is warmog-ed after trades through going to bushes or walking out of lane vision or simply W-ing a caster minion distance away for a few seconds.
All this makes Pyke extremely unique. The other huge thing is that the runes interact very differently with him making the resolve tree available to him as the base stats would provide ad instead of hp!
Resolve gives 15-135hp which is roughly 1-10ad throughout leveling
Domination gives 5ad


Crysalis - gives 50hp at game start which will be 3.5ad, once 4 stacks gained, becomes 9ad



Other options I'm exploring:
Electricute+Sorcery with

Building BC first item would be bonkers, going into Duskblade and edge of night. If very ahead, going Righteous Glory could be deadly.
Absolute Power is on when your hp is over 70%, making it a fantastic choice on Pyke due to his passive.
Reversing the rune page and putting Domination and then Resolve could work if the Grasp isn't necessary to hold wave from a maw-over. This way you can hold on to


Update:
Currently exploring a better option than domination secondary. Absolute Focus with Gathering Storm is insane for plain rune stats for Pyke!

First Backs:

Rushing


1st items:




Best Value:




Gameplan handbook:
Ahead, able to win trades and no mana issues - get Warhammer into Duskblade
Some mana issues and want better trades/cdr - sheen
behind and need wave clear/mana issues too - tiamat
Squishy just need to get em - duskblade is ur buddy friend
They getting too healthy to burst down and losing trades due to long fights - vamp scepter
Doing great overall, rich - get that trinity
Q does more dmg and is a line aoe if not charged for range which is great for short trades inside waves. Save long ranger Q for keeping enemy laner in the fight and force them to take extra aggro.
Charged Q if done up close will flip the enemy over behind you. Very useful in escape scenarios and pulling someone for the team.
R will hop you to whoever you hit with ult even if it doesn't kill them. If it doesn't, it'll simply X mark and damage and you'll stay put. This can be used to play mind games with opponents and bait abilities out in tight fights
Pyke's passive allows you to also check if something is warded or not because the passive wont activate if a ward sees you. This effect will proc on the moment you walk out of vision even if you don't have grey bar.
Pyke's E has a fixed range, it cannot be cast under it's large range, so be weary of this.
Pyke's Q when charged up where it can pull player over, interrupts all channels and dashes which is fantastic for nullifying engages on you and is great and a key strength against champions like Vi, Riven, Alistar, etc.
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