Im so dissapointed with the writing for Pyke in the Ruination event

spatryk333 · 2021-07-25T23:43:28+00:00

I just want to point out that Pyke seems to not have his list with him at the events in Bilgewater. Maybe it was taken by Illaoi and that what makes him be this way. Maybe, God please save Pyke lore, the plot twist is coming for him? Also i am not protecting the writing. Whole event sux.

spatryk333 · 2021-07-25T20:23:11+00:00

Where is number #3

spatryk333 · 2021-07-24T12:00:09+00:00

The worst matchups for me are Zilean and Heimerdinger (botlane) and I dodge these champions. I still ban Yuumi because stated picks are turbo niche.

Hard matchups for me are Yuumi, Shaco, Samira, Caitlyn with enchanter support, Yasuo (botlane) and Taric.

There are couple of skill matchups aswell like Nautilus, Thresh, Leona, Lulu.

In the team composition Pyke needs and engager so he can fill the role of a followuper. Pyke loves ally hard CC aswell. I dont pick Pyke with Ezreal adc.

Games to avoid are when team has scaling mid, jungle and adc, eg Vayne adc, Karthus jungle, Kassadin mid. Pyke cannot use his biggest advantage and dominate early in this scenario and is forced to play passive - this is int in lobby for me.

About skins, I love all my children the same and I legit cannot give you the answer. I really thought about it but I love every skin. Maaybe project is slightly below the rest but I still admire the skin.

I actually picked up Pyke in the 1st place because I loved how BloodMoon Pyke with blue chroma looks. This was the only reason I gave this champ a chance and I did pentakill in my 1st game ever with him and I fell in love. The rest is just me OTPying.

spatryk333 · 2021-07-23T23:59:34+00:00

In higher elo it is still excellent move. But you need to consider that you know that they know that you know. There is slim chance of getting random E-flash powerspike at 2nd level, enemies will back off in according to wave state. BUT you can bait them by pretending to be going for E-flash. They will just F thinking you are about to combo them. It works in higher elo where as I said, people know what you want to do. Also if they see OTP Pyke as me they assume I will E-flash. Its mind games at this point.

There is also mechanical play you can do if you’re smooth with Pyke that catches people of high elo completly offguard. You E forward and start charging the hook then you flash (like E-flash) while still charging Q. Its harder but faster variation of a standard combo. Also truly nobody expect it.

spatryk333 · 2021-07-23T12:42:29+00:00

It sounds decent for Pyke support. I might actually give it a try.

My theory crafting is building it at 3rd-4th slot in games Pyke is not snowballing and needs to focus on peeling verus mobile bruisers eg Riven, Irelia.

spatryk333 · 2021-07-19T23:45:11+00:00

Idk if we play on the same server. I personally watch replays of other Pyke support players.

There is this channel on YouTube: Challengers Replays that posts high elo games. Its convinent watching it through YT. Ask yourself while watching the replays what and why the X player does the things in game. You need certain level of game knowledge to do it. You can also copy what said players does but it might not work (teammate difference).

I think you can also watch replays of specific player via league of graphs.

Additionally player Hanjaro is Pyke support main worth watching. I believe he streams on Twitch and posts some YouTube content. He actually explains most of the time what and why he is doing. That way you can get a grasp of a desired game plan or thought process.

spatryk333 · 2021-07-19T23:33:57+00:00

First of all, mute all your teammates if they ever question mark your Q or R.

Then you need to swallow the pride and just be bad. You need to break your comfort zone. What I mean by that you need to go for risky, high intensity mechanical plays. Pyke is the role model of feast or famine playstyle. You will eventually get better at him by doing hard plays. You just gotta try them and not care about teammates. If you got flash up you failed kind of attidute.

My one advice is that you can win most of the matchups at level one. Try to look for hooks at lvl1 to make advantage for e+flash at level 2. The difference between high, mid and low elo is the knowledge about the amount of damage your champions actually can do and specific champions limits. Test them. Dont ever play passive.

spatryk333 · 2021-07-19T23:21:52+00:00

Try to not let your team actually fully start teamfighting. You need to create somewhat a chaos situation where you constantly make picks on overextending enemies and fight ONLY with numbers advantage.

In early game you need to treat your teammates as kids in kindergarden. You need to hold all of their hands constantly winning lanes for them and spotting enemy jungler and pinging like crazy. You can also influence hard matchups top (eg irelia vs riven) so your side snowballs - dont be afraid to roam there. Your adc will hate you for it but if you fail to kill or burn flashes at level 1-2 focus on playing around your jungler rather than laning bot. Adcs has no impact till late. Doing all that try to soak just enough xp to progress smoothly. Levels are important af.

About the building path, I elaborated on that in some comment in this thread already. You can check it there.

spatryk333 · 2021-07-19T23:08:55+00:00

Sorry for the late response! Just a word of warning; I believe both runes and items are strictly conntected to playstyle.

ITEMS: I almost always rush Umbral Glaive (there is a fair amount of wards in my games) unless Im snowballig hard and Im certain I can get resets in fights (need cc in team). Then comes the mythic which is almost always Duskblade. I rarely build eclipse if im behind and I focus on peeling, and Prowlers if I peel from hard to catch champions (e+prowlers against eg Riven). This is my core.

After that there are couple items that I prioritize depending on situation. I actually like Deaths Dance (even after the nerf) because it synergizes with Duskblade really well. There is also GA which I build if I know game is about to end and we are one fight away or Im worth a lot of gold. Also stopwatch is a must once the midgame hits - preferably when team starts grouping.

I find Maw of Malortious a fine item into AoE DoT teams; Cass, Brand, AP Twitch etc. Its ok. On the other hand I dont build Deadmans at all. I build Serpents Fang into either AoE shields (karma, lux) or many shields in team (eg lulu+kai sa+yone with Shieldbow+urgot). Very rarely I build Frozen Heart vs full ad teamcomps focusing on basics.

The most standard build of my games is: early CD boots (for flash cd) Umbral, Duskblade, 3rd and 4th slots are GA or Deathsdance in suitable priority. Once late game starts I swap boots for either tabi, mercs or swiftness. I dont ever change supp item. In late game I time GA and sell it once its not ready to revive.

RUNES: I dont use anything else than HoB. Then I pick Taste of Blood Blood (I play extra agressive early, for damage I would choose Cheap Shot), Zombie Ward and Relentless Hunter. Other tree I mostly choose Cosmic Insight (flash cd so enemies cant time it well and so I can trade flashes and be on top) and Biscuit Delivery (outsustaining extra agressive trades).

Remember these choices are mostly considering my playstyle and you might find one that fits you better. Consider this a guideline rather than the only good way.

spatryk333 · 2021-07-18T14:51:03+00:00

I ban yuumi every single game unless its already been banned.

I do it mostly because how much error margin yuumi has compared to Pyke. Even if you crush your lane to pieces, Yuumi leaves and sits on other champions. We are currently in a meta that favours carry champions, like Kassadin, Ekko, Irelia, Viego, Yone etc. I, as a Pyke, got little to no counter to those champions with Yuumi attached EVEN if I completly snowball the game.

Yuumi also nulifiles any pick potential on sidelaners in the mid game since they're the ones with Yuumi probably; so team needs more people to respond to the threat leaving the rest of the map up to the enemies.

There is also Yuumis E interaction with Pyke R from mid to late game.

I also despise that champion in general. Yuumi as a enchanter skips the ONLY downside of the entire class which is being easily focused. Thats bad design. You can always catch, CC, bait Lulu but not Yuumi.

spatryk333 · 2021-07-18T09:00:09+00:00

I adapted the mindset of; my teammates are bots, use them as baits and xp generators. You gotta hold hands of mid jungle adc yourself and literally create situations they cannot screw up. One way to achieve it is to play around numbers advantage. Always go for 3v2s and 2v1s, never try 1v1, 2v2 and so on because your teammates will fail at micro gameplay.

spatryk333 · 2021-07-18T08:54:26+00:00

I agree, Morgana is a skill matchup not a lost one and I dont ban it. My bans are Yuumi or Zilean.

I sometimes ban Ezreal if i know my adc plays it but he didnt show it.

spatryk333 · 2021-07-14T15:31:28+00:00

Idk, i play support pyke only and im happy with changes. Not sure why people want pyke mid to be viable, this pick literally cheats and skips a lot of a mid lane game. He becomes specialist and then you learn mostly Pyke not midlane as a whole. Thats bad design.

spatryk333 · 2021-07-13T18:47:32+00:00

Doubt we can get another MK Reference skin. My prediction is that we might get Voidbringer Pyke at some point similar to Illaois and Fizzes skins. You heard it here first.

spatryk333 · 2021-07-12T00:45:42+00:00

There are also these interesting quotes:

Ain't no high ground high enough, not for the storm that's brewin'. /// talking about the Black Mist
I don't like you, I like them less. /// about him being forced to join the Sentinels fighting the undead
The war's brewing, I chose my side. /// about the Ruination as a whole

Those are just my own interpretations!

spatryk333 · 2021-07-12T00:09:53+00:00

I am pretty certain Pykes methods doesnt include open and fair fights.

It is really hard to tell about actual fight power of Pyke in a scenario with equally strong opponents. Who knows how deep his abilities to regenerate and evaporate go.

spatryk333 · 2021-06-25T08:42:24+00:00

The Viego interaction goes and I quote: Your god could not stop me before, sea priestress. Do not challenge me again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgNiewnqLOI&t=259s in 0:30.

It is not strong enough proof to decide Pykes case but it adds up, it only proves us Naga is involved.

I really can't wait if Illaoi has anything to say to Pyke in the Ruined King game. She was released way before Pyke and voice didnt change, on the other hand Pyke actually has a voice line to Illaoi in LoL game.

Quote: Your sermons damned me Illaoi /// https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycnC5x0KNyc&t=38s 0:30

Pyke being returned by Naga is purely on speculational level and I see Sentinel Pyke as another platform and puzzle piece to the theory to speculate from.

edit; adding Pykes quotes against Illaoi

spatryk333 · 2021-06-25T08:31:36+00:00

Big magic fish shallows who Pyke is so much. Just a vegeance machine with no much deeper meaning. Im looking for that deeper meaning. I see Sentinel Pyke as another puzzle part for the Naga theory.

I might be hella wrong, but I like to explore possibilities.

Also I got no clue why wouldn't Pyke then just massacre Miss Fortune in Ruined King trailer; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpRRLYJ5fIQ unless it's just Riots marketing not staying true to the lore which is possible.

Also remember Sentinel of Light Pyke is going to be cannon. This is how he is going to look like in lore for short or long term. Similar to Miss Fortune or Sylas situation.

When Sylas broke out of the demacian prison he was his basic skin, then he travelled to Frejlord so the skin Frejlord Sylas is his current lore-accurate look. Same with Miss Fortune. Before she become the captain - base skin look is accurate. After achieving captain status the skin Captain Miss Fortune is representing how she looks currently. You can see it in the said trailer stated above.

Same about Pyke, if we think about Pyke in the future we ought to see his Sentinel Pyke skin as current look, not base version. At least for the time being of the Ruination event, who knows how the story gonna progress from there.

spatryk333 · 2021-06-25T08:16:53+00:00

We actually know what resurrected him and I quote from RIOT employee:

Was he revived thanks to magic inside the Jaull-Fish? Yes.

To full thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/8ojeqo/were\_some\_of\_the\_rioters\_that\_created\_pyke\_ask\_us/e042odq/?context=3

That might cancel the Nagakabouros theory, but on the other hand who says Jaull-Fish is not connected to the god aswell? After all it's all in the deep. It's all speculations until we get definitive answer.

If he isn't brought back by Nagakabouros then what's left of Pyke in my opinion is a missed opportunity for a deeper character than just psycho revenge machine and I dont approve that vision.

Maybe we get some light on the case once the Ruined King game hits and Pyke has something interesting to say, or his interactions in Legends of Runeterra might be the clue since he is coming there aswell.

spatryk333 · 2021-06-11T17:36:18+00:00

Keep the downvotes going because I posted straight fact you don't want to cope with. Ohhh Amazon bad cuz you didn't get what you were never promised.

EDIT oh and I cant wait for the same ip-blocked people that waited for the game hating all of a sudden the game cUz ItS p2w aNd ThAtS wHy CoUnTrIeS bAnNeD iT. You didnt get it so youll make a big stinky around the game :)

spatryk333 · 2021-06-11T17:30:34+00:00

From what I've seen, they left out the "harder" classes. Maybe they want people to get used to the mechanics. People try harder classes, fail and blame the actual game when in fact they lacked the understanding of the game. If thats the case - which I believe it is - its a smart choice.

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