Analysis on Pyke for ye landlubbers

I decided on maining Pyke, and why? because sure Swain is powerful but so many things can counter him if people play their cards right, which most of the time they do. So after maining him for a while, I noticed a few tricks with him, which I will mention later on. So let's just wrap up whatever Davy Jo- I mean pyke has to offer.

Moveset: Starting off, Pyke's passive gives him a grey bar for half the damage he took from enemy CHAMPIONS. So if you were to go jungle, you would have a hard time because damage you took from monsters cannot be recovered back from a grey bar, because there won't be one. He heals insanely fast when undetected by the enemy team, and heals quickly over the grey bar. The second part of his passive is that he can't build bonus health, instead, he gains 1 bonus AD for every 14 bonus health he has from items, which can make black cleaver all the more deadly. Pyke's Q, Bone Skewer, is when you mix a yasuo and thresh q together to one of the prime tools of his kit. Regularly clicking the key makes pyke thrust the dagger/sword thing forward, dealing great damage and a massive slow to enemies in a line. Pressing and holding make him charge up his dagger on a rope, and releasing makes him pull a God of War and hurls a dagger with a rope forward, pulling the first enemy hit toward him, doing lower damage and a lower slow. His Q is a decent damage and a support tool, it keeps opponents from getting away very well, use which ever form of the attack you think suits the valid situation. His w is ghostwater dive... whatever the heck ghostwater is I am not swimming in that. He becomes camo'd on cast, and gains decaying movement speed for the duration. This is how you sneak around as pyke to land a decent q by surprise, or ambush them with your ult or e to get the job done, ghostwater dive can also be used as a way to proc your passive regeneration. Pyke's e, phantom undertow, is a dash that goes over walls and leaves a phantom where pyke was previously, after a delay the phantom dashes to pyke, stunning and damage every enemy it passes through. There are so many ways you can combo this with your q, but you can also go into their backlines with your w, then e right through the enemy team, stun a couple champs so your team can finish the job. Finally his ultimate, Death from Below. He marks an x on the target location, then slams quickly into it, dealing massive damage, enemies below a certain amount of health are instantly DEAD. If an enemy champion dies in Pyke's X mark on the ground, by any means, he gets a temporary free recast, which is the main reason how he can get a pentakill easily, he can use his ult 5 times like darius. The ally champion that dealt the most damage to the target in the first place before pyke killed them gets kill gold feedback too, and if an ally kills the champion in pyke's X before he can kill them himself, Pyke gets gold feedback.

Playing Pyke: So when playing as Pyke, what you want to do is keep the enemy under pressure. Pull them in with your q, stun them with your e, there is one too many ways you can preform proper kills with this guy. Few things to take note for each of his abilities. First off, the short ranged thrust with his q goes through every enemy it stabs through, the harpoon part (the channel) doesn't. For his w, ghostwater dive can give an early warning that your nearby with shark fins popping out of the ground. With that out of the way, if there is a low health enemy champion, do your best to land your ult. Instead of just trying to clip them with a part of it, try landing the center of the x into the opponent as much as possible, it gives them very little room to flee from it by moving in a direction. Pyke is literally a ks support, well... not entirely. You want to try getting kills with your ult as much as possible, so you and your adc can both get gold.

Levelling: Starting off, always max your q first, it's very VERY strong when maxed, then max your e for some more damage from the stun, and lastly your w. HOWEVER, max your ult WHENEVER YOU CAN, it is the most dangerous tool to pyke's kit.

Items: Pyke with CDR and lethality is freaking scary, so buy a , , so you have decent damage, lethality, and cdr, also the movement speed buff from the youmuu's. Buy for even MORE out of combat movement speed to go along with youmuu's. After that, you can build whatever ad item you need afterwards.