This is what Pyke can do apparently to Silver.

Illabethe··3 votes·2,446 views

Okay. Been Playing Pyke Jungle a Lot!

But...... I usually go tank items...... item 1413 item 3075 item 3071 ..... you know ..... stuff like that..... that you need versus certain teams.

Welp.

I just happened to have about 2900G when I went to finish my jungle item..... so I said screw it.... and bought item 3142 instead.

https://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/2858314550/243999882?tab=overview

And wow.

If you look at the game progression, they didn't even have a chance. I was ganking lane by lane at about 1:30 intervals and literally didn't lose a single kill.

Bot after 2 ganks began killing their lane on their own, and Renek got a couple on his own, but for the most part, this was absolute dominance.

And something I want you to take note of:

  1. I wasn't using Electrocute or Aftershock. I was using Phase Rush (as I do with most champs). Aka. I wasn't using damage runes at all.

  2. Most damage between both teams.

  3. I was going full AD, so squishy as hell.

Even if this was a Gold or Plat game, I do not think they could have responded to my snowball. These weren't leeched R kills; these were outright Pyke kills. Most of my 14-24 kill games have about 10-14 Leech kills. This maybe had 2.

And before you say..... my whole team did well:

  1. I want you to look at the order of kills:

  2. Renek died alone

  3. I Set up Fizz level 3 for Orianna kill, and did about half the damage. Orianna killed me with Ignite after Fizz dropped his minions on me with Trickster

  4. Me killing Heim

  5. Veigar killing Lux on a kill I set up/assisted

  6. Renek with me assisting, Fizz solo

  7. Me X2, Me assisting Fizz in Sej kill

  8. Me assistin MF on Sej, Fizz/Renek Heim

  9. Me X 2

  10. Me Assist on MF, Me Assist on Veig

  11. Me.

I'm not going to go down the list entirely, but all the early game was a item 3142 me snowball. 1 person got the entire team fed.

What this boils down to beyond some Brag (I'm not bragging. This is friggin Silver lol) -Pyke is a viable jungler -Move speed is more important to winning than any other stat. -Junglers can win games -item 3142 perhaps is too cheap and too overpowering early game -WARD GUYS (They didn't ward nearly enough in good places. I literally ran down river and W'd right through their wards).

(By about 16 minutes I was so far ahead my R was half Lux and Lucian's HP. Scary)

5 Comments

penguinpal2 votes

You winning one game of Pyke jungle in silver does not make Pyke a jungler. I mean you can get away with basically anything in silver so it’s meaningless to try to draw conclusions based on that.

Illabethe1 votes

I have played over 200 Pyke jungle games in Diamond. I guess we can't draw conclusions from that either. His kit is almost uninvadeable, and if it is invaded, he can just play secondary support for awhile and catch up what he's losing in the jungle.

You have no idea how many times I've killed a jungler... just because they tried to invade me and chased me close to a turret, but stopped on the other side of the turret wall, so I pulled them under the turret and RIP. Even early game a Phase Rush Pyke has sustainable juking.

But hey. Scores like 24/0/7 don't mean much :) (24/0/7 still didn't feel like dominance, because it was a late game 13 kill snowball that put it there. I'm more proud of a first 15 minute snowball than one that starts at 22-24 minutes).

I can reproduce this game EVERY game in silver on Pyke. I can reproduce it about 1/3 of the time in Diamond. I just haven't been using item 3142

penguinpal1 votes

Link the op.gg of the diamond account. If by diamond you mean diamond 5 then it’s basically just as irrelevant as silver.

Of course in the end, if you are winning games as Pyke jungle in silver or whatever then hey, keep on doing what you are doing and have fun.

Illabethe1 votes

:) Plat II Rakan 1 trick <3 I can appreciate that. I Season 7 Sona 1 trick'd to Diamond II. I am between Diamond II and IV, varying on how much I chase a losing streak.

penguinpal1 votes

Yes, this is clearly my main account and not one of like 20 smurfs that I have that I fuck around on. Never really played Rakan before this account so I figured I’d give it a spin. Decayed down from diamond.

I’m a D2-master player (and challenger in flex, but we all know that means absolutely nothing).

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