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Why Pyke should be a T3 (Blue) champion in TFT. - Suggestion - hope - dream

Goju··5 votes·4,133 views

First let me say that I like TFT -- for the most part.. save Pyke

**First, **Pyke 's mana builds faster then most T2 units (save Blitzcrank ) who starts fully charged. **Second **- of the T2 champs - Pyke and Lissandra are the only champions capable of a full team stun - and Lissandra ulti takes a bit to build up , and she is a "open" target the entire time and only has 450 hp at Bronze level - - while Pyke - gets the added advantage of starting out stealthed- which means rarely if ever is he targeted till after his first ulti , which is normally half to your full team. As well starts with 600hp at Bronze level - Third - for a 6 gold investment you have a ulti that will __literately __save most of your matches for you and finally I do hear that above gold I, you dont see him that much - which is great, but I would guess the bulk of average players are silver 2 - Gold I no?

They need to hit this guy with the nerf bat in the head, hard.. or at least bring him up to T3-4 - his Tier match his utility .
when you look at the Blue, or Tier 3 champions -- Ashe Evelynn Aatrox Gangplank Kennen Katarina Morgana Poppy Volibear Shyvana Veigar Rengar

7 out of 12 of them have AoE attacks - 3 have pretty good "executes" Ashe - can have a very long stuff and Poppy -- uh .. is a yordle? has a popup? -- is poppy?

Meanwhile when you look at the T2 champions - or green champions - only 4 really stand out. Pyke Lulu Varus Shen - this is not to say that the rest are trash, but these seem to be the closet to Pyke 's level of evil. Shen - cancels basic attacks in a large Area Varus - Ulti ends up doing some pretty massive damage Lulu - could be considered the root of all evil as her ulti can cause major upsets as well -

But none of these - stun a entire team for 2 seconds at level 1 - and 2.5 at level 2 - that is a LONG period of time for a Green or Tier 2 champion.

If Pyke was removed from Green (T2) and put to Blue (T3) - maybe exchanged for Poppy

It would make more sense - -multiple T3 (Blue) champions have AoE stuns -

As well Poppy Has Knight - which in general is not the greatest Trait - Yordle can cause issues, but most might rather have a 25% chance to miss - then have there entire team stunned for 2 seconds

It just seems that Poppy should not be a Blue (tier 3) and Pyke should not be a Green (T2) champion..

Make Sense? Am I wrong? --

(Hp totals via rankedboost TFT teambuilder)

6 Comments

Shahamut3 votes

I think Pyke should be tier 3.

I also think he should be a phantom.

I also think the phantom bonus needs reworked to make use of the fact there are 4 of them.

*2 Phantoms: random target starts at 50% hp *4 Phantoms: Current

ye ok2 votes

That would take so much time to build up, u dont get so much from current phantom buff now, it's not that broken as you think

TheUrbanKitsune2 votes

Idk, I feel like that's half the point of Pyke. He's a Pirate/Assassin. What are those two classes good at? Early/mid game. Pyke's early game is insane, but I feel like he falls of later and Pirates/Assassins definitely get outclassed by other synergies later.

Janna Me Fiddle2 votes

Dunno why you got downvoted as you're absolutely right, Pyke is a strong early game unit that loses a lot of power as the game goes on, like Lucian is also a strong unit in the early/mid but drops off later.

I dunno why there's also a suggestion of swapping Poppy and Pyke as Poppy is actually sleeper at the moment (hits like a truck, hard to kill, excellent synergy, charges her ability pretty fast, she's held back by the fact that Demon and Aatrox are overtuned to hell and will become one of the next "go tos" when Aatrox inevitably gets nerfed)

If anything I'd keep Pyke where he is, he fills a niche which he does eventually get outclassed in, I'd more argue Zed needs to be 3 cost and Rengar 2 cost as Zed is currently the most cost effective assassin whom scales extremely well with stars/items, whereas Rengar....aside from the Synergy, he's a bit pants.

Z3SIeeper2 votes

Lissandra? Full team stun? Uh...

Childofdragons1 votes

You think they will nerf pyke in any capacity anymore?

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