AP Pyke mid script This Korean Grandmaster is playing AP Pyke
mid. Yes - Pyke - a champion with 0 AP scaling
in his kit - buying and dealing AP damage in mid lane.
This is statik shiv, Zhonyas Pyke - 2 items that he mainly uses for their magic damage.
A build that completly fixes his waveclear issues and allows him to roam more, deal magic
damage in fights and even have zhonyas as a secret backup for whenever he makes a mistake
- becoming even more slippery than usual. Going golden in Early fights to bait enemies
in, and using it later on to completly deny enemies from making the plays they want to
make. This is Dangsudangsu - a korean Grandmaster
that has managed some insane KDs with this ap based build, and it doesnt stop there.
Even after a nerf - this pick is still working, With him even playing Comet pyke mid, sometimes
taking ignite for 1v1s, but weirdly often also taking Exhaust or TP - making his pyke
mid completly unique. He is playing this against some of the best
soloq players in the world and farming them for gold, generating a ton of gold for his
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You have no idea how long that took for us to work out in english. WHY AP PYKE MID?
But Why is he playing ap pyke? We all know korean soloq is fast, and pyke
mid is a pike that thrives on early fights, chaos and snowballing. It is a pick that can
fight 1v1 mid and kill enemies, but it is also a roaming pick that takes advantage of
the W speed and invisibility to zoom around the map, reaching fights first every time.
AP pyke started with the Statik shiv introduction in patch 13.10.
Like everyone else - he was so happy to see the item back in the game again, but also
like the rest of us - he had no idea of the chaos it was about to cause.
He began to test it on pyke, realising that the waveclear of the item was an ideal fix
for pyke's lack of waveclear. Riot removed the minion damage on pykes E
specifically to remove pyke mid from League, however this item is a perfect replcement
to make pyke mid and even top lane work once again.
With just 1 auto - pyke can now remove the majority of the wave, letting him fast push
and roam whenever he wants. Way better than autoing every minion individually. NERFED BUT STILL WORKING WELL
-> nerfed but still works. Wanted to hold off on this video to make sure
it wasnt instantly nerfed and removed, and can confirm on the new patch it is still playable
even in korean master. Infact they are even giving this item 5% bonus
movement speed in this patch, so for a champ like pyke that is huge. ZHONYAS PYKE?
But this is only the first part of this ap build, he is also going Zhonyas - which I
think it my favourite part, so lets get into game to see how it all works. LVL 1 - COMET PYKE
At level 1 our player is already using his Arcane comet.
This is a quite recent pyke tech that really empowers his laning phase.
The reason it works is because pyke tap Q slows by 90%, so he can walk up at lvl 1,
tap the enemy and guarentee the comet will land as well during this 90% slow.
This slow setup is very low risk poke with pyke walking away as teh damage goes off.
laning 1-3 comet + kill with gank LVL 1 - HOB PYKE
Can also go HOB pyke in weaker early game matchups
LVL 1 - Hook + auto 3 times for a big trade. You have the ignite, so enemies have to be
scared of you as you win the all in. They have to run off after a bad trade, cannot
commit. (lvl 1 hail of blades trade) LVL 2 - TOWER PULL
LVL 2 - or any time wave gets pushed to his tower - our player looks for this E forwards
into Q hook into tower combo. The enemy thinks they are safe in their wave
- but suddenly they can be hooked into tower range, given agro and set up for a kill or
free summoner. Often this gives him a kill or he can just
accept the free minion advantage and thus xp lead he gets.
lvl 2 E Q enemy under tower LVL 3/4- GANK SETUP
The best thing you can do as pyke mid early is Gank setup - E + Flash, similar to supp
pyke - but much more effective in mid lane as enemies know you cannot simply walk up
and 1v1 them, so an E flash is much less predictable. Instantly Q hooks right after to set up the
gankers cc, and only pykes ignite is needed to finisht he kill.
laning 3-4 + kill with E flash EXHAUST PYKE?
Exhaust/Ignite + flash One very weird thing this guy does is play
with exhaust in some matchups. THe ignite is great for kill pressure, but
exaust clearly is for whole other reason. He takes it against picks like Akali, Talon,
even renekton mid. All are mobile and have a lot of burst, so
he has it for both laning - where exhaust can save him a death, or turn around an early
fight, but also for later fights - pyke denies their ability to kill everyone with the exuast
and makes it much easier for him to hit a good hook on them too.
Similar to his zhonyas later on - this exhaust shows that pyke loves disrupting enemies from
plays they would ususally make. TP PYKE?
He isnt against playing with teleport either, another weird surprising tool that allows
him to be more active in mid as well as pick up extra kills aroudn the map after it becomes
unleashed. lvl 10 tp pyke MINION DEMATERIALISER PYKE?
This pyke mid as well as many others often take minion dematerialiser for this lane.
The main purpose is to fix pykes lack of auto attack damage on cannon minion.
Instead of sitting there autoing it to death, he fast clears wave, using dematerialiser
on cannon, making the enemy mid come to catch it and this creates a fast window for him
to roam. A small but very effective strategy. LVL 6 - FIGHT WITH XP LEAD
With this timing as well as getting level 6 - pyke begins to roam.
W + then leave lane = enemies dont know which direction you went. Try to find a lower level champ and use their
lower health pool to get advantage. Stalling with hook to buy time and guarentee
it lands. Can then dive bot as well - pyke hook to take
agro and E out of tower so he cannot be chased is a great kill setup combo for your teammates,
where they dont have to take any agro themselves. He is really controling every play, slow patient
hooks and measured risks. lvl 6 bot dive HUGE POWERSPIKE
Around this time pyke as a champ is spiking in mid lane, with the xp lead + how much damage
the ult does - his roams get ridiculous. Get to a fight, hit an ult and chain that
into a quadrakill - this is why pyke mid is so good.
lvl 9 quadra kill (cut the chase and just show last kill) STATIKK SHIV PYKE?
lvl 8 1v1 enemy mid outplay Immediatly starts going towards Statikk shiv,
buying Kirches shard first for the extra magic damage burst.
THen into the full item. Here you can see his waveclear power, becoming
much harder to trap in mid lane. Even if the enemy has lots of waveclear you can now match
it. The great thing about statik on pyke is that
the item charges up based on your movement, but it also works with abilities, so when
pyke dahses with E - thats almost a full charge of statik to use it again.
Same for his W movement speed - reaching 100 statik stacks much quicker.
ANd same for his ultimate dash - an instant statik auto charge. So his combo now becomes Hook - auto for statik
burst - into ult. Letting him combo enemies.
Custom - Statik + ult interaction STOPWATCH
Here he also gets stopwatch, building into his zonyas.
This stasis alone is very good on pyke as it really suprises enemies. We are no longer
in a meta where this item is bought by every champ or taken in runes, so you mostly dont
see it til later fights, but pyke gets it just after 15 minutes and uses it to bait
extra kills in these all important mid game fights.
lvl 11 stopwatch kill bait WHY MID > SUPPORT?
Main advantage of playing pyke mid instead of support is the items he can get. In support
your only income is bot side fights and support item.
In mid you get lots more gold from waves and have the opportunity to roam more for even
more kill and assist gold. So usually pyke mid gets items that just make
his abilities deal a little more damage, aiming to improve his ult execute threshold and hope
he can finish off more enemies. However with statik the champion gets a different
kind of damage added to his kit, gaining ap damage on his auto, as well as the spread
between enemies and attack speed so he can be autoing enemies more to reach his ult execute.
THe item fits him so well. SIDE LANE WITH STATIKK
Starts managing side lane wave - letting his adc go mid - pyke can 1v1 enemy mid now +
also instant waveclear with static -> take towers with attack speed or roam over to mid
fast with his W. Lots of options, making it hard for the enemy
mid to follow him (lvl 13 statik shiv power for Intro + split
pushing) lvl 13 side lane tower take WHY ZHONYAS PYKE?
Upgrading to a full zhonyas here for 2 reasons -
First off - Armor - good on pyke as he cannot buy HP due to his passive converting it to
AD, however armor still works on him. Bu the main purpose of Zhonyas is for when
pyke runs out of options - Ideally he never has to overcommit and can
always hit every skillshot, but this isnt realistic especially against some of the best
players in teh world. Sometimes you have to risk committing with
E to catch an enemy and win an important fight. Zhonyas allows him to take this risk and if
it fails - it buys him time for cooldowns to return and makes him even harder to catch
and shut down, so it increasing his slipperyness even further, giving him more freedom against
the better players. Denying them from getting the kill they expect and stopping their play
from working. It definitly is better in high elo as his
teammates capitalise on this zhonyas timing to kill the confused enemies, where as if
he was doing this play in low elo his teammates may just spam ping him for it. (lvl 14 zhonyas stops lost fight ^) NO MORE ITEMS NEEDED
After Shyv + Zhonyas I have to admit - this pyke now stops buying
ap items. Most of his games are over at this point thanks
to his His shiv zhonyas combo, and he doesnt need
any more ap, but does need a mythic - a much better use of his gold is to buy duskblade
- an item that has great synergy with his statik shyv.
With his first kill - he goes untargetable, letting him move around and stack the shiv
again for free - meaning his next auto will easily set up another burst. Duskblade is no where near as good on pyke
as it was before, so its a shame the old item is gone - The general reaction to this item
is that it isnt much more fun to play with and it is definitly less fun to play against,
so it may be a good thing to undo at some point. MAIN ISSUE
The main issue with pyke mid is what happens next.
TEAMFIGHTS Teamfights
Yes you have a huge amount of damage and also your ult is one of the biggest causes of Pentakills
in the whole of league, but starting the fight and getting enemies to that execute threshold
is a huge challenge. HOW HE CARRIES FIGHTS
The way our grandmaster player gets around this to carry fights is playing slow and taking
advantage of enemies that split from their teammates.
If he can land 1 good hook to pull an enemy really out of position - then his damage forces
them into a bad spot, giving a first ult kill. Pyke then slows the fight again, not rushing
in, waiting for an enemy to split again. Sniping the enemy jungler with ult, and repositioning
out of danger at the same time, its an incredible decision.
Then again slowing it down, waiting for his moment that he can guarenteed dash in with
damge and cc to shut down Zeri and finish teh fight.
Any faster and pyke would have been immediatly shut down, any slower and zeri yuumi would
have taken over the fight, perfect timing. lvl 13 great teamfight DO NOT ZHONYAS IN EVERY FIGHT
He does not use zhonyas in every fight, he isnt using it as a playmaking tool, it is
more of a secret weapon that comes out to change bad situations into good ones. When
an enemy makes a play they Know will for sure work - that is where it comes out, turning
this good play into a bad one and enemies cannot escape at that point. USING TEAMMATES
But in some games you really do have to just play off what your teammate do, reguardless
of how fed you are. A pyke mid with 10 kills is not like a normal
mid with 10 kills, those kills are mainly just a big gold lead for your team, you cannot
use that gold as efficiently as many other mid laners could.
However this isnt super obvious, because he can also just kill everyone in some fights.
So when fed its still all about how good you are at the champion, not just pressing buttons
and auto winning the fight. MAIN PROBLEM WITH PYKE MID
THe main reason pyke mid is not super popular is that in this role you cannot afford to
make mistakes. Sure pyke can be forgiving, able to dash out
of situations and go stealth, and our player definitly misses skillshots.
But if you are not consistnatly stunning and hooking the priority target to guarentee a
shut down - you are not being effective enough to deserve the resources of this mid lane
role. Our pyke is cool under pressure - lands his
E stun into hook, uses his ult dash into melee hook to guarentee a fight win. He has the
mechanics perfected even with some of these less impactful mistakes.
lvl 16 some mistakes teamfight RATING
AP and AD champions being able to buy static is not going anywhere according to the balance
team. They like the option for adcs to have a great waveclear item and also ap champs
to have interesting interactions with it. If im honest - this pick was super op when
the item was released and now it is just good, which is probably a good thing as it means
riot wont nerf pyke and ruin the playstyle. Riot have been really careful to keep these
off meta roles in the game recently which I think we all appreciate.
So AP pyke gets to keep his waveclear solution, and pyke mid remains a very strong snowballing
and surprisingly good mechanical mid lane pick. A tier 8/10
- Low DPS - Requires teammates even if fed
+ Snowballing power + Synergy with items
+ High burst and damage overall HOW TO BEAT PYKE MID
He does ban leblanc every game - a champ that can doge his hooks and use statik shiv even
better than him. The easy matchups are low mobility picks like
Azir, Orianna, Lissandra. In these he can hook them at any time, get great trades and
outroam easily. The hardest matchups are mobile mids, with
good poke or hard to dodge cc. Stuff like syndra, Irelia, or annie - all require you
to play back and avoid death, taking away a lot of the power of pyke mid. KOREAN AD PYKE MID BUILD
Here is an AD pyke mid build as a viable option - You trade all the waveclear for higher early
damage. Dorans shield
Rush CDR boots Ghost blade
Edge of night/Umbral glaive/prowlers Guardian Angel KOREAN AP PYKE MID BUILD But the ap version:
Dorans shield Rush statik shiv
CDR boots Zhonyas for the ap + invulnarability tricks
Or AD Or he sometimes even goes more tanky - Frozen
heart for the armor and passive into guardian angel to make him even harder to kill. KOREAN AD PYKE MID RUNES
Here is his comet page against the stronger early game mids. You do not want to go late
game with this page, is it all about laning. Here is the hail of blades page against champions
he can bully, scaling into better burst. And you can swap out secondaries to add on
minion dematerialiser and cosmic insight to absorb those cannon minions for faster roams. MESSAGE FROM OUR PLAYER
Our player has nothing to promote other than Pyke, whichever role you pick he wishes you
luck. If you want more pyke mid I highly recommend
Davemon - a challenger Pyke mid who puts on a show every time he picks it, right now he
is stomping enemies at 1000LP challenger, putting on a show.
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