Pyke

Recommended Build

Patch 16.11 · Diamond+ Solo Queue · Updated 6/9/2026

53.1% Based on 772 games wr in Support

Build path

1. Boots any step
   

   Boots of Swiftness

   1000 gold

   55 Move Speed
   
   Fleetfooted
   Reduce the effectiveness of Slows by 25%.

   Boots of Swiftness

   65% pick · 55.3% Based on 456 picks wr
2. Item 1 2 options
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     Youmuu's Ghostblade

     2800 gold

     55 Attack Damage
     18 Lethality
     4% Move Speed
     
     Haunt
     Gain Move Speed while out of combat.
     
     Wraith Step
     Gain Move Speed and Ghosting for seconds.
     Youmuu's Ghostblade

     40% pick · 57.9% Based on 252 picks wr
   • 
     Edge of Night

     3000 gold

     50 Attack Damage
     15 Lethality
     250 Health
     
     Annul
     Grants a Spell Shield that blocks the next enemy Ability.
     or Edge of Night

     25% pick · 48.7% Based on 158 picks wr
3. Item 2 2 options
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     Edge of Night

     3000 gold

     50 Attack Damage
     15 Lethality
     250 Health
     
     Annul
     Grants a Spell Shield that blocks the next enemy Ability.
     Edge of Night

     35% pick · 55.8% Based on 113 picks wr
   • 
     Youmuu's Ghostblade

     2800 gold

     55 Attack Damage
     18 Lethality
     4% Move Speed
     
     Haunt
     Gain Move Speed while out of combat.
     
     Wraith Step
     Gain Move Speed and Ghosting for seconds.
     or Youmuu's Ghostblade

     18% pick · 60.0% Based on 60 picks wr
4. Item 3 2 options
   • 
     Edge of Night

     3000 gold

     50 Attack Damage
     15 Lethality
     250 Health
     
     Annul
     Grants a Spell Shield that blocks the next enemy Ability.
     Edge of Night

     19% pick · 52.9% Based on 17 picks Only 2.2% of this role's matches — off-meta (not the usual pick for this role) wr
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     Guardian Angel

     3200 gold

     55 Attack Damage
     45 Armor
     
     Rebirth
     Upon taking lethal damage, restores 50% base Health and 100% max Mana after 4 seconds of Stasis.
     or Guardian Angel

     11% pick · 60.0% Based on 10 picks Only 1.3% of this role's matches — off-meta (not the usual pick for this role) wr
5. Item 4 3 options
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     Serpent's Fang

     2500 gold

     55 Attack Damage
     15 Lethality
     
     Shield Reaver
     Damaging an enemy champion reduces Shields they gain by % for 3 seconds.
     If they were not already affected by Shield Reaver, reduce Shields on them by %.
     Serpent's Fang

     45% pick · 60.0% Based on 5 picks Only 0.6% of this role's matches — off-meta (not the usual pick for this role) wr
   • 
     Guardian Angel

     3200 gold

     55 Attack Damage
     45 Armor
     
     Rebirth
     Upon taking lethal damage, restores 50% base Health and 100% max Mana after 4 seconds of Stasis.
     or Guardian Angel

     18% pick · 50.0% Based on 2 picks Only 0.3% of this role's matches — off-meta (not the usual pick for this role) wr
   • 
     Edge of Night

     3000 gold

     50 Attack Damage
     15 Lethality
     250 Health
     
     Annul
     Grants a Spell Shield that blocks the next enemy Ability.
     or Edge of Night

     18% pick · 50.0% Based on 2 picks Only 0.3% of this role's matches — off-meta (not the usual pick for this role) wr

Most-built legendary at each step (purchase order).

Summoner spells

Flash

Teleports you a short distance toward your cursor.

Flash +

Ignite

Deals true damage over time to target enemy champion and reduces healing effects on them for the duration.

Ignite 97% · 52.5% Based on 750 picks wr

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Q Bone Skewer

Pyke either stabs an enemy in front of him or pulls an enemy towards him.

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W Ghostwater Dive

Pyke enters Camouflage and gains significant Move Speed that decays over time.

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E Phantom Undertow

Pyke dashes and leaves behind a phantom that will return to him, stunning enemy champions along its path.

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R Death From Below

Pyke blinks to and executes low health enemies, allowing him to cast this spell again and granting additional gold to an ally who assists.

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Domination

Electrocute

Hitting a champion with 3 separate attacks or abilities in 3s deals bonus adaptive damage.

Dark Harvest

Damaging a low health champion inflicts adaptive damage and harvests a soul from the victim.

Hail of Blades · selected

Gain a large amount of Attack Speed and bonus true damage for the first 3 attacks made against enemy champions.

Cheap Shot · selected

Deal bonus true damage to enemy champions with impaired movement or actions.

Taste of Blood

Heal when you damage an enemy champion.

Sudden Impact

Damaging basic attacks and abilities deal bonus true damage to enemy champions after using a dash, leap, blink, teleport, or when leaving stealth.

Sixth Sense · selected

On a long Cooldown, automatically sense a nearby untracked and unseen ward, tracking it for the team.

Level 11: Also reveal the ward for 10s.

Grisly Mementos

Collect 1 memento on champion takedowns, up to 18 total.

Gain 6 Trinket Haste for each collected.

Deep Ward

Your wards in the enemy jungle are Deep, gaining Health and Duration.

Level 9: Wards in the river are also Deep.

Treasure Hunter

Unique takedowns grant additional gold the first time they are collected.

Relentless Hunter

Unique takedowns grant permanent out of combat MS.

Ultimate Hunter · selected

Unique takedowns grant permanent cooldown reduction on your Ultimate.

Resolve

Demolish

Your third attack against turrets deals bonus damage.

Font of Life

Impairing the movement of an enemy champion heals nearby allied champions.

Shield Bash

Whenever you gain a shield, your next basic attack against a champion deals bonus adaptive damage.

Conditioning

After 12 min gain +8 Armor and +8 Magic Resist and increase your Armor and Magic Resist by 3%.

Second Wind

After taking damage from an enemy champion heal back some missing health over time.

Bone Plating · selected

After taking damage from an enemy champion, the next 3 spells or attacks you receive from them deal 30-60 (based on level) less damage.

Duration: 1.5s
Cooldown: 55s

Overgrowth

Gain permanent max health when minions or monsters die near you.

Revitalize

Gain 5% Heal and Shield Power.

Heals and shields you cast or receive are 10% stronger on targets below 40% health.

Unflinching · selected

Gain Armor and Magic Resist when receiving crowd control.

Stat shards

Adaptive Force · selected

+9 Adaptive Force (AD or AP — whichever helps more).

Attack Speed

+10% Attack Speed.

Ability Haste

+8 Ability Haste.

Adaptive Force · selected

+9 Adaptive Force (AD or AP — whichever helps more).

Move Speed

+2% Move Speed.

Bonus Health

+10–180 Bonus Health (based on level).

Health

+65 flat Health.

Tenacity & Slow Resist

+10% Tenacity and Slow Resist.

Bonus Health · selected

+10–180 Bonus Health (based on level).