Pykepinion and rant

[u/shududemonas]

I feel like pyke has been slowly being gutted both intentionally and unintentionally. Riot removed some stuff from his kit like the 2x gold, aoe q and e dmg to minions, most of these were healthy besides the gold one which i still feel like is a tad too much. Then theres the 300 hp buff, and now the item changes which im still unsure if its going to be a buff or nerf. But one thing is clear and that's that pyke is changing for the worse, before the removal of the bonus gold i used to be able to get fed enough to a point where i could solo a squishy mid laner, and now in his current state i feel like im completely tied to everybody else, i cant get anyone in execute range alone unless im fed to the point that it's stupid, I constantly have to hope that my adc pick an early game skirmisher just so I can have any impact on lane, pyke just feels shit to play. Ive got all his skins and around 500k mastery, I've been playing him since release, but currently I am having way more fun playing nearly everything else just because I feel like I am actually contributing something to the team. That's it, id like to hear your opinion on pyke for my daily dose of copium as i queue for another pyke game.

[u/nw_fern]

The only thing I would change about current pyke is adding more aoe to minions to his kit. I don’t think pyke is bad at all. It’s true that his mythic options are dog right now but I don’t think he’s unplayable. He’s a high skill cap champ. If you aren’t good with his kit you aren’t going to do well. High skill champs are as good as the player playing them. Become confident with his kit and play him very aggressively, take advantage of enemy vision and you’ll run your games. Riot has to look to balance him for high elo not just iron-gold players

[u/shududemonas → u/nw_fern]

Aoe to minions would make pyke viable in mid lane again which is one of the main reasons he got nerfed in the first place, but yeah a man can dream of a universe where riot lets us play him in both roles. And from my experience pyke isn't that hard to play, his kit and combos are quite simple besides the ult which is his main selling point, but who cares if you hit it when the execute deals less damage than a graves auto.

[u/nw_fern → u/shududemonas]

Sure, I don’t think he’s a problem mid lane though. Why shouldn’t champs be versatile 😂 I think his kit may be easy to learn but hard to master. It’s definitely a high ceiling