Pyke·Jungle Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Pyke Jungle build, you should take Flash and Smite as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Hail of Blades as your keystone, followed by Cheap Shot, Zombie Ward and Ultimate Hunter in the primary tree, as well as Bone Plating and Unflinching in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Adaptive Force in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Profane Hydra as your first item, followed by Ionian Boots of Lucidity and Youmuu's Ghostblade. For your last 3 items, you should build Edge of Night, Opportunity and finish with Axiom Arc. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - E - W. Right now, this build has 35.5% winrate over 321 matches played.

Optional

Your second option for Pyke Jungle build would be to take Flash and Smite as your Summoner Spells. The runes that this build takes advantage of are Electrocute as your keystone, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection and Ultimate Hunter in the primary tree, and Coup de Grace with Triumph in the secondary tree. The shards used in this build are Adaptive Force in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense. The items for the build are Profane Hydra, which you should build first, followed by Ionian Boots of Lucidity as your second item and Youmuu's Ghostblade as your third item. The rest of the items in order are Voltaic Cyclosword, The Collector and Edge of Night. The skill order for this build is Q - E - W. In the current patch, this build has a 38.5% win rate over 78 matches.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Smite as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Hail of Blades as your keystone, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection and Treasure Hunter in the primary tree, and Legend: Alacrity with Triumph in the secondary tree, as well as Attack Speed, Adaptive Force, and Health as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Profane Hydra as your first item, then Ionian Boots of Lucidity as a second item and Hubris as a third item. You want to finish the build with Opportunity, Death's Dance and Maw of Malmortius. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - E - W. This build is currently sitting at a 51.4% win rate across 72 matches played.

Situational Pyke Runes and Items

Depending on the context of your game, your matchup, and enemy champions, you might want to consider building some situational items or take specific runes. Carefully examine your team, enemy team, game state , and your matchup to plan your Pyke build accordingly! For example, when it comes to rune shards, you might want to take either Armor or Magic Resist, depending on which champion you are about to lane against.