Pyke

Support

Middle

Deep Water is Calling

Snowballing reset and maximum damage potential.

Domination

Burst damage and target access

Electrocute

Hitting a champion with 3 separate attacks or abilities in 2s deals bonus adaptive damage.
Sudden Impact

Gain a burst of Lethality and Magic Penetration after using a dash, leap, blink, teleport, or on leaving stealth.
Eyeball Collection

Collect eyeballs for champion and ward takedowns. Gain permanent AD or AP, Adaptive for each eyeball plus bonus upon collection completion.
Ultimate Hunter

Unique takedowns grant permanent cooldown on your Ultimate.

Precision

Improved attacks and sustained damage

Presence of Mind

Takedowns restore 20% of your maximum mana and refund 10% of your ultimate's cooldown.
Legend: Tenacity

Takedowns on enemies grant permanent Tenacity.

Offense

+6 AD or 10 AP
Flex

+6 AD or 10 AP
Defense

+5 Armor or 6 MR (match-up)

WhyElectrocute

Pyke easily able to proc the extra burst damage from Electrocute with a [Q]->[E]->Auto or [R] for massive burst and setup for an [R] execution.

WhySudden Impact

Pyke benefits massively form the extra Lethality after casting [E]'s dash for extra damage and execution setup.

WhyEyeball Collection

Pyke is naturally a snowballing assassin and as such relies heavily on his ability to snowball and actively pick up kills. Eyeball allows you to further push that into a bigger lead.

WhyUltimate Hunter

More [R] casts means more kills and more gold share with your teammates so that you can easily snowball the game to a victory.

WhyPresence of Mind

Presence of Mind is huge for keeping your [R] on a short cooldown. Mid Pyke is all about those huge executions with [R].

WhyLegend: Tenacity

Tenacity on Pyke mid can be the difference between a pentakill with [R] and dying instantly. Pyke needs to be able to get to his targets to be useful.