Assassin · Support

Pyke Wild Rift Guide

Pyke is an assassin-support in Wild Rift, a ghost harpooner unique for his resettable execution sharing gold with allies on every kill.

★ Support Tier S July 2026 · Patch 7.2a supportassassinpick

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Win 55.5% #19 · ↑6pt

Pick 6.2% #9

Ban 1% #37

§ 01 — Editorial brief

Pyke support keeps a very specific place in Wild Rift solo queue: he does not stabilize a lane, he makes it dangerous.

By WRC Studio ~ 2 min read Patch 7.2a

Pyke is an assassin-support in Wild Rift, a ghost harpooner unique for his resettable execution sharing gold with allies on every kill. His kit combines repositioning stealth, a depth hook, a cross-shaped stun zone, and a Death from Below executing targets below threshold and enabling instant resets. He excels in economic snowball compositions seeking to amplify all carries through shared kills. In Wild Rift, his execution resets can cascade-clean an entire team when conditions align, making him particularly devastating in extended teamfights.

Pyke excels in pick or snowball compositions looking to convert every kill into economic advantage. He benefits from allies who can set up low-health targets for his executions. Economic dominance compositions get the maximum from his gold-sharing passive.

Pyke is countered by heal or shield compositions that make his executions less reliable. Champions who can reveal him while stealthed or engage before his reposition limit his impact. Grouped compositions without isolated targets reduce his pick opportunities.

With Pyke, your ultimate is your most valuable tool — only execute targets below the threshold to maximize resets. Use your stealth to reposition and create unexpected attack angles. In roaming, coordinate ganks with burst allies to guarantee kills.

Expert note

Expert take

Pyke is a support for players who want to decide the pace of the game, not simply accompany their ADC. His real value appears when he plays like an information hunter: he clears wards with Umbral Glaive, disappears before objectives, forces enemies to walk grouped, then punishes the first player who checks too far. He requires mature reading because his kit can create the illusion that he must always look for the kill. In reality, his best games often come from accumulating small pressures: a forced Flash, a controlled bush, a roam that makes mid back away, then a Death From Below held for the moment the fight breaks. Pick Pyke if you accept responsibility for tempo and vision, not if you only want an aggressive support that throws hooks on repeat.

Weak point

Hidden weakness

Pyke’s hidden weakness is that his pressure depends heavily on the credibility of his threat. If he misses two hooks without preparing vision, engages through open ground, or uses Death From Below too early, enemies realize they can walk forward without respecting his angles. From that moment, Pyke loses more than a spell: he loses the fear he normally creates. Since he has no sustained DPS, no long-lasting peel, and no ability to hold a frontline, a game where enemies no longer fear him becomes very hard to play.

§ 02 — Strengths & weaknesses Pyke Wild Rift strengths and weaknesses

↑ Strengths

Pick Pyke when you can play around vision: Umbral Glaive makes every dark area more dangerous, and an enemy facechecking without information becomes a realistic target for Bone Skewer into Death From Below.
He is highly valuable against fragile lanes or supports that want to poke without a real instant answer. If they must respect every bush, their lane pressure drops even before Pyke actually engages.
His resets give a real solo queue snowball condition: one kill around an objective can become two executions, then a dragon or turret, especially if the team follows quickly.
He rewards players who can read timing windows: level 2, level 5, first Umbral Glaive reset, and disappearing out of vision are concrete windows, not just theoretical moments.

↓ Weaknesses

Avoid Pyke if your team already lacks frontline and expects the support to hold the first line. After his entry, Pyke cannot stay in front to absorb crowd control or protect carries for long.
Avoid him against too much instant peel, targeted crowd control, or champions able to lock him down as soon as he leaves Ghostwater Dive. Pyke is dangerous, but he is still very punishable if he enters at the wrong timing.
Do not lock him if your allied lane can never follow a hook. Pyke can create the opening, but without immediate damage behind him, his engage becomes free exposure.
Avoid Pyke in games where your team mostly wants to slow down, waveclear, and play defensive scaling. He brings active threat, not constant safety during long siege phases.

Win Rate (30d) 55.50%+5.13 pts

Pick Rate 6.20%

Ban Rate 0.98%

Pyke's win rate has climbed +5.13 pts over the last 30 days, now at 55.50%. See the full Wild Rift meta trends for more biggest movers.

§ 03 — Game planPyke Wild Rift game plan: early, mid and late game

I Early

Create the threat via fog/bush and secure level 5

Niv. 1 → 6

Create the threat via fog/bush and secure level 5.

II Mid

Picks on vision and conversion into objectives

Niv. 7 → 11

Picks on vision and conversion into objectives.

III Late

Find the first reset of R to unwind the fight

Niv. 12+

Find the first reset of R to unwind the fight.

Data — Stats per levelPyke Wild Rift base stats per level (1-15)

Movement speed 340Attack range 175Bonus attack speed / lvl +1.7%

Show stats per level

Lvl	HP	AD	Armor	MR	Mana	HP regen	Res. regen
1	690	64	50	38	435	10.5	12
2	826	67.5	55.5	41	492	11.1	13.3
3	962	71	61	44	549	11.6	14.6
4	1,098	74.5	66.5	47	606	12.2	15.9
5	1,234	78	72	50	663	12.7	17.2
6	1,370	81.5	77.5	53	720	13.3	18.5
7	1,506	85	83	56	777	13.8	19.8
8	1,642	88.5	88.5	59	834	14.4	21.1
9	1,778	92	94	62	891	14.9	22.4
10	1,914	95.5	99.5	65	948	15.5	23.7
11	2,050	99	105	68	1,005	16	25
12	2,186	102.5	110.5	71	1,062	16.6	26.3
13	2,322	106	116	74	1,119	17.1	27.6
14	2,458	109.5	121.5	77	1,176	17.7	28.9
15	2,594	113	127	80	1,233	18.2	30.2

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§ 05 — Recommended buildBest Pyke Wild Rift build for the current patch

Pyke builds around lethality and attack damage to maximize burst damage and executions. Unlike other supports, his health converts to bonus damage — hybrid survival/attack items are effective. Movement speed amplifies his roaming capability.

Core

Umbral Glaive

Youmuu's Ghostblade

Duskblade of Draktharr

Boots

Ionian Boots of Lucidity

See the full build

§ 06 — The matchup wallPyke Wild Rift counters and synergies

Hard Unfav. Skill Fav. Synergy

Pyke excels at displacing targets and forcing immediate reactions, which gives Orianna ideal windows to punish defensive clumping around a hook or stun. When a champion gets caught by Bone Skewer then slowed or stunned, Orianna can position her ball far more aggressively and choose between immediate single-target burst or Shockwave if multiple enemies come to peel. This synergy is very strong in picks and river skirmishes, where any Pyke catch creates a tactical situation the enemy team handles poorly.

Ideal

Rengar

Pyke and Rengar operate on the same principle: create an ultra-fast execution before the fight becomes a normal front-to-back. Pyke hooks or cuts the retreat, Rengar dives the isolated target, then Death From Below secures the execution if the initial burst did not instantly finish it. The duo is terrifying into squishy backlines and immobile supports because every facecheck or bad vision reset becomes an almost guaranteed death.

Strong

Riven

Riven loves messy fast fights, which is exactly the kind of battlefield Pyke creates through picks and mobility. A Pyke hook or stun gives Riven enough time to connect her full entry and force a kill before the enemy backline has time to reposition. This combination works especially well in side lane skirmishes and aggressive roam timings.

Strong

Ryze

Pyke gives Ryze exactly what he often wants in roams: a target that is already slowed or displaced, making Rune Prison much easier to land. Once the first control layer is applied, Ryze can unload sustained burst while Pyke keeps execution threat in reserve. The duo is very strong at punishing overextended sidelanes and supports contesting vision alone.

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§ 07b — Advanced MechanicsPyke: combos & tips Wild Rift

Basic engage combo

3 AA

Use the hook to pull the enemy in, stun with 3 to lock them down, then use AA during the stun

Stealth engage combo

Ghost

Approach in stealth to get into position, hook from an unexpected angle, stun to set up the execute

Full execute combo

Ghost

Full sequence for a confirmed kill — wait for the ultimate indicator to turn red to trigger the execute

Advanced Flash combo

Ghost

Flash

4 AA

7 AA

8 AA

Use the dash from button 3, then Flash to approach from an unexpected angle, perform the ultimate execute and reframe the hook for the next target

Mechanical Tips

Bone Skewer (1) tap vs hold: tap cast = reduced-damage quick strike; hold cast = harpoon throw that pulls the enemy back — use the hold to hook them from the bushes at long range
Phantom Undertow + Flash: activate ability 3 (the phantom moves ahead) then use Flash behind the enemy so the phantom returns and stuns from the other angle — harder to avoid
Red ultimate indicator: when the enemy’s outer outline turns red, they are within the execution zone — wait for this signal before triggering Death From Below
Gift of the Drowned Ones (passive): walking into a bush out of the enemy’s sight triggers the heal from stored damage — actively manage your sustain by hiding regularly

Common Mistakes

Ult on a non-executable target: Death From Below only kills if the target’s HP is below a certain threshold — casting it outside the execution zone wastes the ult and the potential shared gold
Forgetting control wards: Ghostwater Dive is countered by pink wards — experienced enemies place them in key areas; sweep these areas whilst roaming
Overextending without an escape route: Pyke lacks an escape if the hook misses — never engage without an escape route via Route 3 or Flash available

Notable Interactions

Death From Below shares kill gold with a nearby ally — triggering it when an ally is nearby maximises gold for the whole team
The ultimate can be reset in succession if multiple enemies are within the execution zone — it’s possible to secure multi-kills with a reset ultimate (rare but spectacular)
Pyke can roam mid and support other lanes thanks to his ultimate’s gold share — strong in roam/assassination compositions

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§ 07 — PreceptsPyke Wild Rift tips for ranked

Tip · 01

Fog is your strength: always prepare your vision before a pick.

Codex

Tip · 02

Don't force execution if your team can finish: save R for the chain of resets.

Codex

§ 08 — DialoguesPyke Wild Rift FAQ

Q.01 Is Pyke support a good blind pick in solo queue? +

Pyke can be blind picked if you are very comfortable with vision, roams, and engage timings, but he is not an automatically reliable choice. He struggles against supports that can lock him down or deny his first entry, and he brings little defensive safety if your team already lacks frontline. In solo queue, he becomes better when you can create tempo yourself: clear wards, disappear from lane, then force mistakes around objectives. If your team needs a stable support that protects a carry for a long time, Pyke is not the best choice.

Q.02 When should you roam with Pyke? +

A good Pyke roam depends less on the desire to move and more on wave state and vision. Ideally, you leave when your ADC will not lose a large wave, when the enemy bot lane cannot dive easily, or when you have just forced the enemy back. After Umbral Glaive, every roam becomes more dangerous because you can remove information before arriving mid or river. A bad roam, however, leaves your ADC alone without creating real pressure elsewhere: Pyke must create tempo, not simply disappear from lane.

Q.03 Should you always look for the execution with Death From Below? +

No. Death From Below is stronger when it starts a sequence than when it secures a kill that was already won. If your team can finish the first target without your ultimate, holding R can let you reset onto the second enemy, punish a late Flash, or convert the fight into an objective. The classic trap is using the ultimate too early on a target that was going to die anyway. With Pyke, the real question is: “Does my R change the outcome of the fight or only the kill scoreboard?”

Q.04 Why does Pyke sometimes become useless in late game? +

Pyke becomes useless in late game when he can no longer create an angle before the fight. If enemies group, maintain vision, hold crowd control, and protect their carries, Pyke struggles to enter without dying. He does not have a carry’s sustained DPS, a tank’s durability, or a defensive support’s constant peel. To remain useful, he must play preparation: clear wards, threaten flanks, force cooldowns, and wait for the fight to create a low-health target for Death From Below.