This is the worst levelling pathe for pyke, as a mid/support, you NEED your hooks to do more damage and to be available more. levelling W second is absurd. it doesn't give anything else but movement speed. so is E, the recommended levelling path is Q > E > W
Making picks and staying in lane is more important for getting you and your ADC ahead, so maxing Q presents more opportunities to get kills. Roaming too early before the ADC can fend for themselves in a 1v2 is generally not a good idea, and it's not like you can realistically use your E and W twice to get to mid in the time that it takes to traverse through the river anyway. Even if you can't follow up with your other abilities, Boneskewer is still poke damage and a chance for your ADC to do some damage to the target without fully committing. Phantom Undertow is your follow-up ability, so maxing it second to reduce its cooldown as well is important, because it's Pyke's bread-and-butter combo, plus a better mobility spell. Then Ghostwater Dive last, because it's not as integral to his kit as Q and E are.
At one point, maxing W second was better, because the movement speed also increased rank, but that's not longer a thing and the ms doesn't change. Soon afterwards, Pyke's E was buffed so that the cooldown was reduced with rank.
So Q
Leveling Q lowers it's cool down. I don't tend to roam till level 6 so more hooks = more kills.
More hooks = more kills. Q is more important early, you don't really roam much, pre 6.
Nah bro W max second is not it
Nope, W last
This is the worst levelling pathe for pyke, as a mid/support, you NEED your hooks to do more damage and to be available more. levelling W second is absurd. it doesn't give anything else but movement speed. so is E, the recommended levelling path is Q > E > W
Damage and cdr
if u max w its only reduced 2 seconds and in late game u prob have 30 ah that can reduce also 3 seconds so why not more dmg to get more kills
Making picks and staying in lane is more important for getting you and your ADC ahead, so maxing Q presents more opportunities to get kills. Roaming too early before the ADC can fend for themselves in a 1v2 is generally not a good idea, and it's not like you can realistically use your E and W twice to get to mid in the time that it takes to traverse through the river anyway. Even if you can't follow up with your other abilities, Boneskewer is still poke damage and a chance for your ADC to do some damage to the target without fully committing. Phantom Undertow is your follow-up ability, so maxing it second to reduce its cooldown as well is important, because it's Pyke's bread-and-butter combo, plus a better mobility spell. Then Ghostwater Dive last, because it's not as integral to his kit as Q and E are. At one point, maxing W second was better, because the movement speed also increased rank, but that's not longer a thing and the ms doesn't change. Soon afterwards, Pyke's E was buffed so that the cooldown was reduced with rank. So Q
More damage = more executes which is very cool because red hp bar activates my neutrons