Alistar with Nocturne
How to Synergize Alistar and Nocturne
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Alistar Nocturne Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Nocturne
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Advice to Understand How Nocturne Will Play
Use Shroud of Darkness in tandem with Paranoia's dash. Your opponents may panic and waste a critical disable on your spell shield.
Using Paranoia at a critical moment is well worth it even if you cannot use the dash.
Duskbringer isn't only an offensive ability. It can be used to close distance out of combat or escape from certain death.
Alistar Nocturne Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nocturne as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar Nocturne synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nocturne, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Alistar sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nocturne. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Nocturne helps Alistar perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Alistar is paired with Nocturne, he gets a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This change may indicate that Nocturne provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played together with Nocturne on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Nocturne.
Additionally, when Alistar plays with Nocturne on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Nocturne does a poor job of protecting Alistar during team fights.
Synergies between Alistar and Nocturne
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Nocturne?
There is no perfect synergy for Alistar that will always be his best ally. Yet, overall, Nocturne is a good companion for Alistar. By locking into the same side as Alistar, he raises their win rate by 1.7% to 51.1%. This signals that there is pretty good bond between Alistar and Nocturne that results in them performing better together than alone.
Nocturne has a much lower diffuclty than Alistar. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Nocturne allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Alistar players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Alistar and Nocturne together, you will not be granting your other teammates a great deal of AP. We recommend you have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Nocturne ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Alistar to pair well with Nocturne during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to include in your Alistar and Nocturne synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Alistar used at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Nocturne than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Alistar boasted an average win rate of 51.1% when playing alongside Nocturne with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, Alistar players should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.1% winrate overall.
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