Annie with Nocturne
How to Synergize Annie and Nocturne
based on 3,603 Annie with Nocturne pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Annie Nocturne Synergy Summary
Best Annie vs Nocturne Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Annie and Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Annie with Nocturne
Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
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.
Annie Nocturne Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nocturne as Annie in LoL
The Annie Nocturne synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nocturne, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Annie sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nocturne. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Nocturne helps Annie perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Annie is paired with Nocturne, she sees a small increase in her full damage dealt. This change may indicate that Nocturne helps provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Annie is played together with Nocturne on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Nocturne.
Moreover, when Annie plays with Nocturne on the same side, she often receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Nocturne does a poor job of covering Annie during team fights.
Synergies between Annie and Nocturne
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Is Annie better when played alongside Nocturne?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Annie that will always be her top ally. However, Nocturne is a top-tier companion for Annie. By playing on the same side as Annie, he increases their win rate by 3.0% to 52.3%. This clearly indicates that there is a very real bond between Annie and Nocturne that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Nocturne has a lower difficulty than Annie. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Nocturne comrades to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working on the same side, Annie players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by pairing Annie and Nocturne together, you probably will not be granting your team much engage potential. We recommend you include other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Nocturne ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Annie in order to pair well with Nocturne during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to have in your Annie and Nocturne synergy build consist of Malignance, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Annie included at least these three finished items in her build, she did a lot better when paired up with Nocturne than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Annie boasted an average win rate of 52.3% helping carry Nocturne with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, Annie players should take the First Strike, Triple Tonic, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Annie and Nocturne pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.3% win rate overall.
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