Bard with Nocturne
How to Synergize Bard and Nocturne
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Bard Nocturne Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Bard with Nocturne
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
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.
Bard Nocturne Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nocturne as Bard in LoL
The Bard 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, Bard sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nocturne. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Nocturne helps Bard perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Bard tries to synergize with Nocturne, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This difference could indicate that Nocturne provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played alongside 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 synergisticly with Nocturne.
Moreover, when Bard plays with Nocturne on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Nocturne does a decent job of covering Bard in team fights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Nocturne?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Bard that will always be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Nocturne is a good teammate for Bard. By being on the same team as Bard, he raises their win rate by 1.3% to 53.6%. This shows that there is a somewhat important bond between Bard and Nocturne that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Nocturne has a much lower diffuclty than Bard. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Nocturne allies to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Working on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Bard and Nocturne together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates much magic damage. Plan to include other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Nocturne ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Bard to pair well with Nocturne during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to prioritize in your Bard and Nocturne synergy build include Trailblazer, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard used at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Nocturne than with many other typical builds. In fact, Bard boasted an average winrate of 53.6% when playing alongside Nocturne with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Bard and Nocturne pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 53.6% win rate overall.
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