Blitzcrank with Nocturne
How to Synergize Blitzcrank and Nocturne
based on 7,730 Blitzcrank with Nocturne pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Blitzcrank Nocturne Synergy Summary
Best Blitzcrank vs Nocturne Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Blitzcrank and Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Blitzcrank with Nocturne
Using Blitzcrank's grab to pull an enemy into your tower range followed by a Power Fist will allow the tower to get several hits on them.
The 1-2-3 combo of Rocket Grab, Power Fist, and Static Field can devastate an individual opponent.
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.
Blitzcrank Nocturne Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nocturne as Blitzcrank in LoL
The Blitzcrank 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, Blitzcrank 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 drop shows that Nocturne helps Blitzcrank perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Blitzcrank is paired with Nocturne, he gets a small increase in his full damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Nocturne supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Blitzcrank is played with Nocturne on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Nocturne. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Nocturne.
Moreover, when Blitzcrank plays with Nocturne on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Nocturne does a poor job of protecting Blitzcrank during team fights.
Synergies between Blitzcrank and Nocturne
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Is Blitzcrank better when played alongside Nocturne?
There is no top companion for Blitzcrank that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Nocturne is a very typical companion for Blitzcrank. By locking into the same team as Blitzcrank, he improves their win rate by 0.9% to 52.5%. This signals that there is only a small synergy between Blitzcrank and Nocturne that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Nocturne has a lower difficulty than Blitzcrank. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Nocturne teammates to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by bringing Blitzcrank and Nocturne together, you may not be providing your team much magic damage. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Nocturne teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing 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 learn all of the intricacies of Blitzcrank in order to work well with Nocturne during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Blitzcrank and Nocturne synergy build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Blitzcrank combined at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Nocturne than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Blitzcrank had an average winrate of 52.5% when playing alongside Nocturne with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, Blitzcrank players should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Celerity, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.5% win rate overall.
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