Darius with Nocturne
How to Synergize Darius and Nocturne
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Darius Nocturne Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Darius and Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Darius with Nocturne
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
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.
Darius Nocturne Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nocturne as Darius in LoL
The Darius 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, Darius 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 Darius perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Darius tries to synergize with Nocturne, he sees a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This change could indicate that Nocturne provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Darius is played together with Nocturne on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Nocturne. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Nocturne.
Additionally, when Darius plays with Nocturne on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Nocturne does a decent job of protecting Darius during team fights.
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Is Darius better when played alongside Nocturne?
There is no top ally for Darius that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. However, Nocturne is a good ally for Darius. By being on the same team as Darius, he improves their win rate by 1.2% to 50.4%. This demonstrates that there is a somewhat important bond between Darius and Nocturne that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Nocturne has a greater difficulty than Darius. That means Darius players should be very careful when finding Nocturne allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Darius players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Darius and Nocturne together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates enough AP. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Nocturne ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will 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 Darius to work well with Nocturne during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to have in your Darius and Nocturne synergy build include Trinity Force, Titanic Hydra, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Darius combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Nocturne than with many other typical builds. In fact, Darius had an average win rate of 50.4% when playing alongside Nocturne with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Darius players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Darius and Nocturne pairings, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.4% winrate overall.
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