Garen with Nocturne
How to Synergize Garen and Nocturne
based on 6,996 Garen with Nocturne pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Garen Nocturne Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Garen with Nocturne
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
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.
Garen Nocturne Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nocturne as Garen in LoL
The Garen 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, Garen 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 fall shows that Nocturne helps Garen perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Garen tries to synergize with Nocturne, he gets a little increase in his total damage output. This could demonstrate that Nocturne provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played with Nocturne on the same team, 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 Garen plays with Nocturne on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Nocturne does a poor job of protecting Garen in team fights.
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Is Garen better when played alongside Nocturne?
There is no ideal synergy for Garen that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. However, Nocturne is a good companion for Garen. By locking into the same team as Garen, he improves their win rate by 1.7% to 50.4%. This clearly indicates that there is pretty good strategic relationship between Garen and Nocturne that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Nocturne has a lower difficulty than Garen. That means Garen players don't need to be very careful when lining up Nocturne comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Garen players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Garen and Nocturne together, you will not be providing your other teammates much magic damage. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Nocturne teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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
To learn all of the intricacies of Garen in order to pair well with Nocturne during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to have in your Garen and Nocturne synergy build include Phantom Dancer, Dead Man's Plate, and Stridebreaker. When Garen used at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Nocturne than with many other common builds. In fact, Garen boasted an average winrate of 50.4% helping carry Nocturne with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.4% winrate overall.
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