Gragas with Nocturne
How to Synergize Gragas and Nocturne
based on 2,336 Gragas with Nocturne pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gragas Nocturne Synergy Summary
Best Gragas vs Nocturne Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Gragas with Nocturne
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
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.
Gragas Nocturne Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nocturne as Gragas in LoL
The Gragas 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, Gragas sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nocturne. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Nocturne helps Gragas perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gragas is paired with Nocturne, he gets a little increase in his total damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Nocturne provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played alongside 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 alongside Nocturne.
Additionally, when Gragas plays with Nocturne on the same team, he often takes less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Nocturne does a decent job of covering Gragas during teamfights.
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Is Gragas better when played alongside Nocturne?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Gragas that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Nocturne is a top-tier ally for Gragas. By locking into the same team as Gragas, he increases their win rate by 3.4% to 51.3%. This proves that there is an important strategic relationship between Gragas and Nocturne that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Nocturne has a lower difficulty than Gragas. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Nocturne allies to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Working together, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by pairing Gragas and Nocturne together, you will not be granting your side very much magical damage output. Make sure to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Nocturne ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, 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 Gragas to work well with Nocturne during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Gragas and Nocturne synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Gragas combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Nocturne than with most other common builds. In fact, Gragas had an average win rate of 51.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nocturne with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Nocturne with Gragas are given for all skill levels, merged. To scope the statistics and builds to a distinct rank, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.