Gwen with Nocturne
How to Synergize Gwen and Nocturne
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Gwen Nocturne Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gwen and Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Gwen with Nocturne
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
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.
Gwen Nocturne Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nocturne as Gwen in LoL
The Gwen Nocturne synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nocturne, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Gwen sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nocturne. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Nocturne helps Gwen perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gwen is paired with Nocturne, she gets a marginal improvement in her total damage output. This may demonstrate that Nocturne helps provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Gwen is played alongside Nocturne on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Nocturne.
Moreover, when Gwen plays with Nocturne on the same team, she typically receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Nocturne does a decent job of covering Gwen in teamfights.
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Is Gwen better when played alongside Nocturne?
There is no top ally for Gwen that will 100% of the time be her ideal teammate. However, overall, Nocturne is a decent companion for Gwen. By locking into the same side as Gwen, he improves their win rate by 1.4% to 49.5%. This signals that there is a somewhat important strategic relationship between Gwen and Nocturne that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Nocturne has a lower difficulty than Gwen. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Nocturne teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Gwen players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by grouping Gwen and Nocturne together, you will not be giving your other allies very much crowd control. Plan to include other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Nocturne ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Gwen to synergize with Nocturne during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to include in your Gwen and Nocturne synergy build consist of Nashor's Tooth, Cryptbloom, and Riftmaker. When Gwen included at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Nocturne than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Gwen boasted an average win rate of 49.5% when playing alongside Nocturne with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players used for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.5% win rate overall.
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