Kalista with Nocturne
How to Synergize Kalista and Nocturne
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Kalista Nocturne Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kalista and Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Kalista with Nocturne
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
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.
Kalista Nocturne Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nocturne as Kalista in LoL
The Kalista 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, Kalista sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nocturne. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Nocturne helps Kalista perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kalista is an ally to Nocturne, she sees a marginal improvement in her complete damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Nocturne supports by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Kalista is played alongside Nocturne on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Nocturne. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Nocturne.
Moreover, when Kalista plays with Nocturne on the same side, she often takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Nocturne does a poor job of covering Kalista in team fights.
Synergies between Kalista and Nocturne
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Is Kalista better when played alongside Nocturne?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Kalista that will 100% of the time be her best ally. Yet, Nocturne is a good ally for Kalista. By being on the same side as Kalista, he improves their win rate by 1.8% to 49.2%. This proves that there is a good synergy between Kalista and Nocturne that results in them performing better together than alone.
Nocturne has a much lower diffuclty than Kalista. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Nocturne allies to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by grouping Kalista and Nocturne together, you will not be giving your side much support. Plan to bring other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Nocturne ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Kalista in order to pair well with Nocturne during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to include in your Kalista and Nocturne synergy build include Runaan's Hurricane, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Terminus. When Kalista included at least these three finished items in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Nocturne than with most other typical builds. In fact, Kalista had an average win rate of 49.2% helping carry Nocturne with this build.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.2% win rate overall.
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