Kassadin with Nocturne
How to Synergize Kassadin and Nocturne
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Kassadin Nocturne Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kassadin and Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Kassadin with Nocturne
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
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.
Kassadin Nocturne Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nocturne as Kassadin in LoL
The Kassadin 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, Kassadin sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nocturne. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Nocturne helps Kassadin perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kassadin plays on the same team as Nocturne, he observes a little increase in his total damage output. This may signal that Nocturne supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Kassadin is played together with Nocturne on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Nocturne.
Additionally, when Kassadin plays with Nocturne on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Nocturne does a poor job of covering Kassadin in team fights.
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Is Kassadin better when played alongside Nocturne?
There is no top ally for Kassadin that will always be his top synergy. However, overall, Nocturne is a pretty good companion for Kassadin. By locking into the same team as Kassadin, he increases their win rate by 2.4% to 52.4%. This signals that there is pretty good bond between Kassadin and Nocturne that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Nocturne has a much lower diffuclty than Kassadin. That means Kassadin players don't need to be cautious when arranging Nocturne teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Kassadin players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by grouping Kassadin and Nocturne together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates much utility. Make sure to have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Nocturne ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Kassadin to synergize with Nocturne during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to get in your Kassadin and Nocturne synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Rod of Ages. When Kassadin used at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Nocturne than with many other common item sets. In fact, Kassadin had an average winrate of 52.4% when playing alongside Nocturne with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Kassadin and Nocturne pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.4% winrate overall.
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