Kayn with Nocturne
How to Synergize Kayn and Nocturne
based on 351 Kayn with Nocturne pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kayn Nocturne Synergy Summary
Best Kayn vs Nocturne Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kayn and Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Kayn with Nocturne
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
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.
Kayn Nocturne Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nocturne as Kayn in LoL
The Kayn 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, Kayn sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nocturne. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Nocturne helps Kayn perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kayn is paired with Nocturne, he gets a very large increase in his full damage output. This change could signal that Nocturne supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Kayn is played with 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 Kayn plays with Nocturne on the same side, he on average takes less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Nocturne does a decent job of covering Kayn during teamfights.
Synergies between Kayn and Nocturne
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Is Kayn better when played alongside Nocturne?
There is no top champion pairing for Kayn that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. However, Nocturne is a pretty good teammate for Kayn. By locking into the same side as Kayn, he improves their win rate by 2.1% to 51.3%. This signals that there is a somewhat important bond between Kayn and Nocturne that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Nocturne has a much lower diffuclty than Kayn. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Nocturne allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Kayn players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Kayn and Nocturne together, you probably will not be providing your team much AP. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Nocturne teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold 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 truly master Kayn in order to work well with Nocturne during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Kayn and Nocturne synergy build consist of Guardian Angel, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Hubris. When Kayn incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Nocturne than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kayn boasted an average winrate of 51.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nocturne with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.3% win rate overall.
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