Malzahar with Nocturne
How to Synergize Malzahar and Nocturne
based on 7,434 Malzahar with Nocturne pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malzahar Nocturne Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Nocturne Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Nocturne
Use Call of the Void and Nether Grasp to renew the duration of Malefic Visions on enemies.
Wait to cast Void Swarm until there are nearby enemies for the Voidling to attack or kill.
Avoiding damage in lane maximizes the uptime on Void Shift, increasing Malzahar's safety dramatically.
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.
Malzahar Nocturne Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nocturne as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar 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, Malzahar sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nocturne. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Nocturne helps Malzahar perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malzahar plays on the same team as Nocturne, he gets a small increase in his full damage output. This change may indicate that Nocturne provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played alongside 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 Malzahar plays with Nocturne on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Nocturne does a poor job of covering Malzahar during team fights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Nocturne
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Nocturne?
There is no top companion for Malzahar that will 100% of the time be his top ally. However, overall, Nocturne is a pretty good ally for Malzahar. By locking into the same side as Malzahar, he increases their win rate by 2.3% to 52.8%. This clearly indicates that there is a good synergy between Malzahar and Nocturne that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Nocturne has a lower difficulty than Malzahar. That means Malzahar players don't need to be careful when arranging Nocturne comrades to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by pairing Malzahar and Nocturne together, you will not be granting your side very much protection for burst damage. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that fills this hole in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Nocturne teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Malzahar in order to pair well with Nocturne during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to build first in your Malzahar and Nocturne synergy build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Malzahar bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Nocturne than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Malzahar had an average winrate of 52.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nocturne with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Magical Footwear, and Future's Market runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Malzahar and Nocturne pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Nocturne with Malzahar are given for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a specific skill level, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.