Maokai with Nocturne
How to Synergize Maokai and Nocturne
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Maokai Nocturne Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Nocturne
Maokai's passive makes him extremely durable against focus fire from spells - so long as he can still basic attack something.
Try looking for flanks or other situations where Nature's Grasp is unavoidable or takes enemies by surprise.
Saplings can be tossed into brush for empowered effect - but don't stack well.
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.
Maokai Nocturne Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nocturne as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai 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, Maokai sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nocturne. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Nocturne helps Maokai perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Maokai is an ally to Nocturne, he gets a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Nocturne supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played alongside Nocturne on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Nocturne. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Nocturne.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Nocturne on the same side, he typically receives less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Nocturne does a decent job of protecting Maokai in team fights.
Synergies between Maokai and Nocturne
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Nocturne?
There is no perfect synergy for Maokai that will no matter what be his top teammate. Yet, Nocturne is a pretty good companion for Maokai. By locking into the same team as Maokai, he raises their win rate by 2.4% to 55.0%. This proves that there is a good strategic relationship between Maokai and Nocturne that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Nocturne has a greater difficulty than Maokai. That means you must be very careful when arranging Nocturne teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Playing alongside, Maokai players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these champions will be a great protective duo.
Although, by pairing Maokai and Nocturne together, you may not be giving your side much magical damage output. Plan to include other champions on your team that offsets this hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Nocturne ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down 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 Maokai in order to pair well with Nocturne during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to prioritize in your Maokai and Nocturne synergy build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Nocturne than with many other common item sets. In fact, Maokai had an average win rate of 55.0% when playing alongside Nocturne with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Maokai players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 55.0% win rate overall.
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